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"Nearly Half of Adults Worldwide Hold Antisemitic Views, Survey Finds
Antisemitism has surged, especially among the young, as the Holocaust fades from collective memory"


Indeed.

"Nearly Half of Adults Worldwide Hold Antisemitic Views, Survey Finds
Antisemitism has surged, especially among the young, as the Holocaust fades from collective memory"

Don't leave out Half of America's Major Political parties also. There's a reason why the dems didn't pick Josh Shapiro even though he would have easily delivered Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and probably North Carolina...and thus put Harris in the Oval Office.

Oh, well. I view it as the dems returning to their roots, this embrace of antisemitism.

Speaking for myself.


Let Progressives be Progressives.

Think and act Blue.

They'll have no trouble from me.

For decades. chickens have supported Colonel Sanders.

Good.

It's equally my right to not be judge-y on Progressives.

And besides, this sentiment only started a few months ago and in an isolated town so there's NO BASIS for it.

No further comment.....

MAGAdope: " I view it as the dems returning to their roots, this embrace of antisemitism."

Of course Dope views it that way. Same lie as 'KKK is democrats.'

Proving Dope doesn't understand the society we live in.

MAGAdope: " I view it as the dems returning to their roots, this embrace of antisemitism."

Of course Dope views it that way. Same lie as 'KKK is democrats.'

Proving Dope doesn't understand the society we live in
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Here's to Progressivism.

On some issues, stay out of their way.

Seedlings......grow into something.

Here's to Progressivism.

On some issues, stay out of their way.

Seedlings......grow into something.

Looks like one of my pets is still walking with a limp. That's okay, he can rub some dirt on it.

Facts are facts. The democrats founded the KKK and implemented everything the Klan ever wanted...until LBJ figured out a better way to do in minorities.

Facts are facts. The democrats founded the KKK

Spin, MAGA, spin....

Then people like you took it over and own it.

Say raaaaaaacist for us again... it's been at least a minute since you've whined raaaaaaaaaaaacist.

The democrats founded the KKK...

Not that this will make a dent on you, but for other readers out there...

The KKK was founded around 1870, after the Civil War, by Confederate officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

They were, and still are, an extremist right-wing xian organization. In the late 1800s, and well into the 1900s, Dems and Reps were not the same as they are today. Back in the day, you had actual conservative Dems and liberal Reps. The sharper division happened in the mid 1960s with the CRA. Southern Dems became Reps.

So, yes, technically people labeled "Dems" very well may have founded the KKK 150 years ago (not sure of the founders' political parties, but they were southern Confederates, so there's a good chance). Had they lived long enough (I'm pretty sure all the Confederate officers were dead by then), they would have switched parties to "Rep" after 1964, as most Southern Dems did. And what party did they switch to in the 60s?? Republican. The "GOP" became the home of the racists, and the right-wing xian groups like the KKK. And it has been so ever since.

The democrats founded the KKK...

What a lame argument. The KKK is now fully on the Republican side given the changes that occurred in the mid 1900s. So your statement is silly and meaningless. Like most of what you post.

Racists flock to the Republican party, along white nationalists, nazis and fascists. Not the Dems and you KNOW that.

Racists flock to the Republican party, along white nationalists, nazis and fascists. Not the Dems and you KNOW that.

He does know, he just likes the jab, even though it isn't real.

SNIP Although the phrase "Southern Strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it[17] but popularized it.[18] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, Phillips stated his analysis based on studies of ethnic voting:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[1]

Richard Nixon campaigning in 1968

While Phillips sought to increase Republican power by polarizing ethnic voting in general, and not just to win the white South, the South was by far the biggest prize yielded by his approach. Its success began at the presidential level. Gradually, Southern voters began to elect Republicans to Congress and finally to statewide and local offices, particularly as some legacy segregationist Democrats, such as Strom Thurmond, retired or switched to the GOP. In addition, the Republican Party worked for years to develop grassroots political organizations across the South, supporting candidates for local school boards and city and county offices as examples, but following the Watergate scandal Southern voters came out in support for the "favorite son" candidate, Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter.

From 1948 to 1984, the Southern states, for decades a stronghold for the Democrats, became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the 1960, 1968 and 1976 elections. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, a reversal of the position held by Republicans since the Civil War. Some political analysts said this term was used in the 20th century as a "code word" to represent opposition to federal enforcement of civil rights for blacks and to federal intervention on their behalf; many individual southerners had opposed passage of the Voting Rights Act.[3] SNIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

So, yes

You should have stopped there. It’s not my fault the history of you4 adopted political party is as sordid as the day is long. You forgot to mention - and it’s a near certainty that none of the left wing history buffs on his board know this - but your point about right wing is nonsense.

