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The Schmooze 5 Things About Vice’s Charlottesville Documentary That Shocked Me (But Shouldn’t Have)
Rarely have I seen or heard the Daily Stormers, the Jew conspiracists in the flesh. They were only usernames commenting on low-tech websites which contained images of white guys with aesthetically tragic facial hair alongside cartoons of monkeys and hooked noses. “Jews will not replace us!” said Shitler69 in the comment board. “Blood And Soil!”…
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Fast Forward After Schwarzman Discusses Disbanding Council, Trump Does It For Him
President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Wednesday that he was shuttering two of his business advisory councils after numerous CEOs on those bodies resigned due to their opposition to the president’s continued comparisons between white supremacist marchers and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va. “Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council…
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Books I’m Black, Jewish And Gay — And Food Is My Weapon Against Bigotry
I am going back to the mountaintop. In three weeks, I will return to Charlottesville, Virginia. It is not because last Saturday it became the site of an American pogrom. Last weekend dozens of people were injured during violence sparked by the Unite the Right rally and counter-protests. Two law enforcement officers were killed in…
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Opinion What Growing Up Under Apartheid Taught Me About Trump’s ‘Fine People’
When I heard Donald Trump say in his Tuesday press conference that there were “fine people” among the marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, who protested the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, it brought me back. I spent much of my childhood in the company of South African Jews. It was the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: White Supremacist Hates That Trump ‘Gave His Daughter To A Jew’
Vice News usually sends its staff to cover foreign hot-spots, but over the weekend it embedded a reporter on the domestic battleground of Charlottesville, as journalist Elle Reeve followed the every move and statement of white supremacist Christopher Cantwell. Reeve caught up-close footage of the torch-lit rally on Friday night, when the white supremacists shouted…
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Fast Forward Cantor Slams Trump For ‘Equal Blame’ On Charlottesville
Eric Cantor denounced President Trump’s Tuesday comments on Charlottesville, with the former House majority leader dismissing the idea of “equal blames” between both sides during the weekend violence. “There needs to be outspoken rejection of neo-Nazis, of white supremacists, and KKK, and there should be absolutely no equivocation,” Cantor told the conservative Washington Examiner. “When…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Vacationed In Vermont As Trump Lost It
When President Trump blamed on Tuesday “both sides” for the weekend violence in Charlottesville, son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump were far from the Midtown precincts of Trump Tower, vacationing instead in Vermont. The princeling couple were on a mid-August retreat, the New York Times reported, when the president gave his press conference for…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Tapper Claps Back At Trump’s Charlottesville Comments
As so often happens now, CNN’s Jake Tapper acted as a voice of reason and moral sense on Tuesday, lacing into President Trump for comments that blamed “both sides” for the weekend violence in Charlottesville. God bless @jaketapper for the way he ended his show. Must listen. pic.twitter.com/jrPuiphyDQ — Laurie Crosswell ? (@lauriecrosswell) August 15,…
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