I really don't think they do. Like, I'm sure the Elites among them do because they have their fingers in all of this shit and know what will happen. But the rank and file likely are just as ignorant as the rank and file in any other group, and think its some external evil making people hate them.
There is a large component of the Fundamental Attribution Error rampant in Leftist thinking. Most of them cannot seem to get past the "all my misbehaving or bad actions had justified reasons" to understand that other people are assigning it to them as a person instead of buying the external excuses. They have a poor frame of reality that cannot disassociate itself from their first person point of view, and thereby don't see how bad their actions look without those constantly running justifications.
someone else says something completely innocuous, and gets accused of antisemitism
I remember spending a few days arguing with Bane back on good ol' KIA1 that the word "Jap" is almost entirely used innocently as an abbreviation by people who have no idea it was ever a slur, and only people constantly keeping that conversation going even keeps that power alive. Because unlike something like kike or nigger, words that have zero other meaning that you won't use without learning them, Jap is something most people probably organically use.
He of course disagreed and said it was always done with malice as a slur, or something along that line. Which is how it seems a lot of people treat all criticism of a group.
I really don't think they do. Like, I'm sure the Elites among them do because they have their fingers in all of this shit and know what will happen. But the rank and file likely are just as ignorant as the rank and file in any other group, and think its some external evil making people hate them.
There is a large component of the Fundamental Attribution Error rampant in Leftist thinking. Most of them cannot seem to get past the "all my misbehaving or bad actions had justified reasons" to understand that other people are assigning it to them as a person instead of buying the external excuses. They have a poor frame of reality that cannot disassociate itself from their first person point of view, and thereby don't see how bad their actions look without those constantly running justifications.
I remember spending a few days arguing with Bane back on good ol' KIA1 that the word "Jap" is almost entirely used innocently as an abbreviation by people who have no idea it was ever a slur, and only people constantly keeping that conversation going even keeps that power alive. Because unlike something like kike or nigger, words that have zero other meaning that you won't use without learning them, Jap is something most people probably organically use.
He of course disagreed and said it was always done with malice as a slur, or something along that line. Which is how it seems a lot of people treat all criticism of a group.