Do you know what anti-semitic tropes are and why they're bad? As if they're not something which exist. I can link you to the other threads if you want to see what that was about, rather than rehashing it here. Nobody is disagreeing that she was incorrect.
Except I was completely ignoring what they had to say on this, my concern was for the Jewish Democrats. Why would I care what the GOP have to say about anything?
If it was just me this would be a nothing burger and we wouldn't be on the third thread discussing this.
You've built up a straw man to fight against. Nobody here, including me, cares what about false bad faith anti-semitism charges of Omar by the GOP and Israel. It's false choice between choosing their side, or not acknowledging the racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia Omar goes through when you're ignoring the third party in this discussion - the Democratic party and their minority members who are not acting on their bad faith arguments and coming at a good faith angle on racist language. I don't know what your argument is with the hypothetic future anti-semitism, all the instances I've argued with her have been in the present and the past. There was nothing "hypothetic" about it.
It's not bullshit to care about anti-semitism, and you're ignoring that I'm not calling her that in the first place - it's about appearing like an anti-semite. However, this does raise questions - what's the line here? I'm all for supporting your allies but if she had said something homophobic or transphobic would you still be defending her? What gets me about this is that you've become the mirror image of the people you oppose, that you're missing the nuance involved to score political points rather than be flexible in attacking your enemies without sacrificing political careers pointlessly. Rashida Tlaib is able to do this, why can't Omar?
Are you angry about AOC's response to all this? Because she's doing exactly what I've been trying to tell you or do you think she's unsalvageable because she's trying to use language which brings people together, without falling into landmines which offend Jewish Democrats in the process.
I wasn't arguing that she was, either.
Except I'm not defending what the white dudes in the GOP are doing. I could give a fuck about Lindsay Graham, McCarthy or anyone else in the GOP have to say on this subject, they're all operating in bad faith. I'm speaking strictly of the Democratic party
You don't accept that racist language exists? The reason why Omar is getting raked over the coals is how she used that term from that song, not because that song itself is anti-Semite. Context and phrasing. Saying certain things in certain ways will get you in hot water on numerous sensitive topics: from homophobia, to misogny to racism. Anti-Semitism is included, naturally. No, it's not that Omar said it - it's how she framed it which was a context that could be view as anti-semite. She didn't simply post it out of nowhere because she liked a Jay Z song on twitter. Nobody would give a shit about that context.
Sure.
Then you need to stop thinking like we're all enemies because we simply disagree with you about antisemitic language, while we agree with many, many things on Palestine and Israel. Of course people are less likely to engage in threads like that, despite agreeing with you, when regardless of what they say or how they say it you'll view them as the enemy. What is to be gained by encounters like that? Look how this thread has gone.
"I'm totally an ally and I don't think she is an anti-Semite or said anything anti-Semitic but I'm going to write a dozen mini-essays in every Ilhan Omar thread deliberately misinterpreting her words"
You still haven't said exactly what wording she should use to not be called anti-semitic. (Because there isn't any. She'd be called an anti-semite even if she kept her mouth shut). You seem to think that just because someone is a Democrat then the dogpiling on Ilhan Omar is in good faith, which is nonsense.
The only reason there is a real conversation about Ilhan Omar "appearing" like an anti-Semite is because fake ass allies keep twisting what she is saying to make her appear anti-Semitic.
But you know what, keep on telling us how progressive you are while you join everybody dogpiling onto her for being a black, Muslim, immigrant woman.