And separately, Taylor is likely not even referencing Israel, simply using that as a jumping-off point to accurately call out the extreme censorship right-wingers want to do but many young leftists & liberals cheer bc some vague “save the children” shit?
She fucking well retweeted a 4chan post saying it's Israel (and the version she retweeted had a word blacked out - in the original, a vicious antisemitic slur word that in modern times is used exclusively by Nazis). So, it's "likely" she was referencing Israel, she quite explicitly was doing that.
Actually, using antisemitic slurs is not referencing Israel. It’s referencing Jews. I’m Jewish and am an antizionist, do you think the people using that slur make that distinction when they’re lining us up for slaughter?
The image she retweeted actually didn’t mention Israel at all. It was talking about Jews.
Scroll up about four posts and look at the image again. It mentions Israel. (the censored slur word was aimed at Jews)
The post from 4chan doesn’t. The only person mentioning Israel is the person Lorenz is quoting who originally posted the screenshot. That person interpreting the use of that slur to be interchangeable with “Israelis” is antisemitic.
The entire point here is that Lorenz is happily spreading Nazi-originated conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel, obviously nonsense when applied to either and applied to both interchangeably. I don't know why anyone would try to argue that maybe she only likes some of the vile intermingled lies.
I’m only pushing back on the idea that a slur referring to all Jews and Israel are interchangeable. And the assumption that some make that if someone is using the slur, they must actually be talking about Israel.
The chan post is talking about all Jews, the OP read that as Israel, and Lorenz amplified a post that used a slur to demean all Jews because it was presented as antizionist. I think that’s bad