Or why the 'tolerance' gang is as consumed by the same fascist hatred as the right's, passively manipulated by the Islamofascists driving Gaza's problems
This will be my second go at this comment as my first one I felt lacked nuance. What is the cause of antisemitism? I think it has many different causes. The first one is jealousy. The Jews no matter where they’ve gone, have always been a successful middleman minority. Second, they are viewed as being omnipresent and behind every evil and catastrophe one can imagine. They are simultaneously capitalists and communists. They are blamed for the JFK assassination, 9/11, the sinking of the Titanic, the invention of the atom bomb, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They are seen as both subhuman inferiors but yet as also as brilliant and scheming masterminds. Third, they are seen as controlling all things financial and to love money. This goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews worked as moneylenders and tax collectors. Some of the few jobs they were allowed to have that weren’t closed to them. Fourth, Christians and Muslims often view Jews as heretics who won’t accept the one true faith. Lastly, the misunderstanding of the term “the Chosen people.” Many often think that when the Jews say this they are saying they are better than everyone else. But this is not the case. By “God’s chosen people” it is rather meant that God has a special plan for them that they would be led back and restored to their homeland after thousands of years of living in a diaspora and in exile. These five points I believe are where hatred for the Jews stems from: jealousy, scapegoating, stereotypes, religious dogma, and misconceptions.
The hard left and far-left’s alliance with Islamofacism is not at all surprising but it is puzzling as Hamas, Hezbollah, The Houthis, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram wouldn’t hesitate to execute them on the spot when they got the chance. Progressives and leftists should be expelled from the Democratic Party. It’s funny that the hard and far-left would team up with Jihadists who believe women are chattel, abortion is a sin, LGBTQ+ people should be executed on spot if discovered, that black people are inferior, Jews and Christians are apostates who should be murdered, that practicing open slavery, dowries, honor killings, child marriage, animal sacrifices, and polygamy is fine, and abuses and neglects disabled people. I don’t get that! They do realize right all these Islamist groups worship Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and spend all their free time reading Mein Kampf. Are they aware of how local Arabs collaborated with the Nazis and their Italian allies during WWII? They aware that both secular and religious Arab political parties were inspired by the Nazis? The Muslim Brotherhood for instance was directly funded by the Third Reich. The Ba’athist Parties in Iraq and Syria were both inspired by the Nazis as well.
Thanks for such a thoughtful reply, Noah. You make a lot of good points about where the Jew hate comes from. The only observation I would make is that I'm not sure how that relates to why deeply ignorant young people are so quick to climb on board the antisemite cattle car (allusion intentional as now the anti-Pride jihadis are commanding them). I think a lot of the 'oppressor/oppressed' nonsense has a lot to do with it, but the left has traditionally stood up for the underdogs which Israel clearly is, an oasis of democracy in a sea of Arab authoritarianism and terrorism. For all their faults and flaws.
The disconnect between what jihadis hate in their so-called 'allies' is what I really don't understand either. I should start asking wokies that.
I think young people are so quick to jump on the antisemite cattle car because they are misinformed and taken in by Hamas propaganda. Also, they have been taught through critical race theory that Jews are evil white oppressors and that Israel is a settler-colonial project out to wipe out the Palestinian people. The left used to like Israel, until the 1967 Six-Day War where Israel defeated the Arabs in a lighting war and conquered a good amount of territory. Also, I think the hard and far left see Jihadis as freedom fighters rather than terrorists.
They unlearned their commitment against bigotry and discrimination by doing exactly that to women and Jews, so I wish they would re-learn their former commitment. I think it's just that everyone needs their own personal buttmonkey. I remember being really aggravated many years ago reading black American writer Richard Wright's books in which his grandmother called Jews 'Christ killers'. It really pissed me off that an old black woman in the 1930s would say something like that. EVERYONE needs a buttmonkey!
Technically not, but he is regarded by all three major religions as from whence they all originate, of which Judaism was the first to emerge. He's Jewish by association (and later, Christian and Muslim as well).
My theory is pretty simply that it’s a numbers game. There’s only 15-20 million of us. We’re one of the smallest identifiable groups that you can find essentially world wide. To that end, we’re kind of the “easy trimmings”.
