RNC forced to close online convention chat after anti-Semites turn it into a Jew-bashing hatefest

[Her Sister]

You can live stream the Republican National Convention on the RNC’s official YouTube page, but you can’t chat about it live anymore.

Why, you ask? Because the Republicans have now disabled the live chat window on the page after it got overrun by anti-Semitic Trump supporters.

As former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle gave a speech promoting inroads that Republicans have made with Jewish voters, as well as ripping the Democrats for allegedly being more hostile to Israel, Trump’s alt-right followers flooded the page with anti-Semitic vitriol.

Among other things, the Trump fans wrote “Press H for Hitler,” “JOOS,” “BAN JEWS,” “OY GEVALT,” and “KIKE.”

Some screen caps follow below:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-forced-to-close-online-convention-chat-after-anti-semites-turn-it-into-a-jew-bashing-hatefest/

[NWCorona]

1. Look at the comments on some of the YouTube live feeds. More of the same.

[louis-t]

2. Just some really ugly people.

It's what they do.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Wouldn't surprise me if...

No, I am not surprised by this. I am sure some others are. The very idea a Jew would be attacked with anti-Semitic remarks?! Unheard of!

People are really showing their true colors.

[Her Sister]

4. Heard there were other words used like the N word ~from pro-Trump people

Will try to find where I read that

[Behind the Aegis]

5. That certainly doesn't surprise me!

No need for sources, I have seen this before. The hatemongers are pulling out all the stops. One of the reasons Trump is so popular is because he appeals to peoples' bigotries and doesn't make them feel ashamed of it, but rather encourages them to embrace it in "Making America Great Again."

[villager]

11. And we're back to the "you still think you can control them?" line from "Cabaret.."

Even if things turn out "right" in November, certain vicious genies won't so easily be stuffed back in bottles...

[joshcryer]

9. YouTube comments are the internet racist bigoted hotspot.

Even more so than Yahoo comments (which, surprisingly, have been cleaned up to a large extent in the past few years, it was way worse before, but it's still bad, mind you).

[nolabear]

6. Were he to win these people would feel justified in doing horrible things.

[SheilaT]

7. I'd say they arleady feel justified in doing horrible things.

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If Trump were to win, they'd believe they'd have government on their side.

[nolabear]

13. That's what I meant. You said it better.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

35. If Trump were to win, how soon would we start

to organize a nationwide general strike?

I'm not kidding.

[SheilaT]

42. Trying to be clear-headed about an

eventual Trump Presidency, a lot would depend on the make-up of Congress. If Republicans hold the House and Senate, we're totally screwed and a nationwide general strike, while an excellent idea, probably isn't going to happen. This country is much too far from its union roots for any such thing to occur, sadly.

What we'd need to do is do everything possible at a grass roots level to take over the House and Senate in 2018.

I kind of want to suggest that Hillary form what amounts to a shadow government, but that might not be such a hot idea.

Our best hope would be that if Trump were to win, that even the worst of the Republicans would quickly understand how incredibly ill suited to the job he is, and impeach him very quickly. Not that Pence would be a great President, but he'd be marginally better because he at least already understands how the government works.

[gordianot]

10. Just as likely if they lose.

The hornets nest has been stirred.

[Her Sister]

14. But a Prez like Trump would keep stirring + pouring and thus normalizing +legitimizing

[yardwork]

21. No. Losers slink away.

[glennward]

37. Most of them are cowards who will slink back into their caves and holes if Trump loses.

I learned from one of my close friends who is white that she is so befuddled about the hate for black people among her family and friends who have never even met a black person and some have actually never seen a black in person.

[yardwork]

22. Trump will do the horrible things.

[sarae]

32. That's what scares me so much about Trump.

I can't even imagine what it would be like if he won. I don't want to imagine the hellscape that would ensue.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

36. It would be time for a general strike.

[IronLionZion]

8. It's silly to think that Trump's people will come for "other people"

They'll come for all of us. No one will be spared. He's a "law and order" with supporters who are incredibly angry and stupid. What could go wrong?

