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Jackie Hendy on Justin Goldsman

Posted on by under activism, cancel culture, Electoral Ethics and Politics, West Orange

I previously had posted a response from Jackie Hendy responding to my earlier question about Justin Goldsman. I had asked the candidates whether they would regard it disqualifying for a candidate for office to say “We are humans, not Jews.” I explicitly asked for a response on the record. She’s now asked me to remove her comment. I’ve done so, but I regard her request as an act of cowardice, and accede to it only because the request itself negates the earlier statement.

Ms Hendy regards herself (as conveyed through a third party) as “coerced” into a “type of politics that she (and we) have no desire to engage in.” No one has “coerced” her. The “type of politics” involved requires a certain degree of integrity. I don’t dispute that she has no desire to engage in it. She’s made that abundantly clear.

Matt Dvorin on Justin Goldsman

Posted on by under activism, cancel culture, Electoral Ethics and Politics, West Orange

I previously had posted a response from Matt Dvorin responding to my earlier question about Justin Goldsman. I asked the candidates whether they would regard it disqualifying for a candidate for office to say “We are humans, not Jews.” I explicitly asked for a response on the record. He’s now asked me to remove his comment. I’ve done so, but I regard his request as an act of cowardice, and accede to it only because the request itself negates the earlier statement.

Time to Cancel Justin Goldsman

Posted on by under activism, cancel culture, Electoral Ethics and Politics, Fatwas, West Orange

And Some Advice for the West Orange Election
My friend Matt Dragon has an excellent, timely piece on his blog about Justin Goldsman, a candidate for Town Council in West Orange and Favorite Son in local West Orange politics. Wherever Justin goes, adulation follows: he walks into every Council meeting to broad smiles and big hugs and “great to see you’s,” everybody’s little hometown hero. The scandal here is an open secret in West Orange, something that almost everyone, and surely everyone within the Council, knows. Justin has a decades-long history of plain, open, unapologetic social media bigotry, from the n-word to casual Islamophobia, to “I am going to kill this girl or castrate myself, whichever gets her off my dick sooner.” But work through it yourself via the bolded link above, if you have the patience. It’s an eye-opener, even if it’s all par for the course in West Orange.

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