No More Place for Bigotry and Misogyny in GOP
By
James Scott Trimm
Last night Democrat Doug Jones narrowly won the Alabama Senate
seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. This was
a huge upset for a conservative state like Alabama, and it is a lesson to be
learned for the GOP in scrutinizing our nominees. Democrats succeeded in making Republican Roy
Moore a national symbol of sexual harassment.
Last night was not about the Republican Party platform, nor
about social issues. Last night’s
election had become a referendum on sexual harassment and the way women are
often treated in this country. This has
clearly become a hot issue in the world today.
Merriam-Webster just announced that “feminism” is its “word of the year”
and there has come a day of reckoning for those in powerful positions who have
been engaging in sexual harassment and bigotry towards women.
There is no place in the Republican Party for those look
down upon women and minorities. Right
here in the Tarrant County GOP we have a serious problem with those who have
for years been engaging in bigotry. They
have had a free ride for a long time, but the time for bigots in the GOP is
coming to a close.
I myself have been the target of religious and racial
bigotry within our party. In the
November Boiling Point Tea Party online Newsletter, Tarrant County Precinct
Chair Marie Howard included a bigoted onslaught attack on me, attacking my
Jewish faith. In the newsletter she
inserted a picture of me wearing a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) with the words “Kabbalist-
Mystic- and Fake Rabbi” and reprinting an internet post attacking my religious
beliefs as a “fringe” “cult” under the heading “Wandering Jew Post”.
Marie Howard (along with Jennifer Olson) is also a board member of Protective Parents of
Texas, which, back in September, put out a post directing
their readers to the infamously Anti-Semitic “Hidden Mysteries” website.
The Hidden Mysteries site is well known for its extreme Anti-Semitism.
For example one article on the site
declares that “Winston Churchill had more of a hand in masterminding the
Holocaust than Hitler.” And goes on to say:
This [Jewish Intelligence] network, the best kept secret of the
twentieth century, virtually orchestrated World War II from start to finish.
Not the least of the aims of this Jewish intelligence web was, ironically, the
destruction of the European Jewish masses, thus insuring the success of the
state of Israel and its role within the security system of the Middle East oil
region.
(http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/history/hitlerchurchhill.html)
Another article on the Hidden Mysteries
site calls the Jewish people "the eternal parasite" and declares that the Holocaust is the:
“…latest tool of the eternal parasite -
people who hide behind their self-proclaimed, massively propagandized (sic)
victimhood (sic), while practising (sic) their Holocaust terrorism, Holocaust
blackmail and Holocaust extortion racket…".
(http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/history/whistleblowers.html)
While another article on the Hidden Mysteries site openly embraces the
label of “Anti-Semitic” saying:
“...the "Anti-Semitic" label
[is]... used as a claimed but unfair justification for keeping "truth"
from the masses.”
(http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/coverups/ultimatelabel.html)
The Hidden Mysteries Site also recommends
to its readers the infamous book “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”:
"...every student of the Jewish
problem should have a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
(http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/coverups/ultimatelabel.html)
The Hidden Mysteries Website recommends
Infamous Anti-Semitic Hoax Document
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(Russian: Протоколы сионских мудрецов) or The Protocols of the Meetings of the
Learned Elders of Zion is a fabricated Anti-Semitic hoax document first
published in Russia in 1903 and purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global
domination. Despite the fact that The
Times of London exposed the Protocols as a fraudulent document in 1921, the
Nazis used the document as propaganda, as do many Anti-Semitic groups today.
Details on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
hoax document can be found at Wikipedia:
More recently Marie Howard has made an offensive post related to her primary opponent for Precinct Chair, Phil Dorr. Phil Dorr's date was African American, and Howard and Howard could not understand how an African American woman could be the date of a man who moved to Keller from a luxury apartment. Howard's subtle bigoted message is obvious: How does a man like Phil Dorr manage to connect with an African American woman?
Marie's bigotry fits right in with her friends, one of whom asks if it is "legal" for Dorr to be dating an African American woman!!
It is time for the GOP to stand up against those who treat others as if they are lesser beings simply because they are a woman or a minority.
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