New GOP mailer in a Connecticut State Senate race shows Jewish candidate clutching fistful of money

[kpete]

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http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-anti-semitic-mailer-20181030-story.html

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[Hekate]

1. There is nothing subtle about that anti-Semitism. nt

[nycbos]

2. What is subtle anti-semitism?

[Hekate]

4. The way it was just a few years ago, when it was not considered decent to be too obvious about ...

...bigotry. Euphemisms, you know. Rolled eyes. References to like, "Well, you know." Things you could pretend you hadn't really heard.

The next step down is dog-whistles. Little references that the "in-group" would catch, but probably not the rest of us.

Trump/Bannon have given permission to people who used to be on the far outer fringes of society to come out from under their rocks and be proud and loud about their insane hatreds of Jews, immigrants, African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ -- you name it.

As far as they are concerned, euphemisms are just another form of hated political correctness. Euphemisms and common decency itself are for wusses and girly-men.

As for this ad, the imagery is just right in your face.

[nycbos]

6. Got it.

Like this?

[dalton99a]

3. The GOP stands for bigotry and racism.

That's all they've got.

[lunasun]

5. Like F'n Nazi propaganda

I will not post but look at old Nazi prop 30's . Same

[Demovictory9]

7. not subtle

[Behind the Aegis]

8. What's a little anti-Semitism?

What could possibly go wrong?

Eventually, we are going to witness a political assassination of a Jewish politician and the best we can hope for is it isn't on live TV. Maybe we will even get to see it this week, depending on well Jews do in the polls.