The Rough Beast Returns [Left Wing Surprise That You Reap What You Sow ALERT]

Mother Jones ^ | 17 Jun 02 | Todd Gitlin

[white trash redneck]

There is nothing quite like the spectacle of a Jewish leftist bemoaning left wing anti-Semitism. It's as if Gitlin simply cannot comprehend that one plus one equals two, because he cannot comprehend how his leftist philosophy has not only been a safe incubator for anti-semitism, it has made anti-semitism on campus inevitable.

[m1911]

A student movement is not just a student movement. It's a student movement.

No comment.

[Shermy]

She's getting there, but she just can't do it yet. Note the typical lefty invocation of "Le Pen" for the attacks on Jews there - a one name, think no more response to dissuade closer examination.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Anyone know where I can get a t-shirt with the Israeli flag on it? I want to smoke some of these weasel out of the woodwork.

[laconic]

Mr. Gitlin was a leading member of the America-hating SDS in the 1960s. I wonder if he has any second thoughts about the namecalling, lies and slanders just as bad as the ones he writes about today that HE and his fellow SDS members heaped on this country, our combat soldiers in Vietnam and their families in that time. As I heard in a second rate movie once, "Life is a Circle" and it looks like Mr. Gitlin has come 360 degrees and is looking at himself in the mirror. I trust he's learned something.

[pabianice]

She made her bed and knowingly packed it with sh*t. Now she gets to sleep in it. Too damn bad. And you can't get a carry permit for self-defense where she lives, either -- another result of her brainless politics.

Enjoy it, toots.

[Tijeras_Slim]

he cannot comprehend how his leftist philosophy has not only been a safe incubator for anti-semitism, it has made anti-semitism on campus inevitable.

I agree. He'll be puzzled all the way to the ovens.

[laconic]

Doctored photos of "atrocities" by soldiers, atrocities by the other side ignored or even applauded, radical enemy flags hoist high on campus, those who take the other side physically assaulted and verbally abused, America called "Amerika", returning veterans spat on. Sound familiar, Mr. Gitlin? It should because its what you and your fellow SDS'ers encouraged and abetted in the Sixties. Its as wrong and disgusting in the context of the Middle East today at Berkeley as it was during Vietnam thirty years ago.

[What Is Ain't]

In the blood-soaked Middle East of Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon

Note well: the deliciously deferred subject of this sentence is: "the Jews." Not the right-wing Jews, the militarist Israelis, but "the Jews."

If it wasn't for Ariel Sharon and what this fool perceives as the evil right-wing Jews, Israel would be in far more trouble than it is today.

This preposterously confusing piece points in so many different directions it's impossible to understand what the writers position is.

This is what they call progressivism? Have another toke.

[Warren]

"A student movement is not just a student movement"
More like a bowel movement, stinks.

[Ahban]

About the only real friends the Jews have left are the "right-wing Christian extremists". If either of these two feel threatened they should enter the first bible-believing Christian church they see, where they will be welcomed and protected.

[Billthedrill]

A student movement should maintain the highest of standards...

Hilarious.

[BlueLancer]

"A student movement is not just a student movement. It's a student movement."

I had a student movement this morning. I usually have my student movement at about 7:30 AM every day.

[sinclair]

The lefties learn the effects of being so wrong for so long.

[Leto]

Corollary: You sleep with dogs you get fleas.

The Author brillantly </scarcasm> mixes the naive with the pretensious.Typical "progressive".

[TigerTale]

Students, whether they are progressive or not, have the responsibility of knowing things, of thinking and discerning, of studying.

This is where the problem lies. Students are not responsible for knowing, they are responsible for learning. Only when we stop looking to the ignorant for knowlege will we rediscover wisdom.

[facedown]

http://www.israel-tshirts.com/main.html

[Steve_Seattle]

Saramago on the Jews: " . . . a people chosen by God . . . pathologically exclusivist racism . . . "

Sounds to me more like a description of the Islamic mentality, i.e., murdering innocents in the name of Allah, spouting rabidly anti-Jewish rhetoric, etc.

[Steve_Seattle]

Saramago: " . . . intoxicated mentally by the dream of a Greater Israel . .. "

Once again, he has it backwards. The trouble is caused by the Moslems fanatical vision of a pan-Islamic takeover of the entire world.

[My Identity]

Let's see.
1 - Adherence to failed Marxist ideologies
2 - Mental gymnastics to rationalize socialist disasters
3 - Denial that socialism leads inevitably to totalitarianism
4 - Shock that the knock on the door is for them.