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The guy is clearly not racist though, he's one of the most provably anti racist politicians around. The labour party has problems, just as everywhere else does, but rotten seems over the top when it's the same or better than other places, all those places need sorting, and yes we're specifically talking about the labour party right here, but to remove it from all context in the wider country makes it impossible for it to be anything other than perfect or rotten, and it can't be perfect when the wider country isn't, so essentially shuts down debate.
Your point about a minority group pointing out what is racism against it is good, and you're right that it often gets drowned out and "whitesplained" away, but calling something racist doesn't automatically make it so, it makes it worth scrutinizing, and looking at properly but somethings just aren't and a lot of the claims against Corbyn personally (not the wider party) are spurious at best and end up sounding like that Doc Brown song. I had a kid who was going to beat the shit out of me at school because he wanted a cig and I reluctantly offered him one of my Marlboro's, Marlboro's history with slavery apparently making this a racist act as he was black, I'm 100% sure I wasn't being racist, even through ignorance (and most tobacco has slavery origins anyway right?) but was I if he said so?
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So what if he was discussing all 'Zionists' or just 'Zionists' in the room, it's what he said about them. What he said was dog whistle racism and it is clear that his reference to Zionists is one about Jews and how they aren't real Englishmen/women.
How many times do you lot need to have evidence before you stop giving him the benefit of the doubt?
Every time, the Jewish community stands up and says 'this is racism and not acceptable', the left and Labour Party then say. 'no its not give them the benefit of the doubt, its a political smear, you are being hyperbolic /OTT etc'. As if we can't understand what is racism towards ourselves and the good old patronising lot on the left need to tell us what is and isn't racism against us.
It's disgusting. The Labour Party is rotten