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Of course, someone can be jewish and be far right. Someone can be black and own black slaves. Someone can be a woman and be against women's suffrage. Someone ca
by virgildotcodes 1y ago
Of course, someone can be jewish and be far right. Someone can be black and own black slaves. Someone can be a woman and be against women's suffrage. Someone can be rich or poor and a class traitor, etc etc.
Someone's identity can and often does influence their politics, but they are not always in alignment, and their identity certainly doesn't negate their positions that are harmful towards others who share parts of their identity (all of this is often done in exchange for personal gain with these famous people who make a living off all this).
- like_any_other 1y agoThe "far right" can and does have polar-opposite attitudes towards Israel, so all of what you wrote applies equally to that. Yet the Guardian leads with "far right", but actively misleads on her semitism.
- virgildotcodes 1y agoSure, the far right does have polar opposite attitudes towards Israel. I don't understand what any of this has to do with the comment I was replying to that seemed to imply that there was some sort of contradiction between being far right and jewish.
- like_any_other 1y agoI wasn't implying any contradiction. I was drawing attention to the fact that framing her as "far right" falsely ascribes her position as coming from some abstract political ideals [1], when it is nothing more than in-group/out-group distinction. [1] By most measures, Palestine is more "right-wing" than Israel.