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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 04:41 PM Aug 2016

Trump Backers’ Anti-Semitic Taunts and Threats

http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2016/08/trump-backers-anti-semitic-taunts-threats/

I wasn’t ignorant. I knew the atrocities of the past, knew Jews were still targets here and around the world, but I never experienced it. I grew up in an Atlanta suburb. There were Jewish kids in all of my public school classes, so not only did I never experience anti-Semitism, but I also never experienced the unsettling feeling of being “the other.”...

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 Auschwitz’s 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.
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Trump Backers’ Anti-Semitic Taunts and Threats (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2016 OP
K & R nt TeamPooka Aug 2016 #1
Ugh. cali Aug 2016 #2
Jesus. nt awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #3
Yes it could. I always watch for signs that the Hortensis Aug 2016 #4
kick cali Aug 2016 #5
You post at Disgustingist?! KamaAina Aug 2016 #7
Yes. It really disturbs me that Skinner gives bigots a platform cali Aug 2016 #8
It's not. But it might be hazardous to your health. KamaAina Aug 2016 #9
Nah. What can they do but post nasty crap about me? Who cares? cali Aug 2016 #10
Another approach by one of my Dad's colleagues during school deseg in the South... Eleanors38 Aug 2016 #6
Until something dramatic happens... Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #11
Trump has brought the racists out of the woodwork. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #12
 

cali

(114,904 posts)
2. Ugh.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 05:16 PM
Aug 2016

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...'

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Yes it could. I always watch for signs that the
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 06:37 PM
Aug 2016

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

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
8. Yes. It really disturbs me that Skinner gives bigots a platform
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:36 PM
Aug 2016

How is my posting there- and confronting bigotry, worse than giving bigots a platform?

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
9. It's not. But it might be hazardous to your health.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:40 PM
Aug 2016

I barely made it past the 10-post limit to start threads!

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
6. Another approach by one of my Dad's colleagues during school deseg in the South...
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:30 PM
Aug 2016

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)
11. Until something dramatic happens...
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:39 AM
Aug 2016

...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.

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