Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism

tikkunolamorgtfo:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

“A central insistence of antiracist thought over the past several decades is that, as with any social category produced by regimes of power, you don’t choose race, power chooses it for you; it names you. This is why all the well-meaning identification in the world does not make a White person Black. Likewise, as much as I draw inspiration from the Jewish community, and as much as I adore my Jewish partner and friends, it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around. I developed an analysis of antisemitism because I wanted to smash White supremacy; because I wanted to be free. If we acknowledge that White nationalism clearly and forcefully names Jews as non-white, and did so in the very fiber of its emergence as a post-civil rights right-wing revolutionary movement, then we are forced to recognize our own ignorance about the country we thought we lived in. It is time to have that conversation.“

This is a long article. You should read the whole thing, and then read it again.

@keshetchai @eshusplayground this dovetails well with some of the points you were making earlier

socialistexan:

ajarfullofhope:

fromchaostocosmos:

There is trend going on of smearing Jews.

I saw an article that whole premise of it was that Bernie Sanders in conformation hearing for

deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget

was making it hard for him because he was christian.

Now this wasn’t in some far right online thing or some over the top christian blog.

No this was in an Atlantic article.

And I read it and then read it again to make sure I understood what I read.

See what actually happened was Bernie Sander, a Jewish man, was making sure that the nominee was going to do his job for all the people and not just some.

You might wonder why Bernie Sanders was concerned here is why:

Sanders took issue with a piece Vought wrote in January 2016 about a fight at the nominee’s alma mater, Wheaton College. The Christian school had fired a political-science professor, Larycia Hawkins, for a Facebook post intended to express solidarity with Muslims. Vought disagreed with Hawkins’s post and defended the school in an article for the conservative website The Resurgent. During the hearing, Sanders repeatedly quoted one passage that he found particularly objectionable:

Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.

“In my view, the statement made by Mr. Vought is indefensible, it is hateful, it is Islamophobic, and it is an insult to over a billion Muslims throughout the world,” Sanders told the committee during his introductory remarks. “This country, since its inception, has struggled, sometimes with great pain, to overcome discrimination of all forms … we must not go backwards.”

Yeah I am concerned too, Bernie.

Later, during the question-and-answer portion of the hearing, Sanders brought this up again. “Do you believe that statement is Islamophobic?” he asked Vought.

“Absolutely not, Senator,” Vought replied. “I’m a Christian, and I believe in a Christian set of principles based on my faith.”

As Russell Moore, the head of the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in a statement, “Even if one were to excuse Senator Sanders for not realizing that all Christians of every age have insisted that faith in Jesus Christ is the only pathway to salvation, it is inconceivable that Senator Sanders would cite religious beliefs as disqualifying an individual for public office.”

The exchange shows just how tense the political environment under Trump has become. But it’s also evidence of the danger of using religion to deem someone unfit to serve in government.

Bernie didn’t take issue with this guy being christian. Bernie was rightly concerned that the nominee may not do his job for all the citizens.

Sanders: I don’t know how many Muslims there are in America, I really don’t know, probably a couple million. Are you suggesting that all of those people stand condemned? What about Jews? Do they stand condemned too?

Vought: Senator, I am a Christian—

Sanders: I understand that you are a Christian. But this country is made up of people who are not just—I understand that Christianity is the majority religion. But there are other people who have different religions in this country and around the world. In your judgment, do you think that people who are not Christians are going to be condemned?

I don’t know I gotta agree with Bernie here.

I don’t agree with Vought here, and was at Wheaton College during the firing of Larycia Hawkins and part of the student movement to keep her, because she didn’t do anything wrong, and did exactly what Christians should be doing: showing solidarity and love an acceptance toward the vulnerable in our society.

However, Sanders is out of line here. Vought’s wording was intense, but you don’t need to be a universalist to hold a political office. Christians and Jews and Muslims believe that there are things you must be or do to be saved. That’s how the religion works.

But you don’t need to be believe everyone is going to heaven to think that all people are created in the image of God and deserving of respect and care. You don’t need to believe that to seek justice for the poor, vulnerable, and oppressed regardless of their faith, which is what Christians are called to do. If you honestly believe that only universalists are fit to hold public office, that is actually religious discrimination. Asking Vrought about who has salvation in the religion he’s part of is a theological question, and doesn’t really have place in a political hearing. There can’t be a religious test to hold political office.

“Jews believe there things you must to do to be saved” Uh. No we don’t. We don’t even believe in heaven or hell, that’s a Christian construct that came about completely separate of Jewish faith. Most of Jewish faith is not being “saved or damned” but communication and trying to live the best and most accepting life possible. The mitzvot we are commanded to do are not out of fear of Damnation, but out of striving to make ourselves and our communities better. I can not speak for Islam, but do not impose Christian “saved or damned” duality on Judaism.

