You’re cute. What I think is that the day after an attack against Jews is maybe not the best time to complain about how some Jews are Republicans and how not 100% of the Jews are on the barricades against this administration.

And here is Merriam-Webster:

Did I not represent your line of thought here accurately? Or did you have another reason to bring up Jews who pander to Trump?

Not exactly. The Jewish community expressed (sane and measured) concern over the genuinely poor phrasing. Then Republicans happened.

Because everyone knows what antisemitism means:)

There is no such thing. The term ‘semitic’ refers to languages and their speakers. So this attempt to deny that hatred of Jews is a separate entity from hatred of Muslims and/or Arabs, with its own tropes, is kinda bullshit.

The Jewish community is one of the most staunchly progressive communities in this country, and one of the most reliable Dem-voting demographics. But I guess if the Orthodox are slightly more Republican leaning, they deserve to be shot up by dudes who think Jews are out to replace them with brown people, amirite?

Twitter does it all the time though, for speech that directs hate against a protected category, includes targeted harassment, or threatens violence or physical harm. So what Jack is doing here is making an exception for Trump. Kinda like we’re stuck with Nazis and White Nationalists on Twitter, because any algorithm…

Elections have consequences.

The Jewish community at large - including the lefty side of it that is not a fan of AIPAC, and including Rep. Omar’s own constituents - have been pretty consistent in asking her to clarify what she meant, to ensure that wording that implies that American Jews use their money to buy US foreign policy, and that any…

Sanders said that he does not consider Omar to be an antisemite, but that she has to do a “better job in speaking to the Jewish community.” See the difference? What she said was poorly worded and hurtful. I know we live in the age of Trump, but we can still ask our Dem Congresspeople to do better. And I can see how…

I think the media is hugely to blame here for the ‘Dems in disarray’ narrative. Plenty of Dems found Rep. Omar’s statements problematic, including Sen. Sanders, in a perfectly civil and constructive way. But everything must be pitched at the level of high drama when it comes to covering the Dems.

I made it through the TOC and ... I mean none of it is new, but damn.

The simple math here is that if in 2020 we vote to make the blue districts bluer but lose the House majority because we were unable to hold on to or take more red and purple districts, it won’t matter how blue those blue districts are. And the media is doing an awful job covering folks who actually turned the House…

Seems like I misread your entire comment. Apologies.

What exactly are the elites in this equation?

You’re a woman, right? Barnard is a women’s-only college. So an experience of a woman getting onto campus is irrelevant. While I’m sure there was racism involved here, and hope the Barnard administration addresses it, it’s not helpful to ignore the gender context.

Because he needs to get votes in a field that currently has, just to name a few, Elizabeth Warren (better than him on economic justice), Kamala Harris and Corey Booker (both are awesome and representation does matter, when running to represent a growing diverse country), and Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg (for the…

There’s nothing in Judaism that prohibits medical intervention to protect life, which is what this is. It’s actually the opposite. So yes, this is anti-vax movement at work. An Orthodox family friend I talked to doesn’t frame this as a religious prohibition, just standard ‘the government is out to get us’ bullcrap.

You know what you personally can do about that? Not call people who are plenty liberal and progressive centrists because they don’t prefer your candidate.