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Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 04:55 PM Apr 2018

(Jewish Group) Womens March leader Tamika Mallory attacks Starbucks for including ADL in bias train

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

A Women’s March leader mired in controversy because of her association with the virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has attacked Starbucks for including the Anti-Defamation League among its advisers on bias.

Tamika Mallory in a tweet Tuesday evening accused the Jewish group of “constantly attacking black and brown people.”

The coffee giant said Tuesday that it had solicited counseling from a number of groups, including the ADL, the NAACP and others, after national outrage following the arrest last weekend of two black men sitting at one of its Philadelphia outlets.

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The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, was one of several national and local experts Starbucks had asked to consult on racial bias following the weekend’s incident. The others include Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.


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(Jewish Group) Womens March leader Tamika Mallory attacks Starbucks for including ADL in bias train (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 OP
Fork/Done Me. Apr 2018 #1
They've made it pretty clear MosheFeingold Apr 2018 #6
Doing So Me. Apr 2018 #8
They're just wolves MosheFeingold Apr 2018 #9
I Cannot Say The Women's March Was A Scam Me. Apr 2018 #10
I can't say it "was" a scam, either MosheFeingold Apr 2018 #11
I hope this backfires on mallory Mosby Apr 2018 #2
I doubt it will, though it would be nice if it did. Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 #5
Ah, young apprentice MosheFeingold Apr 2018 #7
I guess Ill put her on ignore (though she is new to me). nt Lucky Luciano Apr 2018 #3
The Women's March is dead to me. If any other group were a target she'd (they) be gone. grossproffit Apr 2018 #4
No more support from me for the women's march. EllieBC Apr 2018 #12
And a bigot wins.... Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 #13
The bigots wins and so do here enablers. Behind the Aegis May 2018 #14

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
9. They're just wolves
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 11:16 AM
Apr 2018

They pick a noble cause and use the money and soap box for something other than the stated agenda.

The Nazis did the same thing: remember the National Socialists were a vanilla center-left socialists workers' party in Germany. Had a lot of great stated purposes.

But then some creatures co-opted it.

The woman's march is a scam.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
10. I Cannot Say The Women's March Was A Scam
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 11:37 AM
Apr 2018

Most of it was attended by those who truly believe in the message, many of them Jewish. In my building alone several Jewish mothers took their young girls and attended in a good faith effort for change. Using a broad paintbrush for an entire group because of the failing of a few is unfair to those who hold no biased beliefs and destroys an essentially needed message.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
11. I can't say it "was" a scam, either
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 11:56 AM
Apr 2018

But it IS, now.

Again, the leadership (at the top) and in the middle is riddled with antisemitic twits. And not "dog whistle" maybe-they-are-maybe-they aren't subtle stuff. Open and obvious banning and blacklisting of Jewish groups.

There might still be some fine people in the movement (just like there were great people in Germany, circa 1935), but they sure are sitting by while Nazis take their movement over (just like the great people in Germany, circa 1935).

The "I didn't know" excuse got old to me in occupied Germany, circa 1945.

I don't buy it here, either.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
5. I doubt it will, though it would be nice if it did.
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 12:06 AM
Apr 2018

While she is not the totality of the Women's March, it really says something (bad) about the group when this person keeps spewing her nonsense and ignoring bigotry. It shows the failure of "intersectionality" in a bold way.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
7. Ah, young apprentice
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 11:04 AM
Apr 2018

The great circle of the far right and the far left intersects at hatred of Jewish people.

There is an excellent painting by Marc Chagall, called the "white crucifixion" (somewhat ironically) that shows a very Jewish Jesus (in tallit) being caught between the the communists and the Nazis.


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Very interesting painting for an Orthodox Jewish man like Chagall, who was obviously not a Nazarene.

One of his very few political paintings.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
13. And a bigot wins....
Sat Apr 28, 2018, 01:35 PM
Apr 2018

...with the approval of "some her best friends" who are willing to carry an anti-Semite!

ADL Gets Lesser Role In Starbucks Diversity Training After Controversy

The Anti-Defamation League is no longer taking a leading role in next month’s diversity training at Starbucks stores across the United States, serving instead in an consulting role.

Initially, the group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, was one of four civil rights leaders tapped to develop the coffee giant’s all-day anti-bias training next month across its 8,000 U.S. locations. The training was announced following outrage at the arrest of two black men waiting to start a meeting at a Philadelphia Starbucks store.

The other three civil rights leaders — Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative and Heather McGhee off the liberal think tank Demos — will still be leading the training.

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But, hey, at least she gets an award...

Women’s March Leader Who Supports Farrakhan Receives Coretta Scott King Award

Tamika Mallory, the Women’s March co-president known for her refusal to condemn the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, received an award on Wednesday at Antioch College named after Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King.

Mallory had repeatedly praised Farrakhan on social media, as well as attended rallies sponsored by his organization. Farrakhan has called Adolf Hitler a “very great man” and claimed Jews were behind the 9/11 terror attacks.

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Jews DON'T matter!

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
14. The bigots wins and so do here enablers.
Wed May 2, 2018, 03:53 PM
May 2018

Starbucks Excludes Group Fighting Anti-Semitism From Training Day After Facing Backlash

Starbucks has dropped plans to include the Anti-Defamation League in its upcoming anti-discrimination training after African-American activists claimed the group is racist.

Also, the ADL has always been accused of taking strong anti-Palestinian positions by treating criticisms of Israeli repression against Palestinians as being anti-Semitic, as well as calling the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, or BDS, movement as being anti-Jewish. "The training on [May] 29 can't be the beginning and end".

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Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, expressed a similar sentiment and criticized the ADL's support of Israel. The group announced in 2016 that it would not fully endorse the movement over some leaders' "anti-Israel - and at times anti-Semitic - positions".

Women's March leader Tamika Mallory is calling for a boycott of Starbucks tweeting Starbucks was on a decent track until they enlisted the Anti Defamation League to build their anti-bias training.

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Thank goodness we have those non-Jews who are so willing to 'splain to us what is and isn't anti-Semitism, taking pride in their 'splaining and finding "some best Jew friends" to validate their explanation.

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