Summary
Elon Musk’s address to Germany’s far-right AfD party, where he downplayed Germany’s Nazi past and criticized multiculturalism, has sparked global alarm.
Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called the remarks “incredibly dangerous,” warning of their potential to embolden right-wing extremists and threaten Jewish security worldwide.
Critics highlighted Musk’s alignment with far-right ideologies, including his Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration.
Cool. I once again have to worry about being an “other” wherever I go.
So do people in all their targeted groups, and in the targeted groups to come. However safe a person feels they are, Nazis’ lists of enemies always grow and grow. One day any of us could be the target, so we had all better fight back now. We need a real popular resistance against these Nazis.
Don’t be daft lad, you’re one of us now!
Anyone putting up with this fucking weather is.
2 rules:
Anyone othering you is in breach of rule 1 and will be tutted at furiously
I will say that being in Blackburn, 30% Muslim, and looking very obviously Jewish- everyone has been very kind. (Not suggesting that being Muslim automatically makes you antisemitic, but there are, unfortunately- and thanks to Israel mainly- a fair number of Muslims that hate Jews.)
I’ve only ever found Muslims to be at worst civil and at best excellent friends. And I used to live in Luton (highest proportion of Muslim population in the UK). I’m not Jewish though.
Weird question - I’ve never been able to say for sure if someone is Jewish by looking at them (unless they’re wearing a yarmulke or Hasidic getup). I remember someone at work telling me to go talk to Mark, he’s the ‘obviously Jewish guy’, and having zero idea who that was. Even when he was pointed out to me I couldn’t see what was different from him and any other dark-haired European. Is this a me problem or are people just projecting patterns?
Basically it means a certain of Mediterranean-adjacent appearance. There is definitely a phenotype, but, like most of these sorts of things, it’s a very broadly variable one. This is why I find it so frustrating when people racialize the the Israel-Palestine conflict. People with roots around the Mediterranean all look very similar.
Basically, look at any antisemitic caricature of a Jew, remove the forelocks and the yarmulke, and that’s me.
I’m autistic, so it’s hard for me to map those cartoons onto a real face. They all kind of look like captain Barnacle to me to be honest. It’s probably better if I don’t know, I suppose.
Bottom line though is of course that nobody should be judged on their appearance because that’s blatantly stupid. Further, I think, when you break it down, judging someone because their appearance conforms loosely to your idea of the appearance of a population which is most concentrated in a country whose government’s military is committing atrocities against a country whose population’s appearance conforms to one to which you think you belong… is beyond stupidity and can be nothing short of outright malicious. Fuck that you have to deal with that. Especially since you’ve been outspoken in your opposition to the crimes of that government.
You mean european? Not like ugandan? smh.
No?
Historically, Jews have almost always been ‘others’.
Oh I know. To a lot of white people I’m not white and to most other people I am white.
I definitely have the white privilege advantage over people of color, but I’m also not white apparently.
Yeah, I’m not technically a jew (paternal grandfather), but I have the nose, so I have to be a little careful.
I look more stereotypically Jewish than Woody Allen. It has not been great.
Didn’t you just move out of the country?
Yes. Your point?
You do know this speech was in Germany, right? You do know Jews are hated all over the world, right?
Edit: as the downvoters are proving.