You can talk about the NRA like that since it's not an ethnic group or a persecuted history or has oppressive language by its enemies around the world because of the former. You can badmouth the NRA all you like and I'd agree with you, but this thread isn't about thread so they're off-topic.
AIPAC is not an ethnic group.
For real man, what is this shit?
I mean, you want to talk offensive language, as a Jew I'm fucking annoyed that I'm being conflated with an organization like AIPAC.
You may not, but many Jewish people do and I'm not including AIPAC or Lukid. Which is why this is a controversial subject where people treat with kid gloves for a reason, particularly politicians.
Well, it's hard to respond to what many unnamed Jewish people think, but do you think that?
Because if you do, you really need to educate yourself, again, AIPAC lobbied against Oslo and against Rabin, a sitting prime minister, it's got so bad that the he tried to start a competing Israeli group because he considered them straight up an organ of the Likud. But like, he was just a prime minister that was murdered, what he thought about AIPAC shouldn't really count as what the Jewish Silent Majority or whatever thinks.
And FYI, it only got worse since the 90s.
Antisemitic language doesn't cease to be antisemitic despite having good intentions behind it. That was a tweet she has to apologise for, as well. There is no "get to of jail free" card for being racist because you had good intentions, it's not how this works.
So first of all, can you please explain to me where the antisemitic language is it?
I'm Jewish and I really really don't see it.
You think that you can't be saying "it's all about the Benajamins" when talking about an issue that might relate to some Jewish people?
Because that's fucking insane to me, and honestly, does not sounds like a good faith critique.
And for fuck's sake, of course intent matter, that's the difference between being insensitive or a jerk than being a racist.
We should strive to be neither and apologize for the former of course, but treating careless phrasing like it's actual racism does very little but downplay how serious racism is.
Though again, I don't even really see careless phrasing here, maybe you can elaborate.
All I see is Republicans trying to use "SJW Judo" against people on left, like, "oh, they don't like racists, what if we say that they're the were the real racists all alone".
They do that all the fucking time, I mean, remember how many times Obama was accused of being the real racist all along?
Remember how they all called him antisemite after he said some things that they didn't like about AIPAC?
Usually, most of the Dems don't fall for that, though they did in this case.
I wonder if there's something special about Ilhan Omar that made them way more likely to jump on her.
Nah, must be some weird coincidence.