Oh shit.
Did he also tip over all the headstones and spray-paint all the synagogues?
Nice going, asshole. Now you’ve completely legitimized Trump’s absurd claim in the minds of millions.
Did he also tip over all the headstones and spray-paint all the synagogues?
Of course not, but now half the country—if not half the planet—thinks some other Jewish guy did. It’s hard enough already to get people to take anti-Semitism seriously; this fuckup has now made it that much more difficult. Right now Twitter is filled with Nazi cretins saying “See, I told you the Holocaust was all faked!”
I’m a touch skeptical. Wouldn’t be surprised if we found he was responsible for some bomb threats. But yeah, a mentally-ill teenage hacker in a another country sure does mean there’s no antisemitism over here.
Wasn’t someone else arrested previously for doing at least some of that defacement?
I don’t remember any arrests for defacement myself, but there might have been. It happens perennially, it’s just been a huge burst since the election along with the other ethnicities targeted.
President Bannon has definitely emboldened Nazis and spurred other lunatics with confused logic into action.
Speaking of confused logic, right now Limbaugh’s, Alex Jones’ and similar heads at Brietbart are spinning like dreidels trying to figure out ways to propagandize this one into a plausible lie to attack Democrats.
So glad president Bannon is making America great again. We see it everyday.
I suspect this is nothing of the sort.
What this guy seeks is outrage.
It’s a search for cognitive consonance.
The whole world is antisemitic, he knows it, and he wants everyone else to know it too.
Either that, or he is of the hardcore Likudnik settler mentality, i.e. the kind of person who believes all Jews should flock to Israel, and all means to achieve that (short of another Holocaust) are fair game.
Some relevant information about the suspect that is not included in the AP report.