Anti-Semitism, the Conservatism of Fools: Delusions on the Right.

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 | By Robert Locke

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Quote of the Day by Theophilus

[TLBSHOW]

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[Darheel]

I'm sorry but this seems to begin with an assumption that's never proven in the body of the text. The author is a ass.

[JudgemAll]

Know thyself...

[dennisw]

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[UbIwerks]

But isn't Islam trying to export its horrible government and culture around the world and in a more violent and sensationalist fashion than the Commies did?

Won't we still need something philosophically to counter it (such as Ann Coulter's angry suggestion)?

We'll have to either sit on these Arab countries colonially or kill a great deal of them to stop their blood lust against the infidels. I'm sorry if many people can't deal with the solution but that is the way it is.

[Man of the Right]

On the right, anti-semitism is limited to nazis and white supremacists these days. Anti-semitism is largely a left phenomenon.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Mamzelle]

This essay is incoherent, is premised on an assumption undemonstrated by fact, and I don't know why Horowitz put it on his 'zine today. Just plain poor writing and poor thinking.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

They used to say that anti-Semitism was the socialism of fools.

Who says?

For some people, it probably was.

For whom?

Unfortunately, this applies today on our end of the political spectrum, too, though to a lesser extent. "It's the Jews' fault" is also something one hears on the American Right.

It does? Where? When? From whom?

No need to name names and I am not interested in "convicting" anybody of anything.

Nor, does it seem, are you interested in backing up your assertions. What a terrible piece. Horowitz needs himself a better editor.

[dennisw]

They're in dire need of some special Ritalin. The Ritalin they need is the nuking of Mecca Medina Qom. On the primitive reptilian brain level this is what they subconsciously want. The death of Mecca is the their biggest, wettest death wish and desire. 

Dr. Dennis (PhD Shrink-ology) knows the Arab Muslim mind

[weikel]

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[stocksthatgoup]

No need to name names and I am not interested in "convicting" anybody of anything." ...why not?

[Alouette]

the mathematics of the situation suggest that by 2050 there will be virtually no non-Orthodox Jews in America.

Years ago I was chastised by Reform acquaintances and relatives for not shutting down reproductive operations when family size exceeded the maximum-recommended liberal allowance of 2-offspring-per-family. I told them, "while you are contracepting and aborting yourselves into extinction, I plan on being the ancestor of a dynasty."

[dennisw]

As far as family size Jews should emulate Muslims. Especially in Israel.

[traditionalist]

And Blacks are lazy, and Italians are mobsters?

Yes, blacks have a cultural predisposition toward being on welfare and people descended from Southern Italian immigrants have a cultural predisposition toward participating in organized crime, though it seems as though Italians have mostly cured themselves of this cultural pathology.

[SJackson]

maybe I am missing something here:
"... It should be just as permissible to say "Jewish Americans have a cultural predisposition to liberal nonsense" as it is to say "Scandinavian Americans have a cultural predisposition to liberal nonsense." Which they certainly do: just look at heavily-Scandinavian Minnesota."
And Blacks are lazy, and Italians are mobsters? Just look at.... heavily black welfare rolls and heavily Italian Mafia... / sarcasm off.

I think you understand the author, stereotypes are OK as long as we apply them to everyone, easier than thinking.

Kind of an I'm rotten, you're rotten, they're rotten thing. It rules out any issue based appeal.

He makes the point a little better with Within these limits, there is no basis for exempting Jews from the universal recognition that human beings are imperfect and their imperfections are a legitimate object of public-policy discussion, but not much.

[John Lenin]

Why are Jews such a popular target?

Simple, because you guyz have the majority of wealth. It just goes with the terrirtory. Envy is one the strongest human emotions and it is used way more by the left than it is by the right. There are far more anti-semites on the left, just look at Europe !