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Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by yakubin on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:34AM (#33717458)
Why would “globalist” be an anti-Semitic whistle?
Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by keewee7 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:41AM (#33717514)
The far-right has always claimed that the Jews are the puppeteers of various progressive movements they don't like. A century ago they accused the Jews of being behind and secretly controlling the Bolshevik movement. Now they accuse Jews of being behind globalism, international trade agreements, and mass immigration.
Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by geneiumgquesn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:59AM (#33717657)
Your logic here doesn't really make sense.

I'm sure the far-right accuses Jews of those, and many other things. But that (obviously) doesn't mean we can't be critical of those things.

And if you say that criticizing those things is being an antisemite, aren't you just implicitly endorsing the far-right theories you just denounced? I mean, we should be able to criticize mass immigration, or international trade agreements, globalism, etc. regardless of who supports those ideas, but especially if jews aren't even involved then what's the harm? (Note that jews being involved still would not change the fact that we should obviously be able to agree or disagree with, and criticize any political idea, policy, theory or ideology).

For me, criticizing globalism is not that different from criticizing imperialism, since (at least IMHO) globalism, and more specifically global governance, is a form of imperialism. One of the best-known critic of globalization is Noam Chomsky, who happens to be Jewish (but, again, that is completely incidental and not really relevant to what he thinks).

Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by 1337shadow on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:09AM (#33717739)
Except that's also what the left has done, such as, german national socialists.
Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by pgeorgi on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:12AM (#33718716)
You must be in a pretty weird spot to be able to put the NSDAP in the left end of the spectrum.
Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc... by ubercore on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:01AM (#33717685)
Here's a decent discussion of it, from when Trump used the term and it got a lot of attention: https://web.archive.org/web/20220305070743/https://www.washi...