Is it racist to call the mob "Italian"?
Organized crime tends to run in families and cultures. Is it bad to notice that?
I recently spoke to a former law school classmate and tried to set a meeting. She refused to meet with me because of my “anti-Semitism,” pointing out that I had used an “anti-Semitic trope” to go after a political opponent.
The “trope?” I received a copy of a complaint from a counterintelligence professional that my opponent’s mother (who is active in his campaign) is an officer with the Israeli Defense Force. I forwarded the complaint to the Missouri Secretary of State, stating that there was foreign interference with an election, and made that information public.
(The friend now works at Washington University Law School. Last month at the University, police violently arrested protestors of the Israeli-Palestinian war.)
Is the mob Italian? What about the Russian Mafya? Were the Nazis German?
Then there’s the yakuza (Japanese). The cartels (Mexican/South America). Gangster Disciples (Black) (although we’ve mostly gotten rid of that specific one I’m told.)
I could go on and on …
But essentially, there’s organized crime all over the world. Sometimes it takes over the government (hello, Viktor Orban in Hungary?). Other times, it just causes chaos to an organized society.
So when my friends talk about Mafia Problems at the ADL or a Post-Israel Future — it’s not because we hate Jews. We just really don’t like organized crime.
And Democrats have to get past their fear of being called Racist or Antisemitic and recognize that the crime networks have cultural and racial connections.
I wish our politicians would take this same stance on the criminal enterprise of our family court, kid$ for ca$h and the money laundering of title IV-D