Why Jews Like Me Hate Sarah Palin

Jewschool ^ | January 7, 2009

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David Frum’s response points out that Palin is just scary to anybody who doesn’t want to see American divided into first- and second-class citizens.

That's laughable when you consider Frum's calling those who disagree with him "unpatriotic."

Frum's article is absurd. Take this for example:

Even before Sarah Palin’s book deal, the Palins ranked among the richest people in their hometown of Wasilla – and were capable of expressing intense disdain toward their perceived social inferiors, like the Johnston clan. If anything, the Palin family’s status grievances look less like Richard Nixon style resentment of poverty and humiliation – and much more like John Adams’ fury on encountering in London those English snobs who didn’t realize what big deals the Adamses were, back home in Braintree.

Just about anybody, David Frum included, might not feel comfortable with the Johnsons. But the Palins were more accepting of Levi than Frum would have been. Much good it did them in the end, though.

[blasater1960]

Liberal first, woman second, "jew" last. She is not a Jew, she is entitled to be a Jew by vitue of her birth, but clearly she is not a mitzvot (commandments) observant Jew.

Why do Freepers have to post these Anti-Jew rants every week? Why cant we just stick to defeating liberals in general instead of these questionable posts that could tend to breed antisemitic thoughts? We all know by now that there are a lot of liberals...of formerly Jewish religious origin. Can we drop it now?

[william clark]

So, cutting to the chase, this writer is simply a bigot. I mean, what else do you call someone who hates someone for no other reason than their religious beliefs and cultural values? Her belief that Palin is a dunce is secondary and comes long after everything else she articulated in her hit piece.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Before I post a thread should I go down a check list and make sure the article agrees with everything we all hold dear? What do we learn from that “preaching to the choir” type of self-editing? We’re all grown-ups here, and I think we can take a Lefty screed or rant once in awhile. In military intelligence one of our sayings is “Know Your Enemy” and that applies to the culture war and politics as well, don’t you? As for the anti-Semitism, I think the moderators are capable of handling that.

[Zionist Conspirator]

This is an example of the urban/rural dichotomy which is balkanizing the nation. I can't find any evidence that city living is proof of superiority in any way but it seems to be a common belief.

Dumb as a rock barbarian ghetto dwellers are seen as noble and deprived while their counterparts in the country are thought to be savage and depraved. You might even get the idea that the "Deliverance" plot could never be rewritten for urban characters.

I've even seen it here, on Free Republic, it's a visceral undercurrent. The Founders knew about it, and responded with the electoral college system. Jefferson predicted that when we became concentrated in cities, as in Europe, we would become as corrupt as Europe.

I agree. It's the anti-rural, urban supremacist mindset that exists even here on Free Republic. Not only Jews, but the descendants of almost all historical "immigrant" groups still seem to look on the inhabitants of the rural American Heartland the way the whites on the coasts looked on the "merciless red-skinned savages" who lived in the exact same areas. Even here one occasionally finds the charge of "nativist" or "know nothing." The former charge is especially ironic in that the same people who are accused of "nativism" are the "alien European invaders" who destroyed the indigenous cultures. Meanwhile, the later European immigrants (the ones who suffered prejudice from their predecessors) get something of a "pass" as being themselves victims.

Us rednecks. Neither indigenous nor immigrant, but the bigoted oppressor of both! Kinda unique, ain't it?

BTW, the fact that the agrarian Jefferson was an ideological radical while the rootless/cosmopolitan/urbanist Hamilton was the Original American Conservative is another of those fascinating ironies of American history.