SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah and that’s a really big problem. There’s no cohesive plan for anything. Mostly the polices are just vague “socialism and stuff” and a hatred of Jews. Some DSAs hate just the Jews in Israel and others hate all Jews.
Everyone in the DSA seems to look the other way about antisemitism because they’ve been given the permission structure to consider any hateful comments about Jews to be “criticizing Israel” even when it’s about Jews in their community that have never set foot in Israel. If anyone in the DSA calls out the antisemitism they know they will be harassed by the hatemongers within the group. Seems the common thread in the group, denial of antisemitism.
The DSA is to Democrats as MAGA is to Republicans. A group that’s all about grievances and racist dog whistles that is trying to take over a mainstream political party to force their will onto others. But just like MAGA, there’s no real policies, just vague vibes that are centered around “owning” their political enemies. And like MAGA there’s a genuine fear of harassment that keeps everyone in the group in line.
Just another brand of fascist in fascist America.
belunos@lemmus.org 1 week ago
That’s a lot to say without backing it up. Got any links?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I could just link to the site you’re currently on. Just read the comments in leftist threads. I’ve had people tell me they’re for genocide of all Jews, and it’s the general consensus on leftist lemmy that harrrassing the Jews in their communities is completely fine. Stochastic terrorism is commonplace here.
You just need to google any story posted by leftists and find it on another source to get more information to understand that what gets posted here is propaganda. They leave out any information that’s inconvenient to their narrative. They’ll say someone got arrested for protesting when they actually get arrested for violent crimes, which they leave out because they want the narrative to be that they’re being oppressed peaceful protesters.
The number one target for hate crimes are Jews these days. These hate crimes spike whenever there’s activity in the middle east. You will never hear about that in leftist circles. Too inconvenient. So you need to goolge the data on that yourself.
And if you ask a “socialist” about anything to do with public policy, they don’t have any cohesive answers. Just vague slogans and repeating whatever wealthy monetized influencers tell them to say.
Just read lemmy, not from the perspective that these are your “allies” but from a more critical perspective. Socialism is just an aesthetic for most people. Put on a Che Guevara T-Shirt in your college dorm and say some slogans about the “workers of the world uniting” despite the fact that the university crowd is not the working class. The actual working class is generally despised by leftists, it’s mostly a fantasy where college kids pretend they are the oppressed working class. But that’s just half-hearted bullshit they’ll grow out of. The real driving force of the present day leftist movement is hatred of Jews and that’s what will stick with people for the rest of their lives.
Leftists do everything they can to avoid having any discussion about antisemitism, even when it’s painfully obvious to anyone outside their group. They dismiss any claims of antisemitism as an attack originating from… well guess who? So these problems will not be addressed by leftists and the movement will continue to degrade further into becoming a fascist hate movement.