I've asked myself for years why the Jew hatred throughout history? Could it be that the Jewish people have been such a successful culture that some are resentful and want to take what they have? In Germany before WWII, many Jews were powerful in terms of business/banking and trade. Did Hitler believe he had to take that away to rule? Also, in Israel the Jews have been quite prosperous and democratic--the only democratic culture in the middle east. Anyway, my theory such as it is :-)
Yes, you nailed it, but that topic has been already covered many times before. Thomas Sowell has a great essay on the envy driving classic hatred against the Jews, the Parthis of India (that was a new one for me), the Ibos in Nigeria, and other traditionally oppressed minorities. There actually is plenty to boost the stereotype of the Jews's influence on the financial world, something that became apparent to me when I read Too Big To Fail and I began to realize, "Why are all these names Jewish?" They're prominent in Hollywood too n accordance with the stereotype. Malcolm Gladwell actually explains how this happens in one of his books--because they were so traditionally shut out of being hired for jobs, they had to create their own, and that's where their 'usury' comes from - they had to make money from loaning money, because they needed to support their families too. Because they've been so hated, they've had to be extremely versatile and innovative in how to live and how to make money. And all of this too has been well-covered so I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. My question is how lefties who claim to be 'social justice warriors' can so easily give into the hate and bigotry they decry on the left, while ignoring the glaringly obvious hypocrisies of supporting people WHO HATE THEM.
Haven't read those explanations of Jew hatred but good to know my instincts were correct. I will also add their culture encourages education more than many other cultures. As for how to stop people from the hate, my theory is the left and mainstream media must stop the continual woke propaganda which exists in our schools, universities and most of the news. Sadly, I don't see that happening until the left's power is completely diminished and they have no other option. And yeah, the right must be involved in that contest which I know you don't like hearing. Finally, I do believe there are globalists like Soros involved in inciting and funding this violent ideology--they want to see the west fail so their righteous leadership can lead us to Nirvana. Oh yeah, Nirvana, another thing which isn't going to happen.
This will be my second go at this comment as my first one I felt lacked nuance. What is the cause of antisemitism? I think it has many different causes. The first one is jealousy. The Jews no matter where they’ve gone, have always been a successful middleman minority. Second, they are viewed as being omnipresent and behind every evil and catastrophe one can imagine. They are simultaneously capitalists and communists. They are blamed for the JFK assassination, 9/11, the sinking of the Titanic, the invention of the atom bomb, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They are seen as both subhuman inferiors but yet as also as brilliant and scheming masterminds. Third, they are seen as controlling all things financial and to love money. This goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews worked as moneylenders and tax collectors. Some of the few jobs they were allowed to have that weren’t closed to them. Fourth, Christians and Muslims often view Jews as heretics who won’t accept the one true faith. Lastly, the misunderstanding of the term “the Chosen people.” Many often think that when the Jews say this they are saying they are better than everyone else. But this is not the case. By “God’s chosen people” it is rather meant that God has a special plan for them that they would be led back and restored to their homeland after thousands of years of living in a diaspora and in exile. These five points I believe are where hatred for the Jews stems from: jealousy, scapegoating, stereotypes, religious dogma, and misconceptions.
The hard left and far-left’s alliance with Islamofacism is not at all surprising but it is puzzling as Hamas, Hezbollah, The Houthis, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram wouldn’t hesitate to execute them on the spot when they got the chance. Progressives and leftists should be expelled from the Democratic Party. It’s funny that the hard and far-left would team up with Jihadists who believe women are chattel, abortion is a sin, LGBTQ+ people should be executed on spot if discovered, that black people are inferior, Jews and Christians are apostates who should be murdered, that practicing open slavery, dowries, honor killings, child marriage, animal sacrifices, and polygamy is fine, and abuses and neglects disabled people. I don’t get that! They do realize right all these Islamist groups worship Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and spend all their free time reading Mein Kampf. Are they aware of how local Arabs collaborated with the Nazis and their Italian allies during WWII? They aware that both secular and religious Arab political parties were inspired by the Nazis? The Muslim Brotherhood for instance was directly funded by the Third Reich. The Ba’athist Parties in Iraq and Syria were both inspired by the Nazis as well.
