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Petrichor's avatar

I think the tendency to ignore anti-Semitism from groups considered marginalized is an example of a more general tendency to sweep hatred by groups higher on the intersectional totem pole under the rug. Consider the case of the lesbian couple and their son (who happened to be black) who were brutally murdered in California by a trans activist: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/07/transgender-activist-trial-oakland-triple-murder/. There's been very little press coverage of this case, but I'm confident that if they were killed by a Westboro Baptist Church type, it'd be all over the news.

Similarly, the recent crimes against Asians have been too well-documented to ignore, but they've been construed as white supremacy even when the perpetrator isn't white. Acknowledging that people from marginalized groups have agency and can do terrible things is difficult for woke culture, I suppose.

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Jenk M. Huffer's avatar

Everything is white people's fault now. So-called "white supremacy" is just a dog-whistle for "white people", and invocations of "white supremacy" are just thinly veiled justifications for anti-white racism.

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Petrichor's avatar

There's some truth in your statement, but it falls apart when a nonwhite person goes against the narrative. Consider the teacher Bari published the other day who was chastised for telling his students to read Glenn Loury, or the cases of Allison Bailey (https://allisonbailey.co.uk/) and Keira Bell (https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story) in the UK. Being a person of color isn't enough to shield you from accusations of bigotry if you question certain sacred cows.

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Missy's avatar

Quite the opposite in fact - a person of color is persecuted much more viciously for questioning the narrative than a white person.

Apostates who are expected to stay on the plantation must be put in their place, or else the whole "progressive" system collapses.

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Jenk M. Huffer's avatar

White guilt and black rage: two of the forces currently turning the wheels of history. Western culture is in its death throes. Liberalism is collapsing under the weight of the free-riders, and can't be sustained by the younger generations who never learned how to be good caretakers of it; they apparently believe it's just the normal state of affairs, and take it for granted. Very few of them read or exercise any more--they're too busy with video games, Tik-tok and porn. Asia is salivating to feast upon the carcass of western civilization.

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norstadt's avatar

Plenty of Asian countries lean to the West, and they are ony a few decades behind culturally. Even China is likely to become self-aware one of these days.

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Missy's avatar

How can you defend liberty when you've never experienced it, or been taught its value? Young people have spent their entire lives, at least in real space outside the internet, with every move they make being mediated by adults. Along with substandard, even pernicious "education," this is the biggest problem we face.

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