It’s a day ending in “y,” which means Matt Yglesias has got a white-hot take to share with the class. This one’s about conservatives’ response to Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism. And it’s everything you could possibly hope for:
I think some liberals are looking at this obvious hypocrisy of the GOP on this Omar situation the wrong way around.
Her remarks are a problem precisely because Democrats are the anti-bigotry, pro-sensitivity party.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2019
Republicans tolerate anti-semites in their midst for the same reason they tolerate Islamophobes and racists and gay-bashers and everyone else.
It’s not a particular offense to Jews, it’s just how they roll.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2019
But Democrats *really do* believe in policing speech to avoid giving discomfort to vulnerable or marginalized groups and that’s an important part of their pitch to American Jews so they have to *do it in this case too* or it seems fishy.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2019
All the other points people are making about this are true, however:
Republicans are huge hypocrites, the attacks on Omar are drenched in overt anti-Muslim bigotry, and mainstream “pro-Israel” politics in the United States is in fact really bad and harmful.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2019
OK, first of all, Ilhan Omar’s remarks are a problem because they’re blatantly anti-Semitic.
Her remarks are a problem because — these tropes are dangerous; they feed the idea/monster that there is a secret cabal run by Jews that control finance and world politics.
— LaResistenciaUSA (@ResisteUSA) March 5, 2019
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And second of all, if the Democratic Party is the “anti-bigotry, pro-sensitivity party,” they really, really could’ve fooled us.
you must have your head buried deep in the sand to believe the Democrats are anti-bigotry, pro-sensitivity party.
— P-IN-P (@pinto_p) March 5, 2019
Has Matt Yglesias met the Democrats?
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) March 5, 2019
And Northam’s just the tip of the Democratic iceberg. Hell, even Matt’s a bigoted piece of crap:
— BT (@back_ttys) March 5, 2019
And who remembers this classic?
— The End Times (@TheAgeofShoddy) March 5, 2019
Funny how Ilhan Omar’s toxic anti-Semitism is brushed aside by clowns like Yglesias as just legitimate criticism of Israel, while criticism of Omar’s toxic anti-Semitism is labeled “overt anti-Muslim bigotry.”
The stuff being RT'ed into my TL tells me that today is the day this month Yglesias set aside to remind everyone he still exists and is still a moron. https://t.co/RmKowymVOz
— Dodd (@Amuk3) March 5, 2019
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