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Ah. Makes sense. Thank you.

Guess crawling under a rock these last couple years has made me ignorant to such symbols.

So the only person the AI does not depict as a man is the one prompted as queer and they immediately end up looking like the standard rightwing carricature of a nonbinary person. And the only nonwhite looking person is the one prompted as Asian, even “radical islam” looks like the exact same guy as “conspiracy theorist” except for the fucked up AI finger. But the real pervasive bigottry that’s baked into AI models is not patriarchal bias or the erasure of nonwhite people from our very field of vision, but that one of the dudes there has a big nose. The horror.

You know that this is literally the level of “antisemitism” that Macklemore supposedly “has a history of”, right? I get that people ITT are being facetious about it given how much zionists are reaching when it comes to portraying any criticism of the genocide in Palestine as antisemitic, and i think it’s fine to make light of that bs, whatever, but seriously being alarmist about big AI noses on a person that is not even supposed to be the only jew in the picture is fully feeding into hasbara narratives. They need to pretend that antisemitism is, as you believe, pervasive in the west. It really isn’t.

Let’s test this. I bet you can’t name one example of contemporary systemic or procedural opression of jewish people in any western country. Not one. We’ve had neo-fascist governments in Austria and in Italy and in Denmark and in the USA and in Hungary and in Poland and the Netherlands and in Brazil and in fact almost every single LatAm country, we’ve had such parties massively influence policy in Germany and France and Spain and Canada and so on and so forth. Yet every single one of these fascist parties is firmly, most adamantly, zionist and hasn’t passed a single antisemitic law. Why is that? They trample on human rights all the time, they are openly racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic and ableist in their policies nonstop, yet none of them are materially antisemitic. They mass deport, they install outright murderous border regimes, they overpolice racialized communities, they ban abortion and trans healthcare, in some places they make even talking about gay people illegal, they talk about closing down mosques and abolishing minaretts. They are, unfortunately, really at it. Yet everywhere you look, antisemitism exists as a mere historic artifact in nazi subcultures, not as an actual policy in institutional neo-fascism.

Why is that? Because in contemporary capitalist states, there is no material reason for antisemitism to be more than that. There is material reason for the opposite. This isn’t the 1920s, capitalism doesn’t need jews as a marginalized group. It needs them as a subset of white people that can do settler colonialism. Because that colony is a firmly western-aligned, militarily aggresive and expansionist nuclear power that has extensive ties with the MICs and the police and intelligence communities of nations all over the imperial core, because it serves as a free range laboratory for drone warfare and AI warfare and mass surveilance and crowd control and population corraling and large-scale imprisonment and displacement and extermination. And people can sign up to participate based on their religious affiliation, they can buy stolen land in the colonies in NYC and move there and become little boers themselves.

I’m sorry, but the way you treat antisemitism as a constant threat in spite of the obviously white-privileged nature of contemporary jews in the imperial core is idealist. We’ve spent so much time believing that the REAL nazis will be the ones that still do holocaust denial and post the scheming merchant carricature. We’ve always viewed that as the litmus test were the ideologically committed hitler particle super-emitters are. But in the last twenty years, that was never what happened. The fascists that actually took power and that actually made policy and that shifted the entirity of our political spectrum rightward to a degree that makes me fear for my safety and that of my loved ones every single day, you know, in the way that zionists claim they feel when they see a FREE PARKING sign somewhere and imagine what it would be like if that said FREE PALESTINE, except that my fear has a real material basis of not being allowed to exist as ourselves anymore, these fucking nazis that want to destroy everything that means something to me are all raging Israel stans. And meanwhile, liberals side with the nazis in taking away my rights while solemnly preaching their NEVER AGAINs and i am supposed to participate in this charade that declares jews the most opressed group that is most deserving of protection and that deserves more recognition of its historic marginalization than any other while my very humanity is being denied. And they say “we need to secure Israel’s right to exist” and “Israel has a right to defend itself” and “we must protect jewish life everywhere” and none of them say we need to protect trans lifes or that black people have a right to protect themselves or that Palestine has a right to exist. And i’m fucking sick and tired of that. I wish i was just twice as opressed as jews are nowadays. Oh how easy my life would be then!

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I don’t think so… but can’t say I am particularly well versed in their oeuvre.