Black leaders accused of Anti-semitism
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So?Whats wrong with being antisemitic?
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NoGutsNoGLory
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Piff Perkins
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There's a difference between criticism and bigotry. That cuts both ways with respect to Jews btw. Some have done a good job of making any criticism of Israel=anti-Semitic. Obama is dealing with this now as some try to claim he's making bigoted statements against Jews regarding the Iran deal.
Likewise there are people who do indeed make ridiculously bigoted statements against Jews which they claim aren't anti-Semitic.
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
‘To Learn Who Rules Over You': Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacist
‘To Learn Who Rules Over You': Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacist
The meme pops up after any sort of outrage over a statement that pokes at perceived cultural pieties, be it Gary Oldman spitting on Hollywood or any questioning of the Federal Reserve or the Obama rodeo clown. It’s a common trope of comment sections, but occasionally surfaces in more mainstream discourse; Pat Buchanan used it just last week.
The quote is unanimously attributed to the French polymath Voltaire — who, in fairness, was an aphorism-spouting machine. The problem: there’s no record of Voltaire ever having said it. A Google search of the quote turns up absolutely nothing before 2012. (Smarter minds note the misattribution.) Twitter seems to have discovered it in May of that year.
The closest source to have been located is a 1993 text by white supremacist Kevin Alfred Strom entitled All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us. Strom was a co-founder of the West Virginia-based white supremacist organization National Vanguard; he later pled guilty to charges of possession of child pornography and served two years in prison.
Here’s the likely culprit from Strom’s book:
Even the sourcing on this is watery. Wikipedia lists the quote as misattributed to Voltaire and gives it to Strom. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Storm’s affiliations, one of the other sources is a st0rmfr0nt message board. There’s a Reddit thread to same effect; ditto a Yahoo! Answers thread. None, obviously, should be taken as authoritative.
