Hey, are you part-Black? If you’re Canadian, no worries, but, if you’re part-Black, we’re cousins!!

Do you think that Jewish people are overexaggerating their persecution, as a whole? Have you CONSIDERED where that logic might lead, has historically led???

Okay, yeah, so, anti-Israel sentiment/motive is NOT considered as antisemitic. The House tried to change this, but failed.

So, I guess Jews just falsely report hate crimes at like ten times the rate of other religious groups? Is that your argument? Because I can say that my Jewish friends and family are so used to bomb threats and desecrations of their graves, that they literally crack jokes about it.

Bc imo that’s your logic: “You need the context that members of said group are committing atrocities before you cast aspersions on people spewing rhetoric that has been used to justify mass murders of the group as a whole.” I hate the Israeli government. That doesn’t mean antisemitic tropes are okay

Would you accept dehumanizing rhetoric that has historically been used to justify violence and mass murder against a minority group, solely because you associate them with a group that is committing atrocities? Are lynchings alright, because Congolese in the DRC have been killing 200k/year?

Do you believe that Julian Casablancas was using a dogwhistle to say the canard that Jews over-exaggerate their persecution? That is the premise we are contending. Yes, or no?

The premise we’re discussing is “Is Julian Casablancas using a dogwhistle to reiterate rhetoric that is the same as anti-Semitic rhetoric, but uses a label that could ambiguously apply to Jews?”
If Black folks were causing crimes everywhere, would you sweep “these thugs are apes” under the rug?

2022 FBI Hate Crimes Statistics In October 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released the 2022 Hate Crimes Statistics report, which compiles data on bias-motivated offenses reported by law enforcement agencies across the United States. This report focuses on crimes driven by biases based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity. It also highlights the ongoing issue of hate crimes affecting communities nationwide. Key Findings and Trends TOP • Increase in Hate Crimes: The

Increase in Hate Crimes: The data reveals that hate crime incidents increased by 228 in 2023. There were 11,862 cases, compared to 11,634 in 2022. • Race-Based Crimes: Hate crimes rooted in race, ethnicity or ancestry remain the most common. There were 5,900 reported incidents in 2023. Anti-Black or African American incidents made up more than half of these incidents (51.3%) and were more than three times higher than the next highest racial or ethnic category. • Religion-Based Crimes: There were 2,699 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,832) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. Incidents involving anti-Muslim (236) sentiments rose from last year, while anti-Sikh (156) incidents foll slightly compared to 2022.

It is 100% a decades-long belief that Jews are the Boy Who Cried Wolf, and aren’t as persecuted as they claim to be, so have no justification in discussing persecution. Meanwhile, Jews experienced the second-highest number of hate crimes (convicted crimes where the motive was determined to be hate).

If I talked about "lazy people who hang out on their porch and don't work," and referred to them as "thugs" or "inner-city," would you say "Guys, I see nothing bigoted here!" Dude, when it just so happens that the rhetoric mirrors bigoted rhetoric, and could also apply to the object of bigotry...

Given that what he’s saying is pretty on par for the general belief that has existed for decades that Jews are in histrionics about their persecution, no, I don’t believe he’s only referring to Zionist Jews.

Well, good for you, bc most people think otherwise.

I think there’s a difference between calling out Zionism and using dogwhistles to essentially accuse Jews whose synagogues get shot up and who experience the second highest number of hate crimes of any ethnic demographic of being hysterical about their persecution

Then why tf is he saying “American Zionists?”

He literally referred to an ideology as an ethnic group, it’s pretty clear whom he’s referring to. Also, it’s a tale as old as time for people to accuse Jews of crying wolf on their persecution. That’s why even anti-Zionists are saying it’s anti-Semitic. It’s a common trope, if you’re familiar.

Counterpoint: we should fuck over rural Virginia because it is hitlerite and deserves it

CIA lady just 1954-Italy-ed Virginia and im down to clown

Reagan's deepest appeal is to those who cheered George Wallace on but who felt a bit shabby and soiled after he worked them over, massaged their hate glands, made them queasy with acrid emotions sweated out of them. Reagan croons, in love accents, his permission to indulge a functional hatred of poor people and blacks. Nothing personal about it. It is really an act of patriotism not to let the hardworking middle class be dragged down to their level. Imagine what a godsend this is for right-wingers with some small claim left them to fastidiousness. Poor William Buckley had to fashion a nine-foot pole for dealing with all those Spiro Agnew types a gentleman should not touch with a ten-foot pole. But Ronnie he can walk right up to and hug. Even the caricaturists have a hard time putting Joe McCarthy's scowl or Agnew's dopey viciousness on Reagan's face. Lead Time: A Journalist’s Education (Garry Wills)

Garry Wills 💀💀💀

>we’ve hit the complete chaos, plummeting approval ratings, and endless staff turnover phase of the Trump Presidency

Woke 2.0 be like

Woke 2.0 was foretold

Here on 495 sitting amongst 1000s of fleeing virginia farmers who are running the border before Spanbergers triumphant Virginia Salvation Council shuts the checkpoints. people's entire lives are strapped to the roof of pristine lifted trucks. A cyber truck drives silently by. Reminds me of damascus

we gotta build a statue of L. Louise Lucas overlooking DC

maybe put it on top of Robert E. Lee's old house in the Arlington Cemetery or something like that

The Byrd machine walked so L. Louise Lucas could girlboss

Woke 2 poster with Virginia state senator L Louise Lucas

I don't know 🙃

Give L. Louise Lucas an armored division

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

It still genuinely astounds me what a lack of humility and self-awareness that man has.

We don’t have the votes for that, and even with the midterms, it’s impossible (out of Mississippi, Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, you’d need to flip at least four of those states).

But he’s saying “American Zionists.” As someone else said, I don’t know if you can ascribe an ethnicity to an ideology, so, yes, he means Jews.