Lol, I’m sorry for not being able to reconstruct the sources of Aceris’ outburst. I did my best to understand why he was was so upset when he did not give any sources or other information. I’ll try to do better on my forensic bibliography next time. /s
Oh wow, a lot to unpack here.
Item #1 is that if you read the report from the EHRC, it is using the word “race” exclusively in the British context, e.g. you guys consider the Jewish religion to be a race. Which is just like, wow. I always forget you guys do that. So you are right, I was misunderstanding the complaint that you and Aceris were making, and did not understand that every time you say “racist” you mean “anti-Semitic”, and every time people say “racist and anti-Semitic” they mean “anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic”. So this whole thing has been an attempt to gentile-splain to Sanders who he should and should not be meeting with. Lol. Sanders is pretty smart! Maybe leave it up to him to decide whether he thinks Corbyn is an anti-Semite and is worth having a cup of tea with.
Item #2
Is that yes, when I was talking about Corbyn’s political opponents, the corporate faction of the Labour Party was primarily what I was talking about. They’ve been involved in a vicious internecine war with the left wing of their party, which I thought was common knowledge & wouldn’t be so confusing to people.
Anyway one of the salvos in that war is detailed here:
Some of the quotes from the right wing:
"One exchange shows a senior official described another from the left of the party as “pube head”. In another, months later, they called her a “smelly cow” and comment that she “had the exact same clothes on yesterday”.
Party staff around the unit were also documented regularly describing people, including colleagues they regarded as not sufficiently opposed to the leadership, as “trots” – short for Trotskyites, or disciples of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Chat logs show that some colleagues who denounced “trots” themselves were in turn themselves privately regarded as “trots” by other staffers for being seen as insufficiently critical.
During the 2015 and 2016 leadership contests a large number of staffers at Labour HQ appear to have worked to exclude those they regarded as “trots” from voting in the election – believing that they would vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
The report says staffers trawled social media to find reasons to exclude voters from the contest, work which was referred to on numerous occasions by staff as variations of “trot busting”, “bashing trots” and “trot spotting”. One staffer described themselves as being “trot smasher in chief”, while another said during the 2015 leadership election that the “priority right now is trot hunting”. In 2015 two officials discussed the fact that they were “playing trot or not” while “the real work is piling up”. A senior official described this work as “saving the Labour party”.
The report claims that “The party’s resources – paid for by party members – were often utilised to further the interests of one faction and in some cases were used to undermine the party’s objectives.” Ahead of the 2017 election officials spoke of channelling resources to candidates critical of the leadership, with one telling colleagues “we need to try and throw cash” at the seat of then-deputy leader Tom Watson, a persistent Corbyn critic. It is claimed that officials operated a “secret key seats team” based in Labour’s London region office in Ergon House, “from where a parallel general election campaign was run to support MPs associated with the right wing of the party”.
An election night chat log shows that 45 minutes after the exit poll revealed that Labour had overturned the Conservative majority, one senior official said the result was the “opposite to what I had been working towards for the last couple of years”, describing themselves and their allies as “silent and grey-faced” and in need of counselling.
Another said: “We have to be upbeat and not show it,” while a third told the group that “everyone needs to smile”, describing the result as “awful”. Another very senior party official said it was going to be “a long night”.
So yes, these people who were perfectly happy to sabotage their own party did an investigation, and shock they discovered that all the people in their party with left wing leanings were in fact anti-Semites and needed to be kicked out immediately.
Anyway, I do not think think that Corbyn is an anti-Semite and should be an untouchable. You seem to strongly disagree, so hey, good luck with that, maybe send Sanders a postcard with an international stamp & convince him otherwise.
