- corbyn and that mural - an illustration of corbyn's dimwittedness, it seems Archived Message
Posted by rippon
on July 25, 2019, 10:24 am
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Corbyn endorsed the mural because it illustrated bankers gorging on wealth on the back of workers. That's a standard socialist meme. No one has a problem with that. Even capitalists don't object to that; they simply disagree (or profess to disagree) that that is how the world is ordered. The (manufactured) issue was that one of the character's had a big nose and was therefore intended to convey Jewishness. But Corbyn only looked briefly, so he only saw the anti-capitalist message. He didn't see the (alleged) anti-Jewish message because he didn't focus on the bankers' physical characteristics, see a big nose and think Jew! But his enemies (smear-mongers) did see a big nose and automatically think Jew! So Corbyn, in his 'blindness', actually proved his anti-racism, and his enemies proved their antisemitism (by reflexively making the connection, hook-nose = Jew). But it never occurred to Corbyn to defend himself, and attack his enemies, with this argument. That's why the episode seems another illustration of him dimwittedness. |