Commentary: Kanye West is not the big problem. The cartoonish West clown show distracts us from what’s going on under the big top — how the virus of antisemitism and hate and division is spreading and attacking the foundations of our culture.
Neighbors gather for a rally in 2019 after antisemitic graffiti was found on a garage in the Irving Park neighborhood.
In the last year, we’ve seen how antisemitic conspiracies from the far right about Jewish control of politics, finance and Hollywood have become mainstreamed. Dave Chapelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue was funny, but the problem with dancing on the line of antisemitic tropes is that he was doing it for an audience that no longer has a shared understanding of how dangerous they are. No doubt many thought it was funny.
, the hateful writing has been on the wall since Trump descended on the escalator in 2016. “It didn’t take foresight or even educated guesswork to perceive that Trump would activate the ugliest underbelly of American politics,” writes Rosenberg. “It just took seeing what was already in front of your face.”
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, left, and U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff confer after a Get Out the Vote rally Dec. 3, 2022 in Hephzibah, Georgia.
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