Because maybe Donald Trump isn’t anti-Semitic. But when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you’re giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. Your father-in-law’s repeated accidental winks to the white supremacist community is perhaps a savvy political strategy if the neo-Nazis are considered a sizable voting block-I confess, I haven’t done my research on that front. I’m asking you, not as a “gotcha” journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this? Because, Mr. Please do not condescend to me and pretend you don’t understand the imagery of a six-sided star when juxtaposed with money and accusations of financial dishonesty. You went to Harvard, and hold two graduate degrees. These explanations are so facile, infantile in their blatant disregard for context or logic that I can only imagine them being delivered by someone doing so while grinning and winking.
New york observer dana schwartz free#
Instead of acknowledging the obvious, he and his campaign used it as an opportunity to undermine the free media in the style of the most dangerous regimes in history, and mock those like me, who had been getting strangers on the Internet telling her to put her head in the oven for the past day and a half. He and his campaign deny that the image-which had been found, previous to Trump’s tweet, on a white supremacist internet forum-has any Jewish implications at all. The Anti-Defamation League has previously asked that Trump refrain from the slogan due to its overt anti-Semitic implications. Forgive me if I condescend in any way or explain what you already know, but I’m sure you’ve been busy lately so just a quick refresher: America First was a movement led primarily by White supremacist Charles Lindbergh advocating against American intervention during World War II. I was just like, I have to write this.A few hours later, Trump deleted the original image and re-tweeted it out, this time with the star crudely covered by a circle (the tips of the star still visible), and a new hashtag: #AmericaFirst. I was not thinking of the consequences, I was not thinking that anyone would even notice or care. And my boyfriend was like, 'Are you sure you want to do that?' I honestly had blinders on. I’m going to write a letter to Jared Kushner. That whole weekend I was like, I’m gonna write a letter. I was so angry, I was flipping through it, it was like a magma pit of bubbling hate and rage. I even remember the weekend before I wrote that open letter, I was getting horrible harassment. But there are things that I’m incredibly passionate about and just have to say. I just don’t think I have the training or the knowledge base that the brilliant politics writers do. Is politics something you’re interested in writing about, or did that come from a personal place? I think everyone is more involved in politics maybe than they were previously thanks to this election. Your most recent brush with fame was the Jared Kushner letter.
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