The Barbarian
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That is as seen by those lower down, but the elites using the press to put forward these things are more concerned about globalism than silly culture wars or the favourite American pastime of mockery.
Despite the seemingly joking use of the term “globalist” by Trump and Mulvaney, many were quick to point to the word’s unseemly past as an anti-Semitic slur, embraced in alt-right circles before spreading into broader political discourse. As the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt put it, “Where the term originates from is a reference to Jewish people who are seen as having allegiances not to their countries of origin like the United States, but to some global conspiracy.” Greenblatt said it’s “disturbing” when public officials “literally parrot this term which is rooted in prejudice.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-origins-of-the-globalist-slur/555479/
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