Jews of my generation grew up not only with a sense of the disaster that had so recently overtaken the Jewish people, but also in a climate of opinion in which anti-Semitism had been more or less marginalized, driven into the sewers of the political far-right and into coded and 'genteel' forms elsewhere. It was possible to believe that its National-Socialist manifestation had discredited anti-Semitism beyond recovery. No more. That turns out to have been an illusion. Anti-Semitism is back - not that it ever went away completely, but I mean back out of the sewers and from the shamefacedness and the self-restraining codes - in all its ugly colours. It still bears the stink of what it essentially is.Not disgusted with Norm. Disgusted with the circumstances that led to him having to say that.
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends,
it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Disgusted
That's what I am, that someone could write this today:
I suspect that he may be wrong here: "anti-Semitism had been ...driven ..into coded and 'genteel' forms elsewhere". It's my guess that Drawing Room anti-semitism has little to do with exterminatory anti-semitism. At the least, I'd be interested to see someone argue the contrary with evidence rather than assertion. But as for the new anti-semitism - the Left's anti-semitism - it just illustrates the fact that it's rarely wrong to assume that Lefties are shits.
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