Are We Living in a Dystopia?
Swimming in the fake claims of antisemitism
My biggest bugbear at the moment is people demanding proof of something that they either know to be true or are ignorant by choice. I’m not a scholar so I don’t have the facts at my fingertips. I could spend the day compiling a repository of general knowledge if I didn’t want to eat. One person demanded proof of Kamala Harris’s awful record as prosecutor in California, claiming a level of seriousness despite Tulsi Gabbard’s single handed domolition of Harris’s previous presidential race, based on her terrible record, being on national television and going viral.
As is often the case I struggled to find an article presenting this truth and had to resort to sharing the YouTube video that the world and its wife has already seen. Its a bit like when you tell a toddler “this is an umbrella” with the response “why?”. It’s often down to laziness but can also be a diversionary tactic which quite frankly is dishonest.
However I more often get myself dragged into discussions around Israel’s legitimacy and the same old tropes come up time and time again. I should know better. One that many of us come up against is an accusation of antisemitism which has the additional dimension whereby the only 2 options are to admit that I am or argue that I’m not which only proves that I’m not…
