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Just_Vote_Dem

(3,542 posts) Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:04 AM Wednesday

Maybe "neo-Nazi" isn't hyperbole: Trump admin has asked UPenn for "lists of Jews."

From Daily Kos:

To this point, I’ve resisted the urge to label Trump, his administration, or his supporters as neo-Nazis or neo-Fascists. However, it’s getting harder and harder to resist the urge and maintain my sanity. Almost buried in the Gish Gallop of daily outrages, corruption, and incompetencies is this story reported in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list) :

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding [University of Pennsylvania] turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers.

More at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/13/2363188/-Maybe-neo-Nazi-isn-t-hyperbole-Trump-admin-has-asked-UPenn-for-lists-of-Jews

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Maybe "neo-Nazi" isn't hyperbole: Trump admin has asked UPenn for "lists of Jews." (Original Post) Just_Vote_Dem Wednesday OP

They are textbook Nazis, there's no neo about it Walleye Wednesday #1

Which begs the question Norbert Wednesday #2

As a Jewish person... nycbos Wednesday #3

Interesting point. I wonder why the admin really wants to do this? Optics on it are terrible. dutch777 Wednesday #4

Because his base of support our fascist, who think if you're not white and christian you're not a real American... nycbos Wednesday #6

it's called waking up and B.See Wednesday #5

Walleye

(43,895 posts)

1. They are textbook Nazis, there's no neo about it

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:06 AM

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Norbert

(7,605 posts)

2. Which begs the question

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:08 AM

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Is the hypocrite in chief still going after Harvard for anti-semitism?

nycbos

(6,690 posts)

3. As a Jewish person...

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:38 AM

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… I could tell you antisemitism is a cause that unites the far right and the far left. It’s an ideology that comes in many different flavors. But I prefer right wing antisemitism because right wing antisemitism is fully transparent. They come right out with the jew hate. Left-wing antisemitism is full of intellectualized gaslighting.

dutch777

(4,924 posts)

4. Interesting point. I wonder why the admin really wants to do this? Optics on it are terrible.

Reply to nycbos (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:44 AM

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nycbos

(6,690 posts)

6. Because his base of support our fascist, who think if you're not white and christian you're not a real American...

Reply to dutch777 (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 01:26 PM

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... despite what the constitution says. I don't think it's that complicated.

It has gone way beyond terrible optics now. It used to be considered unspeakable to attack the military service of a man who was it literally a prisoner of war, like John McCain was, and he did that, and it didn't affect him at all.

Where of course a normal person would've said something like, while I honor John McCain's service to his country, I disagree with most of the things he's done since he's been a senator.

B.See

(7,870 posts)

5. it's called waking up and

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:48 AM

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smelling the coffee.

Anyone whose been keeping up with what Trump has been doing, with who he admires and aspires to be like, with comments he's made re Hitler, with the alarming parallels, with his calling neo-nazis very fine people, with the neo-nazis he surrounds himself with and the ideology of the hate groups who support him

know that Trump couldn't give a rat's ass about antisemitism. Or 'Christian persecution, or drug cartels, for that matter. It's all a fkn smokescreen.

And I'm glad some have recognized that fact.

Case in point:ICE lawyer caught running white supremacist account still prosecuting cases - Rawstory

In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account named GlomarResponder, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details that the Observer matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The account has over 17,000 followers and has routinely posted hateful statements, including that “America is a White nation,” that “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and that “All blacks are foreign to my people,” in addition to posts with apparent praise of Adolf Hitler.

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