Antisemitism in America

I’ve read the Bible. There are IIRC 4 (very tedious) books in the Old Testament, the theme of which is how God either punished or rewarded Israel depending on whether the people and/or king were worshipping Baal or not. Yahweh was, of course, anti-Baal.

4 books! The 2 Kings and Chronicles. (This is me going by memory.)

Just to let yall know just how non-scriptural Owens’ thesis is.

 

I think you need to go on a hike or something.

 

The young far right is just trying to catch up to the young far left when it comes to antisemitism, further proving the extremes are just opposite ends of the horseshoe.

https://www.thefp.com/p/columbia-grad-students-get-a-reality

 

No, but a few of the regular contributors there are solid.

 

Exactly the same. Wingnuts hate Jews based on who they are and by buying into wildly racist conspiracy theories going back centuries. The "far left" hates this corrupt and murderous Bibi regime as do many middle-of-the road Normals. But hey, horseshoe theory is a good internet talking point.

 

Seems like you agree with this dude.

 

I'm not reading the tweet but no one has to bring fascism to America and America does fine on its own bloodlust.

 

Yes, horseshoe theory

 

Aren't you the guy who claimed Musk's Twitter was centrist?

 

New England also has 2 Israelis. Dor Turgemon, who scored yesterday, has 4 goals in 6 games, and Ilay Feingold is a defender/wing. The Revs have played 2 away games this year, but I haven't heard of anything like that going on. Yet.

 

I just read the second of those articles and while I don't disagree with the general argument, I think he does need to think more critically about it. For example, he writes:

Throughout Christian history the treatment of gays and Jews have been parallel. When homophobia rises or falls, so does anti-Semitism, and vice versa. This definitely aligns with what he says in the first part of the first quote above.

Why I say I think he needs to be more critical in his analysis is because gays have also existed everywhere, have existed even longer than Judaism and, of course, were not "well-received" in many places including ancient Israel. Yet, while conspiracy theories definitely exist for gays, those for Jews are on a "higher" level. As such, I think he needs to go deeper.

One obvious difference is that gays generally had to live in hiding, whereas Jews didn't necessarily have to, so Jews became a more obvious subgroup to target. Another thing I think that is important is that in the Middle Ages in various places in Europe Jews were prohibited from owning land. As such, they congregated in what some call the Jewish ghettos and, instead of working the land like the other locals, many basically had no choice but to go into business and banking. Of course, those in business and banking often ended up financially better off than those non-Jews who worked the fields, which would eventually lead to resentment and provide ready-made tropes that bigots could exploit.

 

Heil Hitlers at the St. Patrick's parade yesterday.

https://www.nola.com/news/jefferson...838-f0f925d92ed3.html#tncms-source=featured-2

(tl, dr - they were soccer players from one of the local Catholic schools.)

 

Plenty of far left types in the last 50 or so years have found common cause with the far right.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...s-democrats-fueling-primaries-left-rcna262995


"I did that"

 

Racist aholes

And WTF is this?


A carrot is handed out as the Metairie Road St. Patrick's Day parade made its way through the streets of Metairie on Sunday, March 13, 2022

 

That is a very weird tradition. You probably know that we throw things at parades here. At St. Patrick's day parades we throw food. It started out as throwing everything you need to make Irish stew, except the meat. But because this is crawfish season, it's expanded to everything you might put in a crawfish boil. We came home with a bunch of carrots, 7 heads of cabbage, onions, potatoes, garlic, lemons, fruit and more. An insane amount of food, most of which I donated to community fridges. We kept the moon pies, though.

Next week is the Irish-Italian parade (St. Joseph's day is very big here among the Italians), and more of the same. You do need to pay attention at these parades - you don't want to get conked on the head with a cabbage and, even if you are standing in the back, those lemons and potatoes are coming in hard and fast.