“Antisemitism offers something to people who are in search of an explanation of the world...We’ve got to understand how racism meets people where they are at. Antisemitism offers seemingly straightforward solutions to those in search of them.”

@b_mcgeever on @survivesocpod

this is what I think is lost in progressive anti-racist strategies that rely on public and spectacular call-outs, indictments, and accusations—they are condemned to only a superficial understanding of antisemitism. As Richard Wright wrote to Mike Gold in 1940, “The old...

...fascist butcher has some good points, but he is twisting them to his own bloody ends...Not to plunge into the complex jungle of human relationships and analyze them is to leave the field to the fascists and I won’t and can’t do that.”