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Soulless golem2/19/2023 ![]() There is historical precedent for this: 17th and 18th century Christian European scholars composed their versions of the golem story as proof that Jews trade in black magic and sorcery, and are subsequently punished and even killed by their clay servant. If mainstream media is one of Spencer’s arch-opponents, then his strategy is to take its rhetoric and metaphors and remold them in his own image. opinion Why the Golem Is a Perfect Metaphor for Donald Trump.In his speech, the golem metaphor itself has run amok, turning against its media creators. He also uses the golem in the singular in conjunction with “people” in the plural, and this ungrammatical usage bolsters his notion that the press is one giant monster, a mass of undifferentiated journalists controlled, perhaps, by leftist-leaning politicians. He alludes to an unspecified “dark power” that animates this golem so that its automatic repetition of supposed lies appears evil, not just dim-witted. ![]() Spencer turns the tables on the media in his speech, casting it in the role of the golem. Others even contended that Trump is a golem created by the media that previously fawned over him, endowing him with considerable airtime, and that now seeks to undo the damage, utterly denouncing him. Journalists have declared Trump the GOP’s golem, an animated clay monster that, fed by media exposure, threatens to crush its creators by refusing to conform to party lines. In an even more bewildering twist of affairs, Spencer wields here the very same golem metaphor that was previously used by the media to describe Trump’s growing power and uncontrollable “rampage” during the presidential campaign. ‘Heil Trump’ and 3 Other Anti-Semitic Outrages at White Supremacist Victory Party.Astonishingly, Spencer’s manipulative non-naming reference to “these people,” which alluded back to the mainstream media, led to the absurdity of the press’s own anti-Semitic blunder. The golem allusion enabled this quick leap, since the golem has been traditionally presented as a Jewish creation, the artificial servant/protector of a rabbi. The words “Jew” or “Jewish” were not mentioned in the speech, but this nudge-nudge, wink-wink form of anti-Semitism was quickly deciphered: CNN ran a controversial banner inferring that “these people” are Jews and therefore, “Alt-Right Founder Questions If Jews Are People.” He also “wonders” if “these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem, animated by some dark power, to repeat whatever talking point John Oliver stated the night before.” If you saw the Atlantic’s hair-raising video of Richard Spencer talking at an American neo-Nazi “conference” that celebrated Donald Trump’s victory, then you saw Spencer bash “the mainstream media,” calling them “leftists and cucks,” “genuinely stupid,” and liars.
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