Antisemitic comments are designed to shut down the alt-right.
libertarian27 – are you saying they are all trolls / agitprop – people only “pretending” to be part of the alt-right in order to discredit the alt-right?
I really don’t think so. It is both naive and very dangerous to dismiss that there is a very vocal and growing segment of the “alt-right” who are anti-Semites and are sincerely Neo-Nazi’s - Storm Front types. Even Trump’s Twitter feed is infested with them and I don’t understand why he doesn’t block them.
And they are getting more vocal and open about it; some, it could appear even here.
Huck: Racialism is a fundamental part of the alt-right. Jews are begging for trouble, as usual. Sure, the left hates Jews. Who doesn’t? Meanwhile, take a look at the MSM, the Never-Trumpers, etc. Jews aplenty.
Huck – perhaps I am misunderstanding your posts, but perhaps you might clarify - are you for the alt-right’s anti-Semitism or against it or are you just ambivalent to it?
It is one thing to point out and stand up against anti-white racism, i.e. the BLM movement, Islamic extremism and “political correctness” the SJW’s, but those on the “alt-right” who veer into anti-Semitism and White Supremacy, those who’s social media and Twitter feeds praise Hitler and deny the Holocaust and blame every societal and political ill on “The Filthy Jews” - they should have no place in the Conservative movement (or IMO on FR) or in the “alt-right” unless that is really what the “alt-right” is about. And FWIW I don’t see many on the alt-right calling these neo-nazi types out. If that is the face of the “new” GOP or the new “conservative” movement, I want no part of it.
We need to call them out and rebuke them just as we should call it out the same on the left.
You do not get the alt right. They don't play the 'call out' game. Most of what you call antisemitism is the alt right responding to being called anti Semite. They are major trolls.
While I do concur that there are anti-Semites that are right wingers (and moderates) we can't dismiss that there are even more on the left, and many of them infiltrate and agitate in the 'right' places on the net.
I've visited the 'Storm Front' messageboard site in the past, they are more 'left' than 'right'...they have more in common with Communists than anything on the right. It's like reading 'Alt-Democratic Underground' in there. Stormfront isn't alt-right. (Hillary and her people have/will say it is)
As to Trumps twitter being infested by Neo-Nazi's, I don't see replies on his feed (maybe it's on facebook?) but then again, how many are leftists posting to discredit the Trump campaign as a bunch of racists?
.....and Hillary has a alt-right speech on Thursday....
I think this is because Trump has a New York Liberal Democrat's understanding of what the "right wing" looks like. He's been taught a caricature of the "right wing" his whole life, and now he's trying to ride them to the Presidency, and so he tolerates this sort of stuff because he doesn't want to offend what he *thinks* is his base.
There are other indications he has a warped view of the American right. One I noticed recently is that ball cap he always wears. I don't think that many people in the circles in which Trump runs around, usually wear ball caps. I believe he thinks ball caps appeals to the redneck/farmer joe-sixpack base, so he wears them.
Trump has been remaking himself for years (starting with support for us "birthers" some years ago) because he felt he could win the Presidency as a Republican, but not as a Democrat.
It is my opinion that Trumps behavior is the result of his ego. He wants to be President, and he is willing to make "deals" to get what he wants.
One of his "deals" is a temporary indulgence of racist kooks on his twitter feed because he doesn't want to piss off what he thinks a significant portion of the base is.
We need to call them out and rebuke them just as we should call it out the same on the left.
Yes, we should not tolerate any of that crap.