I couldn't possibly disagree more with you. If you go to the Clip Art choices in Microsoft Word under the generic category of "STAR", you see the very same 6-pointed star. The vast majority of people don't think like that - including me. Never in a million years would I have assumed that was a Star of David. But then again, I also don't assume welfare is racist. I don't look for signs someone is a bigot or a reason to scream, "Racist!" or "Anti-Semite!".
Only those who, themselves, are inherently bigoted or afflicted with the leftloon disease of being terminally aggrieved and offended (whether honestly as the leftwing victimology machine dictates or dishonestly as a means to attack Trump) jumped to the conclusion that was a Star of David. The man's daughter and son-in-law are Jewish, for crying out loud. Get a grip! On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 7:00:35 PM UTC-4, brine wrote: > > The anti-semetic aspect of the tweet is the fact that it plays into the > stereotype of money grubbing jews ... the Disney thing and many others that > use a star are not pushing an agenda ... I am 100% sure that the person who > tweets for Mr. Trump was aware of the symbolism ... I have worked in > advertizing, graphics and printing my whole adult life ... nothing is > random or benign!!! > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:00 PM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> My question for you is why you give credence to a Hillary-loving moron >> like Kirchick? >> >> http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/another-neocon-endorses-clinton >> >> She's promising "free" college education and now socialized medicine for >> anyone who wants it. And this idiot claims she's conservative. >> >> I guess he also missed the fact that the MORONS like him who claimed the >> Trump campaign's use of a red six-pointed star was anti-Semitic have been >> proven to be morons. >> >> >> >> When a leftwing company like Walt Fucking Disney used the exact same >> star, I sure don't recall the hillary bots screeching, do you? >> >> It was the anti-Semites and MORONIC JEWS like Kirchick who jumped to that >> conclusion when they saw a harmless 6-pointed star and money. It's no >> different than when the same leftloons automatically think saying something >> about welfare is racist (because THEY equate blacks with welfare). >> >> I laugh every time I see leftwingers show that they are the true bigots. >> >> >> On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 4:50:53 PM UTC-4, Bruce Majors wrote: >>> >>> Why is it a defense that your guy is too stupid to know how the Internet >>> works, but it isn't for the other guy? >>> >>> >>> Is this email not displaying correctly? >>> View it in your browser >>> <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=ac35ac66c4&e=95fdfeaa2b>. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Jared Kushner, Shanda >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=8cd82db45a&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> >>> >>> How the scion of one tri-state crime family married into another, in a >>> story equal parts ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’ >>> By James Kirchick >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=084412ba09&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> July >>> 11, 2016 >>> >>> Of the myriad ways in which Donald Trump has forced his pathetic >>> assemblage of voters, political enablers, and media hangers-on to debase >>> themselves, surely nothing has been so pitiful as the recent apologetics >>> offered by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. In a piece >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=bce040f321&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> for *The New York Observer—*which he owns—titled “The Donald Trump I >>> Know,” Kushner began by declaring, “My father-in-law is not an >>> anti-Semite.” Displaying the sort of defensive rationalization employed by >>> people who feel a need to preface their disquisitions on inner-city crime >>> or immigration with the proviso, “I’m not a racist,” Kushner’s article >>> radiated the desperation of a hostage tape—which, in a way, it was. >>> Alongside banal attacks on the “speech police” and “the media” for holding >>> Trump up to an “insane standard” of propriety, Kushner shared the story, >>> “which I have never discussed,” of his ancestors’ victimization at the >>> hands of the Nazis so as to ensure readers that he is ever-attuned to “real >>> anti-Semitism.” >>> >>> The presumably “fake” anti-Semitism that his father-in-law has been so >>> unfairly accused of peddling was highlighted >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=53ec6fc4c8&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> just >>> a day earlier by one of Kushner’s own writers at the *Observer*, Dana >>> Schwartz, in an open letter to her boss. Prompting Schwartz’s concern was a >>> tweet by Trump, which, under the headline “Crooked Hillary–Makes History!” >>> depicted the presumptive Democratic nominee in profile against a backdrop >>> of raining dollar bills and a six-pointed star declaring her “Most corrupt >>> candidate ever!” Internet sleuths quickly traced the provenance of the >>> image to a white supremacist web forum. What followed was the usual >>> rigmarole whenever Trump is caught red-handed uttering bigoted things, or >>> retweeting bigoted things, or winking at bigots: a half-assed apology on >>> the part of the campaign followed by immediate repudiation by the candidate >>> himself. After taking down the original image and reposting it with a >>> circle instead of a star, (alongside the totally-kosher hashtag >>> #AmericaFirst, the anti-Semitic origins of which Trump cannot possibly, at >>> this point, claim ignorance), Trump and his coterie effectively rescinded >>> their earlier admissions of remorse by variously asserting that the star >>> was innocuously lifted from Microsoft Shapes, is a “sheriff’s star,” and, >>> most ridiculously, no different than the one appearing >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=2bccfd5c93&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> on >>> the cover of a *Frozen*coloring book. >>> >>> We know Kushner is not oblivious to anti-Semitism. One of the first >>> decisions he made as owner of the *Observer* was to fire the writer >>> Phil Weiss, then beginning his descent from someone creepily obsessed with >>> Jews into proprietor of an anti-Semitic hate site. (Ironically, Weiss was >>> one of the few people aside from right-wing extremists to defend >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=a0180b459c&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> his >>> old boss in Stargate.) Whether Trump himself fully grasped the implications >>> of slipping a Magen David into a tableau of money and accusations of >>> financial impropriety—indeed, whether he is, in his heart, an >>> anti-Semite—is beside the point. More pertinent is the simple fact that >>> Trump lifted the meme from a racist internet troll and has garnered the >>> enthusiastic support of seemingly every anti-Semite and white >>> nationalist in the United States. When it comes to questions like “Is Trump >>> dog-whistling at racists or merely lifting iconography from a popular >>> Disney franchise?,” I think I’ll take the word of David Duke over >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=1dff0f587d&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> that >>> of Jared Kushner. >>> >>> The rest of Kushner’s article was incoherent, dishonest, or evasive. For >>> instance, in the very same sentence where he attributes the star imbroglio >>> to Trump’s “team” being “careless in choosing an image to retweet,” Kushner >>> states that the whole controversy derives from the fact “that it’s the >>> actual candidate communicating with the American public rather than the >>> armies of handlers who poll test ordinary candidates’ every move.” Invoking >>> the hackneyed anecdote of Pauline Kael’s expression of befuddlement at >>> Richard Nixon’s victory, registered on account of her knowing only one >>> person who voted for him, Kushner instructs Schwartz and her journalistic >>> colleagues “to get out there and meet some of those people ‘outside their >>> ken’ ” supporting Trump. Because if there’s one man who understands the >>> frustrations of middle America—aside, of course, from Trump himself—it’s >>> this dapper, Orthodox Jewish product of the Frisch School, Harvard College, >>> and New York University’s law and business schools. “The worst that his >>> detractors can fairly say about him,” Kushner writes of his father-in-law, >>> “is that he has been careless in retweeting imagery that can be interpreted >>> as offensive.” If you put aside Trump’s endorsement of violence against >>> protestors, wanton disregard for the First Amendment, ridicule of the >>> physically handicapped for the delectation of a braying mob, endorsement of >>> nuclear proliferation, call to withdraw from NATO, envious admiration for >>> all manner of anti-American despots and thugs (the latest being Saddam >>> Hussein), remarks about a reporter’s menstrual cycle, clinically malignant >>> narcissism, pig ignorance about the basic functions of government, proposal >>> to ban Muslims from entering the country, racist attacks on a federal >>> judge, etc. and *ad infinitum*… if, in other words, Trump was merely >>> the joke vanity candidate we all thought he was a year ago, then, yes, >>> perhaps his noxious Twitter account would be “the worst” thing about his >>> disgusting and disgraceful campaign. >>> >>> Like smoking crack or joining the Communist Party after the Moscow purge >>> trials, supporting Donald Trump makes you say and do stupid things you’ll >>> come to regret. Distinguishing Jared Kushner’s submission to the genre of >>> Trump defenses from those of other Trumpkins was its exploitation of the >>> Holocaust. Kushner tells us that this is the first time he has shared this >>> story of familial agony, an admission that, given the context, would be >>> execrable enough even without his galling accusation that it is his >>> father-in-law’s “detractors” who are “manipulate[ing] the public.” And >>> Kushner revealed this heirloom of family suffering—which is hardly his own >>> suffering—for what? To defend a man who plays political footsie with the >>> former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan? >>> >>> *** >>> >>> To understand how Jared Kushner could reach such depths, one must first >>> understand that not only is he the son-in-law of an abusive sociopath, but >>> the son of one as well. Charles Kushner, a child of Holocaust survivors, >>> inherited a family real estate development business and grew it into a >>> billion-dollar empire with properties across six states. If one wants to >>> rise from mere landlord to true real estate mogul, it is necessary—given >>> the role that the legislative and judicial systems play in determining who >>> may use property to what end, i.e. the value of property—to become a >>> political power broker. And so Charles took a lesson from his future in-law >>> Donald Trump: He invested heavily in politics, becoming one of the biggest >>> Democratic donors in the country. His greatest investment was a young New >>> Jersey politico named Jim McGreevy, who as governor, appointed Kushner to >>> the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. >>> Distinguishing Jared Kushner’s submission to the genre of Trump defenses >>> from those of other Trumpkins was its exploitation of the Holocaust. >>> >>> Charles Kushner seemed to have an insatiable appetite for money and >>> power, and recognized the role politics played at the nexus of both. To >>> maximize his influence, Kushner circumvented federal campaign finance laws >>> by funneling money to candidates and elected officials with donations made >>> in the names of other people and through the over 100 separate real estate >>> development partnerships he controlled. In one of this already absurd >>> campaign’s more novelistic ironies, Kushner’s dirty dealings caught the >>> attention of a young, ambitious federal prosecutor named Chris Christie, >>> who opened up an investigation that called Kushner’s sister, Esther, and >>> brother-in-law, Billy, as witnesses. Determined to prevent Billy from >>> testifying, Charles set up a honey trap >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=6fad580f6d&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> for >>> his brother-in-law in a motel room—fully equipped with video cameras—and >>> paid a prostitute $10,000. Kushner then sent a tape of the assignation to >>> his sister, who promptly turned her brother’s attempt at blackmail over to >>> the authorities. >>> >>> Now charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering in >>> addition to campaign finance violations, Kushner pleaded guilty to all 18 >>> felonious counts against him. He was sentenced >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=6fe826c310&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> to >>> two years in federal prison, and had to pay one of the highest ever fines >>> levied by the Federal Election Commission—all of which amounted to a slap >>> on the wrist given the nature of his conduct, the mountains of >>> incontrovertible evidence against him, and his lack of any evident remorse, >>> despite pleading guilty. “What is truly extraordinary is that Charles >>> Kushner has failed to accept full responsibility for his outrageous >>> criminal conduct,” said Christie, who today is one of Trump’s closest >>> advisers, alongside the son of the man he had arrested >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=4d5e0a5798&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> . >>> >>> Kushner was also implicated in the simultaneous downfall of his >>> political protégé McGreevy, who became infamous for a live televised >>> resignation during which he announced to the world that he was “a gay >>> American.” Thanks to this cynical deflection, most today remember McGreevy >>> as having done nothing worse than commit marital infidelity under the >>> duress of his decision to marry a woman and live his life in the closet. >>> But the main reason McGreevy was forced to step down from his post was that >>> his former lover, an Israeli man named Golan Cipel whom he had put on the >>> state payroll in a make-work job, was threatening to sue him for sexual >>> harassment. >>> >>> So who was Golan Cipel? McGreevy had met Cipel