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Bob78164 wrote:At least eight are dead in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The shooter apparently rushed in and began firing indiscriminately, yelling, "All Jews must die!"

Any bets on how long Donny waits before resuming his race-baiting? --Bob

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:At least eight are dead in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The shooter apparently rushed in and began firing indiscriminately, yelling, "All Jews must die!"

Any bets on how long Donny waits before resuming his race-baiting? --Bob

I was going to bet on how long a Bob, any Bob, would wait until bringing politics into this. But I was too late. Shame on you.

jarnon wrote:I’m appalled by this murder and don’t want to politicize it. But (returning to yesterday’s headline) Trump shouldn’t condemn Soros as a globalist (right-wing insult of liberal Jews) just days after Soros gets a pile bomb.

Bob78164 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:At least eight are dead in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The shooter apparently rushed in and began firing indiscriminately, yelling, "All Jews must die!"

Any bets on how long Donny waits before resuming his race-baiting? --Bob

I was going to bet on how long a Bob, any Bob, would wait until bringing politics into this. But I was too late. Shame on you.

I don't think it's a coincidence that these incidents have been on the rise. And I think the guy who called neo-Nazi sympathizers "very fine people" bears some of the responsibility for a mass shooting that targeted Jews. Maybe not as much as the elected legislators who refuse to enact anything remotely approaching sensible gun legislation, and certainly not as much as the guy who pulled the trigger, but enough to deserve being called out for the consequences of his rhetoric. --Bob

ghostjmf wrote:BiT: You have evidence of Bob shooting people? Gee.

jarnon wrote:I’m appalled by this murder and don’t want to politicize it. But (returning to yesterday’s headline) Trump shouldn’t condemn Soros as a globalist (right-wing insult of liberal Jews) just days after Soros gets a pile bomb.

Beebs52 wrote:Why is globalist automatically "liberal Jews"? Most people don't know nor care whether Soros is Jewish. Very odd statement.

jarnon wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:Why is globalist automatically "liberal Jews"? Most people don't know nor care whether Soros is Jewish. Very odd statement.

This article explains why labels like “globalist” are troublesome.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... mb-attacks

Like you, most American politicians are probably unaware of the connotation. (That’s not the case in his native Hungary.). I hope they become educated and use more appropriate insults.

jarnon wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:Why is globalist automatically "liberal Jews"? Most people don't know nor care whether Soros is Jewish. Very odd statement.

This article explains why labels like “globalist” are troublesome.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... mb-attacks

Like you, most American politicians are probably unaware of the connotation. (That’s not the case in his native Hungary.). I hope they become educated and use more appropriate insults.

jarnon wrote:I’m appalled by this murder and don’t want to politicize it. But (returning to yesterday’s headline) Trump shouldn’t condemn Soros as a globalist (right-wing insult of liberal Jews) just days after Soros gets a pile bomb.

Bob78164 wrote:Donny may not be a racist, but the racists sure think he is. --Bob

BackInTex wrote: That’s BS. People don’t dislike Soros because he’s Jewish, it’s in spite of it. He is dangerous to our country.

The far right has ecstatically embraced the spectacle of elected political figures such as Trump and [Congressman Matt] Gaetz theorizing about Soros. After Trump’s Soros tweet about Kavanaugh, the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer echoed and surpassed Trump’s assertion that anti-Kavanaugh dissent was a nefarious, paid-for plot. “It is impossible to deny that subversive anti-American Jews were the primary force involved in a sinister plot to destroy Kavanaugh,” Lee Rogers wrote on the site a couple of days later. “These Jews do not represent the interest of America. They represent the interest of their diabolical and evil race first and foremost.”

In response to an Oct. 19 Trump speech in Missoula, Mont., in which Trump again suggested that protesters were paid by “Soros or somebody,” a commenter on anonymous message board 4chan exulted, “TRUMP NAMED THE IMMIGRATION JEW.” (“Naming the Jew” is an anti-Semitic term that refers to pointing out purported nefarious Jewish influence on world events.)

The conspiracy theories around Soros, then, aren’t just expressions of bitter partisanship — and fact-checking-focused debunking that’s tempered coverage of the claims that he was involved in the caravan has skipped past an important subtext. Soros’s Jewish heritage is well known — his experiences in the Holocaust formed his identity as a philanthropist, in a decades-long effort to beat back a revanchist right. And his name has become a synonym for a well-worn anti-Semitic canard: the idea that Jews are malevolent fomenters of social dissent, agitators slyly funding and masterminding protest, seeking to undermine a white, Christian social order. It is a canard that resonates not just in European history, where the deadly consequences of anti-Semitic conspiracies are well-known, but throughout American history, and its renewed form draws on a long tradition of American anti-Semitism.

silverscreenselect wrote: And given every opportunity to act presidential, Trump acts petty and partisan and continues to fan the flames that breed dangerous idiots like these shooters and bombers.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote: And given every opportunity to act presidential, Trump acts petty and partisan and continues to fan the flames that breed dangerous idiots like these shooters and bombers.

I said the same thing about Obama. We, unfortunately, are both right.

Robert Bowers wrote:HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in.