Posted on 11/18/2023 7:53:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Americans were horrified at the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli villagers on October 7 this year. The brutality and futility of the attack rocked the imagination.
Yet within days, we witnessed huge protest marches in U.S. and world capitals and universities in favor of Hamas. Their favored chant, “from the river to the sea,” means only one thing, and that is the annihilation of Israel and all its Jewish inhabitants.
Such support for terrorism exploded in the 1970s as well in European cities and universities, and people wondered then about this same gleeful valorization of revolution by comfortable, privileged youth. One might expect campus teach-ins or op-eds on either side of a political conflict today too in elite educated spaces like Harvard and Columbia, but why do we again see such unchecked street rage there?
Why do we hear absurdly hyperbolic accusations like “genocide” and “apartheid,” and why do news outlets accept unvetted news reports and ludicrous casualty counts from Hamas itself?
The Germans had a word for it: Leidensneid, or an envy of suffering, first described by authors such as Jillian Becker, the chronicler of the Baader Meinhof group. The youth of this formerly Nazi nation thought of their old country as irredeemably evil, and they were not entirely wrong.
They came to envy the romanticized and righteous suffering of oppressed peoples, whose plight seemed authentic and meaningful. As they lived a soft life under the new democracies, their hatred of the old order grew. Eventually, they demanded nothing short of a utopian standard of justice for the new. They developed an ideology of hypersensitivity to wrongdoing, including any they saw in their new nations. And so, bereft of a nation to identify with, they identified with the victims of the post-war world,
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Many of these peeps need to be taken out back and Che’d.
Too bad in some respects that Che is still down for the count.
They have the concept that the Jews came in and threw all the Arabs out.
That about 20% of Israeli citizens are also Arab does not compute to them.
bfl
I just call it good, old-fashioned self-righteousness.
It is naive sentimentalism emanating from the lack of a moral foundation.
Bfl
Right on! Moral confusion is the fundamental folly of the Left/"liberals"/"progressives"--at least of the ones who are also benevolent--who are determined to drag the world down that well known Road to Hell.
Take a look at the hell-hole of San Francisco where druggies openly defecate on city sidewalks and children cannot play safely in public parks because of ever-present contaminated needles!
Or Chicago, where every weekend reveals the number of people shot and killed but the gun laws are strict!
Or the entire USA where half the population is in an advanced state of moral confusion and consequently the greatest nation in history is sinking into a quagmire of decadence!
Moral confusion and intellectual confusion produce an extremely dangerous combination.
The justices of the US Supreme Court suffer from this dangerous combination and have thus seriously endangered the American People and the Republic at a time when moral and intellectual clarity are essential.
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