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| DATE | 2016-11-11 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Only kidding, then and now
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'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.'
-- Maya Angelou
_New York Times_ editorial, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1922:
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that
Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and
that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch
masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for
the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to
be employed effectively for political purposes.
You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real
aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like
anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth
about where you really are leading them.
The Hitler movement is not of mere local or picturesque interest. It is
bound to bring Bavaria into a renewed clash with the Berlin Government
as long as the German Republic goes even through the motions of trying
to live up to the Versailles Treaty. For, it is certain the Alies will
take umbrage at the Hitler organization as a violation of the miliary
clauses of the treaty and deman disbandment, even as in the case of its
predecessor, the Orgesch.
(Cue song, 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me.')
Meanwhile, in 2016:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anti-semitism-is-no-longer-an-undertone-of-trumps-campaign-its-the-melody/2016/11/07/b1ad6e22-a50a-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html
Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody.
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer November 7
In the final hours, the mask came off.
Donald Trump and his surrogates have been playing footsie with American
neo-Nazis for months: tweeting their memes, retweeting their messages,
appearing on their radio shows. After an Oct. 13 speech in which Trump
warned that Hillary Clinton "meets in secret with international banks to
plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty" and that "a global power
structure" is conspiring against ordinary Americans, the Anti-Defamation
League urged Trump to "avoid rhetoric and tropes that historically have
been used against Jews."
Well, Trump just gave his reply. On Friday, he released a closing ad for
his campaign repeating offending lines from that speech, this time
illustrated with images of prominent Jews: financier George Soros
(accompanying the words "those who control the levers of power"), Fed
Chair Janet Yellen (with the words "global special interests") and
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (following the "global power
structure” quote". The ad shows Hillary Clinton and says she partners
"with these people who don’t have your good in mind."
Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the
melody.
For more than a year, I have condemned Trump in the harshest terms I
could conjure as he went after Latinos, Muslims, immigrants, African
Americans, women and the disabled. This is both because it was wrong in
its own right and because, from my culture’s history, I know that when a
demagogue begins to identify scapegoats, the Jews are never far behind.
[...]
But hey, I'm sure it's just the Lügenpresse, because that's what Alex
Jones assures us it is. Just as Alex assures us that all of the current
photographs and videos of Nazi & racist graffiti on shops and in schools
targeting blacks, gays, Latinos, Muslims, and just about any and all
non-white-male Americans, following the election are just staged --
'false flag operations', just like the staged shootings in Sandy Hook.
But you can relax, Ruben. Your folk are still a few notches down the list.
There's still time to be oblivious and dumb as a goddamned rock.
Speaking of neo-Nazis, Steve Bannon for White House Chief of Staff.
Sieg Orange!
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