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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      1. Let's talk about how the Trump administration is trying to erase the Jewish dimensions of a Jewish tragedy. The technical term is "de-Judaization" -- fake universalism in the service of suppressing a particular identity.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      2. First we had the ineffable Kellyanne Conway saying that the synagogue massacre was an example of "anti-religiosity" spurred by late-night comedians: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151935/kellyanne-conway-links-synagogue-massacre-anti-religiosity-late-night-comedians …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      3. Then Mike Pence invited a Christian "rabbi" to deliver a prayer -- one that didn't name the dead in the Tree of Life synagogue but rather Republican candidates https://newrepublic.com/minutes/151946/mike-pence-got-rabbi-really-christian-pray-synagogue-dead …

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      4. Jeff Sessions made a comment similar to Kellyanne Conway, that this was an assault on all religions. Again with the effect of removing the synagogue massacre from the category of an anti-Semitic crime to a more generic offense.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      5. All of this adds up to a pattern, one seen earlier when Trump White House released statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that didn't mention Jews.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

      6. So: let's be clear: the Saturday massacre was the most lethal anti-Semitic massacre ever on American soil. The alleged gunman from all evidence had deeply imbibed anti-Jewish hatred. His goal was a specific one of killing Jews, not generic anti-religiosity.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          7. The particular idea that spurred on the killer (Jews as mastermind bringing in non-whites to destroy whites) is not generic anti-religiosity but an anti-Semitic trope with deep roots, a variant of Nazi myth of udeo–Bolshevism.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          8. The Pittsburgh massacre can only be understood through the specificity of Jewish history and a very particular type of anti-Semitism. In their public statements, the Trump administration is intent on denying that specificity.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

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          9. A good analogy is how foes of "Black Lives Matter" responded with "All Lives Matter." An adoption of a spurious universalism that is designed to shut down particular voices speaking of particular problems.https://twitter.com/oblivious_dude/status/1057104449292955648 …

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          𝓙𝓸𝓷 𝓑𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻  🇺🇦 @oblivious_dude
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          In other contexts, this is known as "all lives matter-ing it"
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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          10. So what's going on here? Why this pattern of de-emphasizing the Jewish particulars? The worst case answer is anti-Semitism, either deliberate or unconscious. But there are other possible answers.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          11. The most benign possible answer is that this is the common way that Gentiles of all stripes handle anti-Semitic crimes: try to make them more "relatable" and "universal" -- i.e. early version of Diary of Anne Frank which erased some Jewish references.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          12. A more specific answer is timing and politics. We're a week out from the mid-terms. Talking about anti-Semitism doesn't help the GOP and could (given stoking of Soros conspiracy theories) hurt them. There voters are evangelicals. Make it about anti-religiosity.

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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          13. I think it's really important for reasons to go beyond partisan politics to resist the erasure the Trump administration is engaged in. That resistance has to also oppose the tendency towards a facile ecumenicalism from some non-Trump people.

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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2018

          14. The proper understanding of the Tree of Life massacre is that it a Jewish event: fuelled by the particular anti-Semitism that scapegoats Jews for social unrest. We should oppose all forms of bigotry but can't fight anti-Semitism unless we name it as such.

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        10. End of conversation
        1. Gary Ray R (Boosted 2X, Слава Україні!)‏ @Subvetnuc 29 Oct 2018
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          I was listening to this massacre live on Broadcastify, I heard the police on scene with my own ears say at least twice that the gunman said he wanted to kill Jews. There is a recording of this.

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        1.  🇨🇦 NeverVoteConservative  🇨🇦‏ @CharlesDeschen1 30 Oct 2018
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          Stop saying "alleged" because this says there is a doubt he was the gunman. Just say the gunman....

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