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antisemitism, breakdown, for shame, forreal tho, hate crimes, Nazis, sources, Trump
I love how people are all like “OMG this is political correctness gone wild, just enough already.”
Yes, us silly Jews, all worked up about centuries old antisemitic canards revived in an American election in the goddamn 21st C. How ridiculous we are.
Anyone who claims this isn’t antisemitic or isn’t a Star of David shows a profound lack of understanding of how prevalent antisemitism is throughout every level of politics. Antisemitism frequently manifests itself as covert suggestions of Jewish involvement which are purposefully easy to deny and Jews who take offence are portrayed as paranoid and over-sensitive. Those who succeed in having antisemitic media withdrawn are seen as proof that Jews wield too much power.
TW: I am going to speak about some of the current and relatively recent historical facts. I will put a 2nd warning for the portion I need my fellow gentiles to be very, very clear on, so if you get triggered by those things(what the Nazis actually DID,) you can skip them when you see a set of asterisks.
62% of the accounts Trump has retweeted come from white supremacist/nationalist/neo-nazi accounts.
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/01/donald-trump-mostly-retweets-white-supremacists.htmlIt would be one thing if it were the accounts that retweet him were that high. (iirc, that is also over 50%.) But these are the accounts HE is boosting. That image was snagged from a neo-nazi board. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-star-david-tweet-neo-nazi-message-board-article-1.2697757
Can we all agree that if it walks like a nazi and talks like a nazi, it’s a nazi? This being polite and respectful and “tolerant of other people’s political views,” crap when he’s got sworn delegates who are neo-nazis and white supremacists, just looks like nobody cares that he’s trotting out fascist xenophobia on a daily basis.
People are being attacked and threatened both online and afk, with antisemitism ON A DAILY BASIS. Jewish reporters who write about the Trumps are being targeted for specifically anti-Semitic attacks: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/27/3782503/donald-trump-anti-semitism-tweets/ and http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/06/16/anti-semitic-trump-supporters/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/03/anti-semitic-trump-supporters-made-a-giant-list-of-people-to-target-with-a-racist-meme/ and those are only a few examples.
Anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked measurably, because of Trump, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/09/donald_trump_and_the_rise_of_anti_muslim_hate_crimes.html
The Southern Poverty Law Center has this https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/05/11/donald-trump’s-continuing-white-nationalist-problem
and this https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/04/13/splc-survey-presidential-campaign-leading-widespread-fear-bullying-schools so, perhaps we could all stop trying to pretend that this isn’t real and that it won’t have long term impact whether he wins or not.
Perhaps we could all stop telling people who are saying that they’re terrified that they’re overreacting.
Perhaps we could all go learn some history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_powerPerhaps we could all look at what’s happening in Europe: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/people-scared-to-leave-the-house-after-rise-in-hate-crime-post-b/ (when even the ToryGraph is reporting the rise in hate crimes, you know it’s bad.)
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/11/muslims-face-worsening-environment-hate-uk-151118054323264.html
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/world/europe/london-france-jews-terrorism-anti-semitism.html
***************We are at a point in history, where we know how this goes: slurs, then individual acts of violence, then a government based in overt ethno-racial hostility progressively limits the rights of the Other, and we don’t want to think about labor camps and registration, we don’t want to think about Lebensraum and Zyklon B. We don’t want to think about starvation and medical experiments. We don’t WANT to think our friends and neighbors who support Trump could go along with THAT.
I am certain that Germans in 1932, had no idea that their apathy or failure to recognize a genocidal tyrant would lead to 10million dead in the Holocaust. We don’t get to say that. We know. We don’t get to be apathetic, we don’t get to be polite about our relationships with people who support a fascist. We don’t get to pretend that this will all work out. We don’t get to be innocent here. We know that this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp and this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims happened.We don’t get to act like it can’t happen here. No matter where we are, it can. When two of the most prominent Western countries are seeing a rise in neofascism, we don’t get to pretend this is, “Just politics,” not anymore.
Oh and btw: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/14/sure-call-trump-a-nazi-just-make-sure-you-know-what-youre-talking-about/ this is what Godwin had to say about the comparison.
In a few weeks, the campaign will begin in earnest. Everything we’ve seen until now, will look mild by comparison.
Think about that. Take this seriously.
Also: Corey Lewandowski said exactly what OP asserted the popular response would be. Yanno, the guy who is legally bound not to say anything bad about Trump by an NDA. The one CNN hired as a political expert. Never mind that great big honking conflict of interest, eh, CNN?
Reblogging this excellent addition.
“I am certain that Germans in 1932, had no idea that their apathy or failure to recognize a genocidal tyrant would lead to 10million dead in the Holocaust. We don’t get to say that. We know.”
Trump deletes tweet showing Clinton’s face next to a Jewish star and money