Normally, I walk away from angry poodles. Just let them be. Not that there are many on the streets of Santa Barbara. However, there are times when angry poodles may be rabid, i.e., dangerous to the public at large. It is just possible that this Angry Poodle column published on June 2, 2016, is simply espousing old fashioned anti-Semitic canards.
Nick Welsh refers to Bernie Sanders as a “commie Jew” and urges for all to unite behind Hillary to defeat Tourette syndrome–suffering Trump. Politics aside, do you see what is wrong with this picture? Is this language helpful in making his political point?
It is true that the fact that a Jew (of a sort) is a “serious, albeit distant contender for the White House” is a “genuine first.” Agreed. A fair point to make. It is also true that one may call some of Bernie Sanders’s ideas “communist” (of a sort). Let us concede that this, too, is protected speech under the First Amendment. However, in this case, one legitimate point plus another legitimate point does not equal two legitimate points. Instead, they equal a racial slur.