Vought is hiding his bigotry behind religion, plan and simple. Saying all Muslims are condemned is bigoted. It’s not a religious test to expect someone to treat all people fairly and without judgment. In fact, we have this wonderful concept in our country called Separation of Church and State, Sanders is trying to make sure that Vought is enforcing law, not religion.

fromchaostocosmos:

fromchaostocosmos:

There is trend going on of smearing Jews.

I saw an article that whole premise of it was that Bernie Sanders in conformation hearing for

deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget

was making it hard for him because he was christian.

Now this wasn’t in some far right online thing or some over the top christian blog.

No this was in an Atlantic article.

And I read it and then read it again to make sure I understood what I read.

See what actually happened was Bernie Sander, a Jewish man, was making sure that the nominee was going to do his job for all the people and not just some.

You might wonder why Bernie Sanders was concerned here is why:

Sanders took issue with a piece Vought wrote in January 2016 about a fight at the nominee’s alma mater, Wheaton College. The Christian school had fired a political-science professor, Larycia Hawkins, for a Facebook post intended to express solidarity with Muslims. Vought disagreed with Hawkins’s post and defended the school in an article for the conservative website The Resurgent. During the hearing, Sanders repeatedly quoted one passage that he found particularly objectionable:

Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.

“In my view, the statement made by Mr. Vought is indefensible, it is hateful, it is Islamophobic, and it is an insult to over a billion Muslims throughout the world,” Sanders told the committee during his introductory remarks. “This country, since its inception, has struggled, sometimes with great pain, to overcome discrimination of all forms … we must not go backwards.”

Yeah I am concerned too, Bernie.

Later, during the question-and-answer portion of the hearing, Sanders brought this up again. “Do you believe that statement is Islamophobic?” he asked Vought.

“Absolutely not, Senator,” Vought replied. “I’m a Christian, and I believe in a Christian set of principles based on my faith.”

As Russell Moore, the head of the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in a statement, “Even if one were to excuse Senator Sanders for not realizing that all Christians of every age have insisted that faith in Jesus Christ is the only pathway to salvation, it is inconceivable that Senator Sanders would cite religious beliefs as disqualifying an individual for public office.”

The exchange shows just how tense the political environment under Trump has become. But it’s also evidence of the danger of using religion to deem someone unfit to serve in government.

Bernie didn’t take issue with this guy being christian. Bernie was rightly concerned that the nominee may not do his job for all the citizens.

Sanders: I don’t know how many Muslims there are in America, I really don’t know, probably a couple million. Are you suggesting that all of those people stand condemned? What about Jews? Do they stand condemned too?

Vought: Senator, I am a Christian—

Sanders: I understand that you are a Christian. But this country is made up of people who are not just—I understand that Christianity is the majority religion. But there are other people who have different religions in this country and around the world. In your judgment, do you think that people who are not Christians are going to be condemned?

I don’t know I gotta agree with Bernie here.

So Fox “News” decided to latch onto this story.

And the literally open the article by comparing Bernie Sanders, a Jewish person, to nazis.

They make use the of the famous Holocaust Poem “First they came for the..”

First they came for the wedding planners and the bakers. Then they came for the Catholic farmers and the Baptist high school valedictorians. And now, the secularists are coming after the evangelical public servants.

On Wednesday, Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to be deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, was viciously attacked by Sen. Bernie Sanders over his Christian faith.

They also claim the Bernie was “ranting” which he was not.

The senator’s press office did not answer that question directly.

“The question at hand is not about Mr. Vought’s freedom to hold certain religious beliefs,” the senator’s spokesman told me. “The question that concerns Sen. Sanders is whether Mr. Vought will carry out the duties of his office in a way that treats all Americans equally, even those whose beliefs he has criticized.”

To which the article calls that response “an ugly moment in American politics”.

Of course the comments are quite scary and gross.

This one just being one of many:

Been saying it for years ,not only the Muslims are against us.. the Jews vehemenly deny Christ. THEIR job is to erase Christ , from everything why do think they were behind that PHONY president for eight years and then the “church going” Clintons… And if you took a second to add up the folks against Trump most of them are in the TRIBE… MSM, Hollywood,higher education.. Sorry thruth is truth…You notice old Soros isn’t taking any chances this time his attack dogs, Sanders, Schiff, and Schumer… The gentiles, Reid and Pelosi, didn’t get the job done. THEY are the fourth column……………….. Bernie saying, it is just the beginning….. TO ARMS

So if gonna read the comments proceed with caution.

fromchaostocosmos:

bellaxiao:

Fascinating how white liberals and white supremacists get along perfectly

So I actually did a little digging and the date on that tweet in the image above is 6/5/17

But if you go and see the actual tweet the date is really 8:42 PM – 8 Nov 2016
Go see for yourself.

