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clintonism and the theology of contempt by Mia T, November 2000 (sometime before the-first-Tuesday-after-the-first-Monday) former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir I... underestimated the propensity of my people for narrow-mindedness and self-destruction (the Jewish vote for Mrs. Clinton was about 70%).... Some anti-Semitism is irrational, founded in ignorance, as in Hillary's case.... But other forms of anti-Semitism can be earned, giving folks legitimate grievances against a people because they do crazy things like EXTEND HILLARY CLINTON'S POLITICAL LIFE! Julia Gorin, Getting used to Hillary Let us hope that the rabbi's question was merely rhetorical. . . Let us hope that Rabbi Potasnik, and by extension, New York Jews, are not as credulous and obsequious and passive as they appear. . . The simple answer to the rabbi's question is that the corrupt, self-serving, anti-Semitic, power-hungry harpy cannot be trusted. Weren't we to never forget? 
The Holocaust must remain, for Jew and Gentile alike, a constant reminder that mass credulity and obsequiousness and passivity are necessary for the demagogue to prevail. To remember that six million Jews died in the Holocaust is to understand that centuries of anti-Semitic attitudes made this horror possible. We must ask ourselves what role our society played through the centuries that in any way contributed to the atmosphere that made such a genocide even thinkable. Which brings me to the clintons and clintonism. . . Senator Patrick Moynihan proffered one of the more incisive operant definitions of clintonism -- "defining deviancy down." Defining deviancy down, indeed. clintonism has made personal and public perversions, personal and public predations, not merely thinkable, not merely acceptable, but de rigueur. Watch us spin.  
clintonism is the theology of contempt. Not only toward "f***ing Jew-bastards," or "dumb n***ers" or "extra-chromosome right-wingers" but toward any of us whose ideas are different from those of the clintons, Gore, and their acolytes. So the real question to be answered is this:
What fair-minded, clear-thinking person would vote for hillary clinton or Al Gore?" |
with its theology of contempt? 
