Wow, this is truly BIGOTED and DISGUSTING!!!
huffingtonpost.com
>There’s perhaps never a bad time to stretch or rethink one’s vocabulary.
>The term “globalist” was used to describe an outgoing Trump administration official during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, raising eyebrows on social media because the term is increasingly used in xenophobic and anti-Semitic contexts.
>The word came up when a reporter asked press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether a similar candidate will take the place of the outgoing director of President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, who is Jewish.
>“He was a noted free trader, a globalist. Will the president seek another globalist, another free trader?” Fox News reporter John Roberts asked.
>Its use also came one day after Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, used the word “globalist,” in quotations, to describe Cohn in a statement that was posted by his department on Twitter.
>Though the term can be used to describe someone who has universal or open-world beliefs, in particular regarding trade or public policies, it can carry a more sinister meaning on the far right.