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Posted on 12/15/2004, 2:00:41 AM by SJackson
No one can deny that Yasir Arafat had a dynamic talent for inspiring admiration and emulation. His gang`s massacres of children on a schoolbus from Moshav Avivim and at a school in Ma`alot — achievements the killer of JonBenet Ramsey could never hope to match — paved the way for similar atrocities committed at a school in Beslan, Russia.
Arafat`s attention-grabbing series of airplane hijackings set the standard for the new generation of terrorists who took his invention and improved upon it on September 11, 2001.
In death, he continues to inspire, and is already sorely missed by "progressives" and neo-Nazis who share one thing in common — enthusiastic support for the slaughter of unarmed Jewish men, women, and children — and who sound eerily alike in their online remarks praising the PLO chief and cursing the Jews.
After years of monitoring the hate speech disseminated by conservative radio and Internet (one of my reports is cited in David Brock`s recently released The Republican Noise Machine), I am forced to conclude that the "politically correct" vitriol of the Israel-hating activist Left makes the venomous rhetoric of right-wing ideologues seem mild by comparison.
Am I exaggerating? Let`s look at the comments on Arafat`s death and the Mideast crisis on two neo-Nazi websites — WhiteCivilRights.com, run by Nazi/Klansman David Duke, and Stormfront.org, a disturbingly successful hate site currently under investigation in connection with the desecration of a Jewish museum, cemetery, and synagogue — and two of the most heavily trafficked left-wing websites — DemocraticUnderground.com, dedicated to "the exchange and dissemination of liberal and progressive ideas," and SmirkingChimp.com, described in a laudatory Nation magazine article as "a website with 25,000-plus registered members, founded after the 2000 election as a gathering place for liberals, progressives and leftists who felt the newly elected president reminded them most of, well, a smirking chimp."
(At Democratic Underground, members appear to be evenly split for and against Jew-killing; at Smirking Chimp — where criticism of recent kidnappings and beheadings will get you banned, but writing that the victims "got what they deserved" will keep you a member in good standing — the support for Arafat`s terrorism was overwhelming.)
The following are typical comments posted on these prominent websites (grammar and punctuation, other than four-letter words, are unedited). Can you tell the leftists from the Hitler-worshipers? (The answers appear at the end.)
1) [Arafat] was a great man. I miss him already.
2) ....fought for his people and was not concerned with money and self serving interests. His Dream was a State for his people... No politician here would ever stand up for his people or their rights.
3) A hero is fallen.
4) Sharon isn`t worthy to shines Arafat`s shoes.
5) I`ve never understood why he was considered an obstruction to peace and uncompromising. RIP.
6) Arafat and Putin are about the only two politicians in the world who have any of my respect.
7) He`s a saint compared to the murderous IDF [expletives].
8) Rest in Peace, Dr. Arafat. The man with the hardest row to hoe on the planet. Surely he`s in a better place now. Oh, and [expletive] Sharon.
9) Arafat is a HERO! Praise Arafat, may your struggle for liberation and self-determination against the most powerful, genocidal, ethnocentric, terrorist people in the world not be forgotten and may your dream of a sovereign palestinian state someday be realized.
10) Howard Dean`s wife, Wesley Clark, are all dual loyalties, with primary loyalty to, you guessed it, Israel. Zionists warmongers view the rest of humanity as SUB-HUMAN.
11) I`ll give Arafat respect for helping fight the Zionist pigs of Israel.
12) The Wall [is] now synonymous with The Warsaw Ghetto.
13) The creation of the Apartheid Wall by the war criminal Ariel Sharon was an outrage even worse than the Berlin Wall.
14) Basically, [the Israelis are] self-centered idiots, and they have no problem destabilizing the entire world in pursuit of their biblical struggle...They seem to feel that everybody owes them big time, and their concerns comes before those of the rest of the world.