Thanks for such a thoughtful reply, Noah. You make a lot of good points about where the Jew hate comes from. The only observation I would make is that I'm not sure how that relates to why deeply ignorant young people are so quick to climb on board the antisemite cattle car (allusion intentional as now the anti-Pride jihadis are commanding them). I think a lot of the 'oppressor/oppressed' nonsense has a lot to do with it, but the left has traditionally stood up for the underdogs which Israel clearly is, an oasis of democracy in a sea of Arab authoritarianism and terrorism. For all their faults and flaws.
The disconnect between what jihadis hate in their so-called 'allies' is what I really don't understand either. I should start asking wokies that.
I think young people are so quick to jump on the antisemite cattle car because they are misinformed and taken in by Hamas propaganda. Also, they have been taught through critical race theory that Jews are evil white oppressors and that Israel is a settler-colonial project out to wipe out the Palestinian people. The left used to like Israel, until the 1967 Six-Day War where Israel defeated the Arabs in a lighting war and conquered a good amount of territory. Also, I think the hard and far left see Jihadis as freedom fighters rather than terrorists.
They unlearned their commitment against bigotry and discrimination by doing exactly that to women and Jews, so I wish they would re-learn their former commitment. I think it's just that everyone needs their own personal buttmonkey. I remember being really aggravated many years ago reading black American writer Richard Wright's books in which his grandmother called Jews 'Christ killers'. It really pissed me off that an old black woman in the 1930s would say something like that. EVERYONE needs a buttmonkey!
Abraham wasn't a Jew.
Technically not, but he is regarded by all three major religions as from whence they all originate, of which Judaism was the first to emerge. He's Jewish by association (and later, Christian and Muslim as well).
Why do coins have ridges?
Semitism creates anti-semitism
My theory is pretty simply that it’s a numbers game. There’s only 15-20 million of us. We’re one of the smallest identifiable groups that you can find essentially world wide. To that end, we’re kind of the “easy trimmings”.
I've asked myself for years why the Jew hatred throughout history? Could it be that the Jewish people have been such a successful culture that some are resentful and want to take what they have? In Germany before WWII, many Jews were powerful in terms of business/banking and trade. Did Hitler believe he had to take that away to rule? Also, in Israel the Jews have been quite prosperous and democratic--the only democratic culture in the middle east. Anyway, my theory such as it is :-)
Yes, you nailed it, but that topic has been already covered many times before. Thomas Sowell has a great essay on the envy driving classic hatred against the Jews, the Parthis of India (that was a new one for me), the Ibos in Nigeria, and other traditionally oppressed minorities. There actually is plenty to boost the stereotype of the Jews's influence on the financial world, something that became apparent to me when I read Too Big To Fail and I began to realize, "Why are all these names Jewish?" They're prominent in Hollywood too n accordance with the stereotype. Malcolm Gladwell actually explains how this happens in one of his books--because they were so traditionally shut out of being hired for jobs, they had to create their own, and that's where their 'usury' comes from - they had to make money from loaning money, because they needed to support their families too. Because they've been so hated, they've had to be extremely versatile and innovative in how to live and how to make money. And all of this too has been well-covered so I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. My question is how lefties who claim to be 'social justice warriors' can so easily give into the hate and bigotry they decry on the left, while ignoring the glaringly obvious hypocrisies of supporting people WHO HATE THEM.
#Chickens4ColonelSanders, indeed.
Haven't read those explanations of Jew hatred but good to know my instincts were correct. I will also add their culture encourages education more than many other cultures. As for how to stop people from the hate, my theory is the left and mainstream media must stop the continual woke propaganda which exists in our schools, universities and most of the news. Sadly, I don't see that happening until the left's power is completely diminished and they have no other option. And yeah, the right must be involved in that contest which I know you don't like hearing. Finally, I do believe there are globalists like Soros involved in inciting and funding this violent ideology--they want to see the west fail so their righteous leadership can lead us to Nirvana. Oh yeah, Nirvana, another thing which isn't going to happen.