I have a really difficult time understanding my fellow Americans who hate Jewish people and their culture and positive contributions to society while supporting Hamas and other terrorist organizations who spread an ideology of negativity and death.
The politics of envy and grievance, the narrative of exploiter and exploited require a villain who can be held responsible for the failures and dissatisfaction of individuals and groups.
Jews and the Jewish state of Israel have been elected for the role of villain, as they are visible symbols of worldly success who can then be both envied and castigated.
By doing so, the aggrieved can shirk their responsibility to themselves for succeeding, and blame the outside world, society, and most importantly, the successful ie Jews.
This is why all the absolutist "free speech culture" ideologues like Greg Lukianoff are wrong. We must make Jew-hatred, like overt hateful bigotry against any group, TABOO again. These people must be ostracized out of polite society and our mainstream politics, as we did to defeat the KKK. If we don't, their hatred will normalize and spiral into violence and anarchy. https://whiterosemagazine.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-more-speech/
I understand the instinct, but it's not realistic. Use the KKK as an example and you'll see that their hateful ideology was simply not compatible with our polite society. The same applies today to all overt, hateful, eliminationist bigotry, though we need to be principled to ensure this doesn't violate the 1A or succumb to the excess of cancel culture. If you're interested, this is the topic I'm focusing all my energy on today, trying to spark a movement to restore our 'universal, moral TABOOS', which I write about at elevin11.substack.com
Still need some real thought and comment on what is to be done. What changes in actions, education, culture, etc. since what has been done to date (since the Holocaust) has obviously failed). How about moats around all Jewish institutions?
It occurs to me that loudly pronounced Jewish support for Christian organizations would also be a net positive in the fight against racial/religious bigotry. Maybe it happens and I've missed it?
I have a really difficult time understanding my fellow Americans who hate Jewish people and their culture and positive contributions to society while supporting Hamas and other terrorist organizations who spread an ideology of negativity and death.
The politics of envy and grievance, the narrative of exploiter and exploited require a villain who can be held responsible for the failures and dissatisfaction of individuals and groups.
Jews and the Jewish state of Israel have been elected for the role of villain, as they are visible symbols of worldly success who can then be both envied and castigated.
By doing so, the aggrieved can shirk their responsibility to themselves for succeeding, and blame the outside world, society, and most importantly, the successful ie Jews.
This is why all the absolutist "free speech culture" ideologues like Greg Lukianoff are wrong. We must make Jew-hatred, like overt hateful bigotry against any group, TABOO again. These people must be ostracized out of polite society and our mainstream politics, as we did to defeat the KKK. If we don't, their hatred will normalize and spiral into violence and anarchy. https://whiterosemagazine.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-more-speech/
Wrong road to travel. It leads to a dead end for all speech. Just my opinion, nothing more.
I understand the instinct, but it's not realistic. Use the KKK as an example and you'll see that their hateful ideology was simply not compatible with our polite society. The same applies today to all overt, hateful, eliminationist bigotry, though we need to be principled to ensure this doesn't violate the 1A or succumb to the excess of cancel culture. If you're interested, this is the topic I'm focusing all my energy on today, trying to spark a movement to restore our 'universal, moral TABOOS', which I write about at elevin11.substack.com
I don't care about Islam or Judaism nor am I interested in kowtowing to either.
Still need some real thought and comment on what is to be done. What changes in actions, education, culture, etc. since what has been done to date (since the Holocaust) has obviously failed). How about moats around all Jewish institutions?
It occurs to me that loudly pronounced Jewish support for Christian organizations would also be a net positive in the fight against racial/religious bigotry. Maybe it happens and I've missed it?
You have missed nothing because what you reference has not happened at any more than a "thank you for your service" level.
The other way ‘round, if anything.
I don't understand. Could you please clarify what your comment means?
The unfortunate reality is that there is a large segment of society who receive validation for their entrenched antisemitism from the co-opted media