"And while those extremists alienate everybody who doesn’t agree with 100% of their demands, public opinion is shifting against the trans community in general."
in pointing out that frivolous charges of bigotry only make things worse for innocents, then you were alone in that misunderstandi…
"And while those extremists alienate everybody who doesn’t agree with 100% of their demands, public opinion is shifting against the trans community in general."
in pointing out that frivolous charges of bigotry only make things worse for innocents, then you were alone in that misunderstanding. The diversionary charge of "antisemitism" is as cheap a shot as "transphobia" and the comparison between rising public disgust with global Jewry and the "trans" community is an inevitable one. More homologous than analogous.
But if you think replacing a politically cautious figure like Netanyahu with a bloodthirsty settler bigot like Naftali Bennett is some sort of improvement ...!
FTR both my grandmothers had their European families murdered in the Holocaust and I am 87% Ashkenazi by genetic analysis. However my choice is atheism.
Hi Chris, I did understand your point, which you made very clearly. I think in the course of making that point, some generalizations were made which are out of the spirit of this blog, and FWIW, I certainly didn't call you antisemitic or anything else. I don't disagree with you that some right-wing Jewish organizations are too quick to call critics of Israel "antisemites, though I don't see much evidence that this is causing a backlash against Jews in the US outside certain online progressive communities. After all, the most violent incidents against Jews in recent years- in Poway, Pittsburgh, and Jersey City- didn't have anything to do with Israel.
I think your point is much stronger when it comes to accusations of racism. Look at the huge backlash against the specter of "CRT".
Finally, I do think Naftali Bennett, of the now deposed coalition, was a better PM than Bibi, because Bennett brought Arabs into the coalition along with right-wingers and moderates, and didn't engage in the constant racist incitement that is Bibi's SOP. Bennett also sought to repair relationships across the world that Bibi had fractured. But that's all water under the bridge as of yesterday afternoon. The world moves faster than a blog debate.
If you did not understand that I was expanding on
"And while those extremists alienate everybody who doesn’t agree with 100% of their demands, public opinion is shifting against the trans community in general."
in pointing out that frivolous charges of bigotry only make things worse for innocents, then you were alone in that misunderstanding. The diversionary charge of "antisemitism" is as cheap a shot as "transphobia" and the comparison between rising public disgust with global Jewry and the "trans" community is an inevitable one. More homologous than analogous.
But if you think replacing a politically cautious figure like Netanyahu with a bloodthirsty settler bigot like Naftali Bennett is some sort of improvement ...!
FTR both my grandmothers had their European families murdered in the Holocaust and I am 87% Ashkenazi by genetic analysis. However my choice is atheism.
Hi Chris, I did understand your point, which you made very clearly. I think in the course of making that point, some generalizations were made which are out of the spirit of this blog, and FWIW, I certainly didn't call you antisemitic or anything else. I don't disagree with you that some right-wing Jewish organizations are too quick to call critics of Israel "antisemites, though I don't see much evidence that this is causing a backlash against Jews in the US outside certain online progressive communities. After all, the most violent incidents against Jews in recent years- in Poway, Pittsburgh, and Jersey City- didn't have anything to do with Israel.
I think your point is much stronger when it comes to accusations of racism. Look at the huge backlash against the specter of "CRT".
Finally, I do think Naftali Bennett, of the now deposed coalition, was a better PM than Bibi, because Bennett brought Arabs into the coalition along with right-wingers and moderates, and didn't engage in the constant racist incitement that is Bibi's SOP. Bennett also sought to repair relationships across the world that Bibi had fractured. But that's all water under the bridge as of yesterday afternoon. The world moves faster than a blog debate.