Know which historical figure obliterates your thesis? None other than the very first hard left wing democrat President, Woodrow Wilson. Not only did the man re-segregate the federal government (after very much right wing President Theodore Roosevelt integrated it) but he also hosted the Klan in the White House to screen the racist film Birth of a Nation.

So, no. Your analysis is the kind of feel-good stuff that the left tells itself but sadly is a 180 off of real history. Southern whites, according to Wilson must show “ united resistance to the domination of an ignorant race”.

Yep.
All the Jim Crow democrats have moved beyond the mortal coil. Today’s democrats are the home of modern racism, always cloaked in the soft bigotry of low expectations along with The Great White Father syndrome.

No, I shouldn't have stopped right there. I know Republicans are bad with nuance and context, so I explained it. As I thought, it didn't make a dent in you. But other readers will get it.

The racists flock to the Republican party. Have for decades. I'm sure there are racists in the Dem party, too, but as a percentage of the party, they are miniscule. If you're KKK, or a Proud Boy, or whatever...the Republicans are a nice home for you.

Not all Reps, of course. But a shocking number of them.

The party of racism hasn't been the Dems in about 50 years.

On certain issues - Go Progressives Go!

And luckily, on certain issues, it's a self perpetuating cycle of fuel.

The torch is gonna burn brighter.

I do my quiet part.

Not all Reps, of course. But a shocking number of them.

The party of racism hasn't been the Dems in about 50 years.

Trump has unleashed an amazing amount of vitriol from the MAGA crowd. He has somehow made it acceptable to be a racist, a misogynist, or just a plain old asshole.

I was discussing this with a friend just yesterday. He said he never heard his father use the 'n' word until Trump came on the scene. Then it became common use in his vocabulary. His father was probably always a quiet racist, but Trump seems to have given him permission to say it right out loud.

"They were, and still are, an extremist right-wing xian organization. In the late 1800s, and well into the 1900s, Dems and Reps were not the same as they are today. Back in the day, you had actual conservative Dems and liberal Reps. The sharper division happened in the mid 1960s with the CRA. Southern Dems became Reps.

So, yes, technically people labeled "Dems" very well may have founded the KKK 150 years ago (not sure of the founders' political parties, but they were southern Confederates, so there's a good chance). Had they lived long enough (I'm pretty sure all the Confederate officers were dead by then), they would have switched parties to "Rep" after 1964, as most Southern Dems did. And what party did they switch to in the 60s?? Republican. The "GOP" became the home of the racists, and the right-wing xian groups like the KKK. And it has been so ever since."

Yes. This is all correct. Dope likes to play dumb about the last 50 years of southern politics. After all, playing dumb is what Dope does best.

The best way to correct him is to say that the KKK is a Conservative organization. That was true at its founding and is still true today.

Actually, that's the history of our nations and our racists, Roosevelt is a study in contrasts


SNIP In spite of those words, though, Roosevelt hardly saw all Black Americans as equals. “As a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”

Roosevelt also believed that Black men made poor soldiers. He denigrated the efforts of the buffalo soldiers who fought alongside his men at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, falsely claiming that they ran away under fire. “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,” he wrote. In reality, the buffalo soldiers served with distinction, and several men were officially recognized for their bravery. Twenty-six died on the slopes of San Juan Hill.

[In fact a couple of historians I've read said his butt got saved by the decimated black troops on San Juan Hill]

As for Native Americans, Roosevelt’s considerable time spent ranching in the Dakota Territory only hardened his mindset toward them, years before he became president. “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian,” he said in 1886, “but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”

Roosevelt viewed Native Americans as impediments to the white settlement of the United States and believed that white frontiersmen had forged a new race—the American race—by “ceaseless strife waged against wild man and wild nature.” SNIP

[I'm pretty sure I heard "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" on black and white TV while I was growing up on Western shows.]

Me: So Roosevelt is a study in contrasts, a complicated man. We know people can hold conflicting views in their heads.

https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-...

So the friends dad uses that nasty ugly word.

But the people he's targeting with that word.......

LIBERALS have been "stewards" of them for 50 years.

YOU have paternalistic racism towards those people.

YOU trap those people in failing nasty schools.

YOU have conspired to destroy nuclear family units in that community.

YOU have created a self perpetuating cycle of fail in that community.

The Dad using the N word is a jerk-wad - but he is 10 times more innocent than you are.

