Victor Davis Hanson: When I Was Young… (The world turned upside down)

VDH ^ | March 23, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

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"Needs to hire a fact-checker. The Hollywood movie industry was started by Jews
who came to California in the early 1900's after they were shut out of the "flickers"
industry in New York."

My naive guess is that Victor Davis Hanson would agree with you.
He's describing my forbearors (of about the same age) who had the same view of "them there Jews".
Besides, with the appearance of the book linked below, I got a good chuckle when
someone mentioned it to "Mr. KABC" a law-and-order Jewish moderate-liberal talk show
host in Los Angeles.
To the caller's charge that the "Jews control Hollywood", Mr. KABC said:
"Yeah, everyone knows that."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385265573/qid=1080180303/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5459667-8939048?v=glance&s=books

[ladyinred]

Another winner from Mr. Hansen.

The world I grew up in is gone too. ( Mr. Hansen and I grew up in the same general area, too)

[Valin]

Thanks for the book review.

[LadyDoc]

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The ending is best:

"I don't know quite how they did it, but
the Democrats' candidate looks as at
home snowboarding at a ritzy ski resort
as George Bush does at a NASCAR rally.

"And when I hear anti-Semitism, hatred
of Israel, warning about Jews in
government, fury about foreign aid,
visceral hatred and rude exclamations,
sinister conspiracy theories, and
racial separatism it usually has come
far more often from someone on the Left
than Right and from one educated and
affluent rather than poor and ignorant.

"The world I grew up in really is long
gone."

[prognostigaator]

add to :

"When I listen to those who talk of race first rather than last, and identify themselves and others by their skin color, it is almost always by those on the Left, and usually by those who have something to gain by claiming first loyalty to a race or tribe rather than to a common humanity."

How many hyphenated Americans out there appear to owe more allegiance to the left side of the hyphen?