Then you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
Wouldn’t you agree that using racial slurs to refer to Jews is anti-Semitic?
Isn’t blaming “the Jews” for the current economic crisis anti-Semitic.?
Isn’t claiming that American Jews are more loyal to Israel then to America anti-Semitic?
Sorry, but you’ve chosen another hill to die on.
When polls find that self-identified Democrats are twice as likely as self-identified Republicans to blame the current economic crisis on “the Jews” then it’s asinine to claim that anti-Semitism is the exclusive province of the right-wing.
Meh, it is more asinine to insist that a minority makes a movement, also it is still ridiculous to ignore that not all democrats are liberals.
Anyhow, as Fang reported, it is more clear to me that religion is more likely to blame for the antisemitism in Spain than a right wing / left wing pumped up division.
At first glance (if true), I’d reckon it’s because there’s a consistent small sliver of people who will always blame “the Jews”–but presently those among them who don’t identify as Democrats have somebody else they’re blaming for things right now.
Hmm…I’d say national interest and unity (read: social equity) above the individual* is* a leftist trait. Stick “militant” in there and you have yourself a socialist dictator.
There’s a difference between socialism on a controlled economic scale and socialism as a political thing, e.g., utopian society.
MOST of the time, it ends up being a “government control for the good of the people” versus “let people be prudent themselves” argument…it never works out so nicely, though.
I suppose Stalin was closer to the original concept of left, libertie, socialism, whatever, than Hussein. Anyway, you can take that word “left”, think of all the possible derivatives, and then line up a lot of candidates under the same definition.
Hitler may have been a fascist dictator, but it doesn’t mean he didn’t subscribe to some elements (economics and [militant] nationalism) of a socialist movement.
Hm. I’d like to see the actual breakdown of data (if they have it), like what specific question, people target, income, region, whatever.
My wild guess here is that the blame on Jews for the economic crisis stems from the myth that big business is controlled by Jews. So it may not be, “Jew are responsible for the economic crisis” as a thought one comes up with on his own, but rather, when asked a push-poll Q, they think, “Well, there* are* a lot of Jews in big business” or some such.
I do see the “look at all the tax $ we spend on Israel’s war machine and now we’re in Iraq/Afghanistan/etc” type arguments a lot…from the lefty left (per U.S. version of left).
I saw this:
except in order to take out a loan or mortgage you can’t afford, you have to be in a certain income/credit bracket in the first place. So that supports my theory of the little guy blaming the big guy (and the big guy is seen as Jews to enough that it’s a concern).
You’d be wrong, or at least your wording is so vague it can’t really be mapped onto the poiltical spectrum. Leftists put “national interest” about the individual? That’s not my experience. I’d say they might do that on some issues, but right-wingers do on other issues, and probably more of them. I agree people on the left tend to place a higher priority on “social equity,” but that’s not the same thing as “unity” (they’re not even similar).
“Militant national interest” makes a leftist dictatorship? Not at all. That’s consistent across a lot of dictatorships. If you have militant-ly enforced social equity, you may have a leftist dictatorshpi.
People around here tend to forget how many working class “white guys” (for lack of a better term) are Democrats. This came up with Obama during the primary (OMG! Democrats can be racist!), and we’re seeing it here, too. Note how the numbers skew when they are broken down by education.
Now, I think a good case can be made that those folks aren’t meaningfully part of “the left”, since there are quite a few conservative Democrats, but it’s hard to know for sure without looking at how the same folks feel about a wide range of political topics.
Well, for starters, I’m not sure why you think that working-class “white guys” are more likely to be anti-Semitic than working-class “black guys”. I’ve certainly met more than a few black people who made it very clear they had nothing but contempt for Jews.
Moreover, if the people you’re referring to are “conservative” it’s only in reference to some social issues. On economic issues they’re definitely more left-wing than most of the US.
But conversely there ARE anti-Semites who disguise (however thinly) their anti-Semitism as criticism of Israel. For at least some segment of people, saying “I’m not anti-Jewish, I’m just anti-Israel” is roughly the same sort of cover as someone saying “Some of my best friends are black”.
Good point. I should not have extrapolated solely from the demographic who voted for Hillary over Obama because of Obama’s race. The pool of potentially anti-semitic Democrats is much larger than the pool of potentially racist Democrats.
Could be, but the poll cited doesn’t give us that information. If I had to guess, I’d say they were more likely to be populist than leftist. But I’m open to being corrected if someone has some actual data.
I think another element is the fact that many on the left see support of Israel -and by extension, sympahthy for Jews - as a right-wing position, and thus position themselves in the opposite cornerr on a partisan basis. I blame the Republicans for that, actually; they made my country a wedge issue, something it hadn’t been until recent years.