Is this anti-semitism?

very reasonable to demand context imo

Symsym otm. Speaking as someone who works at a museum and sometimes has to take part in conversations with curators and other stakeholders around how to frame potentially controversial works, you should absolutely reach out and demand context.

CORRECTED pic.twitter.com/jjRBr9aNI6

— horse powder (@JuliusIrvington) September 30, 2022

correction is correct

oof

Think I'm gonna go with yes?

I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda pic.twitter.com/0xka0D5k50

— ye (@kanyewest) October 9, 2022

Can't believe Instagram took his hateful BS down but Twitter leaves it up.

I doubt anyone is surprised by now, just extremely sad and tired

I usually assume Instagram is about the bottom of corporate social media but I guess it's all just a melange of sugar-coated sewage.

The tweet is down afaict - ilx embeds preserve tweets after they’re deleted but when I clicked thru a couple of hours ago I got “this tweet violated Twitter rules”

Would hate to have Kanye go death con on us

death con 3 you mean.

maybe he was just trying to be funny and meant to write def comedy jam.

ilx embeds preserve tweets after they’re deleted

Didn't realize that thanks. I think I had seen it on Twitter shortly before that but maybe not, anyway it's gone now.

Read that as "ilx embeds perverse tweets after they’re deleted" and was nodding my head in agreement vigorously...

Pretty depressing how many news organs are referring to the tweet above as "allegedly" or "purportedly" anti-Semitic. Like, what does he have to do before you don't just call it antisemitism??

That’s just shitty American news media in general. There has to be the feigned attempt at distance, they just can’t come out and make a bluntly declarative sentence

Depressing sure but I think it’s more because all reporting has to be clickbait now rather than them trying to launder Kanye’s views

It’s not uncommon to see the occasional user name with (eighty-eight) in it while gaming, I try to report them when I catch them. But I was playing CoD and it seems like they’re in overdrive right now, there are so many. I just played a game with one user named J1ll K3ws, without the numbers but with (eighty-eight) attached. It’s like the game platforms just don’t care at all.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsowgBEXUusp18d4UkYZE4FT2ITyJOxxesUg&usqp=CAU

speaking of which, i saw these cars parked down the road from me, tell me the number and the company's initials being "SS" is a coincidence

(i mean it could be, the 88 thing is law enforcement code too, but also what the fuck)

NEW: A 14-year-old boy was arrested at his home in Oxford, Michigan - the same town where a teen boy carried out a mass school shooting in 2021 - after he posted photos of handguns on social media and threatened to kill Jewish people at a recreation center.https://t.co/g74ycmZVxL

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 15, 2022

Yeah wtf.

Idk about eighty eight and law enforcement but it is definitely widely recognized as code for ((fashie)). That company in the pic looks hella sus no doubt.

Not to be all Capn Save-an-88, but here is the founder of that security company on the news in the wake of the Poway synagogue shooting. In public at least, he speaks in opposition to antisemitism and hate.

https://www.necn.com/multimedia/safety-and-security-in-wake-of-synagogue-shooting_necn/235098/

I always get a little thrown when I see ads for 88 Rising, which is an Asian-owned music company.

Eights are very good luck in ESEA cultures.

There's a lot going on with this van from Christchurch. I used to see it around sometimes, I vaguely recognised some of the messages such as the 88 but at the time had no idea about the 14 or the black sun logo. I believe the word beneficial also has some meaning but I can't remember right now.

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The racist POS behind this was jailed for a few months for sharing videos of the mosque shootings.

https://i.imgur.com/rJwgUXJ.jpeg

Wtf

We also know Henry Ford was an anti-semite, but this has some details about the extent of it that I didn't know: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/henry-fords-empire-of-lies

Ohio Senate candidate Michele Reynolds used the phrase "Jew you down" in a book she wrote and said Jews have a reputation for "not wasting resources."

