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Eugene

(67,307 posts)
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 05:19 PM Nov 2023

🤦🏾‍♂️Marjorie Taylor Greene says she isn't antisemitic because Jesus was 'a Jewish carpenter'

Source: Insider

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she isn't antisemitic because Jesus was 'a Jewish carpenter'

Alia Shoaib
Sat, November 18, 2023 at 7:51 AM EST·2 min read

• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended herself against antisemitism allegations in her new book.
• She claimed that her controversial Jewish space laser comments were "sarcastic."
• The Christian nationalist congresswoman noted that her "Savior," Jesus, was a Jewish carpenter.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene addressed her controversial comments about Jewish space lasers and said that she is not antisemitic because her "Savior," Jesus, was a Jewish carpenter.

The Georgia congresswoman has dedicated a chapter of her upcoming memoir "MTG" to addressing the antisemitism allegations, per The Forward, which received an advanced copy of the book.

Greene made a widely ridiculed claim in 2018 that a Jewish-financed space laser had caused the worst wildfires in California's history.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-125107249.html

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🤦🏾‍♂️Marjorie Taylor Greene says she isn't antisemitic because Jesus was 'a Jewish carpenter' (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2023 OP
One pens a 'memoir' when one is nearing the end. Let us pray it is so for 'mtg' Ignorant POS CurtEastPoint Nov 2023 #1
OK, let's run with "it was sarcasm" . . . . no_hypocrisy Nov 2023 #2
And her little buddy George Santos is also Jew-ish Blue Owl Nov 2023 #3
Calling Jesus a Jew (regardless of facts) may cost her some Magat votes. GreenWave Nov 2023 #4
The Queen of Fulla-Shit Land. calimary Nov 2023 #5
she make brain hurt. pansypoo53219 Nov 2023 #6
According to the mythology, Jesus wasn't a carpenter DavidDvorkin Nov 2023 #7

CurtEastPoint

(20,095 posts)
1. One pens a 'memoir' when one is nearing the end. Let us pray it is so for 'mtg' Ignorant POS
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 05:22 PM
Nov 2023

no_hypocrisy

(55,377 posts)
2. OK, let's run with "it was sarcasm" . . . .
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 06:08 PM
Nov 2023

If it were "sarcasm," and not antisemitic tomes, then why insert "Jewish"?

Maybe I'm obtuse (unlike MTG), but I just can't find the necessary element irony that's inherent in her alleged sarcasm. Where is it?

GreenWave

(12,795 posts)
4. Calling Jesus a Jew (regardless of facts) may cost her some Magat votes.
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 06:41 PM
Nov 2023

They will argue he was the first Christian.

I think she under estimated how many anti-Semites vote for her and want nothing but scorn for those who are not.

DavidDvorkin

(20,683 posts)
7. According to the mythology, Jesus wasn't a carpenter
Sun Nov 19, 2023, 04:18 PM
Nov 2023

The carpenter was the husband of his mother, the man she was unfaithful to.

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