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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 12:08 PM Oct 2016

Anti-Semitic Posts, Many From Trump Supporters, Surge on Twitter

Source: New York Times = By JONATHAN MAHLER

She had seen her face superimposed on the body of a concentration camp inmate. She had been called “a slimy Jewess.” She had been told she “deserved the oven.” One anonymous individual had electronically harassed her for 19 hours straight.

Things got so bad that Bethany Mandel, a 30-year-old freelance writer in Highland Park, N.J., decided one afternoon last spring to drive to a nearby gun shop. A mother of two small children, she now keeps a .22 in her home.

What had she done to provoke so much vitriol? She posted some messages on Twitter drawing attention to the fact that Donald J. Trump seemed to have a lot of anti-Semitic supporters.

In some respects, Mrs. Mandel’s story has become a familiar one. She is among hundreds of Jewish journalists who have been the target of anti-Semitic attacks on Twitter during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/us/politics/anti-semitism-trump-supporters-twitter.html



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Anti-Semitic Posts, Many From Trump Supporters, Surge on Twitter (Original Post) Coyotl Oct 2016 OP
No wonder gun sales are so high elmac Oct 2016 #1
A .22 is a good "Scare em away" gun packman Oct 2016 #2
Anti-Semitism has been part and parcel of the GOP base for decades. forest444 Oct 2016 #3
The Plot Against America question everything Oct 2016 #4
It is good people are finally starting to wake up. Behind the Aegis Oct 2016 #6
Did you catch Trump's anti-semitic speech last week? Tempest Oct 2016 #8
This is Surprising? Retired George Oct 2016 #5
During the convention the RNC shut down comments on their live feed for this reason Tempest Oct 2016 #7
Venn diagram of racists and Republicans is a perfect circle. Coyotl Oct 2016 #9
I go on Twitter and mock Trump, Pence and Conway incessantly adigal Oct 2016 #10
 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
1. No wonder gun sales are so high
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 12:29 PM
Oct 2016

rightwing nut jobs are buying up all the guns they can get their slimy hands on while decent people are buying guns for protection against the nut jobs.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. A .22 is a good "Scare em away" gun
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 12:34 PM
Oct 2016

but , didn't Joe Biden suggest a shot gun to really scare the shit out of them.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. Anti-Semitism has been part and parcel of the GOP base for decades.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 12:37 PM
Oct 2016

Most of them simply never had a tribune in the nominee himself for that - until Trump.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
6. It is good people are finally starting to wake up.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 01:52 PM
Oct 2016

Of course, the irony with some is palpable.

It is as it has always been, Jews, the go to scapegoat. They know they can threaten our lives, but until a big event, size is debatable, happens, most just shrug it off with a breathy, "meh".

Tempest

(14,591 posts)
8. Did you catch Trump's anti-semitic speech last week?
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 03:50 PM
Oct 2016
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/14/trumps-anti-semitic-speech-came-breitbart-alt-right-and-alex-jones/213842

During the speech at a rally in West Palm Beach, FL, Trump claimed that there was a “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.” He also claimed that Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers” and that the election may be “in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system.”

Multiple journalists noted that the speech played on old anti-Semitic tropes. As Politico’s Eli Stokols explained, “The hints of anti-Semitism were strong.” Jonathan Greenblatt, the president of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted, “.@TeamTrump should avoid rhetoric&tropes that historically have been used [against] Jews & still spur #antisemitism. Lets keep hate out of [campaign].”

The speech was reportedly co-written by Stephen Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News who took a leave of absence to work as Trump’s campaign CEO. Bannon has bragged that Breitbart News is “the platform for the alt-right” -- a rebranded white nationalist movement that is opposed to immigration and embraces racism, sexism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and anti-Semitism.

Tempest

(14,591 posts)
7. During the convention the RNC shut down comments on their live feed for this reason
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 03:48 PM
Oct 2016

They allowed for comments on their live feed until Trump supporters started making anti-semitic posts. The comments on the live feed lasted all of a couple of hours before they shut it down.

It started when a Jewish Republican woman was interviewed at the convention.Then the comments turned ugly and vile against her and the RNC shut down the comments section.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
9. Venn diagram of racists and Republicans is a perfect circle.
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 03:55 PM
Oct 2016

Well, well, they can't say they don't know who there base is.

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
10. I go on Twitter and mock Trump, Pence and Conway incessantly
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 06:58 PM
Oct 2016

And I really never get much pushback. I guess I'm lucky!!

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