Dog Whistles

Conspiracy theories about Soros aren’t just false. They’re anti-Semitic.


Blaming Jewish outsiders for dissent and social unrest isn’t new.

On Monday, a pipe bomb was sent to the home of George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist whose name has become a part of conspiracy theories around the world. Investigators have concluded that the pipe bomb was probably hand-delivered, and it was “proactively detonated” by a bomb squad without causing...

First, Andrew Gillum’s Republicans foe warned against “monkeying around” by voting for him — and now the trailblazing African-American Florida gubernatorial candidate is getting the “George Soros” dog whistle treatment.



A number of conservative outlets have already started to refer to Gillum as “Soros-backed.”

Jone’s conspiracy-minded Infowars even used a picture of Soros and not Gillum when announcing the candidate’s Aug. 28 Democratic primary win.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/40...ked-with-george-soros-dog-whistle-in-florida/
 
PoliTalker said:
Well, here's the thing. We are all unique individuals. That means, though we may have some similarities, each of us is different.

I have a unique perspective; you have a unique perspective; We all see the world from a different vantage point.

But that's a good thing. Variety of experience gives us new ideas and innovation.

I doubt this place is exactly what any of us wants it to be; even it's creator.

We don't get to pick the position we are born into in this life, nor the world we are born into.

What we do with it is up to each of us. But none can control everything. We have to work together.

This all seems quite obvious to me. Others seem to struggle with it. Like Donald Trump.
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So, work together already! :palm: geeeeeeesh.
 
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life

violence that took place this Shabbat morning at the Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh is the fear of every synagogue, Hillel, day school, and Jewish community center in this country. It is the ancient Jewish expectation of persecution—when, where, has it not been with us?—married to American reality: a country saturated with guns and habituated to quotidian massacre, plagued by age-old racism and bigotry, which have lately been expertly inflamed by the holder of the highest office in the land.


The name “George Soros” is no longer invoked as a dog whistle, but as an ambulance siren. “The Jewish question” is debated on alt-right blogs and news sites. In the run-up to the election, anti-Semites began to put Jewish names in sets of triple parentheses—a yellow star for the digital age, by which to un-assimilate the assimilated. Jews rushed to claim and defang the symbol, turning it into a voluntary declaration of pride, but the scar of its origins remains.


https://www.newyorker.com/news/dail...-the-return-of-anti-semitism-to-american-life
 
About that angry mob:

Suspected White Supremacist Shooter Behind Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Suspected shooter, who has been identified as Robert Bowers, expressed hatred online for Jewish 'infestation' ■ Two hours before the attack, he wrote a post on social network Gab in which he assaulted HIAS, a Jewish U.S. organization helping refugees
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pr...is-the-suspected-pittsburgh-shooter-1.6595724

Apparent 'Pipe Bombs' Mailed To Clinton, Obama And CNN
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/24/6601...cious-packages-addressed-to-clinton-and-obama

Kentucky Kroger Shooter Tried to Enter Black Church Just Before Attack
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/kentucky-kroger-shooting-black-church.html

Quite the exceptional american week, thoughts and prayers, we'll do it all again soon.
 
Micawber said:
Hate speech is protected speech, agreed. I'm just questioning the argument used to blame liberals for voicing the connection between
Trump's words and violence. The argument is that the shooter is solely responsible. That boils down to "words don't accomplish anything
or cause anything" So I ask, if words don't do anything, thereby valueless, what is the purpose of protecting something without value.
The question is rhetorical. Saying words don't matter is lying. Especially coming from the most powerful most listened to human in the world
who is beloved by those who do like him at all. And further that it doesn't take too much to send a teetering soul off the edge. So it
is was and always will be foreseeable that some people will run a mile when their leader says run an inch. Trump is indifferent to this
and I say that he owns any uptick in political violence since he got into office. Pretending Trump isn't responsible is lying and crass in the extreme.
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Isn't it a tad odd that the guy who speaks to the commoners in their own language and says what's on his mind requires so many followers waddling along behind him to explain what he means and to assert he doesn't mean what he says.
 
Hello Micawber,

Micawber said:
Hate speech is protected speech, agreed. I'm just questioning the argument used to blame liberals for voicing the connection between
Trump's words and violence. The argument is that the shooter is solely responsible. That boils down to "words don't accomplish anything
or cause anything" So I ask, if words don't do anything, thereby valueless, what is the purpose of protecting something without value.
The question is rhetorical. Saying words don't matter is lying.
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Thank you! Precisely! So succinctly put.

Micawber said:
Especially coming from the most powerful most listened to human in the world
who is beloved by those who do like him at all.
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The people who now claim words don't matter have been trying to hold President Obama to his words 'You can keep your doctor' for years. They are fooling themselves. Words matter, and words from the most public figure in the world matter the most.

Micawber said:
And further that it doesn't take too much to send a teetering soul off the edge. So it
is was and always will be foreseeable that some people will run a mile when their leader says run an inch. Trump is indifferent to this
and I say that he owns any uptick in political violence since he got into office. Pretending Trump isn't responsible is lying and crass in the extreme.
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Trump supporters have become adept at fooling themselves into thinking things which are not OK are. Their immediate habit is to give Trump a free pass on anything, without proper consideration.
 
74% of Americans want the 2nd to be preserved


No one is going to repeal it


its a right wing lie
 
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