15) I have a certain admiration for Arafat. He played the role of David to Israel`s Goliath. Poking the eye of the beast when the beast smacked then around. Calling the beast on their hypocrisy...
16) [Prime Minister] Mahathir spoke the truth [that Jews rule the world].
17) Mahatir was only speaking the truth. The fact is that the world is onto the Zionists gameplan and they`re scared [wit]less so they attack anyone who speaks the truth.
18) Sharon probably has a trillion somewhere — he is after all a much bigger pig than Arafat — so to keep that rotund pig shape it would take at least a trillion.
19) The Israelis are creating the world`s largest concentration camp for people, who simply got in the Jew`s way.
20) [Israel] is also creating massive Concentration camps that contain the Palestinians.
(Answers: DemocraticUnderground.com — 1, 4, 7, 18; Stormfront.org — 2, 6, 9, 11, 16; SmirkingChimp.com — 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20; David Duke`s WhiteCivilRights.com [article by Charles Coughlin] — 13, 19)
Were you generally able to tell the difference? Or is it time for Stormfront.org and SmirkingChimp.com to consider a merger?
Edward Olshaker is a longtime journalist whose work has appeared in History News Network, TomPaine.com, The New York Times and other publications.
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I had no idea how bad it is. None.
After years of monitoring the hate speech disseminated by conservative radio and Internet (one of my reports is cited in David Brock`s recently released The Republican Noise Machine), I am forced to conclude that the "politically correct" vitriol of the Israel-hating activist Left makes the venomous rhetoric of right-wing ideologues seem mild by comparison.
Its a rude awakening, but at least its an awakening.
Is there really ANY difference between the far right and far left nowadays? Has there EVER been any difference?
My conservative exposure comes from FR, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and the like. I don't hear anything like this, nor would I waste ten seconds listening to anyone who advanced such -can't adequately describe it-.
The credit for that goes to FR.
After years of monitoring the hate speech disseminated by conservative radio and Internet (one of my reports is cited in David Brock`s recently released The Republican Noise Machine),
I suppose this admission of being a long-time Leftist actually strengthens the point he's making, but it's rankling that "pro-Israel liberals" have been so blasted thick-headed for so long.
I am forced to conclude that the "politically correct" vitriol of the Israel-hating activist Left makes the venomous rhetoric of right-wing ideologues seem mild by comparison.
Again, this illustrates the truth of the situation (as he lets us know that he really doesn't like admitting the poisonous anti-Zionism of the Left), but the fact that he was "forced" to conclude this against his will indicates that he'd much prefer the world to agree with his bizarre little time-warp. How sad.
As RightWingAtheist's question suggests, that may be a function of defining right and left in the context of hate. I can think of some pretty nasty stuff from what would perceived as the "right".
Wait a second! Wesley Clark isn't Dean's wife...Vermont only has "civil unions"...
Granted, if you look at the context, that's not what they're saying, but who has time to look at the context?
Neo, or any other kind of NAZI, are by definition, leftists.
This is not news.
I don't doubt you for a minute, but who are these people who are perceived to be on the "right?" Is it the Stormfront group types, about whom I know very little other than they seem to hate every one but themselves and others of their ilk?
Sure, the press says they're the right. Which they are, where it meets the left.
There is absolutely nothing right wing about National Socialist Worker's Party members.
In America, the "left" is those who would control every aspect of everyone's lives. (socialist, statists)
The right would therefore be those who advocate the lack of government and the advancement of individual rights and liberty. (Hint: nobody in government.)
Thomas Jefferson = right.
Hillarius Clinton = left.
This certainly doesn't surprise anyone does it? The Democratic party is FILLED National Socialists...
National Socialists
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=247
Treasonous Media
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=242
Liberal Insanity
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=240
Liberal Racism and Hate
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=227
See the ANTI-DNC Web Portal at --->
http://www.noDNC.com
I don't know the authors context, but if his job was to look for hate on the right and he found more of it on the left, at least he's honest.
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