Trouble is, people who use words like that allow the rainbow-hooded 401K'ers to prance around as paragons of racial virtue.

Don't worry, the people you want to keep buried probably still won't get school choice - you've been against that forever ;)

"Chirp! Fund education!" - ummmm, 401K'ers, you been saying that for 50 years. STFU and let your shackled masses get a better chance.

You can salve your self all you want. You can ignore history all you want.
But it won’t change the real facts.

PS. The left is also home to antisemitism. In a big way.

Bingo. They’ll never understand what you’re saying because a lot of them have Great White Father Syndrome - really bad cases of it.

One of my favorite episodes from this last year was when the migrant flight touched down in Maaatha’s Vinyaaaad. The libs there couldn’t get rid of the brown people fast enough, lol. This despite all their talk about Sanctuary This and Sanctuary That.

After all, playing dumb is what Dope does best.

Just curious, what makes you think he’s playing?

And I see some pets who can’t face their own history are weighing in! That’s cool.

It’s SO amusing to see the little wasps come out when you hold their history (and present behavior) up to their faces. The truth is always the best can of Raid.

I was discussing this with a friend just yesterday. He said he never heard his father use the 'n' word until Trump came on the scene. Then it became common use in his vocabulary. His father was probably always a quiet racist, but Trump seems to have given him permission to say it right out loud.

And that's why when my Filipino friend's asked me about racism in the US, I told them it's always there just under the surface, and surfaces some times - but it's always there. And I used these two quotes to illustrate to them, which y'all have seen before but:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” Lee Atwater 1981


LBJ to Bill Moyers:
We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Well, they do seem to be emptying their pockets for Trump, eh?

Just curious, what makes you think he’s playing?

I've had the same thoughts as Umm on this. I can't speak for him/her, but I can give my thinking.

Most people do have knowledge about a few topics. They are generally right about something. And most people have some ability or willingness to learn.

Dope appears to have neither. It's rare to find someone so consistently wrong about virtually everything. And it's also rare to find someone so utterly unwilling to learn. Combine both of these traits with the "Dope1" username, and I can't rule out that the person behind Dope1 is simply role-playing.

--Peter

The *good* thing is, some of their plantation slaves are starting to realize it---- and a decent number actually voted for Trump over Kamala.

If our side doesn't screw this up - meaning we *actually* do some things they benefit from -- the Dem Plantation will empty out a bit more and a bit more.

Difference is we'll have to EARN those votes because we see them as equal Americans.

The Great White 401K Fathers feel entitled to said votes.

Difference is we'll have to EARN those votes because we see them as equal Americans.

The Great White 401K Fathers feel entitled to said votes.

Yup. A fun game to play is to see how many libs employ casual racism in what they say - be it generalizations about who’s on welfare or who has what itinerant job or whatever - that’s where you see the left’s racism and snobbery come out.

It always goes back to one of the immutable truths of life:

Nobody hates like a liberal.

Edgar Bergen: “After all, playing dumb is what Dope does best”

Mortimer Snerd, “Just curious, what makes you think he’s playing?”

Edgar Bergen: “After all, playing dumb is what Dope does best”

Mortimer Snerd, “Just curious, what makes you think he’s playing?”

And that’s why they’re pets :). I’ve owned them for decades now.

And that’s why they’re pets :). I’ve owned them for decades now.

Same goes for those who play the dummy for Umm.

His father was probably always a quiet racist, but Trump seems to have given him permission to say it right out loud.

I remember in 2016 there was discussion about this. It's not that they were new racists, but they were closeted racists. The Felon made it "OK" to come out. Stuffing it back into the closet won't solve the problem, unfortunately. It will just hide it. Not really sure how to solve the root problem.

Stuffing it back into the closet won't solve the problem, unfortunately. It will just hide it. Not really sure how to solve the root problem.

I don't think we can solve the problem, there's too much money and power involved. So what's left? Keeping it to down and off center stage. We cannot legislate morality, there's no forcing people to be moral or ethical. We can penalize, etc., but it's still there. We're just going to have to understand there will be waves of racism, resentment, and a "401k liberal" of sorts as a target for resentment.

We *DO* have to find ways to make it so that "people who like to work with their hands" can have families, earn a good living, and have good lives. If we do that there's less of a target, but there will always be an other. We can't get rid of it because it's how humans are.

And to get them good lives, we have to deal with the our oligarchy - we're failing at that and the "people who like to work with their hands" are helping the oligarchs.

I'd like to think I've had a bit of an effect on the pets too :)Just a little bit :)

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