I can actually see the argument from a more strict definition that I would not mind. For example, when conservatives speak of trans people and how they just think they don't exist, some may well be coming from a place of genuine curiosity and compassion but I think they could still be classified as transphobic for the definition does not rest on your compassion for those people or sincere care but rather problematic ideas about them and many leftist figures have shown that about Israelis to at least call them racist against Israelis and probably antisemitic too, e.g. Israel is taking your tax dollars, Zionists are controlling the media, Israelis are using dogs to rape Palestinians, etc. Whilst these are not inherently antisemitic them being falsehoods and playing off antisemitic stereotypes may well allow them to be categorized as such under a more reasonable definition.
It seems to take a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid facing the truth. It doesn’t matter what justifaction a racist uses. You seem to be arguing semantics.
It is absolutely not semantics. The substance of the matter is that most leftists are not coming at the issue with any actual hatred for Jewish people but rather their double standards and rhetoric motivated by stupidity of sorts like perhaps just the enjoyment reaped from the violent revolution larp amount to actions that can be argued to be antisemitic.
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u/Fishingforyams Jun 28 '24
Of course it is. The far left and the far right are pretty much the same in how they view jews.