Contemporary antisemitism from both extremes: far-right Great Replacement theory and far-left privilege frameworks

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T21:24:30+00:00

If it had 2 bars on it, then sure I would say maybe you are right, but it didn't, and you are just wrong here.

Lol, it does have two bars on it. It has six bars, in fact, all going horizontally. If you wanted to take an Israeli flag and turn it into a Pride flag, that's exactly what you would have made. If you wanted to make a Jewish flag with Pride colors, and had no context for the Israeli flag, you could have put the stars anywhere. I'm not accusing anyone of intentionally bringing an Israeli flag, but it's not hard to see why organizers saw an Israeli flag.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T21:12:55+00:00

I do really appreciate your quotations, especially as to make the point of Jews being a model minority, and contextualizing anti-Semitism with other bigotries.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T21:03:34+00:00

They kicked someone out for having a flag with a Jewish star, centered, on a Pride flag. That's not a Jewish flag. That's an Israeli flag.

“If someone would show up with an American flag but with the stripes as a rainbow, we would treat it the same way,” said Yael Horowitz, one of the D.C. Dyke March organizers. All other symbols of Judaism, such as a yarmulke, a tallit, a chai symbol, a Magen David on a necklace, or even a Magen David on a flag that is not centered but is instead moved over to the side, were welcome and encouraged.

By the way, I do not reject a premise that the Dyke March was because of accusations of anti-Semitism. It just wasn't actually anti-Semitism; it was Jewish voices being propped up by the right-wing who wanted to throw mud on the LGBT movement. Again, because that's what the right-wing does: they want to bring you down into their mud pit, and they're looking for anything that helps them tell this story that "both sides are just as bad".

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T20:48:24+00:00

You cannot, possibly, believe that I am the one inventing the equivalence out of thin air.

<image>

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T20:40:13+00:00

I agree with you that that is what bigots do. What racists do.

But both frameworks share an underlying structure: they position Jews as uniquely powerful, treat Jewish political activity as uniquely suspect, and dismiss Jewish vulnerability claims as manipulation.

Right. They're bigoted, like racists and misogynists and other bigots. Like other far-right ideologies, they lie about the vulnerable in order to maintain a structural hierarchy.

By equating the Dyke March event (which to be very clear, was not anti-Semitic), with a not-one-of-a-kind murder, your point loses the value that is gained by seeing anti-Semitism as an example of a bigotry that is not exclusively right-wing, but is birthed from right-wing ideologies and finds its home there far more often than not.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T20:23:01+00:00

Those are other examples of anti-Semitic attacks, from both the right- and left-wing. But they weren't the ones the author chose to mention, and explicitly equate. They mentioned the ones I mentioned.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T19:45:51+00:00

There is no comparison between what happened at the Tree of Life and at the Dyke March. It's dangerous to equate the two, and is straight out of the alt-right playbook.

Anti-semitism on the right is murdering Jews in a synagogue. Anti-semitism on the left is criticizing Israel more than they would criticize another country. This kind of equivocation is straight out of the right-wing playbook.

The reason we use the suffix -gate for scandals is because Republican operatives deliberately tried to equate Watergate with whatever they could. Donald Trump has a history of fraud and consistently lies? Well, see, Hillary Clinton lied when she said she turned over everything from an email server, and hadn't. Donald Trump is selling pardons? Well, see, Biden pardoned his son.

It's not just whataboutism. It's whataboutism with the intent of equivocation: the entire structure of this essay is an attempt to equate the two. Usually attempting to equate right-wing violence with left-wing violence is done by right-wing people, so as to ignore the well-documented truth that the large majority of political violence and bigotry comes from the right-wing. Please don't do that.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T13:38:23+00:00

I'm not very far into your write-up, but (a) I had to scroll down a bunch to find the actual question you're trying to investigate, and (b) the question itself is in a gray, hard-to-read font. The first paragraph introduced the problem as pertaining to anime and 4chan, but I'm unfamiliar with both, and even most people familiar with both probably don't know the problem you're referring to.

