Uproar Over Anti-Semitic Video Produced by Republicans in N.Y. County

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Uproar Over Anti-Semitic Video Produced by Republicans in N.Y. County
Dark clouds roll in while ominous orchestral music swells in a video posted on Wednesday night by the Rockland County Republican Party.

Large text flashes slowly across the screen warning that "a storm is brewing" and "if they win, we lose."

The "they" are the ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents of the villages and towns just northwest of New York City, where tension has been steadily increasing between rapidly growing Hasidic enclaves and the surrounding secular and non-Jewish communities.
 

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Because it’s not “Democrats” seeking to develop high density housing.
How would such housing make the Republicans lose (apart from increasing the local population that votes Democrat)?
 
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How would such housing make the Republicans lose (apart from increasing the local population that votes Democrat)?

You’re the only one defining “we” as “republicans”. If you define “we” as “gentiles”, then it all makes sense.
 
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You’re the only one defining “we” as “republicans”. If you define “we” as “gentiles”, then it all makes sense.
The OP said that "we" was the Rockland Co. Republican Party. What am I missing...?
 
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The OP said that "we" was the Rockland Co. Republican Party. What am I missing...?
"We" refers to residents in Rockland County, not just Republicans. They want to keep out Jewish people from "taking over" their county. If anything this looks like an attempt to deny the antisemitism of this video.
 
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We refers to residents in Rockland County, not just Republicans.
So, the Republican designation is not pertinent to the story, then?

(And some were Democrats...?)
 
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So, the Republican designation is not pertinent to the story, then?
It is pertinent, the county Republican Party produced the video. What is incorrect is arguing this is about Democrats moving in. Do all Democrats attend yeshivas? Are most Democrats followers of Hasidism? That it what they highlighted in their video, so the video was targeted at Jewish people moving into the county and "taking over." Likewise, the argument that this about only Democrats ignores that the Republican and Democratic Party are not the only political parties in the US. There is also the US Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, etc. Nonetheless, that is irrelevant, this video was directed toward and about Jewish people.
 
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Indeed. A housing stoush is exactly was Jesus was warning about.
Just a symptom. Sign of the times. Nobody can stop it. There is a spirit behind it all. People can either fall in with it and be pawns, or they can love and resist the hate.
I choose the later.
 
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So, the Republican designation is not pertinent to the story, then?

(And some were Democrats...?)

The Rockland Country GOP put out the video in the language of being defenders of the residents of the county, hence "we".

The "they" in the video are Jews seeking to develop housing for Hasidic students.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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The Rockland Country GOP put out the video in the language of being defenders of the residents of the county, hence "we".

The "they" in the video are Jews seeking to develop housing for Hasidic students.

-CryptoLutheran
It was very clear who the target was from the video, so trying to generalize it to a larger population is inaccurate and a poor deflection.
 
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