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The Brownshirts of Our Time [liberal intolerance]
Breitbart ^ | 26 May 2015 | Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Posted on 05/27/2015 6:49:04 PM PDT by SJackson

On Saturday evening, November 8, 2003, I addressed a free-standing feminist “networking” conference of mainly African-American and Hispanic-American women at Barnard College. The conference was sponsored by WERISE (Women Empowered through Revolutionary Ideas Supporting Enterprise), which was described as a grassroots, multi-cultural, multi-generational, and multi-disciplinary organization for women in the arts. The women ranged in age from 20 to 65 and were dressed in corporate business suits, colorful African and ethnic attire, and youthful jeans.

A few days before the conference one of the organizers asked me about my most recent book and I told her it was The New Anti-Semitism. I explained that Jew-hatred was a form of racism—only it was not being treated as such by anti-racist “politically correct” people. The organizer did not voice her disagreement nor did she say that the subject wouldn’t play well to her constituency. She only said that they needed me to explain the ways in which women sabotage each other, so that women could understand and overcome them in order to come together. They wanted me to talk about my book Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman. “Your speech will precede our big Unity panel,” she said.

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And then my first questioner blew it all to hell. I could not see who was speaking. A disembodied voice demanded to know where I stood on the question of the women of Palestine. Her tone was forceful, hostile, relentless, and prepared. I could have said that I am deeply concerned with the women of Palestine, but I did not.

Instead, I took a deep breath and said that I did not respect people who hijacked airplanes or hijacked conferences, or who, at this very moment, were trying to hijack this lecture.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antisemitism; islamicimperialism; palestine; palestinians; propalestinianwar
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1 posted on 05/27/2015 6:49:04 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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2 posted on 05/27/2015 6:50:03 PM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes)
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To: SJackson

Include the NBP in this


3 posted on 05/27/2015 6:50:04 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SJackson

Assuming due process doesn’t restrain this evil, a complete wipeout of their precious dollars will do it.


4 posted on 05/27/2015 6:52:28 PM PDT by 9thLife (The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.)
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To: SJackson

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.- Nietzsche


5 posted on 05/27/2015 6:56:28 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: SJackson
Afterwards, my son, who was the only man present and who had been told to sit “apart,”

"Apart" as in "apartheid". The Nazis of the Left are after more than Jews.

6 posted on 05/27/2015 6:57:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill; LUV W; fatima; E.G.C.; Kathy in Alaska

7 posted on 05/27/2015 7:02:23 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SJackson
I'm still analyzing THIS ... "Women Empowered through Revolutionary Ideas Supporting Enterprise"

Is it strong arm MLM or something ?

8 posted on 05/27/2015 7:24:33 PM PDT by knarf
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To: SJackson
I'm currently reading the excellent Richard J Evans series on how the Nazis came to power.

There are some real similarities with what we are seeing today with liberalism and the way political correctness is being forced down our throats.

In 1933, the Nazis took over the universities by banning or having Brownshirts shouting down anything that did not conform to the Nazi way of thinking. The Nazis also took over the arts, film, media and even music.

Sound familiar?

9 posted on 05/27/2015 7:30:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Billthedrill

It’s a women’s college.


10 posted on 05/27/2015 7:41:37 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: SamAdams76

Want to know how the Nazis first started going after the Jews?

They passed laws requiring all businesses to be open on the Sabbath, and then confiscated those of Jews who refused to comply, on the ground that they were violating the equivalent of the public accommodations laws by not having their stores open to Gentiles on Saturday.

Sound familiar??


11 posted on 05/27/2015 7:41:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: SJackson
A disembodied voice demanded to know where I stood on the question of the women of Palestine.

"Easy, their wives and daughters should not be treated as second class citizens and the mothers should not put Islamic terrorism above the lives of their children."

12 posted on 05/27/2015 7:42:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Lisbon1940
It’s a women’s college.

I am aware of that. The point stands.

13 posted on 05/27/2015 7:43:38 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: kaehurowing
Yes it does. Today's strident liberals are literally the equivalent of the 1930s Brownshirts.

Always shouting down and marginalizing people that aren't 100% in lockstep with their opinions.

14 posted on 05/27/2015 7:49:25 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SJackson

A lib once tried to engage me about the ‘Palestinians’.

I shot back, “There’s no such thing as a ‘palestinian’ and, if there were, they would be Jewish and living in ‘Filastin’, aka Israel.”

Silence.

She never brought it up again. But she had brains; the idiots at this conference, the few rabble rousers, do not.


15 posted on 05/27/2015 7:56:44 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: SamAdams76

I was specifically thinking of the businesses that are now being targeted for not catering to same sex weddings. But it is all similar in terms of tactics, basically getting what you want through threats and intimidation, and attacking certain folks to send the message to others that unless they capitulate to the agenda, they are next.


16 posted on 05/27/2015 8:07:24 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: SJackson
..took the question head-on. I said if she was really asking about apartheid, I’d talk about it. I said that contrary to myth and propaganda, Israel is not an apartheid state. The largest practitioner of apartheid in the world is Islam, which practices both gender and religious apartheid. Palestinian women—and all women who live under Islam—are oppressed by “honor”/horror killings, daughter-beatings, forced veiling, segregation, being stoned to death for alleged adultery, and suffer from female genital mutilation, polygamy, and sexual slavery.

I told them that Islam also practices religious apartheid. All non-Muslims (Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá’í, Zoroastrians, animists, etc.) have historically been treated as sub-humans and must either convert to Islam or be mercilessly taxed, beaten, jailed, murdered, or exiled. Today, the entire Middle East is Judenrein; there are no Jews in 22 Arab countries. Between 1948 and1956, 850,000 Arab Jews were forced to flee Muslim countries. They can only live in Israel, the only Middle Eastern country where Jews are welcome.

... hats off to Dr. Phyllis Chesler - for the courage to tell the truth.

17 posted on 05/27/2015 8:07:25 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The left hates those who confront evil" - Charlie Daniels)
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To: SJackson

At another time calling “brown shirts” would be hyperbole... currently it is extremely correct..

Hitler’s mini-me is in the White House.. I only WISH that was hyperbole..
Obama OWNS.. the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, Justice Department, several other security agency’s.. and can bottle neck most all journalism, and that’s just the start of what he CONTROLS..

AND Boehner and McConnell is FINANCING HIM....
Short of massive revolt... America is finished..

2016 is a pipe dream.. God, I hope I’m wrong..


18 posted on 05/27/2015 8:08:56 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Billthedrill

It may explain why the author’s son was the only man present.


19 posted on 05/27/2015 8:10:00 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Lisbon1940

Correct, but not the sequestration. That is an act of incivility if not cowardice. Can you imagine a similar act toward a lady at a men’s college? In fact, can you imagine a men’s college? OK, different topic...


20 posted on 05/27/2015 8:11:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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