It says something about #Trump that I, as a person who's known a lot more about him than the average person for over a decade, am less surprised by the fact that he's now apparently blaming "the #Jews" if he doesn't when the election then the fact it t...
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:wrote last edited by [email protected]
It says something about #Trump that, as someone who's known a lot more about him than the average person for over a decade, I am less surprised by the fact that he's now apparently blaming "the #Jews" if he doesn't win the election than the fact it took him this long. He thinks of people in such hereditary and demographic terms, so unquestioning of ethnic stereotypes, that it's inevitable that anyone who isn't part of the only demographic group that is voting for him in large numbers (straight white non-disabled males) is going to end up being lashed out at as soon as the election is over, regardless of the outcome.
It's why it's very important to make sure he loses, and doesn't have the power of the US government behind him when he decides to get revenge.
Very dark times we live in for the #US.
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Truth Sandwich π₯ͺπΊπΈπ·replied to Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: last edited by
Just to point out the obvious: by proactively blaming the Jews, he's putting a target on their heads so that they're on the short list during the violence that will inevitably follow the election.
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Truth Sandwich π₯ͺπΊπΈπ· last edited by
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Oh, it's definitely both an indirect call for his more violent supporters to do things before the election, and a threat of what he will do after the election, though it's not really a threat they can avoid considering he's pretty much guaranteed to go after them either way, even if the majority of Jews suddenly decided to support him.The wheel of bigotry always hits certain groups, and the Jews are one of them.
Part of me wonders if the reason he phrased it this way may have been on purpose, to signal to the antisemites that, if he gets elected, he will be hostile towards the Jews.
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Truth Sandwich π₯ͺπΊπΈπ·replied to Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: last edited by
The American far right has an odd stance, where it's both openly antisemitic ("jews will not replace us") and pro-Israel (mostly from being even more hostile towards Islam and Arabs).
So Trump wants right-wing Jews to support him on the basis that he'll get Israel to commit actual genocide against Palestinians. But he also wants to throw red meat to Nazis who want to kill Jews in America.
Fascism is not about coherent policy...
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Truth Sandwich π₯ͺπΊπΈπ· last edited by [email protected]
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There is always been a connection between extremists in the Israeli government and antisemitism in other countries. It benefits them directly to have Jews in other countries be afraid of what the people in those countries might do to them, because it discourages them from opposing whatever violence the Israeli government is doing, when they are usually the voices the rest of us in the peace movement are trying to elevate. It benefits the antisemites because on the one side, it is a place for them to drive the Jews away to, thus isolating the ones who remain, and on the other, it's this controversial government that is constantly cleaning to represent all Jews.Obviously, we need to be careful not to fall into the trap. We can oppose Israeli government policy without dragging the other 99% of Jewish people into it.
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Truth Sandwich π₯ͺπΊπΈπ· last edited by [email protected]
@TruthSandwich
There is always been a connection between extremists in the Israeli government and antisemitism in other countries. It benefits them directly to have Jews in other countries be afraid of what the people in those countries might do to them, because it discourages them from opposing whatever violence the Israeli government is doing, when they are usually the voices the rest of us in the peace movement are trying to elevate. It benefits the antisemites because on the one side, it is a place for them to drive the Jews away to, thus isolating the ones who remain, and on the other, it's this controversial government that is constantly cleaning to represent all Jews.Obviously, we need to be careful not to fall into the trap ourselves: we can oppose Israeli government policy without dragging the other 99% of Jewish people into it.