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“rump”? Is this a cooking thread?
I read about three paragraphs and seceded this was another “Trump is evil and his supporters are worse” column .
I have seen at least fortyleven of these and ninetyleben TV “News” shows devotes to this.
HoHum.
Only in their own minds. 'Anti semite' these days has the same effect as 'racist' or 'chauvinist.' You feel embarrassed for those desperate enough to believe such misapplied cliches have meaning.
bfl
Those who are pretty fanatic about maintaining Israel as an ally and fighting against Israel’s enemies are determined to b,e by the fact of their support, anti-Semites?
Yawn.
Much of the alt right community online is full of
LARPers...who more than anything strive to troll and offend.
There are a few well-known twitter personalities who write very irreverent and seemingly anti-semetic posts, who one of my children knows... and are irl... jewish.
Their targets are often jews... but jewish people on the left, feminists,globalists or the never Trumpers, like Ben Shapiro.
I realize on the surface it may seem very offensive to some, but these kids work in groups in private messaging streams to come up with new memes that they think are funny. And not everyone involved, including my own child is producing this stuff...there are a lot of lurkers.
I have observed that some of the targeted personalities, like Ben Shapiro... actively engage with them, as it’s giving them more news traffic. The relationship is therefore symbiotic.
Yes, there are also some actual neo-nazi’s who pump this stuff out as well, but they tend to focus on race issues, and are not involved in the meme streams.
The conclusion is, to put it simply, ridiculous. Is Kirchik unaware of anti-Semitism among America's largest minority groups, especially African-Americans and Hispanics (particularly new immigrants from Latin America), as well as among Muslims? The Anti-Defamation League conducts regular surveys of Americans by group and of populations in foreign countries to identify how many people hold anti-Semitic views. If one responds to certain questions with certain responses -- Jews are too powerful, Jews control Wall Street, Jews control the media, Jews always think accumulation of money is paramount, Jews are untrustworthy -- then this fits a classic anti-Semitic profile. The United States has one of the lowest anti-Semitic scores in the world, 9%. But it is more than double that among African-Americans and Hispanics and many times as high among Muslims. If only the white population is considered, the anti-Semitism rate in America is about 4%.
Does Kirchik really believe that the anti-Semites identified in the ADL survey, who number in the tens of millions if the survey results are extrapolated to the general population, are all Trump supporters? One wonders how this line made it through his Commentary editors. Is Kirchik unfamiliar with the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, or the incendiary anti-Semitism often found on black talk radio?
Richard Baehr, the author of the posted article, is right on target here, as far as he goes.
But, as a matter of classification of political ideologies, I'm not sure if I would call Trump a "right-wing" candidate, nor would I necessarily classify the antisemitic Trump supporters as "right-wing."
It surely works to the left's advantage to call them "right-wing," as it scares off potential Trump voters by painting Trump's candidacy as a "fascist" movement.
IMHO, the Trump candidacy is neither "right-wing" nor "left-wing," but rather a populist amalgam of proposals from both.
Also, most leftists are BDS-holes, they discovered it’s “fashionable” to boycott Israeli goods or those that do business with Israel. I’ve known all along anti-Semitism if anything is MORE rampant among the left, until recently just more subtle.
I despise Trump, but a great deal of this article is nonsense. Bernie Sanders is the candidate who has BDS supporters on his core staff, not Trump.