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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsn't 'bloodthirsty media' an old anti-Semitic dog whistle?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out over a reported proposal to remove her from one of her committees because of her past controversial comments.
Said Greene: No matter what Kevin McCarthy does it would never be enough for the hate America Democrats. They are only set out to destroy Republicans, your jobs, our economy, your childrens education and lives, steal our freedoms, and erase Gods creation. And the bloodthirsty media are their henchmen who help them by relentlessly attacking anyone in their path.
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/03/greene-lashes-out-at-attempt-to-strip-committee-assignments/
Aristus
(66,096 posts)I have no doubt crazy-lady is anti-Semitic, but in this case, she's just blithering the usual right-wing hate on any media source that isn't right-wing.
Part of the never-ending culture of grievance among reich-wingers...
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)More fascist tropes adapted to the moment.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)I knew I was getting it wrong, but I couldn't remember the actual term.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)the term comes from the old "blood and soil" slogan, in which the soil belongs to the state, and the serfs have a blood liability to pay to live on and farm it. I'm pretty sure that's where the Nazis got it.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,151 posts)"Blood and soil" was a pre-Nazi ultranationalistic German phrase from the 19th century meant to evoke the "purity" of rural living -- that your "racial" stock was related to the quality of the land you farmed, with Nordic/Germans of course being superior. The Nazis picked up the concept. The phrases are not related at all.
beastie boy
(9,065 posts)their exclusive claim to Germany and the the lands they have conquered. It is still being used by the neo-nazis as a sentimental and nostalgic look back to the times when they were the Master Race.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)But its remarkable to me that when Margarine Green gets attacked by her own party, Kevin McCarthy, in this case, somehow the Democrats are responsible. I never knew how powerful we must be.
-Laelth
beastie boy
(9,065 posts)At least that was the 20th century iteration of the centuries-old radical "blood libel" antisemitism. Currently, we are living through the 21st Century version of it: Soros controlled global media.