Damn. In a city which projects an image of being, almost exclusively, a tourist trap, a strike in the hospitality industry is pretty damn near to being a general strike.
This could have some major consequences, both positive and negative, especially if it drags out.
Elon’s at it again…
Diogenes, the official philosopher of the Wanderthread:
BTW, the Anoa Changa that wrote most of the Stacey Abrams stuff that I’m posting at the other place?
That’s this Anoa:
Which relates to why I am consistently cranky about CentreDem attempts to smear the Black left as Russian agents. Those Black organisers are important; resistance to fascism won’t succeed without them.
That article is kind of funny because it really turns the screw on how white liberals preferring a stock rich white dynasty (literally invested $1 million into of his own money into his campaign a few weeks ago) while trying to bury the very people they quote’s acknowledgement that Valdez improved conditions from where they were even if it isn’t enough.
Valdez is far from perfect, but compared to Abbot it’s no contest and there is not even a different candidate you could point to in the general worth anything (a libertarian, pot activist, and musician). So the question becomes do you vote for something dramatically to he left of status quo, or do you not vote at all and further disadvantage those you are seeking to protect?
Elon’s never going to figure it out so he’s gone full scumbag. So much for the magic genius honky.
Trying to get my thoughts straight about the commonalities and differences between anti-semitism and white supremacy.
Y’all probably already have some idea of the narrative of my understanding of white supremacy. Imperialism, slavery, capitalism, Haiti, etc.
But anti-semitism isn’t quite the same thing. Still bigotry, still evil, still murderous, but slightly different in history and structure. And I don’t have anywhere near as good a handle on it.
So, to try and sort out the history of why antisemitism is a thing:
They took an absolute hammering from the Romans. The Jewish Revolt was unusually persistent and determined, and the Romans responded by making an example of them. The usual mass-murdering evils of empire. However, Jewish cultural traditions proved unusually resistant to disruption, permitting the maintenance of Jewish culture post-revolt. Hence, the diaspora.
Post-revolt, the diaspora left them as universal minorities. This sort of situation is dangerous; ethnic/religious minorities always take some shit from the dominant culture. Just basic tribalism and human arseholery.
Medieval finance: Religious minorities often took the role of traders and financiers, as their outsider status lent itself to sidestepping restrictions and moving between cultures.
Armenians held similar roles in the Ottoman Empire, and were noted gem-traders. And then there’s the point that cross-cultural educated travellers tend to make good diplomats and spies…
Some of the conspiracy bullshit does have a loose connection to reality, before spinning off into murderous lunacy. It tends to miss the point that these are things that were done to the Jewish community more than by it, though.
A handful of Jews were prominent in medieval European finance, as they were the only ones permitted into such a “sinful” profession, and were barred from most other trades. This came in useful time and again for European monarchs; whenever the national debt gets too high, just release the Inquisition, expel all the Jews from the country and start again from zero. Every time they do that, the official proclamations of condemnation go out and the preachers crank out the hate sermons to back it up.
There’s a big gap in my knowledge here, which I suspect relates to the the Spanish Reconquista and the scapegoating of Spanish Jews for national collaboration with Muslim rule. Not all of the medieval Christian antisemitism was about finance.
Late 19th century antisemitism; Dreyfuss affair etc. Again, there are gaps in my knowledge here. I suspect that most of this was related to capitalist attempts to leverage antisemitism into anticommunism, but I’m not sure.
20th century fascism. There’s already a base level of anti-semitism in Europe, thanks largely to the deliberately manufactured bigotry relating to points 3-5. Post-WW1, radical political movements of both left and right mobilise across the world. Both left and right analyse WWI as, in part, a conspiracy of capital; however, while the left blame capitalism, the right deflect the blame into antisemitism.
Antisemitism within the US Black community. Complicated, and largely driven by class issues. Somewhat comparable to the house/field negro split.
Antisemitism arising from the occupation of Palestine. Again, complicated by the local power dynamics.
What else? What did I miss, which bits are off?
That was a boring as hell video. It was just Dr. Stein talking in generalities but using US sources and not Russian talking points, and more specifically about US spending on the military. No one on that interview had anything of substance to say.
You missed the shift in white supremacy to present a united white culture, which includes declaring Jewish people white along with saying European nations have a common white heritage. Add on Israel’s ethno-state and you have the places where white supremecists decided to buck the anti-semitism they held while supporting eugenics and the Nazi party before WWII.
Antisemitism is the fascist’s stand-in for wealth that lets wealth off the hook. Nazi anti-semitism was a gift to the war profiteers who orchestrated the ww1 disaster. But, but… the jews? Really?
Same shit happened in Britain and elsewhere, but with less need to shift blame, because, winning and Bolshevism. Much easier to blame pacifists, suffragettes, and those too “weak” to survive shellshock/PTSD/CTE.
I’m not disappointed in Obama at all. He was insufficient, but the problem to solve, via community organizing, was organize the most bubblized collection of thieves, murderers, rapists and bigots the planet has ever seen. Small victories slowed the spiral.
Discovered a strange film:
Gruesome but interesting.
“Kneeling football players disrespects our troops”.