Honestly, this thread is kind of interesting for demonstrating how we mentally rewrite news as it's written. It was standard Trump supporter protocol to respond to straightforward racism with "he may have said that, but what he really meant was..." while the original statement is easily viewed and understood.
She never once mentioned Hasidics in her post. He directed her issues to the whole Jewish community. She posted this in direct response to anti-semitic violence, like how people suddenly become concerned about the lives of police and equality of all races when violence against black Americans is discussed. She isn't talking only about gentrification, but also includes the trafficking of body parts by Jewish people and a disappearance in a kosher grocery. She namedropped a man who was convicted for bank fraud, and who as far as I can tell is from a different orthodox branch, being from the middle east rather than eastern Europe as the Hasidics are.
So we can clearly see when we look at the Facebook post that the narrative that this is about Hasidic Jews and was simply being talked about at the wrong time isn't quite right. It's not about Hasidic Jews, it's not just about harmful business practices, and it's being inserted into a conversation about hate-based violence in a way that shifts the topic away from that. How did we manage to shift the conversation in this thread so damn quickly?
Sitting from the outside, I had been feeling for a while that the time after Trump may be harder for people to deal with, because opposition and support for Trump provided a simple measure for whether a human being is good or evil. Now that you can begin putting that behind you, you're going to have deal with the fact that there are forces within your nation that made Trump as powerful as he was, and a lot of the people all over that old axis are responsible for producing those forces. Being on the wrong side might have made you a bad person, but being on the right side doesn't make you a good one.
