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He’s become the subject of escalating rhetoric on the right — including from President Trump — that posits Soros as a nefarious force, fomenting social dissent and paying members of a migrant “caravan” that has been the subject of intense right-wing fearmongering leading up to the November midterms.
Earlier this month, Donald Trump repeated the familiar accusation that Soros pays for protesters, when he said that the “elevator screamers”– protesters who were confronting senators over their votes for Brett Kavanaugh, the then-nominee to the supreme court – had their signs “paid for by Soros and others”.
A day after the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee refused to disavow a campaign ad linking a Democratic candidate to George Soros
Tree of Life Synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers recently endorsed the conservative talking point that Jewish organizations and/or Jewish individuals have been funding the so-called “migrant caravan” of asylum seekers from Honduras.
This conspiracy theory was also recently floated by two prominent Republican congressman and President Donald Trump.
Is “globalist” a legitimate description of a person with a set of views with which one can either agree or debate – or is it an anti-Semitic slur?
A survey published this week by the Anti-Defamation League finds that "hateful conspiracy theories" - claiming that Jews and Israel were behind the attacks in which 3,000 people were killed - are still being disseminated.
It’s amazing to me that otherwise educated and intelligent people fall for it though. One can be both liberal leaning and recognize silencing and manipulative tactics for what they are. Both sides have an equivalent in some form (for ex liberals and many policies being castigated as ‘commies’)
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: gladtobehere
Well, if you criticized Obama you were racist.
The left has a very simple rule book.
And it's predictable.
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
It’s amazing to me that otherwise educated and intelligent people fall for it though.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: gladtobehere
Well, if you criticized Obama you were racist.
The left has a very simple rule book.
And it's predictable.
I really think that people have been so saturated with historical guilt and to a degree, indoctrination regarding identity politics, that their mind is conditioned to shutdown and go into scripts once social justice terms are used. For many it takes on almost an element of religiosity. Or many fake it and virtue signal to avoid being singled out or to gain social status within echo chambers. To your point, bad actors sometimes weaponize all this.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: Quetzalcoatl14
It’s amazing to me that otherwise educated and intelligent people fall for it though.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: gladtobehere
Well, if you criticized Obama you were racist.
The left has a very simple rule book.
And it's predictable.
It's a way to control the narrative, control speech.
And it is effective in that people still fall for it.
Agreed.
originally posted by: Mahogany
Didn't Soros take money and belongings from his own Jewish people during WWII, when he cooperated with the Nazis?
I think that disqualifies him from being Jewish ever again. That's just me.
That would be like a Native American standing with the oil companies, while the rest of the Native Americans protest the pipelines. And then call yourself Native American.
I think going against the well-being of your people should disqualify you from claiming that origin ever again.
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: gladtobehere
You know who controls you when you are no longer able to criticize them.
originally posted by: Mahogany
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: gladtobehere
You know who controls you when you are no longer able to criticize them.
Ooooh I know that quote... Kevin Alfred Strom. A Neo-Nazi leader and writer from Alaska. He was talking about the Jews with that quote. It also gets wrongly attributed to Voltaire since no one wants to quote a Nazi.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: Mahogany
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: gladtobehere
You know who controls you when you are no longer able to criticize them.
Ooooh I know that quote... Kevin Alfred Strom. A Neo-Nazi leader and writer from Alaska. He was talking about the Jews with that quote. It also gets wrongly attributed to Voltaire since no one wants to quote a Nazi.
Don't care who said it, because in this day and age there is a hell of a lot of truth to it.