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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a Jew and pretty sensitive to antisemitism, even dogwhistles. I admit I don’t go to lemmy.ml very often, but from what I’ve seen from lemmy.ml posters posting on lemmy.world, there’s been no antisemitism at all. In fact, I have not seen any antisemitism from anyone here that I can recall, which is pretty amazing in and of itself.
Opposition to Israel’s genocidal regime is not antisemitism.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah. I am really sick of seeing the argument that any condemnation of the government of Israel is anti-Semitic. It has nothing to do with them being Jewish and everything to do with how they have handled that conflict over the years.
Rengoku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You should go to Indonesia and would feel the anti Jew from the second you land. 🤭
Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Out of the loop, what do dogwhistles mean regarding antisemitism?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Saying things that aren’t explicitly antisemitic but are basically hidden code for antisemitism. Such as “Globalists.”
Unquote0270@programming.dev 1 month ago
Why is that called a dog whistle?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
See also major conspiracy theories implying there is a group of secret overlords who control everything behind the scenes.
Any time the supposed responsible party for some conspiracy is an unspecified they/them, that’s usually a sign that they’re trying to be sneaky about serving you a rewrite of blood libel.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Just as a sidenote, whoever wrote the Disney Secret Invasion story needs a hard looking at.
This might sound a bit dorky, but bear with me for a moment.
So in the comics, the Kree Empire vs Skrull Empire is this big, galactic conflict that’s been going on forever, right? Occasionally one side will invade Earth for reasons, everyone has a fun time punching things, that’s it.
Two empires that suck equal amounts hitting each other in space. Good clean nerd fun.
Disney, a company founded by a notorious anti-semite, decided with the MCU that they should make the Skrull refugee victims of a genocide.
Okay, sure, that’s okay, it addresses real world issues, it’s a good message for the kids, imperialism bad, refugees are people too, right?
Hey.
Wait a minute.
Aren’t the Skrull shape shifting lizard people?
A fringe conspiracy theory that after a brief inspection always turns out to be a code for “Jewish people?”
So… Now we have the Disney (((Skrulls))), refugee genocide victims of the Space Nazis.
Okay. Well, that’s not too bad, but obviously they’re going to need to reveal that the Skrull Empire is still a thing in space, right? Because having the Skrull refugees do the Secret Invasion story would be kind of fucked up, but that’s easy to fix, you just make them the survivors of a single planet from…
Nope. The refugees are now taking over Earth by replacing leaders with (((Skrulls))).
Oh, look. Episode Two.
“The (((Skrulls))) were a worse threat than Hydra! You know, the literal Nazis!”
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Go actually look at the .ml worldnews community. There is full mask off “death to Israel” shit all over the place.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Death to Israel” is also not antisemitic. Jews are not Israelis and Israelis are not Jews. I am not an Israeli. I have no ties or allegiances to Israel, nor do I want them. I think “death to Israel” is an extremist viewpoint, but not an antisemitic one.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Depends on who’s saying it, but not necessarily an anti-semitic phrase, sure.
When shouted by some dude at a campus protest in a nation two thousand miles away, probably not.
However, when Hamas or the Houthis say it, it definitely is.
TeraFloppy@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Is it anti-Semitic when a Semite calls for the killing of a different group of Semites?
migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Judaism is not Zionism and vice versa
uis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thougnt at this point everyone understands that state N is not Nians.