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TheRickles
(3,423 posts)56. Thanks for providing the clip, so we can decide for ourselves what she said and what she meant.
There's a lot of confirmation bias going on in the Comments here. People on DU are very eager to trash her, but this example doesn't provide good ammo for them, IMO.
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And it wasn't even their own opinion. They mindlessly repeated what they were told.
betsuni
Apr 2024
#18
From what I see on social media, this is a pretty mainstream idea from DSA types and those further to the left.
Ace Rothstein
Apr 2024
#20
Say "I'm a progressive!" and we're all supposed to mindlessly believe it -- speaking truth to power as long
betsuni
Apr 2024
#55
Not to defend Stein, but I think she parrots "Jews have homeland" (not Poland) as she cuts the guy off.
LeftInTX
Apr 2024
#22
Thanks for providing the clip, so we can decide for ourselves what she said and what she meant.
TheRickles
Apr 2024
#56
But wouldn't one say "a homeland" rather than "homeland"? That doesn't make sense to me.
LauraInLA
Apr 2024
#58
Stupid sounding stuff comes out, when you engage in people off the street. She is short with him.
LeftInTX
Apr 2024
#62
Jews had a "homeland" in Poland because they were forced out of Western Europe...
Wounded Bear
Apr 2024
#44
And when the few Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust tried to go back to Poland to live,
lees1975
Apr 2024
#60
Jill Stein, like Bernie Sanders, is a Jew who is against the slaughter in Gaza.
Ping Tung
Apr 2024
#45