Sure, but Germans are usually fully on board with literally anything Israel does. Denazification was a pathetic failure and Germans, as a group, mostly think that the problem with the holocaust is that the victims were Jewish. If even the German public is turning against Israel they’re probably running out of time.
And I’m saying they’re not separate, because if you publish “the turner diaries” for a broad public audience (I could see an exception for very hyper specialised academic presses and orgs of that nature), you aren’t providing a welcoming environment to potential black colleagues, even if you put a disclaimer at the front. No form of bigotry is compatible with DEI for that reason. I just don’t think that we need to keep publishing racist Donald duck comics to teach about racism any more than America needs to keep statues of Columbus to teach the evils of colonialism, so the continued publication of those comics is unjustified and therefore hostile to PoC. Which is in direct conflict with DEI.
I don’t think publishing stories with a gross racist caricature is particularly compatible with DEI? Have I missed something? From Wikipedia:
"diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are organizational frameworks that seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination based on identity or disability."
Publishing stories featuring a lumbering racist caricature with rings through his nose and ears does seem like it would conflict with DEI. Even if you trimmed it down to just employment… Publishing racist caricatures probably isn’t going to make you very welcoming to members of the group being caricatured.
…am I supposed to think it’s bad that Disney are gonna stop publishing a coupla pieces of gross racist bullshit, or is it just bad that this cartoonist is gonna stop being paid for those particular pieces of gross racist bullshit?
Yikes. It’s not just “difficult to defend”, it’s indefensible. Israel was founded by the brutal expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. That alone is enough to make the foundation of the modern state of Israel an act of evil and a crime against humanity. The erasure of Palestinian history, though, is also disgusting. Palestinians are not Arabs. Just like the Romans didn’t displace the people of Britain in the classical period and the Normans didn’t displace them in the mediaeval, the arab conquest of Palestine didn’t displace the previous inhabitants. Modern Palestinians are largely descended from ancient Palestinians (and therefore Jews) who converted during/after the conquest.
Now that absolutely does not matter. The fact is that Palestinians were living in the region and had a right to their homes that was breached during the creation of Israel - whether their ancestors had been there for 200 or 2000 years doesn’t matter. They were the legitimate inhabitants and were unlawfully ejected, that’s what matters. But painting them as a separate population who somehow “replaced” the “real” inhabitants is not cool. The idea that anyone but Israel are at fault when the entire nation was founded in an enormous act of ethnic cleansing is just revolting. Even if Arabs had in fact “ejected” the original inhabitants during the conquest it still wouldn’t be acceptable to eject their inhabitants from their homeland of the last ~1400 years, but that isn’t even true and modern Palestinians literally are the descendants of ancient /classical era Jews.
Israel wasn’t “taken back”. It wasn’t “recreated”. Zionists have no connection to the land they have stolen and the modern state of Israel has absolutely no continuity with any ancient states. In fact the only people who can meaningfully claim to be the inheritors of the ancient state of Israel are the Palestinians who were ejected by <drumroll> a bunch of white people with German, other central European, and american accents in the late 1940s. Just the idea of “enforcing” a contract which literally just said “you give us all the best land in your country, and in return we get all the best land in your country” (the partition plan, which Britain had absolutely no moral right to force on anyone in the first place) is mask off, unapologetic, Hitlerian Nazi rhetoric, and it’s not more acceptable just because the beneficiaries are Jewish.
God Denazification was a pathetic failure. Just look at you talking about how Palestinians are partially responsible for the genocide and ethnic cleansing being visited upon them… Because they didn’t agree to be ethnically cleansed “peacefully”. Just truly, honestly sickening and evil.