"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
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Timothy Snyder
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
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They do not acknowledge that our Democratic institutions were legislated by Congress.
Sadly missed…
So did my late parents.
The 77 million base voters is the problem.
The dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible evangelical white nationalists is the problem.
The anti-abortion anti-gay anti-immigration etc., is the problem.
Jim Crow 2.0 voting laws is the problem
Anti-science problem.
Mahmoud Khalil is an antisemite.
Lets be very clear here.
There is absolutely no doubt about that.
If you can't the biggest global racist campaign in human history since October 7 2023 you are a very shitty historian.
Mahmoud Khalil is part of that racist campaign.
This is real #Antisemitism and @timothysnyder.bsky.social should be better than this.
Be afraid of everything and everyone
"Only we can save you"
Its what it is.
Lies are Truth.
Hate is Love.
It's happening with anti-sustainability measures as well -- with limiting "freedom" in the name of freedom, as Senator Hagerty did this week with his PROTECT USA act of 2025.
Having documented an instance where the Trump Administration apparently made stuff up, it's yeoman's work to go through Project 2025.
A play on Weimar era NSDAP & media dog whistling of 'cultural Marxism', deflecting from the RW?
SPLC 2003 ''Cultural Marxism,' a conspiracy theory with an anti-Semitic twist, being pushed by much of the US right. Surprisingly, that this bizarre theory is catching on.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/cultural-marxism-catching/
We've seen Ric Grenell trying to twist "diversity" to a new meaning as well, in trying to insinuate boos against Vance at the Kennedy Center reflected intolerance.
thank you for clarification!
Frankly, only Jewish opinion on the subject matters.
I wish we could have a firm, unified opinion on this but there are still detractors among us who are literally arguing semantics on the left due to propaganda & the nonJews cling to for vindication.