NYT opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg
The whole thing is worth a read, but here’s some excerpts.
We have even seen this shit on this board from a once respected poster.
Here is one of many similarly themed comments made by Scylla.
But he’ll gleefully distort the truth to spread anti-semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros.
What a piece of trash. We’re not falling for your bullshit.
I was kinda hoping the time away would give Scylla some time to reflect and maybe realize the stuff he sometimes says is idiotic crap. Like trying to blame Democrats for Trump or being more concerned with the minor mistakes made by someone with a D behind their name than the gaping racism, hatred, and idiocy of the current President and the Republican base that supports him.
I was also hoping for a pony. I think I may have a shot at the pony thing though.
He has certainly developed a penchant for weird black is white down is up style arguments that just deny reality.
Here he is denying that we live in a patriarchal society with a bunch of unrelated facts about the differences between men and women.
Scylla lost his ddamned mind; I don’t engage with him anymore. At all. Don’t even read his posts.
GQ recently published a great article on this subject also, the takeaway of which is thatThe Jews Are Tired. Which is absolutely correct.
I’ll follow that up with how the conversation about Israel from both the left and the right is patronizing imperialist bullshit.
Amen, amen and a-fucking-men.
Did strike me as odd, that in North Carolina a cluster of MAGAts are triggered by their firm aversion to anti-Semitism. As dubious as it is laudable.
Some of Omar’s statements on the Israel-Palestine conflict have, undeniably, contained some pretty obvious anti-Semitic dog-whistles. But it’s a bit fucking rich watching MAGA Chuds accuse anyone of bigotry. It’s like, if I’m playing a game and I get caught cheating, I deserve to be called out, but Lance Armstrong better not join in.
I normally find Tablet either dull or insufferable, but that is a superb piece.
I’m hopeful and confident that most of us American Jews recognize that it’s white supremacists and their allies, like Trump and co, who have always been and still are the greatest threat to our existence, and thus there’s no great danger of any significant number of us converting to that side.
One can rely on the unity of Jews. They hate to argue, after all.
Seems like an excellent lead-in to this “Scenes From a Multiverse”
That radical lefty rag Daily Kos reports, by way of WashPost, that Il Douche’s minions advised him to shift his attacks to questions of patriotism rather than ethnic origins. To my gimlet eyes, he appears to equate support for Israel policies as roughly parallel to patriotism.
That’s brilliant.
“As an American Jew, I am profoundly outraged by the comments from Ocasio-Cortez.”
Hebrew Everyman Stephen Miller speaks out today on Fox News; is mildly reprimanded by Chris Wallace.
As many times as Miller practiced that in the mirror (half the time with spray-on hair, half without), he still screwed up: it was Ilhan Omar, not Ocasio-Cortez, who made the arguably-anti-Semitic remarks.
I dislike defending assholes spouting bullshit, but the claimed offense was Ocasio-Cortez purportedly calling border detention centers ‘concentration camps’. That is what he claims bothered his delicate sensibilities.
So, he’s right in selecting the target of his ire. Just not in much else.
Is he losing his hair more? I think he’s losing his hair more.
He’s another one who doesn’t understand that “All ‘A’ are ‘B’ but not all ‘B’ are ‘A’”? Those detention centers are concentration camps now, just as the “internment centers” back in the 1940s were. They’re just not death camps. Oh, wait; children have been dying in the detention centers.
Just because they’re not German concentration camps doesn’t mean they’re not concentration camps. Moreover, I reject the idea that the descendants of those who survived or perished in the Holocaust automatically get exclusive ownership of its discourse.
As historian Tim Snyder put it, the real message that everyone ought to be taking from the experience of the Holocaust is “never again.” What this country’s government is allowing, what it seems to be encouraging, is maltreatment of the most vulnerable people in our society, which is analogous to how much of Europe treated German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Nobody’s saying it’s exactly the same thing - it doesn’t have to be. People of all stripe must unite against this kind of barbarity being committed in all our names, and it starts by stripping off the protective bark of bullshit euphemisms.
These are concentration camps. Full stop.