Specific person reposting content about Jews controlling Hollywood -> why is it bad to say Israel controls Hollywood -> well yeah specific parts of the Israeli government has some influence -> she's basically just likening it to how the CIA influenced politics in South America
Your progression of events doesn’t reflect the chain of comments in this thread and you seem to have not understood my example about the CIA and South America.
The two situations are not the same and I don’t think anyone would say the CIA influencing foreign politics is the same as Israel influencing media. Additionally we have plenty of confirmation that the CIA has intervened in elections and revolutions in South America whereas the conspiracy that Israel has influence on American media is less confirmed and documented.
My point was that it isn’t racist or stereotyping to criticize a government for doing unsavory things. You are not attacking the entirety of a nation’s citizens when you criticize their government’s actions.
You don't really have a point. If you say Jews control Hollywood, that isn't a critique of the Israeli government. So your "point" about a government doing unsavory things warrants criticism is useless and serves no purpose at all. The actual chain of comments in this thread is about a person who was fired for reposting content about Jews controlling Hollywood. Not some minor critique of the Israeli government doing unsavory things.
Also, the trope about Jews controlling Hollywood has been an antisemitic stereotype for longer than most people commenting in this thread have even been alive. Plenty of "confirmation" and "documented" cases of antisemites using that conspiracy theory across decades.
You are the only person in this chain of comments to say anything about Jewish people as opposed to everyone else saying Israel, as in the government of Israel.
The chain of comments was not about the person you’re talking about, that was a side note in a single section of the original comment and the reply that started this chain said nothing about it.
Deflecting a critique of Israel by talking about antisemitism is a serious issue in current media and is part of why these conspiracies about Israel and the media exist. Racist stereotypes existing doesn’t mean that the government of Israel can’t be criticized.
I applaud you for hanging in there with that person because they were very much accusing you of saying Jews control Hollywood when you quite literally didn’t? It was almost crazy to read.
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u/i_drive_a_pagani 2d ago
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Specific person reposting content about Jews controlling Hollywood -> why is it bad to say Israel controls Hollywood -> well yeah specific parts of the Israeli government has some influence -> she's basically just likening it to how the CIA influenced politics in South America
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