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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Nov 19, 2018, 01:19 AM Nov 2018

(Jewish Group) The Women's March Is Victim Blaming. Again.

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Last week, news broke that actress and #MeToo amplifier Alyssa Milano would not attend the next women’s march due to its leaders’ failure to dissociate with misogynist and anti-Semitic homophobe Louis Farrakhan.

The story brought renewed attention to the controversy, causing the Women’s March to give a second, blame-shifting statement regarding Louis Farrakhan’s open bigotry against Jewish and LGBTQ people.




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But it wasn’t the right who asked Milano to comment on the Women’s March’s associations with Louis Farrakhan.

It was me.
I’m a reporter for The Advocate, the country’s largest LGBTQ publication. The publication is as liberal as it gets; it covers feminism daily and has an editor who specifically covers the issue.

I asked Milano about the Women’s March because Louis Farrakhan is an open enemy to queer people. In 2006, he said, “It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality.” And just this year, he said “Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out, turning men into women and women into men.”

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