tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post3148273725465912518..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Israel and Contemporary Forms of Western-Left RacismMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-18591560328773210492016-11-02T10:42:27.021-07:002016-11-02T10:42:27.021-07:00To me the problem is the kneejerk assumption that ...To me the problem is the kneejerk assumption that government is the alpha and the omega. Government is not the culture, the society, the economy or the country. It's an aspect and a tool of them, not the other way around. We've been conned to think that anything we need a fix for is or will come from the government. That's nonsense. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-16148978367175869872016-11-02T10:36:10.195-07:002016-11-02T10:36:10.195-07:00Never under estimate the gleeful embrace of hypocr...Never under estimate the gleeful embrace of hypocrisy. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-14699521247031214332016-11-01T14:18:18.288-07:002016-11-01T14:18:18.288-07:00As compared the the progressive antipathy toward I...As compared the the progressive antipathy toward Israel, which includes Clinton's advisors, comes this:<br /><br /><i>Trump Campaign Unveils New Policy: Will Ask Justice Department to Probe Anti-Israel Intimidation on US College Campuses</i><br /><br />https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/11/01/trump-campaign-unveils-new-policy-will-ask-justice-department-to-probe-anti-israel-intimidation-on-us-college-campuses/oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-75550435449914622412016-11-01T12:55:45.847-07:002016-11-01T12:55:45.847-07:00Hi Chrissy,
It seems to me that American politics...Hi Chrissy,<br /><br />It seems to me that American politics is stymied by the onrush of social-cultural trends and simply doesn’t know what to do with itself.<br /><br />The Republicans are a wreck and unless Trump somehow emerges from the brimstone and smoke victorious – which is highly unlikely – they may very well go into exile.<br /><br />If so, I won’t cry any tears.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-52414616558839587322016-11-01T12:42:58.173-07:002016-11-01T12:42:58.173-07:00Y'know, Trudy, it's not just a matter of c...Y'know, Trudy, it's not just a matter of comfortable or uncomfortable with Zionism or Jews.<br /><br />I know that you know this, but it’s something that I want to stress.<br /><br />By supporting anti-Semitic anti-Zionism it throws its own alleged values directly in the garbage.<br /><br />{Kapoot.}<br />Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-37050260939899375532016-11-01T11:23:11.271-07:002016-11-01T11:23:11.271-07:00Moraga, eh?
That puts her just on the other side ...Moraga, eh?<br /><br />That puts her just on the other side of the hill.<br /><br />I could probably hit her roof with a tennis ball from here.<br /><br />In truth, tho, I missed an important type of progressive-left racism.<br /><br />It's the type of racism that is evident when people on the left criticize minority individuals from not being "authentic" examples of that particular ethnicity.<br /><br />I could just kick myself.<br /><br />They called people like Colin Powell, who supported Barack Obama, an <i>Oreo Cookie.</i><br /><br />What's the name for this type of racism?<br /><br />Anybody?Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-13163247847105932032016-11-01T07:49:18.310-07:002016-11-01T07:49:18.310-07:00The left is bankrupt. It ran out of GOOD ideas and...The left is bankrupt. It ran out of GOOD ideas and now needs to grasp at straws to continue being relevant. All there is left is ID politics.Chrissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12606923178557256610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-62893490885322795052016-10-31T07:46:17.180-07:002016-10-31T07:46:17.180-07:00I would challenge anyone to demonstrate where the ...I would challenge anyone to demonstrate where the left has been comfortable with Zionism or Jews generally beyond a fragile marriage of convenience. There was a brief period say during the civil rights movement where Orthodox/Masorti/Conservadox Jewish leaders like Abraham Heschel worked with the political left and center-left to foment civil rights thought leadership. But I've read Heschel about this and I see little religious Judaism there. That is, he speaks and writes as a man, a liberal, a philosopher and a generic clergyman who happened to be Jewish. And he never once asked his compatriots to get on board, embrace, endorse or welcome anything that was uniquely Jewish or Zionist. And he WAS a Zionist but it didn't enter into THIS equation.<br /><br />I'm afraid that the left has always had an arm's length relationship to the Jews and at THAT it's still reluctant. It's like their relationship to Christianity. Oh they pluck a person here and there who tells you what he thinks Jesus would do or say in this or that scenario in the terms of bland platitudes, but nothing about what faith and observance tell you to do. Nothing about belief and morality and ethics itself. Tim Kaine is a good example; a Sandinista Marxist Catholic Missionary who does not believe that the edicts and tenets of his own religion are anything more than suggestions for personal standards - that it serves no wider purpose for the world he himself purports to stand in service OF. <br /><br />I'm afraid that since the left is first, an ideology, it sees Judaism as a competing and dangerous ideology. That the left simultaneously embraces Islam says more about the moral and ethical flexibility of Islam than anything else. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-7560845600077680502016-10-30T11:07:02.838-07:002016-10-30T11:07:02.838-07:00This was a great read. I wish I had some time to ...This was a great read. I wish I had some time to comment, but I am quite busy right now and it will take some time to digest it all. The West is indoctrinating its children with some really bad ideas. <br />P.S. I put my wife on a plane yesterday and she will be spending the next week in your neck of the woods. Moraga, to be exact. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.com