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Behind the Aegis

(53,951 posts)
Wed May 15, 2019, 04:21 PM May 2019

TN county votes to censure judge; posted article saying Jews should 'get the f**k over the Holocaust

A Tennessee county commission has voted in favor of censuring a judge who posted racist and anti-Semitic articles on his Facebook page.

Prior to the Monday evening hearing, Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey wrote a letter to the Shelby County Commission to say the article he linked to saying the Jews should “get the f**k over the Holocaust” and called Muslim immigrants “foreign mud” was not written by a Holocaust denier, as had been widely reported, but by a Jewish writer, David Cole, the Commercial Appeal reported.

“The local newspaper’s initial dramatic heading, tying me to a Holocaust denier, and accompanying article was all based on a falsehood,” the letter said. “This is character assassination at its best.”

Cole, who also has gone by the name of David Stein, is considered by historians to be a Holocaust denier. He has claimed that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp and that there was no genocidal plan against the Jews, but rather a plan to use them as slave labor. He also has disputed the 6 million Jews killed figure as too high. He says he prefers to be called a Holocaust revisionist.

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TN county votes to censure judge; posted article saying Jews should 'get the f**k over the Holocaust (Original Post) Behind the Aegis May 2019 OP
Doesn't matter what the guy who wrote it calls himself. THe fact that he LINKED to is hateful shit. CurtEastPoint May 2019 #1
Scumbag even looks like David Duke's twin brother from bullwinkle428 May 2019 #11
This guy does not belong on the bench. Initech May 2019 #2
Exactly. He needs to be removed still_one May 2019 #3
+1 ProudLib72 May 2019 #5
funny that they don't even censure folks who tell us to get over slavery malaise May 2019 #4
Anti-Semitism matters...all bigotries matter. n/t Behind the Aegis May 2019 #6
I agree malaise May 2019 #7
I bet Judge Jim hasn't gotten over 'the War of Northern Agression'. Any money. Mc Mike May 2019 #8
That would be his name for it malaise May 2019 #9
Hate and venality is all the repugs have. Mc Mike May 2019 #10

CurtEastPoint

(18,639 posts)
1. Doesn't matter what the guy who wrote it calls himself. THe fact that he LINKED to is hateful shit.
Wed May 15, 2019, 04:26 PM
May 2019

Fucking worthless scum

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
10. Hate and venality is all the repugs have.
Wed May 15, 2019, 07:14 PM
May 2019

Well, I guess they have stupid and crazy down pat, too. To be fair.

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