Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The Hollywood Reporter columnist calls out the hateful outbursts against Jews by Ice Cube, DeSean Jackson and others and explains how the muted response "perpetuates racism" and contributes to an overall "Apatholypse."
Recent incidents of anti-Semitic tweets and posts from sports and entertainment celebrities are a very troubling omen for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement, but so too is the shocking lack of massive indignation. Given the New Woke-fulness in Hollywood and the sports world, we expected more passionate public outrage. What we got was a shrug of meh-rage.

When reading the dark squishy entrails of popular culture, meh-rage in the face of sustained prejudice is an indisputable sign of the coming Apatholypse: apathy to all forms of social justice. After all, if it’s OK to discriminate against one group of people by hauling out cultural stereotypes without much pushback, it must be OK to do the same to others. Illogic begets illogic.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-is-outrage-anti-semitism-sports-hollywood-1303210

Three points-

1) Either you take a stand against bigotry or you don't.
2) I am disappointed in Cube because I like his art a lot.
3) Kareem is a great writer and true universalist.

[frazzled]

1. Good on Kareem

Bias, stereotyping, and racism exists in all sectors of society, sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through hate. Any time you paint a racial, ethnic, or religious group with a broad brush, you'd better step back and check yourself. Not everybody in a particular group (Blacks, whites, gays, straights, Jews, Christians, etc. etc.) is good or bad, this or that.

Each person should be judged by the content of their character, and no other defining factor.

[malaise]

2. Kareem has long been one of the most decent human beings

on our planet. Well said my brother

[Skraxx]

9. Indeed, A Real Mensch

[BGBD]

3. Cube has been antisemitic for a long time.

Remember the lyrics from "No Vasoline" was back in the early '90s?

Used to be my homie, now you act like you don't know me
It's a case of divide-and-conquer
'Cause you let a Jew break up my crew
House nigga gotta run and hide
Yellin' Compton, but you moved to Riverside

also in the same song some other great quotes....

Half-pint bitch, fuckin' your homeboys
You little maggot, Eazy-E turned faggot
With your manager, fella
Fuckin' MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella
But if they were smart as me
Eazy-E would be hangin' from a tree

[Behind the Aegis]

10. He accused Abdul-Jabbar of "getting his 30 pieces of silver".

Yet, MORE antisemitism!

[cwydro]

4. Nick Cannon too.

This is often just ignored.

[grantcart]

5. Didn't he just get fired over anti Semetic remarks?

[cwydro]

6. I don't know, but I did read that he had apologized for them.

But DU always tells me only white people can be bigots.

[grantcart]

7. Fired by Viacom forgiven by Fox

He is accusing Viacom of being racist because they treated him the same way they would have treated a white anti Semite.

[cwydro]

8. Ah.

Well, there ya go.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. To his eternal credit the career leader in points scored in the NBA and towering intellect nailed it

After all, if it’s OK to discriminate against one group of people by hauling out cultural stereotypes without much pushback, it must be OK to do the same to others. Illogic begets illogic

.

[grantcart]

12. A giant who is very tall.

[JI7]

13. Great to see this and not surprised from Kareen Abdul-Jabbar . While he is known as a sports figure

to many, I always liked to read and listen to his thoughts on things.

[First Speaker]

14. He's a cool guy...he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, about Mycroft...

...that's really a lot of fun...