This is a genuinely despicable tweet, belittling the seriousness of the industrialised mass murder of six million Jews. Anyone who speaks like this has no place in the left whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/g0Sfcxuamp— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) August 21, 2020
I haven't entirely but this shit's exhausting and while his ability to signal boost socialist ideas is good it comes at the cost of him also boosting stuff like this which makes everything harder.
When I checked Twitter this morning Owen Jones was the top trending subject. Kerrie-Ann Mendoza didn't even make the top twenty. The vast majority never would have even seen it & decided they have to make it into a political stand, further toxifying the conversations around actual antisemitism, if he hadn't been so eager throw another leftist under the bus and run in the opposite direction towards his reactionary media peers.
I haven't entirely but this shit's exhausting and while his ability to signal boost socialist ideas is good it comes at the cost of him also boosting stuff like this which makes everything harder.
When I checked Twitter this morning Owen Jones was the top trending subject. Kerrie-Ann Mendoza didn't even make the top twenty. The vast majority never would have even seen it & decided they have to make it into a political stand, further toxifying the conversations around actual antisemitism, if he hadn't been so eager throw another leftist under the bus and run in the opposite direction towards his reactionary media peers.