Dual Citizenship.

[Igel]

54. Well, now that I know that it's obvious

that I always knew that.

And also it should have been obvious that at no point did he or his parents (with his full consent, even if he was still alingual) actively seek dual citizenship.

That's the problem: What did she know and when did she know it?

Moreover, what's the chance that this is a question to (a) merely perk up interest, (b) correct something at best tangentially related that she wanted to clarify or put down, (c) responding to something a viewer sent in?

Because, I mean, any of those three might be fully non-anti-Semitic reasons for asking the question, especially in such a prominent way--I mean, allocating 30 seconds to it in an show that's probably 50 minutes long (making it really and truly the central theme). I assume we know, for sure, that these are non-reasons and have seen into her soul before becoming outraged and sitting in judgment.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. We don't get to automatically accuse those who didn't like W.C. Fields of homophobia because he was often photographed sucking on a big one. Perhaps they just didn't like his humor or acting, his drawl or his drinking, not because they thought "hmm ... cigar = penis, sucking on cigar = fellatio, W.C. Fields must be homosexual therefore I will hate him.&quot

As for "Sanders has visited Israel. Big deal"? I've heard similar kinds of innuendo said about others. If with respect to Israel, from anti-Semites posting as anti-Zionists, with the vague assumption that to go to Israel is to seek instructions or suck up to those you support against your own country's best interests. Usually, btw, in the I/P forum. But there are also those who visited Saudi Arabia and therefore have claims adduced divided loyalties made, with treason being imputed.

The only thing really different about this is "anti-Semitism" can be introduced into the equation--not even "divided loyalties". It's a protected group and so it's outrageous. Make the same kind of unfounded claim about others, and, well, it's low, hateful, unthinking, prejudiced, but hey, it's not "anti-Semitic."

It's not 1979. It's the 1950s.