sadmanbarty
Well-known member
we’re all human. our emotional reactions to events don’t always align with our intellectual or moral understanding of them. we’re complicated, hypocritical, inconsistent, illogical, etc. there’s often a disconnect between what we believe and what we feel.
so this thread is based on three premises:
1) there’s undoubtably something very grim about corbyn’s stance towards the jews
2) our emotional reaction (dissenensians and the left more broadly) doesn’t reflect the severity of it.
3) our outrage would be far stronger had the issue centred around gay people, muslims, black people, etc. our relative degree of comfort with the situation has something to do with the fact the victims are jews. a mural portraying lots of hook-nosed men enslaving humanity and controlling the world is in the same moral ballpark as one depicting a golliwog holding a watermelon and licking his lips.
i don’t want this thread to be yet another debate about whether the accusations about corbyn are scandalous or not. rather i want this to be a candid, emotionally honest analysis of the psychology of the left with regards to anti-semitism. this doesn’t just pertain to pro-corbyn partisans, but to the jo maughams of this world who are comfortable voting for- or endorsing to some degree- corbyn's labour.
it’d be great if people on this thread could admit to things that aren’t sound morally or intellectually, but unfortunately are the way they feel in their gut. shine a light on feelings we have that we’re ashamed of. reveal the id untempered by the super ego and in doing so expose the cognitive dissonance of much of the left with regards to anti-semitism.
so this thread is based on three premises:
1) there’s undoubtably something very grim about corbyn’s stance towards the jews
2) our emotional reaction (dissenensians and the left more broadly) doesn’t reflect the severity of it.
3) our outrage would be far stronger had the issue centred around gay people, muslims, black people, etc. our relative degree of comfort with the situation has something to do with the fact the victims are jews. a mural portraying lots of hook-nosed men enslaving humanity and controlling the world is in the same moral ballpark as one depicting a golliwog holding a watermelon and licking his lips.
i don’t want this thread to be yet another debate about whether the accusations about corbyn are scandalous or not. rather i want this to be a candid, emotionally honest analysis of the psychology of the left with regards to anti-semitism. this doesn’t just pertain to pro-corbyn partisans, but to the jo maughams of this world who are comfortable voting for- or endorsing to some degree- corbyn's labour.
it’d be great if people on this thread could admit to things that aren’t sound morally or intellectually, but unfortunately are the way they feel in their gut. shine a light on feelings we have that we’re ashamed of. reveal the id untempered by the super ego and in doing so expose the cognitive dissonance of much of the left with regards to anti-semitism.