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2006-08-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fooled me.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-25 00:22|| 2006-08-25 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 so if being a Jew disqualifies someone from having a valid opinion on Israel, shouldn't being a Muslim do the same?

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-08-25 07:10|| 2006-08-25 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 It never occurred to me to think about such a thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-25 07:38|| 2006-08-25 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 [i]It never occurred to me to think about such a thing.[/i]

This isn't really anything new to me. Back in college, in '91 or '92, we had a Usenet system that was restricted to campus. Got into a lot of arguments there, and one particular argument was over Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism. A particularly fervent lefty, coming to the defense of the poor, oppressed Palestinians (who would have murdered this fellow for how he lives his life and for what he believes), called me a Jew because I thought it was a good thing to fight against people who shoot up buses, grade schools, etc.

So here's a fellow who would declare himself completely free of racism, bigotry, etc., yet unable to separate support for Israel from being Jewish. It's as if you assumed anyone who had opposed apartheid was black, or that anyone who wants a free Tibet is a Tibetan.

If anything, the crap's gotten worse over the last fifteen years. The left (and the Buchanan right) has rendered itself incapable of thinking in regards to Israel; to the point where they not only accept, but defend even the clumsiest propaganda and conspiracy theories.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-08-25 08:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-08-25 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 You can't tell anything by last names anymore. One of the local synagogues regularly posts the names of their newest bar mitzvah boys and bar mitzvah girls on their billboard as congratulations messages. Latest one was a kid named Zachary Antonelli or something like that.

But, like Steyn, the Tsar and I consider it an honor to be occasionally mistaken for Jews even though we're not (the Tsar's last name sounds Jewish and we live in an area in Florida with a few synagogues scattered around).

so if being a Jew disqualifies someone from having a valid opinion on Israel, shouldn't being a Muslim do the same?

Nah, that makes his argument valid, since obviously he's been oppressed by the evil Jooooos, even if he grew up a spoiled rich kid in California or London and barely speaks any Arabic.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-08-25 08:59|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-08-25 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 If I wrote 'So you're a Jew are you ?' to someone,
I would think I was actually writing 'I'm a stupid jackass.'

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-25 10:50|| 2006-08-25 10:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Color me Jewish, then. BTW Rob, what's the 'Buchanan right'? He's no more right than I am left. He's just a neo-nazi holocaust denier, who for some reason has been allowed to pose as right-wing on talking head shows.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-25 12:13|| 2006-08-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and he isn't Republican either.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-25 12:13|| 2006-08-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 As far as most Muslims are concerned, all the rest of us are Jews.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-08-25 12:29|| 2006-08-25 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 As far as most Muslims are concerned, all the rest of us are Jews.

Congratulations, Anguper Hupomosing9418, that pretty much nails it.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-25 13:47|| 2006-08-25 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 BTW Rob, what's the 'Buchanan right'?

The "paleocons". The nativists, the isolationists, the racists who don't mask their positions with Marxist cant.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-08-25 17:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-08-25 17:54|| Front Page Top

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