Tornado Alley (PROG)

[sortagreen]

Your tea is weak... You have a couple of people who you're accusing of some peripheral contacts with Louis Farrakhan.

It's bullshit... Ellison having distanced himself and Obama never having even been there (your evidence is that there's no evidence.. that someone said it and it's being covered up)

As an aside I find it distressing that you think criticizing Israel's vicious apartheid regime is somehow anti-Semitic. I am aware that Israelis are Jews, but that doesn't mean Jews are all Israelis. I can assure you it isn't true. Sortagreen, for instance ...is a full blooded Member of the Tribe, and I'll call Israel for what it is, a vicious and murderous apartheid regime.

When Nazis show up in Charlotteville chanting, "Blood and Soil" (Blut und Erd) and "Jews will not replace us," and threatening worshipers at the local temple with automatic weapons, that's anti-Semitism... blatant, in-your-face, "Juden raus!" anti-Semitism. You're going to tell me that Obama is rumored to have spoken with Louis Farrakhan? Bite me.

If you're going to compare Keith Ellison to the Republican party's full-throated embrace of racists and racism, to the point where there are at least 4 or 5 actual Nazis running for office, and god knows how many basic white supremacists and Christian dominionists.... well, you're pretty much just a moron.

- https://www.vox.com/2018/7/9/17525860/nazis-russell-walker-arthur-jones-republicans-illinois-north-carolina-virginia

Consider the destruction of the voting rights act, leading immediately to purges and blatant suppression of the African American vote... to the point where lawmakers weren't even coy about stating that that was their intention.

Consider the actions of Jeff Sessions, doing away with consent decrees meant to curb police violence against young black men in places like Baltimore and Ferguson, MO.

Consider the current push to denationalize Mexican-Americans born near the border. Think about it... really. We think their birth certificates are false...? Where have we heard that before?

Consider the Muslim ban.

Consider "build the wall".

Consider the use of the expression "shithole countries".

Consider that Trump routinely attacks black people with the epithet "low intellect".

Consider that Trump's publicizing of crimes committed by "illegal" immigrants is literally straight out of Hitler's playbook.

There's a reason Trump's opponents are so worried. This strategy — one designed to single out a particular group of people, suggesting that there's something particularly sinister about how they behave — was employed to great effect by Adolf Hitler and his allies. In the 1930s, the Nazis used a similar tactic to stir up anger and hatred toward Jews. Professor Richard Weikart of California State University explained that Nazi leaders used different kinds of communication tools to sell the message that “Jews are criminal by disposition,” as a 1943 Nazi directive to the German press put it. “The Jews are not a nation like other nations but bearers of hereditary criminality,” the order said. Germany, in other words, was out of control, and only Nazi anti-Semitic policies could “restore order.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/02/adolf-hitler-also-published-a-list-of-crimes-committed-by-groups-he-didnt-like/?utm_term=.1b75e0cce94b

This is crap. You're a party of racists and racism, and your "whataboutism" is pathetic. Just own it.