(Jewish Group) Harris County Repubican Party Remembrance day face book post

[Gothmog]

The Harris County Republican Party lost all county wide races in both 2016 and 2018 including county judge. This face book post by the Harris County GOP is pissing off everyone

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Sri Preston Kulkarni ran for Texas CD 22 which includes a part of Harris County. Here is what Sri posted last night on face book

Sri Preston Kulkarni

I wear a bracelet every day on my wrist with a JFK quote, "History, after all, is the memory of a nation." I was going to write a post for Holocaust Remembrance Day about how important it is for us to teach and learn history (2/3 of millennials don't know what Auschwitz was), especially in light of the rise of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in our own country (and sometimes the praise of them by our elected officials).

But then, I saw the below posted by the Harris County GOP. I thought it was bad enough when the Fort Bend County GOP sent out a message to Hindus during our campaign saying, "Would you rather worship a donkey or an elephant? (At least that one meant well, even if it showed a tone deafness to anyone, especially youth, who have been stereotyped or ridiculed for being different). Of course, it was inexcusable that the Tarrant County GOP held a vote recently on whether to remove their Vice Chair simply for being Muslim.
Today the Harris County GOP has gone beyond the pale. For anyone who doesn't know, the Nazis and their predecessors, the Fascists in Italy, were fighting the "leftists." If there was any doubt that we need to do a better job teaching the history of what nationalism, fascism, and Nazi ideology really were (are), this post illustrates that better than I ever could. Good God.

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1. For this thread

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2. Whoever was responsible for this

is an ignorant asshole.

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3. They see National Socialist--but don't know Hitler's group kicked out the socialist group

Hitler was spying for the army on a group of malcontents in Bavaria. A group having some members who termed themselves socialist (I think from a part of Germany north of Bavaria) wanted to join them. They were accepted , but Hitler's group, which was larger, kicked them out.

The members who still had some socialist leanings were 'eliminated' during The Night of the Long Knives.

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5. Texas Republicans criticized for their Holocaust Remembrance Day message: 'Leftism kills'

From the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/01/28/texas-republicans-criticized-their-holocaust-remembrance-day-message-leftism-kills/?utm_term=.622e31e7f8ea

The Harris County Republican Party edited the post to remove “Leftism kills,” before eventually deleting the post entirely, the Houston Chronicle reported. Harris County, which encompasses much of greater Houston, is the largest county in Texas and the third-largest in the United States.

The Anti-Defamation League criticized the Facebook post on Sunday and countered more vehemently on Monday the local GOP’s attempts to tie the Holocaust to leftism.

“The Holocaust was born out of hatred for Jews, pure and simple,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor from Germany. “The notion that political ‘leftism’ led to millions of Jews being killed in the Holocaust is bizarre and false.”

However, the Harris County GOP later doubled down on blaming “Socialism” for the Holocaust, a systematic genocide in which an estimated 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime.

“While the initial wording included the inartful phrase ‘leftism kills,’ it rightly sought to be a reminder of the dangers of Socialism,” Harris County GOP Chairman Paul Simpson said in a statement Monday evening. “A few accused the post of being anti-Semitic. It was nothing of the sort.”

Simpson said the Facebook post “expressed our determination never to forget the horror of the Holocaust.” His follow-up statement, however, omitted any mention of “Nazis” or “Nazism.” Instead, he warned against “socialism in all forms” and noted the GOP office had earlier reported a death threat to police because of its Facebook post.

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4. The Harris County GOP is getting death threats due to their bigotry

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6. Don't approve of that.

However, I would like to see these "death threats." Not saying it didn't happen, but how strange they make a disgusting remark in "remembrance" of the Holocaust, then they get "death threats". Hmmmm. While certainly a possibility, it has a whiff of "we are the real victim" here.

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7. No one approves of death threats but I would not be surprised to see threats are overstated

I also would like to see these death threats