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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Backers’ Anti-Semitic Taunts and Threats
http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2016/08/trump-backers-anti-semitic-taunts-threats/Hate has always been in this country, but Trump brews and boils it. When I tweeted my outrage at the anti-Semitic graphic, I expected a few responses calling me an overreacting liberal Jew. What I ended up receiving was far worse....
One person sent me a picture of a frog wearing Nazi garb and standing in front of Auschwitzs gate with the caption You get a gold star!...
Many told me to take a nap in an oven. I was sent more pictures of the Auschwitz gates, one Photoshopped so the words we all know instead read, Not an argument.
It most certainly can happen here.
TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)Really awful stuff she was subjected to. Here's the "frog" pic she was sent:
I just posted this article over at Discussionist with the title, 'Trump attracts bigots of all kind like flies to...'
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)nasty right and the nasty left could join. Right now Charles Koch, godfather of the Tea Party, is wooing disaffected voters from the far left.
Wife of a Jew
link to the op I posted at Skinner's other site:
http://discussionist.com/1015944066
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)How is my posting there- and confronting bigotry, worse than giving bigots a platform?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I barely made it past the 10-post limit to start threads!
cali
(114,904 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)The Principal of a FL Pan Handle school charged with readying the formerly all-white school for integration (early 60s) received a 3 a.m. phone call from a drunken, foul-mouthed racist threatening bodily harm. The principal let him rattle for a while before responding: "No you won't."
The exasperated racist hesitated, then asked: "What makes you think I won't?"
"'Cause you're a chicken shit son of a bitch," followed by a hang-up.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)...few will care, some will even make excuses, but when it comes to anti-Semitism, it is a free-for-all. For those who do care, thank you.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)what a disaster!