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"Globalist" became a too obvious anti-Semitic whistle so now the far-right is fear-mongering about one specific international NGO that cares about global issues like climate change and international trade.


Why would “globalist” be an anti-Semitic whistle?


The far-right has always claimed that the Jews are the puppeteers of various progressive movements they don't like. A century ago they accused the Jews of being behind and secretly controlling the Bolshevik movement. Now they accuse Jews of being behind globalism, international trade agreements, and mass immigration.


Your logic here doesn't really make sense.

I'm sure the far-right accuses Jews of those, and many other things. But that (obviously) doesn't mean we can't be critical of those things.

And if you say that criticizing those things is being an antisemite, aren't you just implicitly endorsing the far-right theories you just denounced? I mean, we should be able to criticize mass immigration, or international trade agreements, globalism, etc. regardless of who supports those ideas, but especially if jews aren't even involved then what's the harm? (Note that jews being involved still would not change the fact that we should obviously be able to agree or disagree with, and criticize any political idea, policy, theory or ideology).

For me, criticizing globalism is not that different from criticizing imperialism, since (at least IMHO) globalism, and more specifically global governance, is a form of imperialism. One of the best-known critic of globalization is Noam Chomsky, who happens to be Jewish (but, again, that is completely incidental and not really relevant to what he thinks).


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You must be in a pretty weird spot to be able to put the NSDAP in the left end of the spectrum.


Here's a decent discussion of it, from when Trump used the term and it got a lot of attention: https://web.archive.org/web/20220305070743/https://www.washi...


The left likes to vilify the practices of the IMF, BlackRock and GoldmanSachs. Is that also a "too obvious anti-Semitic [dog]whistle"? Or does that only apply to those evil people on the right?


There's stuff on the left end that ends up in Antisemitism. Usually when the nuance goes missing, and it becomes "a cabal of organizations (whose make up may differ at times) controls what's going on in the world."

"I dislike the IMF for its simplistic monetary policy that they enforce with their loans and which often leaves countries worse off than they were before" is very different from "The IMF controls all money flows to try to enslave us all."




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