In a statement, her campaign said the statement came out of respect for Jews' reputation for "solid money principles." pic.twitter.com/SL4tGjv8Bb

— Jake Zuckerman (@jake_zuckerman) October 20, 2022

The gentiles are trying to sell us Hanukkah gnomes now, so I decided to look into the history of gnomes to see if it's antisemitic....and OF COURSE it is, so here's a thread about why you should not buy these for your Jewish friends: 1/? pic.twitter.com/qQDfezmHrJ

— Sim Kern (@sim_kern) December 12, 2022

bleah

I understand the exploration of their origins - it makes a lot of sense - but I'm not going to stop enjoying David the Gnome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdZQub7QVE

In fact, looking at the credits for the first time in a while, it was two Jewish brothers who brought this show to America!

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

I still think about not being prepared to see the hannukah version of elf on a shelf in a display at Target and giggling

mensch on a bench!!

Chicago police are urging Jewish and other religious communities to be extra vigilant this weekend when a neo-Nazi group has declared a “day of hate.”

“At this time, there is no actionable intelligence,” the department said in a statement. “We continue to actively monitor the situation.”

Last month, a small anti-Semitic group based in eastern Iowa designated Feb. 25 as a “day of hate,” and other white supremacist and hate groups have since said they plan to participate, according to David Goldenberg, the Midwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.

“Our network of analysts at ADL centered around extremism are carefully monitoring online platforms, chat rooms and a whole bunch of other things, and we’ll alert appropriate authorities if we see anything that we think needs to be elevated,” Goldenberg said.

Chicago police said in a statement that it is “in contact with members, leaders and organizations within the Jewish community and all faith-based communities in Chicago, and will continue working closely with them to strengthen communication and safety.”

Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), whose ward covers a large portion of the city’s Jewish community on the North Side, said the police “will be paying special attention to all synagogues and Jewish institutions.”

“Families across our community should feel reassured that they are protected from those that wish us harm,” she said in a statement to the Sun-Times.

this just happened at the high school I graduated from 30 years ago ('just'...apparently he's been doing this for a few years? and he did finally get put on leave this week):

https://jweekly.com/2023/02/21/east-bay-high-school-teacher-called-out-for-antisemitic-lessons/

yeesh

kind of mind boggling that this went on for a few years and other teachers just 'found out' about it. it's not that big of a school (or wasn't when I went there). guy seems to have some other extracurricular weirdness (in essence, seems to be into the hotep stuff). district should be ashamed of themselves.

it's crazy this teacher got away with teaching that antisemitic Nazi garbage for so long without anyone calling him out.

sounds like people tried to take steps for months, without success. the ADL got involved, had meetings canceled on them. and the teacher is still teaching.

teacher got put on leave today, there was another story in the chronicle.

my main takeaway is: good on the kids at the school this year for really bringing this to light and rejecting it.

Insane how long the school admin was asking themselves the question posed in the thread title

My wife had a a high school English teacher in Northern Virginia that would tell her, with some polite concern, that she was going to hell for being Jewish.

One of my Jewish high school friends moved to Dallas for her senior year of high school, where none of her new classmates had ever met a Jewish person before, but used certain phrases she found very antisemitic all the damn time.

I had pennies thrown at me in high school in the late 80s (not really Jewish but it's a long story).

That’s awful, but I get it: the arch-rival school to mine was in a WASPy town where real estate was traditionally covenanted to forbid Black or Jewish buyers moving there. My town was the Jewish suburb, and ice hockey games with the WASPy school inevitably featured some arsehole chucking bagels on the ice. After any kind of game with that school, their fans would drop $10 bills, beating up the kids who picked up the money (and saying disgusting antisemitic things).

Texas, according to the friend who left for Dallas, was even worse.

(Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam) Parker replied: "The fact that I walked in and said 'Hey, I'm going to have to Jew it down' is not an ethnic slur. This has nothing to do—I'm not referring to the Jewish community. I used that term as an adjective, as a descriptive word of bargaining them down…That is not an ethnic slur."

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=1YhcI9R&v=500510682289332

Silly Parker, you have to say "It's not an ethnic slur" THREE times to make it not an ethnic slur