also, one crucial difference is that conservatives can at least acknowledge that bigotry to their right exists (and they leverage it to pass themselves off as the lesser evil) The vast majority of leftists is literally incapable of conceiving of the existence of left antisemitism
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Understandably, they're very relaxed about extreme racism directed at what they consider to be privileged groups. As the left "evolves" demographically we'll see that even more.
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Replying to @Outsideness
won't surprise you that i don't think 'racism against privileged groups' quite cuts it when it comes to explaining this particular blind spot, at the very least the difference between the roles anglo and german supremacism respectively play in the left imaginary need be addressed
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Replying to @Outsideness
it's not so much that the resentment of market-dominant minorities isn't a real and dangerous thing, but it is neither a phenomenon specific to the left (e.g. indonesian anti-chinese sentiment has a clear anti-communist edge) nor all that useful for understanding antisemitism
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Agree it's populist rather than "leftist" in a narrow sense, but that makes it MORE useful for understanding antisemitism.
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Replying to @Outsideness
compared with the standard leftist account that tries to conceptualize it as a subspecies of european colonial racism, certainly, but that isn't exactly a high bar to clear
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn
He's an anti-German Postonite. He thinks that antisemitism is not like regular, run-of-the-mill bigotry, but has real ideological meat to it. It can corruptingly motivate whole ideologies by diverting a desire for freedom and democracy into conspiratorial hatred of elites.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @Outsideness
run-of-the-mill bigotry (whatever that is) also has real ideological meat to it, there's just different kinds of delicious meat. also if postone's argument was about misguided anti-elitism it would be indistinguishable from the theory of market-dominant minorities
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By treating the Jews as the special object of a perfectly unique and incomparable animosity, Postone runs the risk of reproducing a secular 'chosen people' theology.
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Replying to @Outsideness @anti_minotaur
being 'chosen' by anti-semites (who do not in all cases require their targets to actually be jewish) is certainly more tangibly real than divine chosenness.. generally this objection would hold water if antisemitism was portrayed as incomprehensible, when the opposite is the case
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chosenness seems like a lynchpin concept for isomorphicity of nature/culture (
#dharma); to be chosen=to have well-specified choices (virtue)0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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