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Singing the Jews Blues
The American Thinker ^ | April 26, 2009 | Stuart Schwartz

Posted on 04/26/2009 3:27:29 AM PDT by Scanian

They're singing the blues, the Jews Blues. And with it the stage has been set for the elimination of the Jewish state and a grim future for Jews in the United States. If the result sought is that "we are all anti-Semites now," then the Jews Blues are the means to that end.

In music, the blues simultaneously direct sadness and anger at a person or situation, empathically pulling listeners into agreement. The rhetorical blues do the same, offering elites a way to shift the blame for policy and social failures to selected individuals and groups. This creates a background consensus of opprobrium, against which we hear heightened, often murderous rhetoric about groups and/or individuals ...and shrug our shoulders. "Ah, we hear it all the time, everyone knows Jews are traitors (or military veterans are terrorists, conservatives are fascists, etc.). Move on (no pun intended, although Moveon.org is the quintessential ‘blues' organization specializing in scurrilously exaggerated attacks), nothing to see here."

Hate as background noise, with words disconnected from consequences, produces increasing tolerance of the previously unthinkable. Columbia University is pushing tenure for an academic whose scholarly output consists largely of anti-Jewish theories that would have gotten him laughed off the faculty thirty years ago. Richard Nixon could say about Jews in general almost forty years ago "You can't trust the bastards" and be excoriated as an anti-Semite. But the Jews Blues have since become the Muzak of our political culture, and a leading Democratic Party light, Al ""If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house" Sharpton, who had encouraged an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish-owned store in New York City resulting in eight deaths, becomes a trusted advisor of a US president.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; antisemitism; kos; moveon

1 posted on 04/26/2009 3:27:30 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-wins-jewish-vote-by-78-21.html

“Obama Wins Jewish Vote by 78-21”


2 posted on 04/26/2009 3:31:21 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Got Tea?)
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To: Scanian
87 percent of Jews vote Democrat


3 posted on 04/26/2009 3:33:45 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Scanian

btt


4 posted on 04/26/2009 3:46:32 AM PDT by Marie (I'd die for Sara Palin's Down's Syndrome baby.)
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To: SkyPilot

“You get what you pay for”


5 posted on 04/26/2009 3:49:50 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: Scanian

Please forward this artice to Rahm Emanuel, David Axlerod,
Chucky Schumer, Babara Boxer, et al.


6 posted on 04/26/2009 4:34:31 AM PDT by LeavingNewYork
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To: LeavingNewYork

Makes me sick. Obama I think simply wants to be fashionable among his colleages, but he’s surrounded himself with seriously hideous people.

I like to believe that people hate the Jews because they’re a hard working, SUCCESSFUL group of people who work together. Naturally of course since they don’t make trouble for other people, go figure they’re the first accused and first abused.


7 posted on 04/26/2009 5:10:58 AM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: LeavingNewYork

Yeah, maybe I’ll do that. They USED TO BE Jewish.


8 posted on 04/26/2009 5:48:20 AM PDT by Scanian (i)
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