Talk:Chuck Woolery/Archives/2020

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Woolery was accused of antisemitism after a series of tweets he made in May 2017 in which he claimed that Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin had a Jewish heritage.[15] Lenin's maternal grandfather was Russian Jewish who had converted to Christianity and worked as a physician. The supposed Jewish origins of communism have often been amplified by anti-communists and anti-semites alike, leading to the accusations of antisemitism against Woolery.[16] In response to the criticism, Woolery tweeted: "Amazing to me, I point out that Marx and Lenin were Jewish, Fact of history, and now I'm being called anti-Semitic? why do people do this?"[16]

would be better written like this:

Woolery was accused of antisemitism after a series of tweets in May 2017, including this message: "Believe it or not. Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were both Jewish. I was shocked to find, most of the original Soviet Communists were Jewish."[15] The claim that communism is Jewish in origin forms the core of an anti-communist and antisemitic canard. The tweet led to accusations of antisemitism against Woolery.[16] In response to the criticism, Woolery tweeted: "Amazing to me, I point out that Marx and Lenin were Jewish, Fact of history, and now I'm being called anti-Semitic? why do people do this?"[16]

I adjusted the language to remove bizarre phrasing ("a Jewish heritage") and uniformize the spelling of antisemitic. I also removed the irrelevant sentence about Lenin's heritage (which in a weird way seems like it's trying to give Woolery the benefit of the doubt). I also added a link to the conspiracy theory proper's Wikipedia page, Jewish Bolshevism.