3. @joshtpm does a good job of laying out why that ad is anti-Semitic. I want to ask next question: why isn't this a bigger deal?
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4. Trump has been properly labeled racist but there's little discussion of his anti-Semitism. Instead, anti-Semitism seen only in alt-right
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5. Part of the reason is that since World War II, Americans used to thinking about racism as a fringe phenomenon in their society.
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6. The last major public figures where were anti-Semitic flourished in 1930s & 1940s: Lindbergh, Coughlin, Theodore Bilbo
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7. Sorry in point #5, I meant anti-Semitism, not racism, became fringe after World War II
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8. Also Trump has a personal story that gives him some immunity: Jewish daughter, son-in-law, grand kids.
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9. As always, it think it's best to see racism & anti-Semitism as public ideologies rather than personal vices.
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10. George Wallace, for example, turned his racism on and off as was politically expedient. It wasn't personal, but matter of politics.
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11. In Trump's case, important to understand that anti-Semitism is structurally necessary for the type of right-wing populism he's selling.
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12. Rightwing populism is, to borrow a phrase, "the socialism of fools."
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13. The socialism of fools is the socialism of those who want scapegoat some capitalists for problems but keep overall capitalist system.
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14. In imaginary of right-wing populism, there are good nationalist businessmen (Trump) & bad internationalist businessmen (((guess who)))
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14. Further the wealthy, conspiratorial international Jew is necessary because racists see other groups as inferior.
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