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I don’t have a dog in this fight but attempting to characterize anyone who has heterodox opinions on trade as anti-semitic feels pretty gross.

• krapp 6y ago
  "Globalist" in the context of this thread about cancel culture was conflated with "leftist." No one is discussing international trade here. And yes, the term "globalism" as an anti-leftist pejorative originates (as most anti-left rhetoric does) in anti-semitic prejudice and along with terms like "cultural Marxism" (a literal anti-semitic conspiracy theory) and "New York liberal" is often employed as a dog-whistle by the racist right. That's simply fact. You could take most anti-leftist/anti-cancel culture screeds on HN and replace the politically correct words with "Jew" and it would fit right in in 1940s Germany, up to and including the insidious conspiracy that controls politics and the media and is even willing to kill to further its dark, society destroying agenda. Now, does this mean that literally anyone who uses those terms or that conspiratorial rhetoric about the "leftist/globalist" agenda is automatically an anti-semite? No. It does mean that those who aren't may be unintentionally signal-boosting for those who are.