Antisemitism

[Dill]

(07-17-2020, 02:47 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Because anti-semitism is relatively accepted by the broader white culture.

Sure, but it's "worse" when "Blacks do it too," setting up deflections of white racism and the like. Someone like Martin, teaching in the Africana area, should know that.

So I am curious as to why some Black scholars would go that direction, given they supposedly get more history and are held to higher professional standards than laypersons. It's understandable that people with little secular history and a lot of fundamentalist religion might be subject to more magical narrative making. If Pat Robertson and millions of followers think that Hurricane Katrina was punishment for feminism and tolerance for gay rights, then no surprise some of their minority counterparts could buy into claims that slavery was divine punishment upon the "real" Jews.

This phenomenon suggests to me there is a subculture influencing Black politics I know little about and whose appeal is broader than I expected. Perhaps it is enabled by the same breakdown in social authority that enables birther and truther conspiracies to flourish.