This is actually from when Julia Ioffe wrote a scathing article titled

Scenes From the Trump Hotel which was from Election day.

She interviewed Spencer which I will put here so you can read and heads up he sexually assaults her.

“Are you ready to concede yet?” said Richard Spencer, the young white nationalist who coined the term “alt-right,” swilling a Manhattan and doing his best to look the part of 1930s hipster in tweed slacks and a matching vest, and that crisp “fash” haircut, which combines the words for “fashion” and “fascist,” and, Spencer said, has “spread like wildfire.”

“People didn’t understand the power of the white vote,” he said jubilantly.

Was this a white victory? I asked him.

“Totally!” he said. This, he said, was a victory over “the abstract idea of citizenship” in favor of “identity and a nation,” “because, fundamentally, to be an American is to be a white person.” (As for the people who don’t fit that category, “They’re not going anywhere.”)

“And the other thing is that the cucks are dead,” he said, using the alt-right slang for establishment conservatives they despise. “They chose the wrong side and we chose the right side. We are going to displace the conservative movement, we are going to be the right. Period. It’s going to be a lot of fun.” The alt-right would become professionalized and would become the new political establishment on the right, which was fine, Spencer said, because they don’t mind the political establishment as long as they’re the political establishment.

Which got Spencer thinking: What role could he play in a Trump administration? “I would want to be secretary of state,” he said. His first trip would be to Syria, his second to Russia—to tell them “we’re not going to get into a war over this”—then to China. Failing that, though, Spencer would want to be minister of culture and “spend millions of dollars on Wagner.”

The conversation kind of soured—“I feel like this is an inquisition”—when he refused to say whether Hitler was good or bad—“he’s an important historical figure”—or whether the Holocaust was good or bad, said that the anti-Semitic alt-right trolls haranguing me and other Jewish journalists were “just kids having fun,” and when he slid his finger down the back of my dress and said, “You have a slit here.” Surprised at my request not to touch me, he asked me to “calm down.”

It does not go unnoticed that there is this smearing of a Jewish woman to make her seem like she is white supremacist sympathizer.
Especially seeing as this same Jewish woman was harassed and sent death threats along with images of her photoshoped in Holocaust images for writing an article on Melania Trump that was not sycophantic.

This smearing of her is not just this there is also:

Julia Ioffe found herself at the center of a Twitter firestorm over a six-year-old post in which she repeated a racial slur for black people.

Ioffe, a staff writer at the Atlantic who is known for her liberal politics, initially thought her account had been hacked before realizing the 2011 tweet was actually a quote taken from someone she was interviewing, not written in her own voice.

What is happening here is the willful misconstruing of facts in order malign and smear a Jewish person and to make them appear as a white supremacist sympathizer.

This is antisemitism plain and simple.

Also if you look at the date on the tweet in the first post you will see that is not even how twitter does their dates and times.

I don’t know if OP is the one who messed with the image or they got if from somewhere else all I do know is that what we have here is antisemitism.

I hope that this version with the correct information spreads as fast and as far as the false antisemitic original did.

Source: twitter.com

tikkunolamorgtfo:

bellaxiao:

Fascinating how white liberals and white supremacists get along perfectly

Excuse me, but I’d really like to fucking know why somebody felt the need to put a June 2017 timestamp on a November 2016 photo taken of a Jewish journalist who was not only assigned to interview Spencer for her election night coverage article, but was also racially and sexually harassed by him during said interview:

“I feel like this is an inquisition”—when he refused to say whether Hitler was good or bad—“he’s an important historical figure”—or whether the Holocaust was good or bad, said that the anti-Semitic alt-right trolls haranguing me and other Jewish journalists were “just kids having fun,” and when he slid his finger down the back of my dress and said, “You have a slit here.” Surprised at my request not to touch me, he asked me to “calm down.”

I’d like to know why somebody thought it would be funny to take a photo of a Jewish woman who immigrated to this country as a refugee, misrepresent its context, gloss over the harassment she endured (both from Spencer and his followers throughout the campaign), and then compare her, a victim of white supremacy, to a fucking white supremacist.

Because I know people took Trevor Noah to task for hanging out with Tomi Lahren, but I don’t think anyone compared him to a white girl with friends in the KKK, so…

Source: twitter.com