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(32,886 posts)I am so glad you posted all of this. It's exactly what I have been talking about regarding the tactics of some Sanders supports. I call it the Triple D tactic, or "Datamine and Distort in order to Discredit". With an emphasis on distort.
Lets take the Yakov's elixer video that I embedded into my article about Sanders offerings making him a snake oil salesman. That clip comes from one of my favorite movies and has one of my favorite actors of all time in the starring role, Danny Kaye. I've watched this movie around 30 times so I am very familiar with it.
In the clip Danny sings about Yakov's elixer. Now it is alleged that my posting that was somehow insensitive towards Jews. First off, lets acknowledge that Danny Kaye is Jewish, and his wife who wrote the musical scores and lyrics for most of the songs he sung during his career, Sylvia Fine, was also Jewish. So, throwing in the fact that I am also Jewish, the accusation here against me is off to a bad start.
Folks who are actually interested in Jewish issues will recall that Kaye in his older years starred in a movie called Skokie where he was one of the Jewish leaders fighting against neo-Nazi's who intended to march on that town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skokie_(film)
What makes this accusation further laughable, is that the troupe to which Danny Kaye's character belongs, and this includes Yakov whose elixer he is hawking are not Jews, they are Romani. Unfortunately the wikipedia entry calls them Gypsies which is not a politically correct term, bu the point is they are not Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector_General_(film) and thus the reference is not a Jewish one and thus not antisemitic.
Kaye and Fine passed a few years back, but they both would have laughed at any accusation like this that claimed their movie was antisemitic and would have really fallen over in hysterical laughter at the ignorance of claiming those particular characters in the Inspector General were Jewish.
In fact the accusation against me is itself antisemitic because it assumes that the song is about Jews swindling people as if those are the only people who would do that. So congratulations reposting an antisemitic contention.
My no snitching article has been discussed at length in the African American group. No African American person has claimed it is racist. So not even a nice try there.
The post that you refuse to link to is yet another case in point. The post I had hidden was one where I referred to six different Twitter users who had noted that they were bullied at a caucus by Sanders supporters. Using the Triple D tactic, some Sanders supporter datamined one of those twitter users and found that at some point in the past they had tweeted out antisemitic comments. So they discounted not only that persons account, but the accounts of the five other Twitter users and also my post and had it hidden.
And that is the point of the Triple D tactic. Sanders supporters who dont want to address issues use this tactic to avoid addressing criticism of Sanders and don't care how ugly they are being when doing so. This is one of the many reasons why I can't wait until Skinner shuts all of this down in a few days. I know exactly which folks are going to have a hard time if they can't avoid discussing issues by distorting people's past posts and attacking them.