Anti-Defamation League CEO Warns That Trump’s Rhetoric Evokes Anti-Semitic Tropes

[Renew Deal]

Source: Mediaite

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt warned on Twitter Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s rhetoric was bordering on tropes historically used to ferment hatred of Jews.

In a Thursday speech, Trump argued that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty,” in order to enrich “global international powers,” an apparent reference to her paid Wall Street speeches. He added that “media enablers [wield] control over this nation through means that are very well known.”

Greenblatt argued in a tweet that the notion that “international bankers” and the media were secretly planning the destruction of America is dangerously close to common anti-Semitic claims.

.@TeamTrump should avoid rhetoric&tropes that historically have been used ag. Jews & still spur #antisemitism. Lets keep hate out of cmpgn
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1. "how have i managed to go nearly the whole campaign without insulting jews? is there still time?"

[truthisfreedom]

7. omg too true!

He's run out of people to offend!

[Retired George]

2. What's a Trope?

I've looked it up, and gotten definitions like this: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.

[Moonwalk]

4. A trope is a cliché, usually and old and tried one...

[block quote]"For example, when you see someone assigned an unpleasant task after questioning the boss’s judgment, that’s a trope called “punishment detail” within the industry. In a laundry commercial, when you see the little boy’s mud-covered t-shirt, you can be sure it will be followed by the smiling mom who has used the product to wash it clean.

New Yorker cartoons are a great source of this kind of trope. Certain visual themes show up over and over again with new captions. There’s the desert island cartoon, the group sitting around a meeting table, the couple in bed, the child speaking to its parents (or vice versa). Each image sets up an expectation even before you read the caption, because you already know the basic setup."

Quoted from here: http://patch.com/california/lamorinda/bp--its-a-trope-no-wait-its-a-meme

[TygrBright]

5. An example or two...

Anyplace you have a very well-known, widely-shared bit of language, an image, or even a bit of music- to the extent where you can quote only a few words, a partial bit of the picture, or a brief riff of song, and that is sufficient not only to evoke the whole meaning, but to apply it to whatever context you're placing it in, you are using a trope.

Internet "memes" are often tropes.

Many Shakespeare quotes become tropes, as when someone is discussing a situation that's become a complex mixture of sinister elements, and uses "double, double, toil and trouble!" to convey the idea of it being a witches' brew.

Or someone referring to a pair of adolescents lost in limerence as "Miss Capulet and Mister Montague."

A friend used the background from Munch's "The Scream" and photoshopped a picture of her kid screaming (taken at Six Flags, I think) to announce that she has a new job as school librarian at her kid's school. I thought that was a clever trope.

Sliding in a little clip of the "Empire March" from Star Wars to the music track we used when speakers were entering/leaving the stage for an annual gala was a trope- fortunately the boss was in on the joke.

Here's a whole website illustrating tropes in popular television, film, etc.:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FilmTropes

helpfully,
Bright

[hedda_foil]

3. That's a classic antisemitic trope straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Both the Czars and Hitler justified killing every Jew they could find based on this fabrication.

[Mc Mike]

6. A complete coincidence. Bannon and William Johnson will vouch for dRumpfenfuhrer on that score.

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So will Matt Heimbach, Eternal Sentry, Western Triumph, V Dare, John Tanton, Rocky Suhayda, Richard Spencer, Jared Taylor, Jason Richwine, James Edwards, David Duke, Dan Rowe, Joe Schmidt, Lori Gayne, Laura Ingraham, General Mike Flynn.

How many character references does the poor guy need, before people will stop falsely slurring him as a nazi swine?

These godwin's style attacks against the gop are so unfair.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Trump is a fascist. Pure and simple. Old fashioned Reich huckstering. With all the fixin's.

Ingredients:

Take some down home nationalism. Stir in an ample measure of "fear of the other", i.e. immigrants, minorities. Blend in some macho manly "traditional values", relegating women to the status of livestock. Add sixteen tons of conspiracy against the working man. Finish with some Jew blaming.

Serve with a topping of fresh nuts.

Garnish with bat shit.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I am sure there are some all a-flutter with excitement.

They pretend anti-Semitism is bad, but love to use it themselves.

[Mc Mike]

10. Are you talking about repugs?

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Some. Yes. n/t

[Mc Mike]

12. Thanks. Thought so. Agree it isn't all. It's less than the 10% of US pop. necessary. nt.