It isn't just the anti-Semitic "squad" in congress that has slipped its leash; tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of academics and students and members of the professional victim classes are now openly engaging in Jew-bashing and lauding the greatness of some of history's most notorious fiends. And the frenzied haters are now starting to turn on their former enablers.
This is the natural result of the individual and cultural alienation, the systematic hatred, cultivated in our so-called educational system over the last several decades, and built into the platform of increasingly violent Leftists politics (and funded, largely, by evil billionaires who wish to remake the world according to their own dystopian visions).
Last night was a mess in DC as anti-Semitic protesters tried to disrupt a vigil for Israel by Jews. The police intervened. Then the anti-Semites attacked the DNC and the cops protected the party headquarters like the Beijing Police protect the CCP headquarters.
Twitchy reported, “It appears there's a bit of sowing and reaping going on as a Democratic National Committee event in Washington, DC has been evacuated after violent pro-Palestine (aka pro-Hamas) protesters descended on the meeting and clashed with police while they were trying to get into the building. U.S. Capitol buildings have also been locked down.”
Almost sounds like a - what's the word? - oh, yes, insurrection.
But you can be certain those who ended up being arrested won't be spending years in a basement jail without trial, or persecuted for the rest of their lives.
ReplyDeleteBack in school we read some excerpt from Mein Kampf for a course. I was interested in going further, see if I could find out exactly what the guy was on about. Like Stephen Hawkings or Joseph Campbell, that Hitler guy wrote a massive bestseller that people bought and didn't bother reading. It was meant to be prominently displayed on the coffee table as a sign that one was a Good Person.
ReplyDeleteOr for people not so pretentiously literate, it was the NPR tote bag of the day.
Anyway, where to obtain a copy? This was the Seventies, no internet much less no Amazon. Turned out to be a lead pipe cinch, in fact. Went to a shopping mall book store - Walden's or B. Dalton, don't recall which, and found it right on the shelf in the WWII history section. Pulled a wad of cash out of my pocket, paid, and walked out.
Took a while to read. Dense doesn't begin to describe it. Nor does rambling. But I stuck with it because I'm stubborn that way - I find it impossible to abandon a book I start however bad it turns out to be. Took a month, and at the end I wasn't much clearer on what he was after than before. I mean, he didn't like the Jews of course. Or the bourgeoisie for that matter.
But the point is, I decided that Hitler was a broken man, filled with hate. I absolutely did not tell anybody "Hey, this guy really makes you think, y'know?" No scales dropped from my eyes. He didn't win me over to Nazism any more than Herbert Marcuse (a professor emeritus at my school) won me over to Communism.
So no, speaking as somebody who has actually read the foundational document of the Third Reich, the Nazis did not make some good points. One does not, under any circumstance, have to hand it to them.
What's wrong with the young people today? Why are they so stupid and morally vacuous?
What's wrong with the young people today? Why are they so stupid and morally vacuous?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, it's almost like they are educated to be ignorant.
What I find weird is how quickly the focus changes. Like how long ago were the mob hunting down 'anti-vaxxers'? 2 years ago?
ReplyDeleteStephen, that reminds me of being given a copy of Dianetics in the 1970s and told it would reveal all. Wasn't much interested but could not resist a dare.
ReplyDeleteThe first few pages L Ron is telling us how to read, 'If you don't understand a sentence, go back and read it over until you do'. Manipulation instead of rational argument. I instinctively hate being manipulated - 'Don't tell me how to read, a-hole'. So that's as far as I got. So I missed out on all the LARPing Cosplay fun of dressing up as Sea-Org whatevers and feeling very important. And now all the 'I was a former Scientologist' drama, which is the other side of the coin I think - TV viewers can't get enough of it. At least they didn't become M*slims I think.