Kevin myers- an alright sort

[Tim_Riggins]

@Sidney

Tens of millions of people voted for Trump. You said I branded “tens of millions” of people as anti-semites. That’s a pretty clear statement that you believed I was talking about all of them.

I didn’t brand “tens of millions” of people as anti-semites. I’m saying there is a significant proportion of anti-semites amongst Trump’s support, which there is, and the behaviour of Trump has encouraged and emboldened them, which it has. There is also a much larger segment of conventional racists or white people to whom race is an issue amongst Trumps support. Polls consistently showed that race was a bigger issue among Trump supporters than it was among supporters of other Republican candidates in the primaries.

Not all Trump supporters are far-right. Pretty much all the far-right in the US are Trump supporters.

Ken Livingstone isn’t a major figure in the Labour Party. He isn’t even an MP. He’s a former major figure in the Labour party whose career is essentially over and is pretty much irrelevant now.

US Presidential Election 2016: Sidney's Victory Lap

I love the contradictions you get with trump and his supporters. The anti-semitic rhetoric and yet the unquestioning support for Israeli far-right hardliners. The anti-Wall Street rhetoric and then the boasting about how trump is good for the stock market and the financial sector, and the total blindness to his boast about removing all financial regulation. The rhetoric about “the 1%”, yet the unquestioning support for tax policies that will benefit the 1% and nobody else. The claims that “A…

You are denying it now, because you were comprehensively shown up.

You furiously looked for evidence to support your claim after the fact, and what you found was pathetic.

Example of you trying to prove a problem of millions;

US Presidential Election 2016: Sidney's Victory Lap

I presume you didn’t actually read it before posting it, because the 2.6 million figure is pure and utter tripe. It is a broad search of keywords that generally can be found in anti-semetic remarks and include words like Israel, and any mention of Israel is then taken as anti-semitism. It’s also based across all of twitter and the tweets might not necessarily have anything to do with Trump or even the American election. Palestinians tweeting antisemitic stuff for example are captured in that fi…

There’s a whole thread of you there doing it. Desperately looking for evidence to back up your claims. When you were finally beaten, you came out with this;

US Presidential Election 2016: Sidney's Victory Lap

You don’t measure whether somebody is anti-semitic based on data, pal. Anti-gay marriage campaigners didn’t run on an explicitly homophobic campaign, because they knew they wouldn’t get away with it. But that doesn’t change the fact that large elements within that campaign used homophobic tactics. Nigel Farage did not run on an explicitly racist platform. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s a thinly veiled bigot. The EDL claim not to run on an explicitly racist platform. But we all know that…

Data isn’t relevant for Sidney, as he just feels it.

And to cap it all off, with Ken Livingstone and the Labour Party, you “can’t recall” any such statements and won’t go looking. Ken Livingstone is apparently “not a big figure”. So why are the Labour Party not expelling him and keep suspending him? Ken Livingstone is one of Corbyn’s biggest supporters. It’s amazing how you can ignore figures like Jared Kushner being a key Trump advisor and brother in law, as well as the likes of Ken Livingstone, when it suits.

All because this is all a game of football to you. You don’t give a shit about anti semitism, you were looking for an angle to slag off Trump.