Sounds like trump is planning on nominating someone named Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court.

[Revnak]

Corbyn could be picked on for his comments about it. The artist would hold responsibility for making the mural (whatever that entails), of course.

I bet there’s a lot of other people who have commented positively on it if I’m right, and the dude I’m thinking about got plenty of state commissions for his art. Just seems weird how laser focused everything gets on Corbyn over every other... well, Brit in history. Churchill rejected Jewish refugees to the UK or Israel and let the Polish government in exile setup a “refugee camp” for Polish Jews but he’s still allowed to be celebrated.

 

[Avnger]

I bet there’s a lot of other people who have commented positively on it if I’m right, and the dude I’m thinking about got plenty of state commissions for his art. Just seems weird how laser focused everything gets on Corbyn over every other... well, Brit in history. Churchill rejected Jewish refugees to the UK or Israel and let the Polish government in exile setup a “refugee camp” for Polish Jews but he’s still allowed to be celebrated.

Where do you exist that the most brought up point about Churchill after a celebration for him or positive statement about him isn't always "and here's all the bad things he did..."?

Corbyn is focused on currently because he was the leader of one of the two major political parties in the UK for the last half decade. The fact the party he lead then went on to accomplish largely nothing during the timeframe doesn't help his case. There is no one in this thread that has stated he is pure evil or whatever either; he was a flawed human being with both upsides and downsides like the rest of us.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Where do you exist that the most brought up point about Churchill after a celebration for him or positive statement about him isn't always "and here's all the bad things he did..."?

Always? He tends to still get positive press. Hell, they uncritically made him a hero in Doctor Who, and IIRC, there wasn't a kerfuffle about that.

 

[Revnak]

Where do you exist that the most brought up point about Churchill after a celebration for him or positive statement about him isn't always "and here's all the bad things he did..."?

Reality.

Corbyn is focused on currently because he was the leader of one of the two major political parties in the UK for the last half decade. The fact the party he lead then went on to accomplish largely nothing during the timeframe doesn't help his case. There is no one in this thread that has stated he is pure evil or whatever either; he was a flawed human being with both upsides and downsides like the rest of us.

The dramatically more racist statements of Boris against Muslims as well as his defense of anti-Semitic conservative figures (like, y’know, Churchill) got dramatically less airtime of course. And the saboteurs within Corbyn’s own party certainly didn’t focus on these failings of Boris either, instead they tried to lose the election so they could take the party back from him, while also being the ones who historically took anti-Semitism less seriously than Corbyn did and covered up the anti-Semitism of their own Blairite asses.

 

[Agema]

Wasn’t that actually a pretty famous Latin American mural, or by a widely renowned artist? I feel like I remember seeing it in a Spanish class I took. Kinda odd to pick on Corbyn for it if that was the case.

No, that was a mural in London portraying bankers in a negative light, some of which looked very stereotypically Jewish.

The artist might of course protest he was merely portraying Rothschild and famous Jewish bankers of yesteryear (together with - ouch - illuminati-style imagery) but honestly in the greater scheme of things given typical antisemitic tropes, how appropriate really is that? Because I know leftists are normally busy complaining about unnecessary racism and racist imagery.

 

[Revnak]

No, that was a mural in London portraying bankers in a negative light, some of which looked very stereotypically Jewish.

The artist might of course protest he was merely portraying Rothschild and famous Jewish bankers of yesteryear (together with - ouch - illuminati-style imagery) but honestly in the greater scheme of things given typical antisemitic tropes, how appropriate really is that? Because I know leftists are normally busy complaining about unnecessary racism and racist imagery.

Ah. Guess it just looked familiar. Strongly reminded me of one I saw in Spanish class with the same sort of look with the conspiring bankers around a table.

 

[CM156]

There is no one in this thread that has stated he is pure evil or whatever either; he was a flawed human being with both upsides and downsides like the rest of us.

And one of those downsides was leading Labour to a pretty resounding defeat.
I'd make fun of Jo Swinson for the same, but she also lost her seat and that just feels like rubbing salt into the wound.

Ah. Guess it just looked familiar. Strongly reminded me of one I saw in Spanish class with the same sort of look with the conspiring bankers around a table.

I'm going to have to agree with you on this point: I've seen that painting (or something similar to it) before and I didn't notice anything particularly antisemetic about it. It just looked like the regular "Bankers control the world, man" conspiracy flair with a bit of masonic imagery thrown in.
Granted, I'm not Jewish.

 

[Iron]

No, that was a mural in London portraying bankers in a negative light, some of which looked very stereotypically Jewish.

The artist might of course protest he was merely portraying Rothschild and famous Jewish bankers of yesteryear (together with - ouch - illuminati-style imagery) but honestly in the greater scheme of things given typical antisemitic tropes, how appropriate really is that? Because I know leftists are normally busy complaining about unnecessary racism and racist imagery.

Belgium has them BTFO'd though.

Belgian city of Aalst says anti-Semitic parade 'just fun'

Aalst prompts an outcry over negative Jewish stereotypes, which an official defended as "our humour".

www.bbc.com

 

[Thaluikhain]

But an official defended it as "our humour", so that's alright then.

 

[Revnak]

Man, letting Trump push another person who worked on Bush’s election case into the Supreme Court was genius.

 

[Agema]

Belgium has them BTFO'd though.

<speechless>

 

[Revnak]

<speechless>

The lowlands, more like the no-lands.

 

[Trunkage]

Belgium has them BTFO'd though.
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Belgian city of Aalst says anti-Semitic parade 'just fun'

Aalst prompts an outcry over negative Jewish stereotypes, which an official defended as "our humour".

www.bbc.com

I mean, if we’re going to have cartoons of Mohammed, then this is probably fine

 

[Thaluikhain]

I mean, if we’re going to have cartoons of Mohammed, then this is probably fine

Well...yes...but how about neither? Neither's an option, right?

 

[Trunkage]

Well...yes...but how about neither? Neither's an option, right?

I keep getting told that we HAVE to make the cartoons. For Free Speech

 

[CM156]

I mean, if we’re going to have cartoons of Mohammed, then this is probably fine

Well...yes...but how about neither? Neither's an option, right?

Belgians can have a little. As a treat.

 

[Revnak]

Belgians can have a little. As a treat.

LITTLE A! LITTLE A!!!

 

[CM156]

LITTLE A! LITTLE A!!!

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.

 

[Seanchaidh]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.

CM156 can have little a understanding, as a treat

 

[CM156]

CM156 can have little a understanding, as a treat

I'm running on an insufficient amount of sleep right now, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on.

Only that this thread, like most others on this forum, has gone off the rails for the original topic. Only on The Escapist can you go from discussions about a Supreme Court justice to Corbyn and the Labour party in the UK having a problem with antisemitism. And I wouldn't have it any other way.