No, it’s not fucking close to the same thing.
And also, while i agree that it would be inappropriate to campaign with someone who said that Black people deserved slavery, i wouldn’t boycott a politician because some hateful nut on the Internet said that and also said he supported the politician. Even if he wrote to all his Internet followers and told them to vote for the guy.
I’ve yet to see where Mamdani endorsed this guy.
Right, Piker’s 9/11 comment could be generously viewed as an incredibly inappropriate way of expressing the fact that Arab Muslim anti-Americanism is an entirely predictable response to how American foreign policy has harmed them (not only by supporting Israel but by propping up dictatorial pro-American regimes in the Arab world).
There’s no analogous argument someone could make to the effect that the behavior of black Africans was in any way responsible for their enslavement.
This is a hard thread to keep up with!
To the question of condemning support from people who are in some way(s) abhorrent:
The saying about strange bedfellows exists for good reason.
Agree to disagree, I guess.
You’re doing great. 
Right?
Carlson, when he’s not having a psychotic break from reality, is a political leach.
What el Sayed should have said was nothing (wrt Carlson). But he’s in a race to win in MI, and this is no time to make enemies.
When the far Left and far Right keep jumping into bed together over and over again, it stops being strange, at some point.
Slopulists gonna slop.
Well usually that’s when they come together on a different axis entirely - sharing on authorianism for example and commonly historically - and in this case maybe coming together on the anti establishment axis?
ETA - I suspect Carlson will support any break things position. It doesn’t go the other way though. I have no worries that El Sayeed agrees with other Carlson takes and need no disavowal.
What did el Sayed say? I couldn’t find anything he said about Carlson.
In the link:
“El-Sayed responded to Carlson’s comments in an appearance on Pod Save America, stopping short to say whether he would welcome the TV personality’s endorsement.
“What you get in Tucker Carlson is somebody who’s seen up close a lot of the corruption inside MAGA,” he said. “And what I think he sees in Mike Rogers is what all of us see in Mike Rogers: somebody whose only interest is power and the money he can make off of power.””
Thanks.
Did you see what Carlson said about this? It’s perfectly clear at this point that he’s a single issue Jewish Question voter. He’s supporting El Sayed because he clearly believes that his anti-semitism is aligned with El Sayed’s anti-Zionism.
He may very well be wrong about that, but that’s clearly his motivation here.
Oof, that’s not great. Tucker Carlson isn’t exposing MAGA corruption from the inside, he’s spreading baseless anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Per the article:
El-Sayed responded to Carlson’s comments in an appearance on Pod Save America, stopping short to say whether he would welcome the TV personality’s endorsement.
“What you get in Tucker Carlson is somebody who’s seen up close a lot of the corruption inside MAGA,” he said. “And what I think he sees in Mike Rogers is what all of us see in Mike Rogers: somebody whose only interest is power and the money he can make off of power.”
I personally wouldn’t have acknowledged TC in any way, shape or form.
From social media posts, pretty much all of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts are withdrawing from his tour, in support of Macklemore and Palestinian rights. Good for them! Fuck Epstein buddy and atrocity apologist Robert Kraft.
All the opening acts, plus his own backing band.
Now that’s making a statement.
I think Macklemore’s statement was perfectly clear years ago when he pulled his Jew costume stunt.
Take that, Babale.
And your shit taste in music.
How will I ever recover? 