Posted on 01/22/2007 8:24:49 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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Hank
I was talking to two men in the hot tub at the spa I go to, and they both were liberals, and both were Anti-Semitic to the core.
Both saw no reason we should be supporting Isreal, voted for Clinton and and John Kerry.
Great article.Especially disturbing is the anti-Israel crowd here in America.What i find really perplexing is that many of the anti-Israel crowd are secular Jews like Noam Chomsky.Where is the outrage?Why aren't these dolts drummed out of academia?How can Jimmy Carter publish a book based on lies and disinformation and still be taken seriously?
Why hasn't Noam Chomsky, for example, been drummed out of academia? Because "academia" in the United States, to paint it with large brush strokes, is leftist, quite sympathetic to Marxism, and "hates" the culture - American culture - on which it lives.
Add to this that Israel, because of its history and purpose, is naturally identified with the Jewish religion, regardless of the personal beliefs of this or that individual Israeli. Marx was for the elimination of religion. He wrote that only with the elimination of Judaism can Jews be "free" (see Marx's "On the Jewish Question"). Indeed, he believed that no religion had any proper place in public life. This would explain academia's acceptance of Chomsky, and some of the Left's hostility to Israel.
Paradoxically, the Left has embraced Islam - not in a personal, religious sense but as a convenient tool to help with the deconstruction of Western culture. According to Marxism, before a society or a nation can become communistic, it must be broken down, leveled. Only then will it be ready for the construction of the communist edifice.
Islam's ultimate goal for America is different, of course - namely, the construction of an Islamic state. On the way to this goal, however, they can be useful to the leftists by upsetting current social norms and alienating non-Muslims from their society.
One would hope that Muslims in the West would recognize that their common interests with Christianity and Judaism far outweigh their differences, when considered against the leftist goal of a completely secularized society where religious practice is looked down upon if not forbidden entirely.
"-- The only people in this world who are neither autoracists or exoracists are independent individualists, and there are very few of those. --"
What Is an Individualist
Address:http://theautonomist.com/aaphp/permanent/phil_gen/whatisindividual.php
"-- The individualist is totally confident in his own ability to make his own living, to make right choices, and to bear the responsibility for those choices; he is not dependent on anyone else, in any way. He neither desires or will accept the unearned or undeserved, he does not accept anyone's unasked, "help," and does not need it, and does not offer it to others.
He does not seek or require anyone else's agreement or approval before acting (and resents any kind of restriction on his life that forces him to get anyone else's approval or consent to do anything).
The individualist needs no one to "motivate" him, he is self-motivated; it is his life and his love of it that are his motivation. He neither follows or leads others, though others may choose to follow him, all his actions are his own and for himself; all other relationships are secondary. --"
Considering that the term racist comes from the root word, "race", you owuld think that racism would naturally have something to do with a persons race, not the nationality (we have many nationalities in the USA), culture (although race many times has a decided bearing on race since people of the same race tend to try to huddle together), class (People of all races can be accepted into the same class, not caste), or religon (Religons will accept people of all races).
anti-semitism is not necessarily hatred of Jews.
A "semite" is defined by the dictionary as,
1. a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
2. a Jew.
3. a member of any of the peoples descended from Shem, the eldest son of Noah.
So a jewish anti-semite could be harboring a hatred of arabic people, not jewish people.
"Then any professed Christian is automatically an autoracist."
No.
If a man identifies himself as a Christian to indicate what his beliefs are, that is not autoracism.
If a man joins a church, or any other organization, because he believes he benefits from it, that is not autoracism.
If a man does either of these, and finds either his identity or self worth in those things, rather then in what he really is, that is autoracism. Obviously a sincere Christian is one because he thinks he's better for being one than not, because it is his belief. That is not autoracism. If he thinks he gains some kind of privilege or social status from that, it would be autoracism. The same applies to belonging to a church.
Hank
The term "anti-Semitism" was coined in 19th century Germany by a Jew-hater, who wanted a more "scientific" term than "Jew hatred." It was meant originally, and is still understood today, to mean the hatred of Jews, not of Arabs or other semitic peoples.
Still not quite sure I see the difference between believing you're better because you're a christian and or believing that by being a christian, you're better.
"Considering that the term racist comes from the root word, "race", you owuld think that racism would naturally have something to do with a persons race ..."
You might, and some people make that point, but I think you are pressing the etymology of these words too much. "Racism," is used today for all irrational prejudice or evaluation of people by their identification with a group or class. Language evolves, not always the way we like.
Technically, many "Jews" today are not "sons of Shem." Sammy Davis Jr. was a Jew. (Supposedly, he would have been a son of Ham.) A similar confusion is made about Arabs and Muslims. Most muslims are not Arabs. The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia (Southeast Asian/Chinese mix). Most Arabs in the US are Christains.
I know, it's very confusing.
Hank
"Still not quite sure I see the difference between believing you're better because you're a christian and or believing that by being a christian, you're better."
The fact is your question is a very good one, but illustrates the difference clearly, and it is this:
How you judge yourself, your self-worth, is either based on the evaluation of who you are, that is, what your values are and how you live your life (which is objective and rational) or it is based on how you "feel" about yourself or fwho or what you are associated with or what other's think of you no matter what values you have or how you live your life (which is subjective and irrational).
If you mean by "being a Christian" you hold certain values and live by them and evaluate yourself on that basis, it is objective and rational and not autoracism; but if you mean by "being a Christian" you call yourself one of them, and identify with others who are Christians or belong to a Christain organization and because of those things, regardless of what you believe or how you live, you are a "better" person, that is subjective, irrational, and autoracism.
Hank
I understand that but taking the term, "semitec" and thinking that it is only Jews is wrong.
You can hold the "christian" values, live by them, and evaluate yourself on that basis and still not be a "christian".
Christians don't care who else evaluates them or how they evaluate themselves, it's how God evaluates them that counts.
If you are a christian you are a better person, not by identifying yourself as one or by being in a "christian" association, but simply by actually being one.
It isn't rational, there is no self reward. In reality, many places in the world, you put yourself at great risk being even associated with the christian faith. It isn't rational. It's strictly a leap of faith.
Is faith a "feeling"?
I don't think so. I believe the basis of culture and civilization is the grasping and utilization of "the Golden Rule," wherein each person identifies and integrates, on his own, the CONCEPT that if he wants to live peacefully and productively among others, and cooperate with them, he has to treat others as he wants to be treated himself. Simply identifying who's in your tribe and who isn't keeps one strictly on the PERCEPTUAL level, not the conceptual level, and thus still on THE SAME LEVEL AS ANIMALS -- or of religious or racist fanatics.
Thanks for posting them.
L
Thank you for the link to the Freedom Keys Racism page.
Hank
Thanks, Lurker. Hope you enjoy them all.
Hank
Thanks for the comments.
The irony of "Jewish" anti-Semitism is addressed briefly in a later article.
Stay tuned.
Hank
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