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No matter how incoherent the Dear Leader’s speech, the ambitious pol praises his wisdom in hope of “a plum post in the new order,” Kagan wrote. Others just hope to survive. They mumble their pledges of support and pray for the best. Others will put their heads down, believing the storm will pass and they will pick up the pieces, rebuild, and get back to normal.
2.6 million anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter from August 2015 to July 2016, of which 19,253 were directed at journalists. The onslaught climbed significantly as the presidential race heated up. More than 800 journalists were subjected to anti-Semitic attacks on Twitter,
“there has arisen in the United States a growing menace to political order and justice that seeks to reignite social animosities, reverse improvements in race relations, divide our people, and foment hatred, classism, and ethnic cleansing,” naming this “toxic menace” as white nationalism and the alt-right.
“In ten days,” I said, “the United States will have elected its first woman president. The question at that moment will be whether the hate and division that surfaced during the 2016 campaign will be remembered as a last gasp of a defeated populace, clinging desperately to the old order they once ruled as it was swept away, or the beginning of a recalcitrant movement against American democratic pluralism.” Most members of the audience applauded with the same smug certainty that I was showing.
Alt Right: a world dominated by digital trolls, insanely unbridled conspiracism, angry White-male-identity victimization culture, and ultimately, open racism, antisemitism, ethnic hatred, misogyny, and sexual/gender paranoia. A place where human decency and ethics are considered antiquarian jokes, and empathy is only an invitation to assault,”
think Trump was a legitimizer,” William Regnery told BuzzFeed in an exceedingly rare interview. White nationalism “went from being conversation you could hold in a bathroom, to the front parlor.”
Between August 2015 and July 2016, they found 2.6 million tweets with anti-Semitic language, which were seen 10 billion times (“impressions,” in Twitter parlance). “That’s roughly the equivalent social media exposure advertisers could expect from a $20 million Super Bowl ad—a juggernaut of bigotry we believe reinforces and normalizes anti-Semitic language and tropes on a massive scale,”
Department of Homeland Security’s $10 million grant program to counter violent extremist ideology was narrowed in 2017 to focus solely on Islamist extremism, not right-wing terrorist groups, which have killed far more people in the United States.
Jews don’t cower; we hope. Because we believe the Messiah has yet to come, we do not look back at any Golden Age. We look forward with anticipation, and we fight for our future.
We do not subscribe to the view that Mr. Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have so long desired, will implement the proposals circulating in [Nazi newspapers]; they will not suddenly deprive German Jews of their constitutional rights, nor enclose them in ghettos, nor subject them to the jealous and murderous impulses of the mob. They cannot do this because a number of crucial factors hold powers in check … and they clearly do not want to go down that road. When one acts as a European power, the whole atmosphere tends towards ethical reflection upon one’s
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My elder daughter asked me recently whether she looked Jewish. “Why?” I responded. “Because I don’t want to. I don’t want to be targeted like you are. I don’t want to be afraid.”
