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Why Is It So Hard to Condemn Anti-Semitism?
Meghan McCain is the best thing to happen to daytime talk in memory. Case in point: this morning McCain put Tamika Mallory’s feet to the fire about her comfortable relationship with known anti-Semite Louis Farakkhan:
.@TamikaDMallory: I didn't call Farrakhan the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric, I called him that because of what he's done for black communities.@MeghanMcCain blasts her for praising him, as well as the rejection of conservative women by @womensmarch pic.twitter.com/8Ez8xgLKif
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) January 14, 2019
Ms. Mallory, take some notes, because this is how it’s done:
I fully condemn and denounce anti-Semitism, prejudice and bigotry in all their forms – and the hateful actions they embolden. I appreciate my friends, including my brothers and sisters in the Jewish community, who brought these statements to my attention. 2/2
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) January 14, 2019
Join to comment: Do you think the Women’s March numbers will be effected by the controversy?
Published in Journalism
In short, no. It’s already baked in.
I can’t accept that.
Nor can I refute it.
I actually started a post on this subject but haven’t had time to finish it. My post was inspired by this article by Robin Abcarian of the LA Times:
Can you admire Louis Farrakhan and still advance the cause of women? Maybe so. Life is full of contradictions
My snarky twitter response was something along the lines of:
Intersectionality math is hard.
Here’s a piece on Anti-Semitism and the Democratic Party electoral coalition.
It hasn’t become hard to condemn antisemitism, it’s become easier to ignore it.
imho this is because antisemitism has been so broadly (and perhaps cynically) redefined that it’s lost its precise meaning and (im)moral weight.
You can see the same social outcome building with those other ‘shut up’ allegations – of ‘racism’, of ‘homophobia’, of ‘Islamophobia’, of ‘hating America’ – and for the same reason.
At the end of the day people tend to believe their own lying eyes.
Whether it’s Jews, Kulaks, Catholics, Christians, Moslems, or Race, the collectivist cannot see human beings as individuals. The one conscience they never examine is their own, to do so would be to admit that they are an individual, and what they believe would then become a lie.
Louis Farrakhan and Alice Walker have been making blatantly anti-white statements for a very long time.
Farrakhan has called white people “devils” and worse for decades, but he calls Jews “termites” and blonde-haired, blue-eyed Meghan McCain is highly offended.
I could be wrong.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/15/major-liberal-groups-walk-away-womens-march-quietly/