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Lithos

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14. Understand
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 08:06 PM
Feb 2017

As individuals, Jared and Ivanka do not get a pass on their individual behaviors because they are Jewish, or self-identify as Jews. I think there is much to call about their individual virtues based on their own actions or non-actions.

However, people do need to understand there are many malignacies perpetuated against Jews - stereotypes and slanders which are used to invoke outrages on the group as a whole.

The irony here - I deliberately used the analogy of Trump as Mammon knowing Mammon represents a major Christian-birthed, anti-Semitic symbol. Trump stands as the amoral and Christian head of a resurgent anti-Semitism in this country, yet himself is the walking epitome of everything Mammon idealizes. Everything Trump is doing, every lie, every conspiracy, every base narcissism, every greedy impulses are the very lies and accusations thrown at Jews for over a thousand years. Yet he is the figurehead and focus of anti-Semitism, it's champion.

It is a black sun Jared and Ivanka circle.

Perhaps they are too close to see this and say more.





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