Is it "Politically Correct"...

...to call Robert Ray a Nazi? BBCFrom the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally where some of the marchers were carrying swastika banners. tweeted by J K Rowling

Media MattersThat sounds just a bit anti-Semitic to me.

So, let me understand. Alex Jones is defending the Ku Klux Klan by alleging a Jewish conspiracy and you're fine with that because he says it's "left wing" Jews? Seriously?

Then why is he alleging that they are Jews ?

And that hints at anti-Semitism before we even get to the whole conspiracy business.

Alleging a Jewish conspiracy on the basis that he thinks they look Jewish - and have you seen any of the people in question ? - seems like a pretty strong hint to me.

It seems pretty clear to me that he is specifically targeting Jews. And his reasons for doing so seem pretty weak.

He seems to be saying that they are ALL Jewish.

From the quotes he is specifically alleging that there are leftist Jews dressing up as KKK members and stirring up violence. He doesn't say that only some of these (likely fictitious) leftists are Jews. The Jewishness isn't just a one-off, it's repeated.I don't see how there can be any doubt that he's targeting Jews.

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There are known Jewish leftist conspiracies, they ARE Jewish and they ARE leftist

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You do remember that Alex Jones says nutty things that you don't believe ?You do know that conspiracy theories are pretty much all bunk ?

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Not having seen them I don't know what I would think but I don't see any reason to assume he made it up.

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I suppose you don't think there's any reason to think he made up these "chimeras" he claims to have seen either ?At the least he is pandering to the anti-semites here.

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I'm not seeing it:

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Really ? Any mention of non-Jewish leftists in there at all ?

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I can tell the difference between a nutty statement and a sensible statement even by the same person.

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The idea that there is a Jewish conspiracy to make the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis look racist sounds pretty nutty to me. Why would you think otherwise ?

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I suppose the conspiracy would be to make the whole demonstration flagrantly racist by the presence of the KKK. Apparently thinking the white supremacists themselves weren't enough for that purpose.

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Because obviously the KKK wouldn't be defending memorials to the Confederacy ? Seriously ? Of course the KKK would be there.

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What bothers me is that the only people protesting the tearing down of historical monuments are white racists.

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Rather obviously white racists are going to be the most in favour of keeping monuments to white racism.

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There was more to the Confederacy than racism for one thing...

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The Confederacy formed specifically to defend slavery, as practiced in the American South. There is no way around that.

So you go from not seeing it to saying that it would spoil the joke. Hmmm.Well, I've told plenty of jokes. Defending racists by inventing Jewish conspiracies for an audience containing anti-semites doesn't strike me as a joke.

I think it is rather obvious that the KKK would be there, as they were in July, for much the same reason.David Duke was apparently there.