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Thoughts on GDF's new video? (youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml to c/breadtube@lemmygrad.ml

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GDF argues that Zionist lobbying e.g. AIPAC is the main historical reason for US support of Israel, and not Israel's usefulness to the US as a military base.

He bases his argument on the influence of the Israel lobby forcing the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations to prioritize Zionism over American and US capitalist goals.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is it really antimaterialist to say that when a group of mostly cis people are extremely harsh to a trans person, but lenient against cis people who make similar mistakes, it might be a sign of cis brainworms? I can probably phrase that in terms that are more materialist but the message is the same; I don't think it'd be any different if a mostly white website was being weird about POC.

[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I think this is almost certainly a case of confirmation bias of you stringing together two people to form your own narrative to conform to a theory of identity politics. Unless you can show me the users who actively did this this seems like idealist thinking to claim it inherently transphobic rather than hypocritical.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hexbear is full of these types. A lot of left leaning spaces, lib, radlib or even the myriad flavours of ml/maoist/dengist/etc... are more forgiving of people that are closer to the heteronormative racial masculine ideal. And that is not idealist idenity BS.

Unexaminded reactionary biases did cause the failure of several socialist movements, such as the new left in 80s germany or the post ww1 american communist party.

[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While this is true and must always cause us to re-examine our own biases, to imply that these two creators even have the same viewers and their difference in blowback for bad opinions thus must be attributed to transphobia has a higher burden of proof than "cis energy"

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hexbear is full of these types.

Sorry, just to be clear, do you mean people with reactionary biases or people calling out reactionary biases?

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

With the biases. The other makes less sense in context of what I wrote.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's one post about Viki where a user brought up the really islamophobic comment she had made: https://hexbear.net/comment/5730673

Here's the last post from that user: https://hexbear.net/post/4672233

This is the only post discussing her islamophobic statement I found. I'm not gonna say that 1 instance makes a pattern, that would be a hasty generalization, but hopefully it's not hard to see the point.

[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No I genuinely don't see your point, what actually is it?

[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you think these are all the same people? Absolutely.