Trump brings bigots out of hiding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-brings-bigots-out-of-hiding/2015/12/18/8a02e4ac-a587-11e5-9c4e-be37f66848bb_story.html
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote: "Let's not mince words,
Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist." I cited a long list of
incidents in which he targeted women, Latinos, African
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the disabled. Here's what I heard
back from Trump's defenders: "Let's not mince words," somebody
tweeted under the name Helios Megistos. "Milbank is an
anti-white parasite and a bigoted kike supremacist."
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This is very much my experience as well, including from several people
on my mailing lists (I've long known that privacy issues in particular
attract a certain number of right-wing fanatics, but it's been difficult
until now to flush them out specifically).
I particularly am amused by people accusing me (as they did Milbank as
noted in this article) of being a Zionist -- because I've long been on
the record as feeling that Israel is currently being run by a dangerous
madman in league with Israel's own parasitic, right-wing religious
fanatics -- and that the very concept of <religion>State is disgraceful.
Of course even more amusing are the U.S. right-wing evangelicals who
profess to support "Bibi" and Israel solely because it plays into their
"End Times" apocalyptic scenarios.
One good thing, at least it's now almost the weekend. Presumably we
can all agree about that.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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