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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 22:37:05 GMT -6
I want to weigh-in real quick on this Chelsea Clinton incident...
While I do not believe that her tweets that she just got heat for at a Vigil for the shooting victims (way back when, slamming Ilhan for anti-Semitism, incorrectly) influenced the killer and what he did in any way, I do think that stuff like that contributes to a broader culture of anti-Muslim bigotry.
By changing a debate about the influence of money and special-interest groups into accusations of bigotry, they not only deflected from addressing an important issue about our politics (doubtless to take attention away from their own questionable ties and keep donors like Haim Saban happy at the expense of their broader voter base which opposes the apartheid)... but also helped further the narrative that Muslims have some innate hate for Jews, something that the Right loves to push themselves to pit two marginalized groups against each other and that the True Believers on their side parrot as with everything else.
That was the point I was trying to make when I slammed the Dem leadership for the non-controversy over Ilhan's tweets about a week ago, way before any of this. In truth, the hate for her (and Rashida Tlaib) from the Right makes me fear for her safety.
A strong Left can take things away from the Right. You can no longer be overtly bigoted against the LGBT community and use words like "homo" (which some Republicans used to say on the floor of Congress not that long ago) openly -- except, I guess, for Brazilian fascists like Bolsanaro --, even though lots of folks on the Right are still not very accepting of them. So while they will continually try to push their political agenda through hate/division, we on the Left have to make that socially unacceptable again. This NZ terrorist attack looks to be really bad PR for the Right, but it should not have to come to this in the first place.
That means not defending Nancy Pelosi weaseling out of a debate about money/special-interest influence in our politics with right-wing race tactics. I give credit to the party voter base; their backlash was a huge reason the Dems backed off, and Trump's attempt to court Jews into the GOP are as clumsy as any other thing he has done. That also means not supporting Bill Maher's efforts to dignify fear-mongering over Muslims as rational discourse.
(rant over)
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