GOODY TWO SHOES: Dem Operative Fights George Allen’s Alleged Racism With Actual Anti-Semitism
Meryl Ibis, a volunteer field organizer for Democratic congressional candidate Al Weed, who is running against Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Va.), sent an E-mail last week asking supporters to protest "George 'Macacawitz' Allen" at a Republican rally. The Washington Post helpfully explains that, "the term ‘Macacawitz’ is an apparent reference to Allen's use of the word ‘macaca’ and the recent discovery that he has Jewish heritage." Although Ibis resigned from Weed’s campaign – as well as from James Webb’s campaign, where she also volunteered her "services" – neither candidate censured her.
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February 6, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage, has chosen "macaca" as the most politically incorrect word of 2006, followed by "Global Warming Denier." "There are now proposals that ‘global warming deniers’ be treated the same as 'Holocaust deniers’: professional ostracism, belittlement, ridicule and, even, jail," the group's president, Paul JJ Payack, tells Reuters. Just as African-Americans take offense at equating the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to today’s gay marriage rights campaign, The Stiletto takes strong exception to equating global warming with holocaust denial or genocide denial. The scientific ...
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