Would she had made the same comment had his name was John Smith?

[question everything]

And, yes, a fellow billionaire?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212671756

But, of course, on these pages it is no big deal. Even being applauded.

[Cary]

1. Sad.

[mucifer]

2. She might have. It's a common phrase. She endorsed Bernie. I'm Jewish and I have to say

he did a lot in New York to push out the impoverished. I won't deny that. It has nothing to do with antisemitism in my opinion.

In my state of Illinois we have a governor who is democrat and a billionaire and Jewish. He is pushing new tax laws that narrow the wealth-poverty gap. A lot of his other policies do, too. I praise him for his actions as I speak out against Bloomberg for his greed.

It's great Bloomberg is pro LGBT and anti gun. But, it's the wealth-poverty gap that is destroying us (well along with lots of other things.)

[MosheFeingold]

5. Of please

Everyone knows what she meant.

So she is a hair slicker than David Duke (who also had a “D” next to his name for years — means nothing in this context). She’s a flaming Jew hater.

She should have been kicked out of Congress last time around.

[grossproffit]

6. It's grotesque to see people defending her. I'm repulsed and angry as hell.

[question everything]

10. Or, at least, removed from the Foreign Affairs committee

The problems that her constituents face are crime and poverty. They really could not care about the "rich Jews" or about the "Israeli influence," unless incited.

She clearly wanted this assignment with her own agenda and should be removed.

[grossproffit]

3. No. It's a big deal to me. I'm about done.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I know you didn't expect anything different.

To answer your hypothetical...unlikely; it would have either gone without comment or it wouldn't have had the smilie added. The better question, no offense, but would be would the reactions be the same (full on defense, telling Jews to shut the fuck up because as another minority they know anti-Semitism better, victim inversion, or general whining) had it been a RW asshole who said the SAME thing?! Of course not! They past words of the RW'er in question would be part of the rationale for the accusation and the only people claiming it wasn't a dog-whistle would be RWers. The one thing BOTH sides are competent at doing is finding anti-Semitism on the other side, and they BOTH excel at ignoring the dog-whistles from their own side and gaslight or scream "racism/sexism/bigotry" to anyone, especially a Jew, when they dare to call out the anti-Semitism.

"Some of my best friends are XXX so I can't be YYY."

"She voted for Obama, so she can't be racist."

"He voted for Clinton in 2016, so he can't be sexist."

"Why must be call out bigotry on our side, when it so much worse on the other side?"

(All of the above would be called out as stupidity, 'splainin', or otherwise rejected as "nonsense" if any other example of a minority group expressing concern about bigotry against them.)

"It is bigoted to call out a minority person who expresses bigotry against another group, unless the minority making the bigoted remark is a Jew."

"It is just Russian propaganda!" (because the Russians care so much for the Jewish people!)

"It is a RW talking point!"

(Those are the other excuses popular in excusing anti-Semitism or trying to shame those who feel something is anti-Semitic.)

Of course, we are also called traitors, called paranoid and hysterical, and told we are being neurotic. It is as it has been for CENTURIES.

[JudyM]

7. People are really showing their lack of understanding of the subtleties of antisemitism.

[EllieBC]

8. Kind of why I disappear a lot.

If I keep thinking about how much gross antisemitism the left embraces the more I worry about if I actually have a political home.

[question everything]

9. Same here. But I hope that if we do not provide some resistance

(while keeping our posts from being removed for... never mind) too many uninformed will be exposed to only these vile comments.

But it is good for the soul and the psyche to sometimes take time off from these pages.