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We should endanger it more btw

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[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

I'm genuinely afraid that redefining antisemitism as "not reflexively mentioning October 7th when another hospital in Gaza gets bombed" is enabling actual antisemites. I'm mostly talking about the fucking dire situation in Germany here, but there's a growing tendency to externalize antisemitism and portray it as an "imported" problem, to racialize it and integrate it into islamophobic discourses, and that can and does work as a cover for antisemitic narratives, blame shifting and historic revisionism. Before the last elections in Bavaria, conservative politician Hubert Aiwanger was aleged to have distributed a holocaust-celebrating pamphlet in his younger years, there was good evidence for that and that got completely handwaved while he portrayed muslim immigrants as the main source of antisemitism in the country today. He continues to be the vice president of the state.

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

there's a growing tendency to externalize antisemitism and portray it as an "imported" problem

The grandchildren of SS officers are blaming us dastardly Muslims for the country famous for the Holocaust being antisemitic?

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

They seriously do. Germany has always had a deep-rooted wish to exonerate itself of its past and now that people have finally convinced themselves they can wash their hands clean with the blood of muslims, that they can rid themselves of guilt by virtue of being racist in the way that's been fully government-endorsed ever since 9/11, they go full hog on that opportunity. It's appalling. I am ashamed of, embarassed and angered by sharing a nationality with people like that literally every single day.

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