The LGBT community does have an antisemitism problem, but it isn’t really about the Jews—it’s a symptom of an intellectual epidemic plaguing the new left where narratives have replaced truth and reality has become irrelevant.
I’ve been told, after asking for evidence for that drone story, that “Fact-checking information isn't inherently negative, but there's a significant caveat when it's applied to scrutinize the accounts of the oppressed.” (More hot air followed) It quickly went to pretty harsh antisemitic insults when I wasn’t impressed. I’m not Jewish. You wrote all the things I couldn’t put together in my mind and more, thank you.
(Best replace “immaculate conception” with “virgin birth” though, those are two different things)
New subscriber here! Just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed this piece ❤.
I'm not Jewish, but I hope that you and every other Jewish person reading this knows that for all of the often antisemitic lunacy going on you have a lot of love and support as well.
Its a cult and you believe every thing they say blindly..it sucks I now am feeling isolated from all of my old groups of friends. Even close friends and being openly suppurative of Isreal has been eye opening. A friend told me she was not pro Isreal the day iran shot 200 plus missile at them and I told her I had cried
"Lest our quest for justice interfere with virtue signaling" - that's at the core of what so many on the Left are focused on: looking "good". The self-harm notion is an apt assessment and something that women have been very good at (historically) as THEY try to look like "good girls" in the societal framework in which they lived.
One thing I've slowly started to notice is that the religious right has less of a resistance to gay rights than they did in the past. Dave Rubin is gay and is featured at many a right-wing event (not that I go as I am Canadian). Andrew Klavan has a brilliant gay son . . . and certainly they and their friends would be a far better fit than Gazans.
But you're right - the Left is hurting itself because it refuses to draw a line between being a classic liberal and being downright whacko.
None of these poseurs give two shits about Palestine or Palestinians. It is all about virtue signaling even harder on social media to their fake internet friends.
Not a one of them would live for a single second in Hamastan under Hamas rules but they have no problem condemning Palestinians to living in Hamastan under Hamas rules. What a bunch of complete and utter assholes.
Free Palestine from Hamas and asshole poseurs like them.
Without equal, this is the issue that causes wokist minds to glitch out the most. It’s impossible to levy any sort of coherent response, because there isn’t one nor can there ever be one unless you question the “thou shant criticize the oppressed” holy commandment.
You’d think that such a blaring contradiction would prompt more introspection, but nope! In recent years we’ve seen increasingly desperate and elaborate ways ideologies shelter themselves from scrutiny (see e.g. the rampant idiocy among MAGA).
It’s really really weird!! I lose my vocabulary, because it’s just all so baffling and nonsensical. I wish I could peer into someone’s mind and see how the gears align here.
I don’t denigrate any of the points made in the piece, but it’s always about antisemitism - that why these disparate groups which otherwise have nothing in common can join together even with people that hate them if issue is attacking Jews.
I have felt utterly alone among non-Jewish LGBTQ people (and especially other trans people) in my refusal to unquestioningly swallow whatever bullshit the “left” wants to feed me - whether about Palestine or other issues. And I’m a former DSA member, was on the executive council of my local chapter, and had my chronically online dirtbag Marxist days. I’m fully of that world, and I was already tired of its shift to fundamentalism and thought policing; but 10/7 and its aftermath really sealed it for me.
The far left has recreated evangelical cult dynamics in that you are labeled a heretic and excommunicated from your entire social support system.
I will add that in making connections with Jewish folks since then, they have understood and empathized with the current attack on transgender rights better than a lot of the people I thought were “allies”. Queer and Jewish people unfortunately share trauma from the Holocaust, so who better to understand each other than us? Sadly I was told by many of my former allies - people I once organized with, including other trans people! - that they couldn’t vote for “Holocaust Harris” solely because of Gaza, even when my rights were on the line like never before. The betrayal was eye opening.
You brought up a great point in that so much of this is self-preservation - but a false one. Cishet “leftists” don’t care about us any more than they care about Palestinians. They care about themselves and their egos. Queer folks often escaped religious cultism, only to be abused by another, wrapped up in language of “justice”.
Also yes Matt Bernstein was the biggest betrayal of the century. That man has some deep internalized antisemitism he needs to unpack.
You left out Bari’s best line -- I don’t have the transcript before me, so I’m paraphrasing-- she said something like “and none of that matters, because we are all Americans who want low taxes.” The line killed.
This article is substantially nonsensical. The first paragraphs make a few statements, then a propos nothing asserts the LGTBQ community is Jew hating without a shred of connection from the prior statements to the provocative slur.
The rest of the article merely amplifies the lack of connection between the statement and any legitimate evidence that the “LGBTQ” community is antisemitic or “Jew-hating”.
1. There is no “LGTBQ+” community, it is a categorization which presents groups which can contain homophile and homophobic elements, as joint rather than exclusionary. It’s an essential category error. Trans and queer activists are essentially homophobic.
2. Anti-semitism is not a known gross feature of sexual minorities as represented in any research I’m aware of in the last 40 years.
3. Usually I would characterize such statements as a defensive reaction when the speaker finds the condition in themselves and wishes to blame it on others.
I’ve been told, after asking for evidence for that drone story, that “Fact-checking information isn't inherently negative, but there's a significant caveat when it's applied to scrutinize the accounts of the oppressed.” (More hot air followed) It quickly went to pretty harsh antisemitic insults when I wasn’t impressed. I’m not Jewish. You wrote all the things I couldn’t put together in my mind and more, thank you.