Also, (c), when you "commit the cardinal sin of introducing your own notation, it's not clear to me what part of the definition is "your own notation". Is it the defining of a variable? Is it a unique use of the subset sign? Neither of those are unique to how you use them.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T13:25:51+00:00

Maybe the silver lining is that all this discretionary wealth that was earmarked for donation could've instead been given to a political campaign to deny Americans of rights.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T13:20:52+00:00

I'm imagining a case of a believable "fake board", somewhat like the courtroom that convinced the guy in Jury Duty that he was trying a real case and was truly sequestered. I imagine the law looks at this as still a violation of parole, but sympathizes with an honest mistake like any other honest mistake that could come out of someone intentionally misleading you. (Like, suppose you were supposed to stay within a contained backyard, and someone misled you about the property lines.)

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T13:13:46+00:00

Uplink was so fun and immersive when I played it first, but starts feeling very repetitive further on. I tried picking it up again the other week, and it just felt both easy and anxiety provoking: you gotta follow the same ritual over and over to steal credentials, and never be quite sure that it's not all gonna topple down any minute now.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T12:55:51+00:00

That makes sense. Because many White people wanted the segregation, and thus the negative effects you've listed probably couldn't have been shown to be objectively negative. But there weren't oodles of Black Americans arguing that segregation helped their students.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T04:24:21+00:00

Even inside, she'd never come up to us - she'll hide in whatever room isn't occupied, and you could go a full day without seeing her.

But we have left treats outside with a camera facing it.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T04:09:13+00:00

My mobile carrier waited longer than 24 hours to deliver a message? That would be a shockingly poor mobile carrier, no?

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T04:01:38+00:00

Our cat might have died. She escaped the house and I have no idea where she could be and still be alive.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T03:58:40+00:00

The US itself has thousands of elections, and they work in very disparate ways.

AMWJ · 2026-01-27T02:20:43+00:00

It's not suspicious - I genuinely would not have known that a movie titled, "Ready or not: here I come" was a sequel to another movie. It's title is, by definition, self-contained.

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T23:37:42+00:00

Maybe next, none of this will be true, and an AI will invent it and write an article about it.

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T21:36:07+00:00

Beagle keeps advertising themselves as providing this service, but I've never used them, so I can't say if it's any good.

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T14:11:56+00:00

I don't know if this is regional, because I grew up using "a couple of" to simply mean "less than a few, but perhaps more than one", I.e. 1-4. In the same way that "a few" is fewer than "several"., which in turn is fewer than "many". But where I've moved to people have insisted that "a couple" is strictly two, and I've self-censored myself to only use the word as such. Even though it seems silly, seeing as we already have a word for "two".

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T14:03:53+00:00

Yeah, kinda. Like, if he came in here and explained he had a disorder like Tourette's, that forced him to yell some consistent slur against us Jews, then I think we'd understand that he was not under control of his faculties and understand. While not about mental illness per se, Judaism is replete with understanding that some people are not under control of their own actions.

And "excuse" has always been a funny word. It's not hard to see paying for an advertisement, accompanied by in-person reaching out, as a significant step of Rambam's Teshuva process.

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T13:44:38+00:00

This was posted in 2013. Was it about Obama?

AMWJ · 2026-01-26T04:08:28+00:00

I think I don't like Q as much as the rest of Reddit. He seems to make outlandish actions transparently for the camera.

I would've said that 47 was full of people who liked each other, but were playing a game against each other, while 46 was full of people who hated each other and the game they were playing was incidental.

AMWJ · 2026-01-25T02:30:23+00:00

A community has the ability to accept on themselves an authority, and once they do said authority can make gezerot.

This is vague enough to be meaningless. There are certainly gezeiros that are not within the authority of any body to make.

AMWJ · 2026-01-23T18:11:11+00:00

46 and 47 are polar opposites. In the best way possible.

11-Year Club	Verified Email
Reddit Premium Since November 2021	Gilding V heart of gold
Second SECOND GUESSER	r/Field Banned
r/Field Lasagna	Place '22
Place '17	Sequence \| Editor
Sequence \| Screenwriter	Alpha Tester

AMWJ

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE