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some deeply disturbing events on the far left this past week -
* The DSA voted, at DSACon, to officially endorse BDS.
* DSA circulating a questionairre to NY City Council candidates, asking them whether they support BDS, and to pledge not to travel to Israel.
Taken together, indications are that the DSA has crossed a line. They're just fine with becoming an institutionally racist, Corbynite party.
Of course, there are some people here who will say "LoanShark you idiot, it's been that way all long, they were just better at hiding it." Go ahead, say it.
Anyway, still some individually good people in there if you ask me, but as a party the dumpster fire just got more gasoline poured on it.
grounds, but stopping short of outright endorsement.
But there's a long list of well known conspiracy-lefties who are DSA members, including Chomsky (of course), Sarsour, and so on. With everything else that's been going on, they may have decided that now is their moment. (It isn't.
They're dumb.)
she has an arranged marriage and she purports to lecture others on what feminism is. just stop right there.
Did I post this yet?
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1681169/Bracka.pdf
Kind of lays bare the ignorance of the far-left crowd when they talk about international law.
I'm thinking a bit about consequences and cancel culture in the tech industry and in open-source circles. There's been a lot of changes lately, some of it good like a new emphasis on basic politeness, some of it bad like kowtowing to the woke crowd.
Then there's guys like Poul-Henning Kamp, author of the Varnish cache and FreeBSD contributor, who has seen zero fallout for a pretty transparently antisemitic comment:
https://twitter.com/bsdphk/status/1126199508449341440
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Wait, maybe it has something to do with double-standards in the woke crowd?
REALIZATION HAS DAWNED AND MY MIND IS BLOWN.
See... I don't think it is *transparently antisemitic*.
It may be a badly constructed thought - but I can decipher the gist of what he is trying to convey - and it isn't that ALL JEWS suck.
This is the problem with wokeness. It becomes super-sensitive to people using imprecise language like, "You people"... or "those people" and trying to make statements that include those kind of statements have "consequences".
And once it gets started, it doesn't start until they start eating their own for using clumsy and/or lazy language. So people end up getting crucified, and having their careers ruined, not for the INTENT of what they said or the reality of how they live their lives (Roseanne Barr being a good example of this in action...) but instead, for something CARELESS they said that hyper-sensitive people misinterpreted, and any attempt to EXPLAIN only digs your hole deeper.
Ig is RIGHT - when we say, "Those people," regardless of if we're talking about the State of Israel, or inner city poor brown youth between 13 and 35, or white trash living in a mobile home park, or the super affluent shopping in Harrods in London buying $10,000 clutches and flying to Paris later that evening for a quick bite to eat on their G5...
We know who we mean.
I see nothing inherently wrong with what Kamp has said - but then again I'm among the growing minority able to decipher a broad generalization in context to assume correctly what the author means.
Certainly Saul Rubenstein, cart peanut vendor in New York city who lives in a flat in Brooklyn isn't the "Jews" he means are responsible for Apartheid.
Fri Apr 16 2021 08:46:41 EDT from LoanShark
I'm thinking a bit about consequences and cancel culture in the tech industry and in open-source circles. There's been a lot of changes lately, some of it good like a new emphasis on basic politeness, some of it bad like kowtowing to the woke crowd.
Then there's guys like Poul-Henning Kamp, author of the Varnish cache and FreeBSD contributor, who has seen zero fallout for a pretty transparently antisemitic comment:
https://twitter.com/bsdphk/status/1126199508449341440
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