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PCIntern

(27,160 posts)
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 11:58 AM Sep 2024

Another perspective on Vance's attack upon Randi Weingarten,

President of the American Federation of Teachers…

Well folks, nothing is random with this prick Vance. This slimy SOB hit the trifecta here: female, lesbian, and wait for it…Jewish.

Yeah, well the first two are of course, very significant but make no mistake: when this PoS Vance talks about “indoctrination”, he’s letting his “devout Christian followers” know that he’s railing against a nasty “Commie Jew”. One of the constant refrains of the far right wing since the 1920’s was the linking of “the Jew” to Marxism, because Karl Marx was born to a Jewish family which, just by the way, had converted to Christianity before his birth. That last bit is “incidental” because, they will point out, both his mother’s and father’s direct antecedents involved generations of rabbis. So he’s a Jew, like it or not.

Please don’t assume that the masses are impervious to this because they’re generally ignorant. It’s a trope which has been utilized as long as the “Secret Jewish Tax on Food”, as evidenced by the K or U printed on certain labels. (If this is true, I haven’t received my check) and believe me, they get it. They see the name “Weingarten” and all doubt is removed.

This scurrilous attack deserves its own comeuppance. I hope he gets his in the most ironic and karmic manner possible. Prick.

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Another perspective on Vance's attack upon Randi Weingarten, (Original Post) PCIntern Sep 2024 OP
It's certainly a dogwhistle, just like MAGA chuds' obsession... keep_left Sep 2024 #1

keep_left

(2,654 posts)
1. It's certainly a dogwhistle, just like MAGA chuds' obsession...
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 12:40 PM
Sep 2024

...with the "Frankfurt School", "cultural Marxism", "critical theory", Saul Alinsky, etc.

A lot of this garbage started out on the fringes with the alt-right, and was then gradually "mainstreamed". Journalist David Neiwert has written about this process--how really whacked-out ideas start out on the lunatic fringe, but over many months (or more typically, years), the rough edges get filed down as these ideas are passed along to more "respectable" cultural outposts. Pretty soon, we're hearing them on Fox "News" or even C-SPAN.

JD Vance himself seems to be one of these "transmitters", as Neiwert calls them. Any number of times now during this campaign, Vance has been caught essentially plagiarizing alt-right rhetoric, delivering it directly to Trump fans in his speeches. This also serves to short-circuit the "mainstreaming" process that normally goes on in the culture (where the most overt bigotry and racism gets removed from, say, the rantings of Roosh V et al.). What Vance is doing is the cultural equivalent of injecting uncut hard drugs into the veins of the body politic.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219405707#post87
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217833385#post6

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