(Best replace “immaculate conception” with “virgin birth” though, those are two different things)
New subscriber here! Just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed this piece ❤.
I'm not Jewish, but I hope that you and every other Jewish person reading this knows that for all of the often antisemitic lunacy going on you have a lot of love and support as well.
Keep up the great work!
Sweet. Thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amazing. I'm so disturbed by what the left has become. It's scary.
It's crazy that I come from that side. I am still bewildered.
SAME.
Its a cult and you believe every thing they say blindly..it sucks I now am feeling isolated from all of my old groups of friends. Even close friends and being openly suppurative of Isreal has been eye opening. A friend told me she was not pro Isreal the day iran shot 200 plus missile at them and I told her I had cried
"Lest our quest for justice interfere with virtue signaling" - that's at the core of what so many on the Left are focused on: looking "good". The self-harm notion is an apt assessment and something that women have been very good at (historically) as THEY try to look like "good girls" in the societal framework in which they lived.
One thing I've slowly started to notice is that the religious right has less of a resistance to gay rights than they did in the past. Dave Rubin is gay and is featured at many a right-wing event (not that I go as I am Canadian). Andrew Klavan has a brilliant gay son . . . and certainly they and their friends would be a far better fit than Gazans.
But you're right - the Left is hurting itself because it refuses to draw a line between being a classic liberal and being downright whacko.
None of these poseurs give two shits about Palestine or Palestinians. It is all about virtue signaling even harder on social media to their fake internet friends.
Not a one of them would live for a single second in Hamastan under Hamas rules but they have no problem condemning Palestinians to living in Hamastan under Hamas rules. What a bunch of complete and utter assholes.
Free Palestine from Hamas and asshole poseurs like them.
“queer rights are Palestinian!” (little miss wizard bisan, tomorrow probably)
She's a PFLP member. Tablet did a profile on her.
I nearly died laughing at the headline for this piece. 6/5 stars!
Hope you don't catch hate for speaking the truth.
The most irrational time I can remember.
Without equal, this is the issue that causes wokist minds to glitch out the most. It’s impossible to levy any sort of coherent response, because there isn’t one nor can there ever be one unless you question the “thou shant criticize the oppressed” holy commandment.
You’d think that such a blaring contradiction would prompt more introspection, but nope! In recent years we’ve seen increasingly desperate and elaborate ways ideologies shelter themselves from scrutiny (see e.g. the rampant idiocy among MAGA).
It’s really really weird!! I lose my vocabulary, because it’s just all so baffling and nonsensical. I wish I could peer into someone’s mind and see how the gears align here.
I don’t denigrate any of the points made in the piece, but it’s always about antisemitism - that why these disparate groups which otherwise have nothing in common can join together even with people that hate them if issue is attacking Jews.
I have felt utterly alone among non-Jewish LGBTQ people (and especially other trans people) in my refusal to unquestioningly swallow whatever bullshit the “left” wants to feed me - whether about Palestine or other issues. And I’m a former DSA member, was on the executive council of my local chapter, and had my chronically online dirtbag Marxist days. I’m fully of that world, and I was already tired of its shift to fundamentalism and thought policing; but 10/7 and its aftermath really sealed it for me.
The far left has recreated evangelical cult dynamics in that you are labeled a heretic and excommunicated from your entire social support system.
I will add that in making connections with Jewish folks since then, they have understood and empathized with the current attack on transgender rights better than a lot of the people I thought were “allies”. Queer and Jewish people unfortunately share trauma from the Holocaust, so who better to understand each other than us? Sadly I was told by many of my former allies - people I once organized with, including other trans people! - that they couldn’t vote for “Holocaust Harris” solely because of Gaza, even when my rights were on the line like never before. The betrayal was eye opening.
You brought up a great point in that so much of this is self-preservation - but a false one. Cishet “leftists” don’t care about us any more than they care about Palestinians. They care about themselves and their egos. Queer folks often escaped religious cultism, only to be abused by another, wrapped up in language of “justice”.
Also yes Matt Bernstein was the biggest betrayal of the century. That man has some deep internalized antisemitism he needs to unpack.
You left out Bari’s best line -- I don’t have the transcript before me, so I’m paraphrasing-- she said something like “and none of that matters, because we are all Americans who want low taxes.” The line killed.
Chickens for Chik-Fil-A 🫠
Jewish Harvey Milk wouldn’t have to wait around for straight ole’ Dan White to kill him these days.
Great article, falls in line with another one I just read https://open.substack.com/pub/sleuthfox/p/the-digital-puppet-show-how-social?r=w8pz5&utm_medium=ios
This article is substantially nonsensical. The first paragraphs make a few statements, then a propos nothing asserts the LGTBQ community is Jew hating without a shred of connection from the prior statements to the provocative slur.
The rest of the article merely amplifies the lack of connection between the statement and any legitimate evidence that the “LGBTQ” community is antisemitic or “Jew-hating”.
1. There is no “LGTBQ+” community, it is a categorization which presents groups which can contain homophile and homophobic elements, as joint rather than exclusionary. It’s an essential category error. Trans and queer activists are essentially homophobic.
2. Anti-semitism is not a known gross feature of sexual minorities as represented in any research I’m aware of in the last 40 years.
3. Usually I would characterize such statements as a defensive reaction when the speaker finds the condition in themselves and wishes to blame it on others.