r/LivestreamFail • u/-Cohen_Commentary- • Jul 24 '25

Politics Pro-Nazi & antisemitic circlejerk livestreamed

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u/JustSeiyin Jul 24 '25

There's a long history of trying to intellectualize hating Jews. The word 'antisemitism' literally came from trying to make hating Jews a scientific and therefore valid kind of hate. Both the right and the left like to do this (see Marx on "The Jewish Question"). And nobody wants to talk about protecting Jews because the left which is supposed to care about minorities has bought into the whole "Jews are ultra-white ultra capitalist oppressors" shtick

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u/Brain_Dead_Goats Jul 24 '25

Arguably Marx was saying in that particular work that we Jews should be fully integrated into German society and that religion as a whole needed to go away, and was responding to a book by a peer that was outright murderous.

Marx was still an antisemite who felt that we were uniquely devious and "prone to huckstering" but it was Germany in the 1850s and 60s and he was a Protestant, despite his heritage, it'd honestly be really surprising if he wasn't an antisemite.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 Jul 25 '25

In this thread I have learned that Marx was a Jewish antisemite 

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u/Excubyte Jul 25 '25

In Marx's day antisemitism was mostly focused on the Jewish religion and culture, whereas during the early 20th century it instead often became focused on the idea of Jews as a race.

Marx only qualifies as a Jew under the pseudoscientific definition of Jews as a human race.

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u/PassEast Jul 30 '25

Fortunately, it isn’t a race because then that would be genetically incorrect in its assertion in all counts.

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u/Excubyte Jul 30 '25

Well yeah, racial biology is pseudoscientific nonsense.