Clubhouse is an invite-only chat app popular among Silicon Valley types and celebrities. It had an anti-Semitic meltdown over Yom Kippur. I listened to audio and spoke to participants to sort out what happened, and what the platform could do about it:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/clubhouse-app-anti-semitism …
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"The discussion began constructively, but quickly devolved into a stream of common anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish money, economic and political domination, and the Holocaust—or as one Jewish attendee put it, 'an airing of grievances against Jews.'" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/clubhouse-app-anti-semitism …https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1311442272823717888 …
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"Jews were stereotyped as uniformly wealthy and presented 'as the face of capital,' according to several Jewish & non-Jewish participants present. 'Multiple individuals justified anti-Semitism by saying it was a way to protest against capitalism,' reported a non-Jewish attendee."https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1311442272823717888 …
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"As another Jewish participant put it to me afterwards, 'everyone’s like ‘punch a Nazi’ until it’s time to stick up for Jews, and then everyone’s silent.'" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/clubhouse-app-anti-semitism …https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1311442272823717888 …
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One day it's words and the next... Well we all know where this goes.
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So is this some weird corollary of Godwin's Law?
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If anyone can discover a good unit to measure this phenomenon, I propose the “Hebrosecond.”
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