You really have to admire the consistency of the lefty talking points on any given issue. I’m reading exactly the same comments from Lefties on blog sites in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and America (of course).
Here’s the original X comment that Musk replied to (screen shot included in case that account vanishes):
Not simple “hatred” then, but “dialectical hatred” – meaning the unending diatribe of “Identity Politics”, which includes the subsets of “Critical Race Theory”, “Anti-Racism”, “White Fragility”, “Anti-Immigrant”, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”, “Gender Theory”, and half a hundred other pieces of bullshit Lefty theories that have been used for years now to demonise right-wingers, Republicans, “MAGA extremists”, Men and yes, Whites (“White Supremacy”). And all of it pushed by Lefty Whites, Lefty Jews, Lefty Hispanics and Lefty Blacks, combining partisan and ideological haters of ill will and outright grifters like Ibrahm X Kendi and Robyn DeAngelo.
The writer, one “breakingbaht”, is amused and angered by the fact that since October 7 a lot of Lefty Jews around the world, but especially in the USA, have discovered to their horror that much of this is now being directed at them and he’s amused because there’s an element of “What the fuck did you think was going to happen with the theories of Identity Politics and Decolonisation? Did you really think only White Republicans would be the target?”.
He’s hardly the first to notice that the Left’s beloved Identity Politics of the last few years basically only had one Hate Group Target, which was Whites – with the argument that it wasn’t skin colour like old-fashioned racism, but because of Whites being Oppressors (see also Te Paiti Maori here in NZ). That this ugly shit was going to come around and bite Western, particularly American Jews, on the bum, has apparently come as a surprise to them:
Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews “completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,” who were either justifying Hamas’s atrocities or celebrating them outright.
This sense of deep betrayal is not limited to New York. Many progressive Jews have been profoundly shaken by the way some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance. These are Jews who share the left’s abhorrence of the occupation of Gaza and of the enormities inflicted on it, which are only going to get worse if and when Israel invades. But the way keyboard radicals have condoned war crimes against Israelis has left many progressive Jews alienated from political communities they thought were their own.
That quote coming from the NYT’s Michele Goldberg, who has wallowed in all this crap for years – as long as it targeted her favourite hate group: Republicans.
“@breakingbaht” also said this further down-thread:
I’m not bringing anything into any fold. I support Jewish people’s right to self defense literally and ideologically. But I also, as a white person, have to acknowledge that it’s been depressing to see Jewish communities not take a stronger stance against anti white dialecticism that is basically just repurposed antisemitism.
Musk’s reply clearly means that he agreed in thinking that “Liberal” Jews and Jewish groups in the USA have stupidly contributed to a whole bunch of progressive causes and groups that they are now horrified to discover hate their guts. From what I can see Musk has more sympathy for such Jewish groups than the guy who wrote the original Tweet, and probably is pro-immigration as well. A few days later he expanded on these thoughts at the same forum where he issued his now famous “Go Fuck Yourselves” response to the advertising boycott against X/Twitter:
“The Jewish people have been persecuted for thousands of years. There is a natural affinity, therefore, for persecuted groups. This has led to the funding of organizations that essentially promote any persecuted group or any group with the perception of persecution. This includes radical Islamic groups.” He continued, “Everyone here has seen the massive demonstrations for Hamas in every major city in the West. That should be jarring. Well, a number of those organizations receive funding from prominent people in Jewish community.”
Musk used his appearance on stage to clarify a controversial tweet earlier this month that he conceded was “foolish,” and said, “What I meant to by that … is that it’s unwise to fund organizations, to support groups, that want your annihilation.”
But the real reasons for this latest shitstorm are the following two.
First, the Democrat Party’s need to destroy X/Twitter since Musk bought it earlier this year and ended their control and influence over it – an especially important factor with the 2024 election coming up given how Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media channels were used to help Biden, especially in the matter of his scumbag son, Hunter. Hence this crap from the ADL (Anti Defamation League) and more importantly the stunt that Media Matters pulled a week earlier in contriving an anti-semitic vibe of such groups appearing beside corporate advertisements on X/Twitter – for which Musk is now suing Media Matters:
“Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content…”
“… and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform. Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”
This has actually been a standard Media Matters strategy against any groups it sees as a threat to the Democrat Party but in the past their de-monetising targets were small, powerless outfits like right-wing, Republican media sites such as PJMedia and RedState – who are also under similar attack by Youtube and Google, forcing their writers to earn nothing from their articles. The stunt has been pulled for articles such as those which highlight people de-transitioning to their birth sex, along with their stories; Youtube/Google are hugely pro-Trans, especially for kids.
The second reason is the US Left’s desperate need to deflect from the recently revealed levels of Jew hatred in its ranks. The “anti-semitism” attacks on Musk and others by Democrat Party outfits like the ADL and Media Matters, in addition to trying to destroy X/Twitter, are also trying to put the genie back in the bottle before it splits the Democrat Party in 2024. The threat is to the narrative of the anti-White dialectical hatred employed by the Left in recent years which has been so useful to them, which is why they’re swarming the issue now in an effort to hang on to Liberal Jews who’ve had their eyes opened.
Regarding that X/Twitter advertisers boycott led by the likes of Walmart, Apple, IBM and…. Disney…
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** Incidentally the same commentator had said this on Kiwiblog in March 2022:
Some people seem to regard any criticism of Israel or of individual Jews as anti-Semitism. That’s obvious nonsense.
No Minister 