I’ve Storified this here, but this is an important sequence of tweets from Josh Marshall at TPM, hopefully to be followed by some writing by him on the topic. The amount of anti-Semitism brought out from frog twitter to direct threats has been astoundingly depressing.
As Josh points out, people of color have it harder, especially if female. But as he also points out, if you’re not a white Christian male, everyone and anyone will be excluded in Trump’s America as belonging in an equal fashion.
Anyone (Paul Ryan, Mike Pence) standing with Trump is standing with this, the numerous comments about Mexicans and immigrants, and everything else Trump has never apologized for.
Here is the tweet sequence:
Comments are, of course welcome. That’s quite a discussion on twitter about it today.
Friday, Oct 7, 2016 · 4:28:29 PM +00:00
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Greg Dworkin
Josh Marshall has published a narrative version here:
Chemi Shalev, an Israeli who is the US correspondent for the liberal Israeli dailyHa'aretz writes on this subject today. I think some of what he writes is overstated. But broadly I agree. There's also this story from Politico about Jewish millennials experiencing anti-Semitism for the first time as something not discussed in a history book. Many note that Trump has a Jewish son-in-law to whom he appears to be quite close. His daughter Ivanka is actually a convert. But to put much stock in that is to show an ignorance of the history of anti-Semitism. Many of the most virulent and consequential anti-Semites had Jewish friends and even relatives. One of the key forerunners of Adolf Hitler was a man named Karl Leuger, who served as Mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death in 1910. Leuger was a key figure, perhaps the key figure, who brought anti-Semitism from being part of the fabric of European culture and the outlet for the episodic violence of illiterate peasants to making it a force in a modern political context.