Trump closes with anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

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Pat Robertson for one. He's famous world over.

Originally posted by sh76
What BS! You can't possibly believe that ad is anti-Semitic. I'm not surprised that TPM, which will do anything to help Clinton, spins it as such, but I'm surprised you'd fall for it.

Soros is a well-known dem operative and Yellin is merely a member of the executive administration being criticized. That they're Jews is beside the point. Calling that as anti- ...[text shortened]... nti-Semitic any more than my saying Ryan Fitzpatrick is a lousy quarterback makes me anti-Irish.

You are right. People are all too ready to sling the labels. I have not seen evidence Trump is against any group of people at all except Hillary and her supporters for the time being. This is expected.

Originally posted by joe beyser
You are right. People are all too ready to sling the labels. I have not seen evidence Trump is against any group of people at all except Hillary and her supporters for the time being. This is expected.

If you wish to see such "evidence," I recommend investigating what Trump has said and done. You won't believe some of the things he said!

Originally posted by finnegan

What Finn means is that he doesn't have a clue... about anything.

Originally posted by joe beyser
You are right. People are all too ready to sling the labels. I have not seen evidence Trump is against any group of people at all except Hillary and her supporters for the time being. This is expected.

Really?
You've seen and heard no reason what-so-ever that Trump is against groups of people?

None?

No walls? No generalisations? Nothing about religions? Or women? Or democrats?

You've heard and seen nothing?

Either you are stupid or a liar.

Me thinks.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I'll grant you that he is probably not as bigoted against Jews as he is against blacks or Latinos.

Whether he is bigoted himself is kind of beside the point. What's clear is that he exploits bigotry.

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There probably are, but the point is that anti-Jewish bigotry has a very specific history which he is playing into. A very religious basis to it. Jews are "Christ-killers" who are set on world domination, who are the backbone of communism, and run the banking system so are responsible for all economic woes. The evangelists who claim to support Israel don't do so out of love for Jewish culture and people - it fulfills their interpretation of Bible prophecy and so the "bad Jews" are at the core of the problem. They turned on Christ 2000 years ago and they are relentless.

It's a core aspect of certain populist ideology. And it's a dangerous flame to fan, as we know from history.

Many Muslims are also, of course, Semites. So there's no real need to even differentiate between the hatreds. Jews and Muslims are cousins, sometimes literally.

The game Trump is playing - whether or not he actually holds these bigotries - much like I don't think he's anti-choice. Probably not pro-choice. He just doesn't care. He doesn't have ideology. He uses it. And that's extremely dangerous.