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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Slate podcaster Mike Pesca has a theory that whenever President Donald Trump says everybody it means almost nobody, and when he says nobody or anybody it means almost everybody.
Try it: When Trump said, Nobody knew health care could be so complicated well, nearly everybody disagreed. And when he says, Everybody knows there was no collusion, he means, I insist there was no collusion, but am worried that nobody else, including Robert Mueller, agrees with me.
That kind of verbal irony has become a way of arguing on social media. A Facebook friend complained recently that two weeks after Louis Farrakhan gave yet another anti-Semitic speech, no one really cares.
In fact, the Farrakhan speech was widely reported in the mainstream media, from The Washington Post to CNN to Fox News to Rolling Stone, especially after a leader of the Womens March attended the Nation of Islam leaders speech and refused to acknowledge his hate or apologize. By waiting too long to release a tepid statement on the incident, march leaders kept the story going another week. So did the right, which used Farrakhans re-emergence into the public spotlight as an opportunity to bash the left.
You could say people now care about Farrakhan more than they have in 20 years.
I dont mean to pick on my friend; the everybody and nobody trope is everywhere these days. In part it is a symptom of news overload important things that demand attention disappear at the speed of a tweet about some other thing that demands immediate attention. Everybody knows that Trump is adept at changing the subject, and almost nobody knows how to resist the bait. And while the web has democratized news and made it theoretically easier to get a story out to the public, it also means that many more stories and ideas are jockeying for attention.
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This article is from March, but still a good one, though I don't agree with parts, the rest pretty much sums up the issue of discussing anti-Semitism in this culture and climate.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Farrakhan was not a pick for "anyone". If you had not mentioned his name, he would continue to occupy the dustbins of history.
Reliving the past is not going to help win the 2018 elections, imo.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)That's irrelevant. His anti-Semitism must be addressed as must the racism of David Duke, when he speaks. Do not lecture me about anti-Semitism in the Jewish group! I think your comment is beyond fucking absurd that "If you had not mentioned his name, he would continue to occupy the dustbins of history." Seriously?! I brought him back into the limelight?!
Anti-Semitism is worthy of being confronted as are anti-Semites, especially in a group labelled "the Jewish Group".
Tread lightly.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)If you can't show respect for the topic of discussion and Jews, then leave!
EllieBC
(2,961 posts)WTF is wrong with that poster????