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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s lots of gaslighting going on.  Will she serve up another trope in a couple weeks? You betcha![/quote]

I don't think "gaslighting" means what you think it means.  Gaslighting means people trying to make you believe something that is false.  Ilhan Omar isn't promoting anything that is false.

By "trope" you mean factual and accurate statement about Netanyahu's policies?  Or another factual and accurate about the political influence of AIPAC?

Look, just because you don't like acknowledging something doesn't make it wrong, and for sure doesn't make it "gaslighting"[/quote]

Some argue, it seems, that there is othing that could be interpreted in her comments as hinting toward antisemitism  when viewed from the perspective of a reasonable listener.  If some Jews think there is a suggestion of antisemitism there, then that ends the debate for me.  But that’s just me. To be fair, I think the Democrats made an unforced error.  Omar is, I think, much more in step with today’s Democratic Party on this issue then the party’s ancient  leaders are.  Hoyer?  Give me a break.  Is he woke?  So I just don’t get the rush to implicitly ondemn her through some really weird resolution.  [/quote]

Seems so much of a stretch that it's not even a hint from the perspective of a reasonable listener.  It's like "I like cheese" and then "Oh, but he probably likes meat too and meat and cheese together are not kosher and therefore he is obviously an anti-Semite."

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