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You wouldn't say "He isn't marching with Black Lives Matter, who want to make America a communist dictatorship" just because someone claimed to see Black Bloc a
by drak0n1c 8y ago
You wouldn't say "He isn't marching with Black Lives Matter, who want to make America a communist dictatorship" just because someone claimed to see Black Bloc anarchists at a BLM event or because a Maoist offered words of support, would you? If a partisan pundit claimed that their activities and attitude enables extremists, and that was all that was needed to label them extremists too, I would dispute that characterization as well.
Proud Boys oppose white nationalism as one of their core rules and a number of their NYC members are Jewish men. They're constantly taunted by skinheads online and have expelled trolls attempting to hijack their events.
PS: You have a good point about naive ignorance - but the form of malicious and hateful ignorance we both identify as toxic is still borne out by statistics to be more common in the Middle East and North Africa than it is in the west. Due to it being sanctioned by multiple governments there, it affects me personally (I am actually not allowed to visit certain countries) and geopolitically in the form of strife/taxation, and migration (European Jews wearing kippah are now facing street harassment in prejudiced neighborhoods). I do not believe that saying this makes me hateful, I would love to wave a wand and get along with whoever may hate me for bad reasons - I am just assessing the practical level of anti-Semitism that is out in the world and how it ends up actually affecting my non-digital life. Trust me, the vast majority of anti-Semites are not taking the lead from white nationalists.