Did Sean Streicher really say it's ok for the pres to criticize stores who drop his daughter's line?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

SMH

[pkdu]

1. Yes....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/08/donald-trump-dismisses-travel-ban-hearing-politics-us-waits/

[bravenak]

2. Yep

[Turbineguy]

3. It's an attack on his policies.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Our Boy Trumpy is crying out for someone to stop him.

He's gotten into the back room of the chocolate shop after closing hours, and he's gorging himself with chocolate. He gets sick and tosses the goo, looks around for another box and goes to work on it. He starts to cry and he's all alone and he starts to whisper to himself, "Stop me... Please stop me..."

Our Boy Trumpy.

[marybourg]

5. "Spicer".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. "Streicher."

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher

[marybourg]

7. Makes me uneasy; makes him

sound Jewish.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Julius Streicher was a Nazi propagandist.

So - not Jewish. Streicher is a German name that would translate to something like "Stringer."

[marybourg]

9. Yes, I read the supplied Wikipedia

article. But it still reads (to me) like trying to give a hated non-Jew a Jewish name. Like Publicans calling FDR "Mr. Rosenfelt".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Respectfully, it's not even close to a Jewish name.

Streicher was a virulently anti-semitic NAZI propagandist.

[marybourg]

11. Unfortunately, I know

Jewish people with this name.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I know Jewish people with very un-"Jewish" names

Mostly Irish and English names, probably changed at Ellis Island.

[marybourg]

17. Of course. I have one myself. But

that doesn't negate the anti-Semitic practice of twisting the names of hated non-Jews into Jewish-sounding names. To me, Streicher sounds and "reads" Jewish. But I'm not implying that the OP had any such intent; only that it made me uneasy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. I think this is exactly the opposite: they used the (non-Jewish) name

of a Nazi propagandist to attribute his qualities to someone who is neither Jewish nor (as far as I know) German, but is instead a propagandist for a white supremacist administration.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Like Lauren Bacall or Michael Douglas?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. I believe those were stage names.

I'm thinking of names like Coleman and Gordon, the actual names of some Jewish people I know of (and also some non-Jewish people I know of). Names get changed and tweaked all the time. I understand where there could be some concern in other situations, but not here: It's not far to attribute malign influences where clearly none were intended (attributing Jewishness to Streicher's name as attached to Spicer, a member of a definitely anti-Semitic administration, wouldn't make any sense at all).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Lots of people anglicized their names.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I don't know what to tell you.

Julius Streicher was a German propagandist. Sean Spicer is an American propagandist.


BTW, I know Jews whose last name is Trump. Does that mean Trump is a Jewish name?

[JI7]

25. The name doesn't sound jewish at all . many jewish people changed names because of anti semitusm

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Streicher is a German name.

It doesn't have any Hebrew or Yiddish roots or associations. It's just plain German. Streicher wouldn't have gotten his job as a Nazi propagandist if the other Nazis had even the slightest suspicion that the name was anything but Aryan, Herrenvolk, master-race German.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. He was also a virulent anti-semite who published anti-semitic cartoons.

[WinkyDink]

24. It was meant, and means to the world since WWII, nothing like how you "read" it.

[WinkyDink]

23. Google it.

[Wounded Bear]

14. "It's not personal, it's just business"

Isn't that the standard line when someone in power or some corporate apparatchik fucks somebody.

[malaise]

19. Yes n/t