Why they call him Attackerman

In shades of the derisive "Juice-Box Mafia" tag slapped on Jewish writers critical of Israel in the wake of the invasion of Gaza, Michael Gerson criticizes Ezra Klein for taking the dangers of antisemitism lightly:

One part of Klein’s post is particularly illuminating. He finds it amusing to belittle the threat of a hypothetical someone he calls “jewhater429, the 97th entrant in a comment thread” -- just a few months after an Internet-based Jew hater entered the Holocaust Museum with a gun and killed an African-American guard. Some people have the oddest sense of humor.

Spencer Ackerman then rips into Gerson for having the temerity to accuse a Jewish writer of being insufficiently concerned with antisemitism:

I don't know what lack of self-awareness convinces right-wing evangelicals that they're the true guardians of the Jews, but that condescending and parochial nonsense is its own form of antisemitism. We Tribesmen do not need some wire-rimmed enabler of one of the most destructive and inept presidents in American history to protect us from the perfidies of the world. It's us and not him who will pay the price for antisemitism, so if Gerson wants to actually act like a righteous gentile, he can start by not accusing Jews of apathy to their own people's wellbeing for the sin of not sharing his politics.

Um burn.  I agree with Ackerman and Klein in this issue specifically, and more generally I just wish that those bigotry trump cards were played more carefully.  I get that antisemitism and racism are intolerable, but when the left finds hidden racism behind every idiotic Obama criticism or when the right construes any criticism of Israel as antisemitism then the real specter of bigotry is weakened.  Limbaugh and Drudge engaged in real, ugly race baiting, but because of Jimmy Carter, when that legitimate example of racism is pointed out, it just seems like the left is "playing the race card" again.