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  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonecommon pavlou L rule
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    7 days ago
    • fact 1: yes, malcolm x said some things that are easily categorized as antisemitism. these statements were not the primary thrust of his platform but are not above criticism.
    • fact 2: charlie kirk said many things that are easily categorized as transphobia, homophobia, racism, islamophobia. these words were his entire platform and he literally died with the hateful words on his lips.








  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    12 days ago

    genuinely curious how you aren’t used to it by now as a huge proportion of twitter and lemmy users are american and use the date formats that match their locale this is a pretty normal thing online

    iso 8601 supremacy of course tho lol









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    20 days ago

    yep

    Jerome Chanes,[57] Pinson, Rosenblatt,[58] Mark R. Cohen, Norman Stillman, Uri Avnery, M. Klien, and Bernard Lewis all argue that antisemitism did not emerge in the Muslim world until modern times, because in their view, it was rare in pre-modern Islam.

    emphasis mine, in comparison to

    Antisemitic Christian rhetoric and the resulting antipathy towards Jews date back to early Christianity, resembling pagan anti-Jewish attitudes that were reinforced by the belief that Jews are responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Christians imposed ever-increasing anti-Jewish measures over the ensuing centuries, including acts of ostracism, humiliation, expropriation, violence, and murder—measures which culminated in the Holocaust.[1]: 21 [2]: 169 [3] Antisemitism in Christianity

    in sum, antisemitism in islam certainly exists, but the idea that it’s been always prevalent and some kind of eternal blood feud is easily dismissed, or at the very least must be understood to be fractional to the endemic and widespread nature of antisemitism in christianity.



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    20 days ago

    nah. sure, it might be called “understandable,” just as any cycle of violence has a predictable, “understandable” tendency to repeat. that doesn’t make it acceptable, though.

    this quote isn’t from 1946. a quick search shows that israeli forces first used tanks extensively around 1973. this situates Kertész’s remarks not just in response to the Holocaust, but in the context of over two decades of the Nakba, displacement, destruction, occupation, and the early stages of apartheid against 1.4 million Palestinians.

    i don’t see evidence that Kertész was a zealous zionist, but this quote—given the atrocity lurking behind the words—is definitely worthy of interrogation and critique. that kind of questioning is part of universal healing, understanding, and growth.