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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
oh, and you don’t get to surround and threaten Jewish students. The disdain for the rights and lives of Jews by “educated” people is disgusting, but at this point normal.
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I think one has to be careful not to lump all critiques of Israel into the antisemitic bucket.
However, one also has to be vigilant in rejecting the argument that antisemitism is but a small part of what's happening. Historically, whenever extremists get together in the hopes of overthrowing anything - or just to engage in an orgy of radical chic expositions - conspiracy theories about how the world is "fixed" in favor of certain peoples arise. And where you find conspiracy theories about powerful people behind the scenes running everything, you're going to find people eager to Blame The Jews.
It's impossible for Critical Theory and its satellite academic concepts, which together form the underpinning of every extremist view on campus today, not to attract antisemites, as they boil the world down to two populations - the oppressed and the oppressors. Israel is seen as a colonizer. And all those associated with colonization of any kind are worst kind of oppressors.
