VAuroch comments on Stranger Than History - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 29 March 2014 07:07:06PM 0 points [-]

No, it still counts. If both groups support it, it still isn't specific to progressive political views.

Comment author: VAuroch 29 March 2014 11:47:50PM *  3 points [-]

The Overton Window is far more progressive than it was a century ago and that makes anti-Semitism socially unacceptable.

Also, that we no longer treat Jews as the Evil Outsiders and have replaced them with Muslims, does not speak well for the rationality of our society. A century ago we were, as a society, racist against Italians. Now we aren't; instead we're racist against Latinos, for substantially the same reasons. Neither of those looks like an improvement from where I'm standing.