A Trump Poll Riddle

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Without looking in the comments, can you guess which country was named overwhelmingly in the comments as the worst enemy to America?

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  4. Diversiteeee

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  5. “can you guess which country was named overwhelmingly”

    Ukraine or Israel….

    A lot of MAGAs still have the hots for putain…. and the woke right sees Jews the way that John Birch society saw commies… everywhere and nowhere…. hidden in plain sight and plotting against us!!!!!

    I have no problem criticizing Israel and/or individual Jews or even wealthy Jews in the US as a class… that doesn’t mean I see Jewish conspiracies everywhere.

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  6. “I have no problem criticizing Israel and/or individual Jews or even wealthy Jews in the US as a class“.

    Well, that is exactly as it should be, is it not? Rational people criticise people in the sense that they criticise their actions, which reflect their individual character. What’s wrong is when a whole category of people is indicted in terms of essential characteristics, regardless of their actions and/or character.

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    1. “Rational people criticise people”

      Yeah, but we are not living in an age that pays any particular respect to rationality. It’s all vibes and feels and safe spaces and other infantile activities. So it doesn’t hurt spell things out at times….

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    2. I agree but at the same time there are group differences that are observable and we need to be able to talk about them aloud.

      For example, in the USSR we used to quip, “The shortest joke in the world is ‘a Jewish janitor.'” This was based on an observation that Ashkenazi Jews don’t do menial jobs. It’s a fact, and we should be able to state it.

      Here in the US, on the other hand, there was a long debate earlier this year whether it’s offensive to say that there are fewer Jews in the NBA than blacks. Because, oh my God, stereotypes! So dumb.

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      1. I totally agree. There are observable culture-specific characteristics – whether they are related to genetics is another story whatsoever – which cannot be ignored since they produce measurable outcomes.

        However, since the current mainstream ideology divides humanity into an innocent class and a transgressor class, it has become impossible to say anything untoward about a member of the innocent class. This is how the Holy Inquisition worked and apparently such a mentality is alive and well among the so-called progressive classes.

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  7. Well to be fair the late Senator McCarthy wasn’t exactly wrong now was he. The field of education was absolutely packed full of them, and there was a fair number of “fellow travelers” in government.

    It was just no one at the time wanted to believe we had been infiltrated to that extent and thus he wasn’t believed and laughed off. He got the last laugh in the end.

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      1. “a huge number of us in higher ed but is it our fault”

        I think he was referring to communists not Jews (yes, there was significant overlap).

        I don’t recall ever reading or hearing that McCarthy ever really talked about Jews much….

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        1. Cliff is correct, I was talking about the communists, not the Jews. I wrote a response to his early post and had hit cancel reply and deleted most of my comment, then decided to keep this bit and hit reply. For some reason instead of posting it under his comment a bit above it posted it here. Not sure why that happened.

          • – W

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