Thursday, April 12, 2007
An interesting look into the overlap in the rhetoric between old-fashioned right-wing anti-Semites and the radical Left at Zombietime: Racist Literature Distributed in Berkeley. It all goes far beyond a few posts at Democratic Underground.
Zombie has part of the formula, I think. There is a reticence to report on this stuff plainly because it's embarrassing for the reporters who are largely sympathetic to the Leftist view. On the other hand, I think the rationalization they might use is superficially benevolent -- they don't want to show these anti-Semitic images because that's just giving the perpetrators free publicity. I can see that...but is it, in a way, a dodge?
[h/t: Cynic]
I think her point is that several of the reports do provide details of the racist material, while the only descriptions of anti-semitism ignore the anti-Israel aspect.