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What the actual fuck. Nevermind the antisemitism for a second, why are they even bashing politicians based on appearance in the first place? British media is unhinged.
It's a standard thing they do to anybody vaguely left wing.
If your election promise isn't to go visit all the billionaire media owners and personally suck them off, you're not going anywhere in the UK.
Yeah if you published something like that in Sweden you'd get pitchforks shoved up your ass.
I'm amazed their officers haven't been fire bombed yet. If their hacker journalists had an ounce of talent they would be humiliated working there.
Right. I don't know how indicative of the climate in the uk this is, but with this and the comments, I'm freaking out a little bit rn.
Comments are all like "this is a proud British tradition and I don't see anything wrong with it, plus fuck all politicians let's bully every single one of them so only the worst narcissists survive."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband_bacon_sandwich_photograph
Like Margaret Thatcher! That old commie
But Zionists only cry when you make fun of a jea
It’s called caricature, and it’s been a central part of British political cartoons since the 18th Century. Politicians have been known to buy the originals to hang on their walls.
There have also been caricatures of Jews that were clearly antisemitic in intent, like some of the ones of Polansky.
Especially the top right one depicted here is just extremely blatantly antisemitic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Merchant
We also have political caricatures. They look like this.
@mirshafie @insubstantialpageant they really don't want the Greens to have any influence at all!
Well yeah they're trying to implement policies which will ensure to continue existence of the species beyond the next generation. What an awful prospect.
Just always been like that, spitting image was an institution.
What's wrong with it? Caricatured politicians practically every day for centuries since we've had a press, this is bad now?
Historical context. Nazis have been using this particular Jewish stereotype for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Merchant
You're not allowed to criticize anyone Jewish without a shitload of idiots coming out to pretend you're a Nazi for it.
Criticize away, just don't use blatantly racist caricatures in doing so.
Meanwhile Orange Man:
That guy is hideous through and through
So it's ok to mock someone based on appearance as long as they're not jew
Politicians are horrible twats. No idea what the ratio is, or how it could be proven, but I would imagine that the amount of "good" politicians is a very very low number. I mean politicians that actually have the best interests of the public at heart, or in mind, when they're making decisions. The idea of voting for people to make decisions for me is nuts. Any outrage about a caricature is crazy.
If you don't know what the conversation is about you don't have to contribute. It's not a requirement you know.
I have my criticisms of the greens but not with him in particular
I am fully aware of what the conversation is about.
Let me break it down for you.
Caricatures are drawn of a politician.
Somebody claims that because said politician is Jewish and has a big nose in the caricatures that they are antisemitic.
Likens the caricatures to pro-Palestine marches when they are, and should be, independent of one another.
I would suggest that Keir Starmers connections to Israel, and influence by the Jewish people close to him, may lay closer to the reason that his government have cracked down so hard on the Pro-Palestine movements.
They are a total contradiction in themselves, which has been proven time and time again. Which is something I get is being attempted with this/these examples.
But they are not like for like. Nowhere in the cartoons is the politician calling for death to Palestinians or even pro-Israel (so cannot be accused of being antisemitic) under Starmers laws.
But equally if the politician was calling for that, he likely wouldn't be accused of it either under Starmers Britain.
Starmers Britain is one where the "only" antisemitic people can be those that will use satire, humour or criticism of the Jewish people, but not necessarily Semite people. That includes calling out Genocide or just publicly supporting aid for the people being slaughtered.
One example is in this video - A Jewish community crowd around a news crew, telling a Semite journalist that he should "go home" and that he is not welcome on their streets, calling him a Donkey and a Dog. Nothing happened to any of them.
The law is very lob sided on this 'law' under Starmer. His version of antisemitism that he "will not tolerate in any form" is only really in favour of some Semite people, but definitely not all, and not only does he tolerate it, he often ignores it, in many of its forms.
It seems Jewish people cannot be antisemitic, but other Semite people can be.