SLUTWALK CHICAGO SAYS STAR OF DAVID WILL BE PERMITTED, NATIONAL FLAGS WILL NOT

[leftynyc]

Source: Jerusalem Post

After a week of consultations with “Jewish and Palestinian community members,” organizers of a Chicago demonstration on behalf of women’s rights said they would allow religious symbol at its Aug. 12 event, but not “nationalist” ones.


“Bring symbols of your respective faiths, if that is what you choose to do. Bring symbols of resistance, but leave symbols of nationalism and oppression at home,” SlutWalk Chicago posted Monday on its Facebook page.

“We also apologize for two retweets posted to the SlutWalk twitter last weekend that stated that the Magen David was always a Zionist symbol and could not be claimed as a symbol of Jewish pride outside of the context of Zionism. This is not a position that we as a collective stand behind, the person responsible for the retweets has removed themselves from the group, and we are no longer organizing with them pending an accountability process,” the apology said.

Haaretz reported Sunday, citing an organizer of the SlutWalk Chicago, that the group would welcome all participants at the Aug. 12 march who wish to protest sexual violence and the attitudes of shame and blame that surround it. The organizer, identified as Red, also said the collective needs to make amends to the Jewish community for past actions.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/SlutWalk-Chicago-says-Star-of-David-will-be-permitted-national-flags-will-not-501408

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It sure took long enough for this nonsense to get resolved.

[WinstonSmith00]

1. We want Freedom!

But not to much freedom. Dont wear this dont carry that. Am I not the only one who sees the cognitive dissonance here?

They want you to come out and stand for freedom but want to limit your freedoms.

Say what you wanna say and carry what ever symbol you want and if somebody else doesnt like they can walk away.

[hunter]

5. It's their parade, they make the rules.

[leftynyc]

6. And they deserve to

be called out for the sniveling hypocrites they are. That's how it works.

[hunter]

7. Racism, sexism, nationalism... they all stink.

Every nation has some strengths, every nation has some flaws. Same with individual people.

Nationalism is not what this march is about, is it?

I don't know anything about the various factions here, or what they are carrying on about. If it's some Israel/Palestine pissing match I find it difficult to empathize with either side. I felt the same about the Troubles in Ireland which are more relevant to my own family, and to my wife's family.

I suffered enough religious warfare within my own family as a kid (and sometimes still as an adult) that I'm done with it.

[leftynyc]

8. If you'd like to be informed about

what happened, here are some links:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/we-were-kicked-off-chicagos-dyke-march-for-not-being-the-right-kind-of-jew


http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240945/journalist-who-exposed-chicago-dyke-march-details-their-anti-semitic-harassment-over-her-reporting

http://forward.com/fast-forward/377025/chicago-dyke-march-tweets-zio-tears-an-anti-semitic-dog-whistle/

[hunter]

9. It sounds as if the issue was resolved...

... as you stated in your original post.

And somehow I'm doubting the WinstonSmith00 post I replied to was about any of that.

[leftynyc]

12. It was ALL about that

they only want freedom for those that agree with their ridiculous positions. That's why they threw out the Zionists who had the NERVE to put a Star of David on a rainbow flag (not even an Israeli flag, A RAINBOW FLAG).

[hunter]

15. WinstonSmith00 hasn't returned to clarify their post

You and I read the post differently. It seems to me we are largely talking past one another here.

Because I've read other WinstonSmith00 posts on DU I don't believe they were supporting your position. My guess is they were upset because they felt excluded from the slut march because they don't approve of sluts. What about free speech?

The intention of my reply was, Yeah, what about it...

If you think I'm the sort of leftist who get's all jacked up and antisemitic about Palestinian issues, I hope not. If you tell me how I might be, I'll listen.

[leftynyc]

16. I'm not sure you read the links I provided

The organizers ADMITTED they were thrown out for having the Star of David on their rainbow flag. NOTHING about sluts. They were called Zionists and told they weren't welcome. I'm not reading into anything. THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.

[hunter]

18. I did. The Slut Walk responded to offenses that occurred in the Dyke March...

... and for tweets by some of their own members. (Yes, there is some overlap in the groups' membership, but still, two groups.)

Which seems to have nothing to do with the post I first replied to in this thread, which was not yours.

[FreepFryer]

2. Respectfully, who gives a shit? We need to stop making stupid people famous.

These faux "wedge" issues stink of propaganda and frankly I don't think it has any purpose other than to sow discord on the Left.

"Slutwalk Chicago?" Give me a break.

(No insult intended against the OP, this is directed against those media editors who think this kind of divisive Left wedge crap matters. It doesn't.)

[elleng]

3. Yes, the whole 'issue' makes me

[FreepFryer]

4. +1. Manufactured conflict is manufactured (n/t)

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. It's called the narcissism of small differences

[FreepFryer]

14. True- but there's a fine line between feuding neighbors and conscious propaganda shit-stirring (n/t)

[Behind the Aegis]

10. Good.

Amazing how many people are willing to "look the other way" when it is anti-Semitism.

[leftynyc]

13. Amazing....disgusting

whatever.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. Of course, I don't know what is worse...

....those who "look away" or those who act as if the real problem are the Jews for "whining" about anti-Semitism.

[leftynyc]

19. That's often the excuse they

use for looking away. Total non-sequitur - I just finished the new Daniel Silva book. Love that series. I can't imagine what made me think of that.