2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton supporters online spreading images of Bernie Sanders head photoshopped on Virgin Mary [View all]Hekate
(90,202 posts)Forget asking me for DU links -- it's been all over the place starting about the time someone proclaimed Bernie "a JEWISH CARPENTER!" in caps, with exclamation points.
Self-identified adoring Bernie supporters started using Christian iconography on this agnostic Yiddische mensch with great abandon. Several times I pointed out at DU how inappropriate this is, given his family history (his father's family was wiped out by Christians in the Holocaust; and even after the war was over, good Polish Christians tried to kill off the few Jews returning from the camps).
But it continued unabated.
The frosting on the cake for me was when he started planning a trip to the Vatican. Suddenly Democratic Underground, which has a long and ugly history of hatred of the Roman Catholic Church and whoever the Pope is, including this one, was all over how fabulous it was that Bernie was going to schmooze with the Pope. Well, fine, that IS fabulous if so. HOWEVER, now Bernie's online image became smothered in explicitly Roman Catholic iconography.
So, I am sorry if you suddenly feel offended, Cheese Sandwich. But I know exactly which group started this mishegas. Own it, and fix it yourselves.
JURY: This is a combination of factual DU history and my opinion of it. The facts are there. I'm not trying to be mean -- I've been following these developments with a dropped jaw the whole time. (And by the way, my own late father in law was a Polish Jew whose entire first family, wife, kids, and in-laws, was killed at Auschwitz. It's in my immediate family.)