• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I actually don’t understand what this tweet even says.

    First paragraph sort of makes sense grammatically (“Jewish people are speaking to white people in the same way antisemitic people speak to them”) - I mean WTAF, but ok, it’s at least a sentence that can be parsed enough that I can disagree with it.

    The second paragraph makes zero sense. Like I actually don’t understand what the person is trying to say. When you strip away all the fancy words, I think he’s basically saying “the people that attack Israel don’t like Israel very much”.

    But I mean, no duh, they don’t. But how does that relate to the first paragraph and why it’s even worth saying. And how does it relate to “whites” being supposedly attacked by Jewish communities?

    Space Baby is an asshole. I’m convinced he’s a racist asshole. But I don’t understand what he’s trying to agree with here.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I tried, with the help of chatGPT, to translate that into english aswell, but the topic seemed a bit too hot for it.

      What I think he’s trying to say is that since jews consider themselves an oppressed minority, they’re then more likely to be advocating for tolerance towards other such minorities aswell. In this context he’s probably refering to muslim immigrants in europe. However then he points out the fact that said muslims often aren’t especially tolerant of jews in general aswell as highlighting the apparent hypocrisy of non-jews often being treated as second class citizens in Israel by jews themselves.

      I’m not sure if this is correct but that’s the best steelmanning I can come up with.

      I think the main issue here is not so much the tweet above but the tweet this is replying to which was saying something like: “The people saying/implying that Hitler was right, why don’t you come out and tell what you’re actually saying” and then this guy goes like “Okay well here comes…” seemingly agreeing with the statement that “Hitler was right” and then Elon agreeing with the reply naturally looks pretty condemning.