This also fits into his persistant denial of agency to most people. “Mexico doesn’t send its best people.” He loves his rallies not just because the people are cheering him, but also because they are UNITED behind him. He has a bullies fear of being ganged up on, so he doesn’t like multilateral treaties. He would rather bully leaders individually and does not like the idea that they have to pay attention to the wishes of THEIR people. EVERYTHING is seen through the lens of “with me or against me,” and he can’t handle any more complicated dynamic, any multilateral conflict with more than two players. He reduces them ALL to him and one other person. Everybody else will either pick a side or be assigned one.
I regret that I have only one like to give to this.
For Trump support for Israel and loyalty to America go hand in hand. Reps. Omar and Tlaib are disloyal to America because of their stance on Israel. American Jews who vote for the Democrats are disloyal to America because they support a party that is (in his opinion) hostile to Israel. American Jews should be loyal to Israel because as Jews they should love Israel, as Americans they should support Israel and there is no conflict between loyalty to Israel and loyalty to America.
Please understand that this is an issue that is more than academic for some of us, who had limbs of their family tree lopped off by the Nazis.
Also, your kind of flippant remark “maybe it doesn’t come up much outside of the US” (I paraphrase) really only served to aggravate people’s responses to you.
But I do apologize, as my tone was more a response to your words and tone than it was to you as an individual. Hopefully you learned something here you didn’t in school, and that’s a good thing.
No, because then they’ll turn it around and say, “See? The Democrats are the real Nazis.”
I do understand that this is a very real issue for many people, which is why I found it important to ask why the tweet was offensive.
My intention was not to sound flippant and I apologize that it came across that way. I hadn’t encountered that specific trope before and was honestly interested if it was US specific.
Consider me educated.
…“I wanted to know why it was considered a slur”…
Calling an American Jew disloyal because he/she doesn’t support Israel’s political policies is like saying a African American Roman Catholic is disloyal because he thinks a woman’s right to choose abortion is correct.
Trump didn’t just say “Americans who vote Democratic are disloyal.” He called out American Jews specifically.
Clearly the implication is that Jewish people have, or should have, different loyalties than their fellow citizens. This fits into a well-established pattern of behavior in which Trump seems incapable of differentiating “Jewish Americans” from “Israelis.”
TBF, in the UK at least we historically dislike Catholics more than Jews https://www.channel4.com/news/british-royal-family-other-religions-same-sex-marriage
That’s what I was trying to say. Trump believes that American Jews should be loyal to Israel as well as America.
Waiting for someone to spin this that it’s “the other people” who are making America more divided.
Yes, Trump is suggesting that an person who is Jewish would be disloyal to Israel or to some idea of Judaism if they voted for a Democrat. But that only makes sense if you assume they have dual loyalty to begin with. Basically Trump is suggesting that a person who is Jewish and American ought to have dual loyalty, and that it would be a failing if they didn’t. Like Jewish Americans have a proud history dual loyalty or something.
It is definitely the dual loyalty slur.
More accurately, the UK historically saw Catholics as a bigger threat to the crown than Jews. The only reason no one ever outlawed a member of the royal family marrying a non-Christian is that the idea would have seemed preposterous on its face in the 18th Century.
The irony that this pathetic little shit monster actively despises the only creature on this planet that could ever truly love him is just so, so sad.
You will die alone and despised, Donnie. Hurry the fuck up already.
Man, I don’t know if there’s a dog on this planet so desperate as to love that travesty of a person. I think he hates them because they all sense what he is. They aren’t as easy to bamboozle as the right.
Listen, if Hitler can have a dog, love it, and presumably be tolerated or even loved by it, I think we can agree that anyone can.
I’m reminded of the old Rodney Dangerfield joke “my mom tied a pork chop around my neck just so the dog would play with me.”
