If you're Jewish and you vote for Biden you hate your religion and hate Israel

[Dill]

(03-19-2024, 09:45 AM)GMDino Wrote: According to current head of the republican party Donald J Trump.

https://x.com/SawyerHackett/status/1769869547694088220?s=20

New MAGA talking point then: Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate Israel’ and their religion.
No surprise the Anti-Defamation League is weighing in against that.

Trump is here exemplifying the same black/white, us/them binary logic I have been criticizing on the
"Israel/Hams War Superthread" and the "Use of Derogatory Names" threads.

It is a way of preventing public criticism or discussion of policy, by pre-defining the critics as
eo ipso "self-haters" and "racists" and fellow travelers of whomever the enemy happens to be at the moment.

No neutral space for analysis and consideration of evidence is allowed. 
You are FOR our allies or you are AGAINST them. 

After that, nothing left to do but agree with Trump so no one mistakes you for a terrorist supporter.

I've seen this in other forms and debates as well--a common white nationalist trope claims that 
civil rights activists are motivated by "white guilt" and "hate" their own race. So "race traitors" all. 

The history of authoritarian populism is replete with examples of labels leveraged in this way
to preclude analysis/discussion and to create outgroups and position them as targets, first of 
public censure, then of legal measures to silence them.