Stephen Jackson Doubles Down On DeSean Jackson’s Anti-Semitic Instagram Posts, Goes Full Conspiracy Mode

PREVIOUSLY: DeSean Jackson Misquotes Hitler In Anti-Semitic Instagram Post

ESPN – Former NBA player Stephen Jackson defended DeSean Jackson on Tuesday night, saying the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver was “speaking the truth” with his social media posts, including an anti-Semitic message that he attributed to Adolf Hitler.

The Eagles called DeSean Jackson’s posts “offensive, harmful and absolutely appalling,” and the wide receiver later issued two separate statements of apology with “a promise to do better.”

“So I just read a statement that the Philadelphia Eagles posted regarding DeSean Jackson’s comments. He was trying to educate himself, educate people, and he’s speaking the truth. Right? He’s speaking the truth. You know he don’t hate nobody, but he’s speaking the truth of the facts that he knows and trying to educate others,” Stephen Jackson said in a video posted on Instagram.

“But y’all don’t want us to educate ourselves. If it’s talking about the Black race, y’all ain’t saying nothing about it. They killing us, police killing us and treating us like s—, racism at an all-time high, but ain’t none of you NFL owners spoke up on that, ain’t none of you teams spoke up on that. But the same team had a receiver [Riley Cooper] who said the word n—– publicly! They gave him an extension! I play for the Big3. We have a Jewish owner. He understands where we stand and some of the things we say, but it’s not directed to him. It’s the way we’ve been treated.”

Jackson then deleted the video above and put out this post:

Jackson then went further and cited a famous anti-Semitic urban legend about Jewish financial control vis a vis the Rothschild family:

Person he’s on w: "The point is, you did not just say to me that Jews are not trying to divide the black community."

Jackson: "You know that for a fact? … You know who the Rothschilds are? They own all the banks.”

Jackson then said, “I haven’t said one thing that’s untrue yet"

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) July 8, 2020

It’s weird times here in the United States as things degenerate into an America’s Got Talent about which group of people has been the most screwed over by history. But it’s hard to not point out Stephen Jackson and DeSean Jackson’s comments — which have been also liked by players like Kevin Durant — as being on the same spectrum of shittiness that all of the injustices Black people have faced. What Stephen Jackson missed, particularly in that Instagram post followup, is that it’s not about a hardship of Jewish people being “more devastating.” It’s that they’ve had as dramatic of a discrimination as any culture, also within the last 100 years. To minimize that while extolling the cause that personally affects you more is not the equality that people seem to strive for.

I’m not the dude to police everyone’s thoughts, only spell things out in the most even-handed way I see them. And while I have been as staunchly in favor of Black Lives Matter as I can be, it seems problematic to deny the very real struggles of another ethnic/religious group who also dealt with systemic discrimination that resulted in them quite literally dragged to places and killed. That struggle isn’t one that goes on to this day, even if some of its legacy does, but it doesn’t lessen the impact it’s had on generations of Jewish people in our country and around the globe. And to minimize that further by throwing out YouTube anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as a defense … that’s as bad as any take that’s been thrown out by the armies of angry white guys with their fingers in their ears over the last few months.

At the end of the day, Stephen Jackson may want all the smoke but now he’ll get none of the bagels and smoked lox. His loss.

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