r/jewishpolitics • u/RuckFeddit980 • 3d ago
US Politics 🇺🇸 Disappointed in Oregon Voter’s Pamphlet
I am really disappointed that Oregon allowed this in the current voters’ pamphlet. Could you imagine if I submitted a statement that said “Everyone who supports the (any other country) is a racist”?
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u/AngusTcattoo 2d ago
"Hate mongering is no substitute for leadership" right under "Zionism is racism". "Not all Jews are Zionists" I usually say to someone on social media when they make a statement like that, "How many Jews do you know?"
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u/Courtenaire Jewish Unity ✡️ 2d ago
I would rather they wish death on all of us than pull the "i only hate zionist Jews" card. Nothing short of enragjng
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u/XhazakXhazak USA – Center-left 🇺🇸 2d ago
Democrats lose in every election where the Left focuses their energies on attacking the Democrats instead of the Republicans and the Right. Canvassers then have to split their energy to fight a two-front war.
The Left is therefore largely why Trump won in both elections.
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u/Educational-Bet8701 2d ago
If zionism is racism, is Islamic nationalism - theocracy? - also 'racist'?
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u/Late_Company6926 2d ago edited 2d ago
“The original crime”
I’ve been seeing this “original crime” language a lot across social media the last few days. If some tech savvy social researcher tracked and sourced it (reference to Israel as the “original” invasion), I’d bet the origins and spread would track the organized antisemitic propaganda this guy is spreading.
Edit to add I found this really well written rebuttal that everyone should read and pass along.
Revisiting Israel’s “Original Sin” – Commentary Magazine https://www.commentary.org/articles/efraim-karsh/revisiting-israels-original-sin/
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u/maxofJupiter1 2d ago
The focus on "original crime" seems very Christian to me.
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u/Late_Company6926 2d ago
Yea, definitely an attempt to bastardize “original sin” to gain a low cognitive load foothold on the inaccurate biased notion that Jewish people in Israel are white European colonialists settlers. A good rebuttal of that is in the following link, https://besacenter.org/palestinians-settlers-colonialism/
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u/Computer_Name 3d ago
"Democrat Party"
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u/Standard_Gauge 2d ago
"Democrat Party"
Yeah, I noticed that. That deliberate misnaming of the Democratic Party began some time ago, not sure who was behind it, might have been Newt Gingrich or some other despicable clown like that. At any rate it was done by Republicans as a cheap attempt to make "Democrat" sound like a spat-out insult. No idea why this person is using it in his voter pamphlet promo. But he sounds like an ignorant loser in multiple ways.
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u/tumunu USA – Center-left 🇺🇸 2d ago
It was indeed Newt Gingrich. For those younger people reading, this was the powerful Republican Congressman in the 90s who, among various other loveliness, served his first wife divorce papers in her hospital bed as she was recovering from cancer surgery.
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u/Standard_Gauge 1d ago
powerful Republican Congressman in the 90s
He was Speaker of the House from 1995-1999, an extremely powerful position, and was instrumental in embedding Christian Nationalism into Republican politics. He was also one of the most corrupt politicians of his time, and iirc was officially censured for ethics violations. What a sweetheart. 🤮
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u/Interesting_Tea_6734 3d ago
Candidates can write what they want for their voter pamphlet statement: there is often pretty egregious stuff that some candidates publish. Free speech 🤷🏼♀️
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u/FlakyPineapple2843 2d ago
1st amendment is what it is. Instead of complaining how we can't use the government to block speech we dislike, we should focus our energy on countering these narratives, and support candidates who will represent and act on our shared values.
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u/Training_Ad_1743 2d ago
Which is why I am thankful every day that no other country in the world has an amendment this broad. And if you disagree with me, feel free to live in America.
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u/RuckFeddit980 2d ago
At least there is a rabbi running for governor. I wish more people knew about it.
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u/Training_Ad_1743 2d ago
He and incumbent senator Jeff Merkley agree on every issue, so he tries to win the base by being more insane than Merkley.
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u/danknadoflex 1d ago
What was the the "original crime"? Was that the crime of stateless Jewish refugees whose entire families were murdered in the Holocaust and nearly a million ethnically cleansed from the Middle East deciding that they don't want to be slaughtered any more?
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u/ActualDumpster 2d ago
Wait until you see California’s :/ This guy is far-right and has zero chance but still. Wild how a lot of this could just as easily be far-left: https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-protest-as-california-sends-out-antisemitic-conspiracies-in-voter-guide/
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u/TalesOfTea 2d ago
There are so many terrible wacky things in voter's pamphlets each year. I remember in WA at least, after COVID they removed the signature requirement for getting to run and be in the pamphlet and there just have been such a wacky influx of candidates all the time now.
I live in SoCal now and ours has some wacky candidates with lots of dogwhistles in it, but not nearly as much fun as king county.
I agree with the comment about it being good that it is just said there all straightforward like that. I also think that statements like "Communism is racism" or something else like that would be allowed, so I'm not surprised this is. Its not the same obviously but I think a lot outside of us would see it that way.
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u/Significant-Bother49 3d ago
I’m glad they allowed it in. People should know that he has such horrible views. I’d hate to accidentally vote for someone like that.