{"id":87441,"date":"2016-02-07T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87441"},"modified":"2016-02-07T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T22:33:34","slug":"is-the-phrase-new-york-values-code-for-jewish-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87441","title":{"rendered":"Is The Phrase ‘New York Values’ Code For ‘Jewish Values’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Republic<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Ted Cruz confirms that \u201cNew York values\u201d is code for \u201cJewish.\u201dWhen Cruz accused Donald Trump of having New York values, there was a debate about whether this was an anti-Semitic dog whistle. Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik insisted that Cruz\u2019s words were innocent of bigotry against the Jews, arguing, \u201cOne thing that is striking is what Cruz did not mean. For decades, centuries, the accusation of being \u2018very New York\u2019 or \u2018too New York\u2019 or \u2018having New York values\u2019 meant, simply and frankly, too Jewish. … For the first time in modern history, a right-wing opportunist has attacked New York values without being even subliminally anti-Semitic.\u201d
\nPerhaps Gopnik had a point in saying that in the absence of other evidence, Cruz deserved the benefit of the doubt from accusations of using an old anti-Semitic trope. But now Cruz has clarified what New York means in his mind. Again, talking about Trump at recent New Hampshire event, Cruz said, \u201cFor him to make this attack, to use a New York term, it\u2019s the height of chutzpah.\u201d Chutzpah is a Yiddish word, so a \u201cNew York term\u201d means one inflected by a dialect associated with Jewish immigrants and their descendants. And that can also only mean that Jewish values\u2014sorry, New York values\u2014are inimical to the good conservatives of the American heartland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About 80% of American Jews vote for the Democratic party, so yeah, I think there’s a disconnect between these particular left-wing Jewish values and the values of white non-Jewish America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Republic: Ted Cruz confirms that \u201cNew York values\u201d is code for \u201cJewish.\u201dWhen Cruz accused Donald Trump of having New York values, there was a debate about whether this was an anti-Semitic dog whistle. Writing in The New Yorker, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t