Wow. That’s anti-Semitic alright.
The more I read opinions from far-leftists on the Middle East, and especially on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the more convinced I grow that the far-left has serious Antisemitism issues.
Some posters at Daily Kos seem to agree and - rightfully - waste no time distancing themselves from My Left Wing.
I never read anything like that, except for in Nazi propaganda (from before and during World War II).
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Wow, that’s pretty disgusting. Did you notice the name of the poster? Ms. Mannered. If ever there was an inappropriate screen name…. Even worse are the tidbits kos has posted. I’m glad he is so utterly unambiguous in his condemnation, showing that you can be left wing, even far left, and not put up with this crap. Notice that he doesn’t really think it’s an isolated incident, but a problem within the left than needs to be cleaned up.
Michael, doesn’t that anti-semitic garbage remind you of the Stormfront thread we were talking about the other day? Yet another proof that extremes end up being alike.
Yes. and Hayek was right when he said that leftist radicals and rightist radicals have more in common with each other than points on which they disagree.
You just now noticed?
Wow. Whoever owns MLW should immediately denounce this diarist as wrong, utterly careless, ignorant and indefensible.
No one can account for the spontaneous acts of individuals inside of a collection of people under the same URL, but one must sometimes be ready to take a strong stance against those who transitively discredit the collective - this is such a time.
MLW needs to make this an opportunity to distance themselves from this stupidity.
MLW probably won’t. To their credit, many Kossacks have.
"MLW probably won’t. To their credit, many Kossacks have."
I’ve seen some commenting that isn’t the least bit approving, but some front page disapproval or distancing would be the best course of action at this point. MLW as a whole shouldn’t have to bear the dog’s head but it does need to appreciate the concern some people might have regarding the extent of this vitriol. Or lose some standing.
Anti-Semitism does not have political affiliation.
I’ve met plenty on the left (communists, socialists) and the right.
The attempt to smear one of the political group with completely owning that disease is useless imho.
MLW as a whole shouldn’t have to bear the dog’s head but it does need to appreciate the concern some people might have regarding the extent of this vitriol. Or lose some standing.
They posted it. They own it.
The attempt to smear one of the political group with completely owning that disease is useless imho.
Didn’t see anyone here trying to do that. It’s not necessary to list every anti-Semitic faction when noting an anti-Semitic faction, nor does it imply the faction noticed are the only ones. I’m just surprised that it took some so long to notice that a major portion of the left is decidedly anti-Semitic.
"They posted it. They own it."
I am not so sure it works that way. Currently I reject the notion.
I do subscribe at least partially to this. Certainly a blog is not obligated to "own" each and every small position it’s posters take. That would be impossible in any event in a blog where people disagree. This blog has posts on lots of positions, many contradictory, and Michael isn’t assumed to agree with all of them.
However there are limits to this. When a poster (not a commenter) expresses extreme positions, positions that are blatantly racist/sexist/xenophobic etc. then the blog that keeps that post up should be expected to answer for those positions. When I say blatant I mean that it needs to be the sort of thing that a good 80% of normal people would identify as prejudiced. I think "I find myself hating Jews" counts.
(ps: I love this authentication system; today’s code "rant Department"