GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldM to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoThey always hate what they don't understand.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1706arrow-down113
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minus-squaregitamar@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·edit-213 days ago~~While I like the metaphor itself, the part with the “economic elite” might be a very antisemitic trope: https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/cosmopolitan-elite~~ I mixed it up with globalist elite, thanks for pointing it out.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 days agoNo, it’s used in academia too. Our rich elite 1% oligarch capitalists are mostly not Jewish, and the working class shouldn’t be expected to use a deliberately cumbersome new name for them.
~~While I like the metaphor itself, the part with the “economic elite” might be a very antisemitic trope: https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/cosmopolitan-elite~~
I mixed it up with globalist elite, thanks for pointing it out.
No, it’s used in academia too. Our rich elite 1% oligarch capitalists are mostly not Jewish, and the working class shouldn’t be expected to use a deliberately cumbersome new name for them.