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rpd9803 t1_iu362yx wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Former Ravens player Torrey Smith apologizes for tweets about rapper Ye that Baltimore City councilman called antisemitic by aresef

I think you just have to do the best you can to maintain perspective that not everyone has the same experiences you do, and the folks making snap judgements on whether people fall into the ‘good/evil’ buckets based off a small set of impersonal experiences doth protest too much. And yeah of course it’s racist has been for a long time..

but I also think the ‘why didn’t adidas drop Ye when he said slavery was a choice but then they dropped him for being anti-Semitic is a fair question for Adidas to answer…

It’s hard not to step in the shit landmines

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No-Success7693 t1_iu4im7z wrote

An African American saying "slavery was a choice" is just a weird non sequitur, really. It's a fucked up thing to say, but it doesn't really even connect up with the cultural memes associated with white supremacist ideologies.

Suggesting that Jews control everything, and that one is about to inflict ultra-violence on them, has been the prelude to various anti-semitic ethnic cleansing initiatives for centuries.

Of course a German company founded by two guys who both joined the Nazi party and cooperated with the war effort was going to drop him. The only real question is why it took them so long.

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rpd9803 t1_iu4j013 wrote

So if he was a jew he could say the Jews control everything and it would be a weird non-Sequitur?

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No-Success7693 t1_iu6xd1i wrote

No, if he was a jew and said they invented anti-semitism just to have something to do, that would be a weird non-sequitur.

I think you might have completely missed my point, intentionally or otherwise.

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Scrilla_Gorilla_ t1_iu7f8vp wrote

I feel like I either misread your "disproportionately influential" as "overrepresented" or at least that's how I replied to it. I apologize, rereading my post in the context isn't at all what I meant. I do not think Jews control the banking or media industry or anything like that. And Kanye is a clown, has been for a long long time.

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