several years earlier in >>> Israel, and it was Charles Kushner who sponsored the young Israeli’s work >>> visa to the United States, and then generously employed Cipel in one of his >>> companies before the governor hired him. Some speculated >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=7d411d81f7&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> that >>> Kushner, recognizing the blackmail potential of this arrangement, persuaded >>> Cipel to threaten McGreevy with exposure. That would explain why, 10 >>> minutes before McGreevy’s tearful confession, a lawyer representing Cipel >>> called >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=2eeed18f46&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> McGreevy’s >>> office conveying the message that the jilted lover would keep their affair >>> secret if the governor fulfilled an odd request: grant a charter to Touro >>> College allowing it to open a medical school in New Jersey—a medical school >>> for which Charles Kushner had raised money and hoped to name after his late >>> mother. (At the time, Kushner, through his lawyer, denied >>> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=39becc584b&e=95fdfeaa2b> >>> any >>> involvement.) >>> >>> With his father in the slammer, Jared became the nominal head of the >>> family business, and he remained a loyal son. Unlike Andrew and Mark >>> Madoff, who never spoke a word to their dad after turning him over to the >>> feds, Jared regularly visited Charles in federal prison, trekking down to >>> Alabama once a week, and defended him publicly. Jared’s role in this lurid, >>> Jewish “Sopranos”-like clan explains how the scion of one tri-state crime >>> family could fit so naturally into another. >>> >>> Jared and his wife, Ivanka Trump, are both the children of monumental >>> assholes. But that’s where their similarities end. Jared’s whole life has >>> been about being presentable, wearing a nice suit, and enduring the abuse >>> of an older father figure, which is basically the role he now plays in the >>> Trump clan. Who in his right mind would tolerate a lifetime of sucking up >>> to Donald Trump and listening to the repulsive nonsense that spews from his >>> mouth, particularly if he were heir to his own monumental real estate >>> fortune? Unlike Ivanka, who clearly controls her own destiny, Kushner comes >>> across as a whipping boy, eager to please and do as he’s told. >>> >>> Putting up with the antics of Donald Trump, then, is nothing new or >>> challenging for Kushner, whose father actually served prison time for the >>> sorts of things Donald Trump only brags about doing. In a way, Kushner was >>> the perfect person for Ivanka to marry, as he’s precisely the sort of >>> person who can tolerate the humiliation of being Donald Trump’s son-in-law >>> without lashing out and forcing his wife to choose between her husband and >>> her father, or having an affair out of rage and resentment, or otherwise >>> blowing up the fortunate union that his beloved engineered in her own >>> interest and presumably that of her children. >>> >>> Ivanka, by contrast, has proved her relative independence by helming her >>> own successful fashion company and converting to Orthodox Judaism—which >>> seems like the perfect way to keep her from eating dinner too often in her >>> father’s home. Ivanka’s relationship to her family is not unlike that of a >>> good Christian’s place in this fallen world; she is in the Trump brood but >>> not of it. >>> >>> Ivanka has doubtlessly learned a great deal from the experience of her >>> mother, Ivana, who was rooked into a stingy prenuptial agreement by Donald. >>> The Czechoslovak former model channeled everything into her children; in >>> marrying Jared Kushner, Ivanka pulled off the classical European dynastic >>> achievement of unifying two large houses whose fortunes will go to her >>> offspring. For that to happen, however, Ivanka knew that she would have to >>> marry someone who would not disrupt her matriarchal power. Ivanka knows how >>> to control her father, at least to the extent that he can be controlled >>> (witness her decisive hand in the firing of Trump campaign manager Corey >>> Lewandowski). The person she married also had to be someone over whom she >>> could exert power. >>> >>> All this explains how Jared Kushner could shamelessly tout his status as >>> the descendant of Holocaust survivors to vouch for the honor of someone so >>> undeserving of it as Donald Trump. Whatever Kushner needs to do to comfort >>> himself over his enabling this pox on the American body politic—whose >>> political ascent is the single worst thing to happen to the United States >>> since Sept. 11—he will do. He’s been training for this role his entire >>> life, under the tutelage of his father and now his wife. 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