The point my friend is the reflexive whataboutism.
Yeah, that’s probably something you should work on.
You feel the BBC article is whataboutism? Interesting tack to take
I think the BBC article has fuckall to do with whataboutism.
I think you’re so desperate for the attention you get by being a tool here in this forum that you’ll post any article you can find that touches tangentially on anything you can tie to “the Left” so that you can play “whatabout” with problems that are most associated with the far Right and generally just to see if you can get some reaction from any of the more liberal posters here in the LR, and in doing so, you’ll be sure to make your post as dickish as you can just for good measure.
What’s wrong with my premise? That there is antisemitism on the Left or there would be reflexive responses here that didn’t bother to consider the truth of that statement?
Of course there is some anti-Semitism on the left. If a third of the country is on the left (not a precise number, just offered as an illustration) that is more than 100mm people. There will be considerable diversity within that group, including some anti-Semites.
If you want to have a serious discussion of the causes, extent, and implications of anti-Semitism on the left, that might be possible. But you know perfectly well how politics and the LR work. If you title your thread with just a reference to the Left, you’re gonna get whataboutism, because it’s so obvious that there is huge anti-Semitism on the right. The thread will strike many as disingenuous.
Alternatively, you could begin a thread that concedes there is a lot of anti-Semitism on the right, which perhaps comes in different flavors than anti-Semitism on the left. Positioning the issue that way, you probably could get people on the left to discuss anti-Semitism without them feeling that, by doing so, they are making some concession that this is predominantly a problem on the left. You didn’t try to do that, and the results were predictable.
Why do I have to make that statement? Why can’t there be a discussion of just one side? Why the double standard?
I do know how political threads go here and have no problem calling out the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of many on here.
I bet if you go to threads about antisemitism on the far-right/neo-Nazis your standard of a reasonable dual sided original post won’t be met at the frequency you’d think it would be.
Your last paragraph proves my point. When you start a thread on a political topic where the problem is overwhelmingly on your party’s sidediscussion.
Your premise is flawed since I am now party free (or a party of one) and I would posit that the antisemitism of the far right and far left are equal. (Anecdotally I’d actually argue the antisemitism of the left is more pervasive, widespread, and violent, but I interact with more Leftist whackjobs than far right whackjobs so significant sample bias)
You moved the goalposts from the left to the far left. Anyhow, wherever we put the goalposts, you just admitted that you see an equivalence, which is what probably people suspected and caused the reaction you got. If that is truly how you feel, then you don’t need to concede the problem is far more pervasive on the right.