stop trying to trick me into going on bluesky. I will never go on bluesky!
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He's a debatebro who spends his entire life finding things to get incredibly mad at. He'll never get better because he's an Australian who will never kill the westerner in his head.
He's repeatedly been actively harmful to other leftists, people need to stop giving this guy credit for being right about some things. That's not even the bare minimum and this kind of person is harmful when they constantly turn around and associate a position (e.g. pro-Palestine activism) with public and embarrassing streamer meltdowns.
There's a good moral to be found here regarding essessentialism, that no one is defined entirely by one belief or action. Its healthy to be able to identify where you agree and disagree with a person, and not necessarily consider their opinions as a holistic package, instead a fracture of differently informed experiences. If you can work together with the parts you agree with, and not be held back by disagreements, you'll achieve more than those who are caught on purity and optics.
Does the 70/30 rule apply to BE? /j
70% bad 30% empanada
Yeah, but in reverse. His takes on Palestine and Zionism are generally good. Same with some Latin American issues. Almost everything else is bad.
Just saw that one thread. I had a similar argument against people here a couple months ago.
There is a significant portion of Jewish people living in the West who support the state of "israel".
To try and make it seem as if it's a non-issue, or anti-semitic to point out, is jewish exceptionalism, in my opinion.
If 80% of Muslims living in America supported Al-Qaeda, we'd have already been put into death camps.
This is really the crux of the issue. For some reason people on the left are ready to give Jews (not all of them) a pass for being genocide supporters simply because they're Jewish. The same cannot be said of their attitude towards other genocide supporters who are of a different race.
It's like the dumbasses who think the problem is netanyahu and not the 98% of Jewish isntraelis who:
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Make up majority of the occupation soldiers/genocidaires
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Consistently vote for the same government they have no problem removed about and blaming the entire genocide on
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Overwhelmingly support the extermination of a nation of people
It's just pathetic and quite frankly I'm sick and tired of hearing the excuses. B.E is breath of fresh air in this regard.
No one wants to name the actual problem.
Edit: I want to preface this comment by saying that you don't seem to be conflating zionism and Jewish ethnicity/culture. My reply is more of a general comment on how people can sometimes mix these up, partially because within Israel (and especially from the perspective of a Palestinian), they have close to 100% overlap, and how it's a grave mistake to extrapolate that outside Israel where Jewish cultures exist that long predate the existence of Israel.
No one wants to name the actual problem.
Long reponse.
The actual problem is zionists. In Israel, due to the power structures in place, that's almost all Jews. Outside of Israel, you don't gain anything from tying Jews to Zionism rhetorically, that's what the zionists want. If you dig deeper into the polling, you'll see large differences by age group and financial situation among Jewish people.
I think that if someone brings up concerns of "antisemitism" in response to pro-Palestine discourse, then they should be dismissed. It's just not the case that there is any actual significant amount of antisemitism in the mainstream international pro-Palestine movement, and there literally cannot be antisemitism in Palestine, it isn't possible with the power structures at play (it's like talking about anti-white racism in America).
However, mixing the Israelis with the Jewish diaspora into one category is not only incorrect, it's an incredible own-goal that concedes to Zionists almost the entire basis for their psychotic ideology.
For some reason people on the left are ready to give Jews (not all of them) a pass for being genocide supporters simply because they're Jewish.
Liberals do this. I doubt you could find a significant percentage of actual communists who believe this.
The same cannot be said of their attitude towards other genocide supporters who are of a different race.
Liberals do this as well, sometimes, but it would also be wrong to say that e.g. Turks are inherently genocidal. Partly because it's just reactionary, and partly because it helps absolve the people who support genocide of their choice to do so. Non-zionists and anti-zionist jews exist in large numbers, and they show that the central argument of zionism is a lie. They live well outside of Israel and feel no need to commit genocide to have "their own state".
I'm disgusted by his pro imperialist takes on Ukraine, Venezuela and Xinjiang. I don't care what he's like on social media or what his other positions are. He launders state department talking points.
Don't forget his doxxing of other socialists
Indeed, on that area, B.E's very much a dipshite.
Edit: downvoter on here and there is a connard
other than the queerphobic shit he's 100% correct
He’s always been pretty bonkers on social media
there's seemingly a lot jewish people who are zionists and/or support israel... it's fucked.
B Empanada seems to not understand (or i'm misinterpreting him) that this demonstrates more about the Israeli PR machine than anything about being jewish.
he tends to take this point-of-view about all western citizens too. just edge lord bullshit "oh you are from the US okay you drench yourself daily in Iraqi blood" type bullshit.
he tends to take this point-of-view about all western citizens too. just edge lord bullshit "oh you are from the US okay you drench yourself daily in Iraqi blood" type bullshit.
I disagree with this comparison because it's completely reasonable to expect someone to be ashamed of being American or of being Israeli, but not reasonable at all to expect someone to be ashamed of being Jewish.
There's a qualitative difference between a nationality and an ethnicity/cultural group that predates any existing state.
My main problem with BE is that he's just wrong a lot of the time, and actively and materially harmful to other people who are much better leftists than him.
You are misinterpreting him. All takes on relating Zionism to Jewishness, from all people, are bad. His point is that it does not matter. If you are an anti-Zionist Jew, cool, you don't deserve extra praise. If you are a Zionist Jew, that's awful, you deserve just as much hate as any other genocide supporter.
I feel like BE realized there's no reward for being a premature antifascist and is now lashing out at people who came to the right position later.
Liberal Zionism is not the "right position".
Yeah it took them 2 years to come to a milquetoast, weak anti-zionism. The libs' trial by bullying is far from complete. If we let them get away claiming ignorance they'll just do the same thing next genocide.