There was another politician who got power legally with a small minority of the votes and small group of very passionate followers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany#Nazi_seizure_of_power

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

38. Yes, I think about that every day.

[Fritz Walter]

12. But Drumpf's pro-Israel

Or at least, pro-Netanyahu.
Well, he was the last time I checked. He changes positions more frequently than a rooftop weathervane in Kansas during a storm!

[pangaia]

15. I am at the YouTubhe "Official live stream but nothing is happening?

Are they out for dinner? Or a joint?

[turbinetree]

18. There probably out painting 6 pointed stars on windows

for identification purposes--------------

[Qutzupalotl]

27. Those are sheriff's badges!

You done been deputized!

[turbinetree]

43. Youngbloods,

Honk-------------for a political revolution Bernie

[Her Sister]

23. Reconvening at 7:30pm. Maybe a dinner break?

[Big_K]

16. This is why we can't have nice things!

[6chars]

17. GOP embraces Trump's 'America First' slogan, ​despite Jewish ​concerns

Jonathan Sarna, historian and author of ​American Judaism: A History, said that "America First" is a term remembered "for its use of anti-Semitism to advance the cause of isolationism."

http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/GOP-embraces-Trumps-America-First-slogan-despite-Jewish-concerns-460756

article from today provides more background on this angle of the Trump campaign

[Onyrleft]

19. What????

Right wingers not nice to Jews? Has there ever been any historical precedent for this?

[6chars]

29. well ...

There is also historical precedent on the left, so let's not get too comfortable.

[Mrdie]

34. Not really

The only example I've heard in regards to a left-wing state (if you want to define it as such) persecuting Jews (more precisely Jewish culture) would be the Soviet Union in Stalin's last years. Whether that was the case or not, anti-Semitism officially remained a crime throughout the history of the USSR, and under Stalin there was an expansion in Yiddish culture in the 1920s and 30s, the establishment of an alternative Jewish homeland in the form of Birodbidzhan, and Soviet recognition and support for the State of Israel upon its founding: https://archive.org/stream/SovietButNotRussian/Soviet%20But%20Not%20Russian#page/n154/mode/1up

[6chars]

40. ?????????????

[grossproffit]

39. +1

[yardwork]

20. Wow. That's extreme even for Republicans.

[grossproffit]

24. Trump has made it okay for these f***ers to come out of their bunkers.

[Hekate]

25. Trump draws supporters out from under rocks and under bridges and from the cesspits of America

Gods help us.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. Do these idiots know Ivanka is Jewish?

[Qutzupalotl]

28. No.

Maybe someone should tell them, but I think I'll just sit back and watch.

[Mc Mike]

30. That's not anti-semitism, just some kind of glitch in Microsoft Shapes.

What's next for the haters, attacking Disney's "Frozen"?

[sarae]

31. So they want to keep their anti-semitic views under wraps.

That tells you all you need to know about the Republican party. Biggest racist scumbags on the face of the earth.

[raven mad]

33. Sick idiots follow sick idiots with money.

Same old, same old.

[Wraith20878]

41. I'm shocked

Shocked I tell you

[KamaAina]

44. They gave Linda Lingle airtime?!

She just got fired from her $200K job as "operations manager" for Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL Now Has Two-Thirds Of A Budget). During her term as governor of Hawai'i, the repukes lost seats in the legislature in every election, leading to the bizarre Senate leadership contest in which two of the three remaining repukes (out of 25!) ran against each other, only to discover that the deciding vote was out of state and couldn't be found!

That being said, kama'aina (local Hawai'i people, which I was when I took the username; now you know ) seldom if ever engaged in Jew-bashing and are likely appalled at this development. The popular Lingle parlor game was to spin her four long-ago marriages and lengthy stretch of singledom into evidence that she's gay.

[lark]

45. Who would support racist Drumpf?

Why other racists, obviously.