DeSean Jackson posts anti-Semitic messages

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Yeah Jackson looks like a real dip sh1t right now. Wouldn’t be surprised either way if the Eagles cut him or kept him on the team at this point. He had a significant drop in production last year.
 
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n_huffhines said:
According to the FBI, 920 hate crimes were committed against the Jewish community in 2018. 2,428 were committed against blacks. 862 against gays. 1,036 against whites.

So if you meant to say per person, Jews suffer the most hate crimes, then yeah...but they are definitely not the "#1 target of hate crimes".

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I wouldn't trust those numbers. Practically every crime where the perpetrator is white and the victim black is labeled a hate crime, even when race is not the motivating factor. We really need to get rid of this "hate crime" label. A crime is a crime.
 
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0nelilreb said:
Louis Farrakhan
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I wouldn't say Farrakhan has "gotten away" with his comments. Farrakhan's a pariah on both sides of the political spectrum. Liberals would rather assume that he doesn't exist and conservatives like to bring up how awful he is a lot, but he hasn't never really been allowed in the tent so to speak. People like Sharpton and Jackson have though - hell, the Dems came kind of close to nominating Jackson for President in 1988.
 
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evillawyer said:
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"Nonsense" is kind of a soft term they used for that, no? In that article itself, it's referred to as 'questionable material." Again, kind of lukewarm language.

If a conservative athlete posted a bunch of David Duke stuff on his IG, do you think it'd be called "David Duke nonsense?" It'd be more likely to be called something like "David Duke genocidal racism." And nowhere is it ever suggested or speculated that DJ himself might be an anti-Semite, just that he posted stuff from "a total whack job who says some of the most insane things you will ever hear."
 
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05_never_again said:
I wouldn't say Farrakhan has "gotten away" with his comments. Farrakhan's a pariah on both sides of the political spectrum. Liberals would rather assume that he doesn't exist and conservatives like to bring up how awful he is a lot, but he hasn't never really been allowed in the tent so to speak. People like Sharpton and Jackson have though - hell, the Dems came kind of close to nominating Jackson for President in 1988.
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Cue the Obama/Farrakhan pic.
 
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Weezer said:
I wouldn't trust those numbers. Practically every crime where the perpetrator is white and the victim black is labeled a hate crime, even when race is not the motivating factor. We really need to get rid of this "hate crime" label. A crime is a crime.
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Lol, ok
 
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05_never_again said:
You asked, I answered. Nice goalpost move. Ilhan Omar if you want a more recent e.xample The only real flak she received for those types of comments were from conservatives.

Omar's comments weren't interpreted by all as anti-Semitic. Fair enough, but you know if a conservative made them they'd be labeled as anti-Semitic.
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I didn't move the goalposts. I was asking when in OP, LOL
 
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Weezer said:
It's called common sense, but I don't think you possess any, so why try?
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Keep the insults coming. You're lashing out at me because you can't back up your outrageous claim. We all see what's happening here except you.
 
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n_huffhines said:
What did she say? Are you referring to her comments about Israel? If so, that's not the same thing as saying something terrible about Jewish Americans.
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She's made a variety of comments about Israel that allude to well-known anti-Semitic tropes. Israel "hypnotizing" the world, stuff about "dual loyalty" (not dual citizenship, but dual loyalty), all about the benjamins, etc.

Many (mostly people in her own party) gave her the benefit of the doubt and said her language was being nitpicked, which is fine, but you know that same benefit of the doubt wouldn't be afforded someone on the right. Not all criticism of Israel comes from a place of anti-Semitism, but anti-Semites often couch their anti-Semitism in critiques of Israel. Hence the benefit of the doubt. David Duke is a master at that. It's kind of rare that he'll say something critiquing Jewish people, but he often projects what he wants to say about Jews generally to Israel.
 
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05_never_again said:
Disagree with your first sentence (that hasn't been my experience). Anti-Semitism is rampant on both the far-right and far-left, but you only hear about it existing on the far-right, like with the David Dukes or Richard Spencers of the world.

There's definitely anti-Semitism in some BLM circles, but you don't really hear about it from most of the media, because it would put a mark on a movement many of them are sympathetic to. Remember the Nick Sandmann incident? A group of Black Hebrew Israelites were there, and this fact was eventually mentioned in the media coverage, but how much did you hear about it? BHI is an overtly anti-Semitic organization.
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I just said MY experience is I haven't heard it but from black folks. And I remember the few times I did thinking how weird that was.
 
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05_never_again said:
She's made a variety of comments about Israel that allude to well-known anti-Semitic tropes. Israel "hypnotizing" the world, stuff about "dual loyalty" (not dual citizenship, but dual loyalty), all about the benjamins, etc.

Many (mostly people in her own party) gave her the benefit of the doubt and said her language was being nitpicked, which is fine, but you know that same benefit of the doubt wouldn't be afforded someone on the right. Not all criticism of Israel comes from a place of anti-Semitism, but anti-Semites often couch their anti-Semitism in critiques of Israel. Hence the benefit of the doubt. David Duke is a master at that. It's kind of rare that he'll say something critiquing Jewish people, but he often projects what he wants to say about Jews generally to Israel.
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LOL, so nothing "terrible about Jews"
 
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n_huffhines said:
LOL, so nothing "terrible about Jews"
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You can choose to interpret or not some of her statements as being about Jews. The "all about the benjamins baby" comment seemed to suggest that US politicians only support Israel because of financial contributions from rich Jews. The dual loyalty thing was another interesting comment - it did seem to call into question as to whether you can be loyal to the United States if you support Israel...of course, that group of people is largely (though certainly not exclusively) Jewish.
 
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