Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Is anti-racism racism? How many deaths add up to genocide? We live at a moment when labels are in the saddle and ride mankind, as Ralph Waldo Emerson might have put it. The House of Representatives voted this week on whether anti-Zionism was synonymous with antisemitism. The measure passed but split the Democratic party, with 95 Democrats voting aye and 92 answering “present.” Anti-Zionism has been linked to genocide by the reasoning that opposition to the creation, maintenance or expansion of the national homeland of the Jews amounts to a desire to destroy them.
I Liked this line: This solution won’t be embraced by those bent on picking fights. They prefer the problems to solutions.
But with regards to the BLM and All lives matter retort- whether those that said "all lives matter" were racist or not, they were insensitive. According to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit group that tracks police shootings, Black people, who account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 27 percent of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021.
Saying "all lives matter" was a means to attempt to delegitimize the issue of REAL grievances on the part of a segment of our society. Yes all lives do matter, but for a portion of our population, some matter less than others.
This whole thing reminds me of the earlier debates about communism in America, where those who were "hard" supporters of the anti-communist movement were favored over those who were "soft" on it. Stefanik clearly felt Magill and Gay were "soft" on anti-Semitism, and, since Magill was forced to resign, the public seems to agree.
I Liked this line: This solution won’t be embraced by those bent on picking fights. They prefer the problems to solutions.
But with regards to the BLM and All lives matter retort- whether those that said "all lives matter" were racist or not, they were insensitive. According to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit group that tracks police shootings, Black people, who account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 27 percent of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021.
Saying "all lives matter" was a means to attempt to delegitimize the issue of REAL grievances on the part of a segment of our society. Yes all lives do matter, but for a portion of our population, some matter less than others.
A very welcome, level-headed analysis.
This whole thing reminds me of the earlier debates about communism in America, where those who were "hard" supporters of the anti-communist movement were favored over those who were "soft" on it. Stefanik clearly felt Magill and Gay were "soft" on anti-Semitism, and, since Magill was forced to resign, the public seems to agree.