
"In December 1778, as the #American #Revolution still raged, a #Jewish #writer in #Charlestown opened a #newspaper and saw #Jews made into wartime #scapegoats. An article in the local press claimed that Jews in #Georgia had taken “every advantage in trade,” then fled with “ill-got wealth” as soon as the state was “attacked by an enemy,” “turning their backs upon the country when in danger.”
The writer did not let this accusation go unanswered. He responded in print. And he signed his reply with a line that declared both his patriotism and his devotion to #Judaism: “A real AMERICAN, and True hearted #ISRAELITE.”
That combination — civic belonging and Jewish identity claimed in the same breath — feels newly resonant as the #UnitedStates enters its 250th anniversary year.
The American story has never been free of #antisemitism. But this early source reveals something else that is often overlooked..."
RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/world-5f2k3dqjz/-/a-Ef9EjBJ3TFyFAbyrNHeBlg%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
But the officials are arresting construction workers and others involved in the renovation work. #scapegoats
"If European democracies cannot deliver on the basic promise of shelter, they invite not just economic dysfunction but political catastrophe"
#housing #housingcrisis #democracy #extremism #scapegoats
https://www.socialeurope.eu/europes-housing-crisis-threatens-the-foundations-of-democracy
Desperately Seeking #Satan: #Media and the #Shooter
https://luciengreaves.substack.com/p/desperately-seeking-satan-media-and
For that segment of my audience that can spend years intermittently declaring that they “can no longer support” my work following my persistent failures to faithfully and stridently dictate their own political views to our non-theistic community in a demand of conformity, the fact that I reaffirmed our organizational, long-standing position of nonviolence following the shooting of a right-wing public figure whom I had publicly been at odds with struck them as a display of unconscionable hypocrisy.
"Conservatives made up "trans terrorism" & it worked | FBI classifying trans people as terrorists"—Ty Turner >
#Trump_regime #stigmatizing #scapegoats #trans #bogeyman #bigotry #fascism #fascist_USA #demonizing #transgender #terrorism #USA #society #politics #nazism #transphobia #ITQLGB #extremism #bullies #USA #violence #video #human_rights