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replied to your link “When Malcolm X Met the Nazis”

I’m so tired. I’m just weary to my bone marrow. Shaun King on Twitter lecturing Jews about what is and is not antisemitism. The Women’s March and that LGBTQ march in Chicago. I’m just…I’m just tired.

SAME

What did Shaun King say?

He is repeatedly telling Jewish people they’re wrong for finding Tamika Mallory’s “enemies of Jesus” tweet offensive, because it’s apparently a commonly used phrase in certain Christian circles, especially within the Black community. 

And like…that may be, but in context of the situation (i.e. her praising of Farrakhan at an event where he unleashed anti-Semitic vitriol, and subsequent refusal to denounce him), it’s still a faux pas? 

Like, you can’t refuse to retract your support for somebody who just gave a speech about the how “the Satanic Jews” are their enemy and then talk about the situation using a phrase about “enemies of Jesus,” without it being a bad look. Full stop. 

Like, sometimes things aren’t inherently bad on their own, but within a specific context, they can become offensive, and the people who didn’t think that process through still need to apologise even if it wasn’t their intention. 

For example, H&M got blasted recently for a cringeworthy ad which showed a Black child model wearing a shirt that said “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.” Now, as it turned out, the boy had modelled at least a dozen different shirts with different slogans for H&M, and this just happened to be one of the many they had in their collection. BUT—when people see this one, solitary ad on its own, out of context from all the different wardrobe options, IT’S A BAD LOOK AND IT’S OFFENSIVE, and H&M should have fucking known better than to choose that image of all the ones they had taken to be the one they featured. Just because he modelled a lot of different shirts doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have had the foresight to know that particular image could and would be perceived as offensive in a solitary context. 

Tamika Mallory may have been using a phrase that’s common within her community, but given that she’s using it to discuss a situation where she won’t apologise for stanning an anti-Semite who just called Jews the devil, IT’S STILL A BAD LOOK and as somebody who is meant to be an activist she should have known better. 

The fact that Shaun King refuses to acknowledge how the context matters and how she should have had the foresight to know that was poor choice of words within this particular one, to the point where he is repeatedly telling Jewish people they’re wrong for being offended, is really fucking troubling. 

this just in, Shaun King is once again a trash fire

no one is surprised 

(he blocked one of my indigenous activist friends after James told him to basically go get fucked after Shaun did exactly the same thing wrt indigenous issued that he’s now doing with Jewish issues: telling people of a group he’s not a part of how they should feel. so basically I lost all patience with Shaun King then, and I’m not surprised now that he’s doubling and tripling down on this shit.)