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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can't find an origin for this quote. Please help me.
I saw numerous memes yesterday on Facebook regarding the Trump edict that if Jews don't vote republican, they are "disloyal." The meme went something like this, with variations:
Hitler: Jews are disloyal to Germany.
Trump: Jews who vote for democrats are disloyal to the United States.
I did a google search but I can't find a reference where Hitler actually said that. While I wholly agree and support the comparison, I wish I could find its origin, like "Mein Kampf" or a speech or something.
Your thoughts?
mia
(8,356 posts)One of the most dangerous, deadly accusations Jews have faced
Trumps comments were the latest in his racist campaign against Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. He was recently branded a bully for encouraging an Israeli ban on them visiting occupied Palestine.
On 20 August, Trump said:
I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/21/trump-is-now-echoing-the-same-antisemitic-tropes-used-by-the-nazis/
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)Listen for yourself:
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939-1941/hitler-speech-to-german-parliament
Amid rising international tensions Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler tells the German public and the world that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry.
Inspired by Hitler's theories of racial struggle and the supposed "intent" of the Jews to survive and expand at the expense of Germans, the Nazis ordered anti-Jewish boycotts, staged book burnings, and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. But it was the nationwide pogroms (Kristallnacht) in 1938 and the outbreak of war in 1939 that marked the transition in Nazi racial antisemitism toward genocide. To justify the murder of the Jews both to the perpetrators and to bystanders in Germany and Europe, the Nazis used not only racist arguments but also arguments derived from older negative stereotypes, including Jews as communist subversives, as war profiteers and hoarders, and as a danger to internal security because of their inherent disloyalty and opposition to Germany.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,081 posts)...that American Jews who vote for Democrats are somehow in his mind being disloyal to what he claims is Israel, but in reality his Israel is actually Netanyahu, and seriously, go fuck that guy.
I dont believe he had said American Jews who vote for Democrats are being disloyal to the United States.
But maybe Im wrong. Who knows with this asshole.