Posted on 11/01/2015 8:45:39 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator
As you wish.
I had a mother-in-law about 25 years ago who mailed me a stack of “Spotlight” along with a note that they contained the truth about Israel and the Holocaust. I read a few articles and was amazed by the revisionist history and Jew-hatred. I remember an article about how cruelly the German guards at POW camps were treated by the liberated prisoners and how wrong it was. Another explaining that there were a few thousand deaths at Nazi concentration camps but they were caused by the “filthy Jews”. Needless to say, I never had much use for my mother-in-law after that.
I guess that shows how unimportant the guy was. I had never heard of him either.
And yes, the guy was an ex-Bircher. He said they kicked him out because he was TOO RADICAL!!! for them.
Taki Theodoracopulos was prominent in the conservative movement before he went off the deep end.
“In the war against communism, one is so often embarrassed by one’s allies.” - WFB Jr
When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. I think it’s Proverbs 11:10.
I remember Willis Carto very well and with disgust - he was a vicious anti-Semitic enemy of the historical record.
If you don’t know who this brazen hatemonger was, you are likely on the younger spectrum or weren’t reading about such things at the time.
Well I guess Mordecai and Esther wouldn't have been good FReepers since they celebrated the death of Haman, his sons, and all their enemies in ancient Persia at the time of the Purim miracle.
I guess the Bible isn't a very good "FReeper" book either.
I think you're thinking of Robert Welch, the founder of the Birch Society. Buckley never had to go after Carto because everyone knew what he was. Welch was not conddemned for anti-Semitism that I know of but for conspiracy theories and saying that Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist agent.
But you know what? In the very first issue of the Spotlight, there was a letter from Robert Welch wishing them well and encouraging them in their work--right under a photo of Arab-Americans protesting against Israel (Spotlight supported the protest).
Carto wasn't the only Jew-hater to come out the Birch Society. Many people who later led Nazi or Klan groups did the same. One of the eleven men who with Robert Welch founded the Society was a rabidly racialist anti-Semite who also later left. Even the explicitly anti-chrstian atheist Ben Klaassen (founder of the "religion" now known as "creativity") started out in the Birchers.
Here's the point I'm trying to make. Unfortunately, despite what most FReepers think, many conservatives were at one time anti-Semitic and many anti-Semites were conservatives. The notion that "conservatism" means simply a minarchist philosophy of government and individualism is an extreme simplification of the way things really are.
Many avowedly Nazi organizations share some moral beliefs with decent mainstream conservatives. And they consider themselves on the "right;" not on the "left," as the Birch spectrum would have you believe.
But these groups' support of traditional morality has nothing to do with G-d. It's all because these are the "traditional values" of their ethnic group(s).
Even here at FR there are people who make a "western" ethnic identity more important than religion and G-d's commandments. It is unfortunately a fact of life that conservatives too often tend to do this.
The article led to a lawsuit and trial between Carto and National Review that the latter won, and more than a decade and a half after publication, the article was cited in a federal court of appeals opinion as helping legitimate critical reporting against Carto by the Wall Street Journal. Liberty Lobby v. Dow Jones.
I've made the same point in the past. When some Freepers wondered why so many Jews are Democrats or liberals, I told them because many Republicans from the late 1800s and early 1900s were anti-Semitic. They also weren't real fond of the Irish, Italians, or the Chinese, but they explicitly discriminated against Jews.
The real conservative movement as we know it really started with W. F. Buckley and some of his pals who eventually kicked the Birchers out of the party for their anti-Semitism. And of course the first really ideological conservative candidate for president was half-Jewish Barry Goldwater.
Today, most of the right-wing anti-Semites are found at places like Taki's Mag and outright racist websites. I check both the far right and the far left to see what's going on. Both are full of nuts.
in western Europe almost all of the antisemitism comes from the hard left, most of west europe “far right” is like geert wilders who are pro Israel . Eastern Europe is another story though
and rightly so
I’ve never heard of the guy, but thanks for posting.
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My first in-laws were Birchers and very anti-semite. I was interested in the society at the time or at least reading the literature, they’re on of the reasons I started watching Buckley on PBS to seek a different view point.
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