An international reaction of performative outrage came about after comments made by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas [ Palestinian Authority leader caused outrage after talking about Hitler and European Jews in a speech to his Fatah party ]. The core issue was calling Jews moneylenders, and the outrage was basically that moneylenders is a negative stereotype and it is wrong to label Jews as moneylenders.
Every bit of dialog on this I've read misses the most central main point of all main points.
Labeling moneylenders and market speculator merchantilists with a negative frame of reference is the specific wrong of Hitler, Nazism and Fascism
Speaking from the perspective of a US resident, I've seen our culture descend into an open hatred for banking, finance and mercantilist classes for several years now. On a pop culture level the shameless murderous impulse to kill that class was prominently displayed in the script of The Joker, when the main character kills a group of "Wall Street Guys" and later proudly confesses to it on national television.
In the US and maybe in the West in general, we are living in a time in which people who call the police on a car prowler are called fascists, and wanting law and order is labeled white supremacy and linked to Hitler's vision. This is all the thoughts and sentiments of a kind of social activist that ironically are the genuine Nazi brownshirts if they hate the market speculation classes. Which in all my personal social networks is the case, the very ones with unoriginal social justice stances do generally hate the market speculation classes.
This is not even remotely OK.
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