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his post from 2023 that this guy dug up to try and disregard him objecting to Platner:

White people should have been able to deduce that a guy who has a Nazi tattoo is not a reliable progressive or electable politician, and men should have been able to deduce that a guy who assaulted several women has quite likely assaulted women.

Even now, I see leftist men saying that Platner ought to hold the nomination hostage until he can be certain his replacement "shares his values," as if the candidate who lied about committing rape should have input in the aftermath of the catastrophe he created. They know who he is. It's not a problem for them.

This whole episode seems more and more perverse, like the reason they drafted him was because he was a walking liability. Not entitlement, not insulting ideas about "working class voters," not racist and sexist bias minimizing problems like Nazi tattoos and multiple DV/sexual assault allegations, but a nasty strain of retributive cruelty.

They chose him not in spite of his racism and sexism and all-around disastrous incompetence but because of those qualities. They didn't want to elect a progressive senator. They didn't even want to defeat Collins.

They wanted to prove that white men control the movement. They wanted to humiliate women and people of color by running someone who was clearly non-viable in any political environment where racism and sexism matter. They got so high on entitlement they started to believe their own hype, even when Platner was exploding on the launchpad.

my partner (Jewish) and I (supportive goy atheist) have made a new friend (Arab Muslim), and we obviously have some different beliefs and opinions but also a lot of shared values, so the friendship has been strong thus far.

there are some instances where we have to bite our tongues, in regard to the I/P conflict mainly, though we are starting to push back in small ways such as, yes Hamas is an armed terrorist group, most Jews/Israelis don't support the government's actions, etc. this all came to a head last night when we made the *very* controversial statement: Jews are indigenous to the Levant.

I'm shocked at how she was unwilling to accept that, she became stubborn, defaulted to her mother's opinion, and started asserting that all Jewish prophets/architecture/holy sites are actually Islamic, and not Jewish, since they were sent/built/assigned by G-d. this, naturally, extends her opinion to that of modern day Jews being totally genetically unrelated to the ancient Israelites. blatant erasure and rewriting of Jewish history, centring Islam even though the Quran is demonstrably younger than the Tanakh. my partner understandably lashed out as their cultural ancestry was being disrespected. we tried to explain that there's a difference between respecting others' beliefs, vs one's beliefs directly erasing an entire group's existence from history, but she kept falling back on "history is written by the victors, we have no real way of knowing anything given that we didn't live back then".

In essence, according to that doctrine, all of the Biblical peoples, sites, and narratives were actually Arab Muslims, but then the Jewish leaders/scribes/people/rabbis/etc got their hands on the texts and maliciously edited them for... reasons. And since this malicious editing meant that the word of god was being hoarded by the Jews, that then required Allah to send additional prophets (Jesus and then, when he "failed", Mohammad) to "correct" things back to where they "should" have been.

It's also the basis for a number of other really nasty bits of Islamic antisemitism--for example, apparently the Jewish tribes in Arabia were not there because of the Diaspora, but that they had moved there in anticipation of another divine prophet to fight against, and when they met Mohammad, they recognized him as their anticipated and intended enemy. (And I'm not exaggerating--that's literally what's taught by Islamists; it's given pretty much verbatim in this video at the ten minute mark). In terms of implications, just think of what that little narrative means--that all Jews, or at least Jewish leadership, knows the "truth" (that Islam is the actual origin and belief system) rejects it out of sheer contrariness, and work conspiratorially to keep it buried.

When that's what is taught to the average, well-meaning Muslim, like your associate, about Jewish history, identity, and culture...