r/moderatepolitics • u/awaythrowawaying • 2d ago

News Article US Justice Department sues UCLA alleging antisemitic educational environment

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-alleging-antisemitic-educational-environment-2026-05-26/
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u/Mantergeistmann 2d ago

Wasn't this already posted half a week ago? Or is this something new?

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u/notapersonaltrainer 2d ago edited 2d ago

Perhaps you're thinking of these?

It's weird how we were constantly browbeaten about imperceptible microaggressions, implicit bias, or simply not having enough melanin for years.

But after televised jewish exclusions zones, "context dependent jewish genocide", politicians casually proposing sterilization concentration camps, jewish governor mansion arsons and street assassinations, and surging antisemitism that ramped before 2023, people are suddenly coming down with selective racism fatigue.

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u/soboshka 2d ago

Why is it they always claims they're just opposed to the Israeli government and then take out their frustrations on regular Jewish people?

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u/notapersonaltrainer 2d ago edited 1d ago

It's called a post-hoc rationalization. Notice the antisemitism surge started before 2023.

Antisemitism surged with the white adjacent guilt mania, alongside anti-asian violence and government condoned institutional racism against performant minorities. Israel responding to the biggest pogrom since the Holocaust was a bolt-on justification for what was already in motion.

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u/lostroadrunner22 2d ago

Honestly. The left really needs to have a conversation about their antisemitism

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u/Beautiful_Finger4566 1d ago

they're nominating a guy who had a literal SS tattoo to the Senate, so I wouldn't hold my breath

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u/bashar_al_assad 1d ago

Well Galindo lost her primary so it seems like they did.

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u/justafutz 1d ago

She also got 40% of the vote, so it doesn't seem like it. And others who are still in the same camp with only slightly-less-blatant comments won their primaries, like Chris Rabb, who suggested the massacre of Jews in Australia on Bondi Beach was a false flag by "Zionists", while Graham Platner is the nominee for Democrats in Maine's Senate election despite his history of racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic comments.

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u/CloudApprehensive322 2d ago

Pretending as if the right doesn't have its own massive issues with antisemitism is laughable.

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u/IllustriousHorsey 1d ago

Please highlight for me where anyone above claimed or pretended anything of that sort. If you can’t, then why are you bringing up non sequiturs? Though I’m 100% sure you’re discussing in good faith, it should be noted that other bad actors often use non sequiturs as a way of derailing conversations that paint themselves and their allies in a bad light.

But I’m sure that isn’t what’s going on here because this a place for good faith discussion. So would you please point out where in this conversation people were pretending the right doesn’t also have virulent antisemites on its side?

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u/TheTeenageOldman 1d ago

Which no one is doing. It's sad to see people on the left decide there's an issue where they don't have to police themselves because "the right is equally as bad if not worse." It really takes the slogan "Speaking truth to power" and throws it right in the trash.

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u/Interesting_Total_98 2d ago

Frivolous prosecutions from the DOJ have spiked as well, so I could see this case going either way.

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 1d ago

It's weird how we were constantly browbeaten about imperceptible microaggressions, implicit bias, or simply not having enough melanin for years.

It's weird how the people who spent the last ten+ years complaining about being browbeaten over microagressions and claims of "harm" being used to silence campus speech have adopted much of that same rhetoric to silence speech they don't like about Israel. Ben "facts don't care about your feelings" Shapiro had campus speaking events canceled because protesters said even allowing him to speak would constitute "harm," and now wants to suppress campus activism under the same logic.

I find it exhausting on both sides.

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u/bettercaust 23h ago

It's weird how we were constantly browbeaten about imperceptible microaggressions, implicit bias, or simply not having enough melanin for years.

I'm not contesting the strain of antisemitism evident, but citing a single cringe tweet from 2020 doesn't really substantiate your complaint.

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