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Anti-Semitism Part 1
Media Knegged Media ^ | 25/3/19 | Eleutheria5

Posted on 03/24/2019 3:22:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Spontaneous essay on the nature of anti-Semitism and distinctions between that and other forms of bigotry.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; belongsinchat; bigotry; congress; ilhanomar; notnews
Took me forever to upload, Part 2 coming tomorrow.
1 posted on 03/24/2019 3:22:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

The Democratic resolution in condemnation of lactose intolerance and other things equates to silence, which is approval. The Nazis also claimed that Jews were disloyal to Germany, even though many had fought in WWI. It’s the same story over and over. The worst kind of anti-Semitism in my opinion is “anti-Zionism”. It refers back to that Soviet-Nazi propaganda book, and assumes Zionism means world domination.


2 posted on 03/24/2019 3:50:15 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: malach

His thesis that Jews were discriminated against and killed because of their superior accomplishments is not borne out by factual history.

I’m eager to hear the specifics. It certainly holds up with regards to Bogdan Chmelnicki in Poland, Spanish pogroms in the 14th Century, Expulsions in France and England, the depredations in Germany of Peter the Hermit’s mob during the First Crusade. The victims were Jews generally, but the motivation was envy and hatred for those uppity, too-smart-for-their-own-good, greedy Jooos! Even in Crown Heights in 1991, they were going after the Jooos! and their preferential treatment by police.

Your refutation, please.


4 posted on 03/24/2019 5:04:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Update. Here’s Part 2

https://youtu.be/__yc0ixt1-4


5 posted on 03/24/2019 5:06:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

Begging Malach’s pardon, but I’m publicly reproducing my reply to his private message here, just because I’m both lazy and pressed for time.

So here goes

I am not claiming that that is the sole reason for anti-Semitism. My point is that Booker T. Washington’s formula that works very well for blacks does not work at all for Jews. Having skills, accomplishments, etc., doesn’t ever quell anti-Semitism, and it very often inflames it. Thus, it is in a different class than anti-black racism or lactose intolerance.

The actual cause of anti-Semitism has never been adequately explained. Jean Paul Sartre makes a stupid attempt to say that it’s only the disorder of the Bourgeoisie and that “workers” are spared, but isn’t far off when he says that anti-Semites want to be “impenetrable,” a phenomenon that he explains at length. Dr. Schachter attributes it to fervent belief in Christianity or Islam, which to medieval minds meant that Jews, who reject both, were on the side of Satan to both Muslims and Christians. There’s something to that, but it doesn’t explain modern leftards, communists and fascists, all of whom gravitate towards anti-Semitism.

I don’t care why the goyim hate me, I’m just pleasantly surprised when they sometimes don’t. But the behavior of anti-Semites must be studied, the better to predict and guard against it. And the bottom line is, it’s not at all the same as racism, and shouldn’t be lumped in with it just to protect Ilhan Omar from being treated the same as any other hater.

Now for some further elaboration.

Anti-black racists have a paradigm, that blacks are stupid, lazy, and out to nail anything in a skirt. The best way to refute that is Booker T. Washington’s way, by producing educated, cultivated and hard-working blacks who are an asset to their community and themselves.

Anti-Semites have a more complex paradigm, much more deeply rooted. I can’t trace it to its roots, any better than Sartre or Schachter could. But the common denominator is that Jooos! are up to something. Either they want to rule the world through a network of financiers, or perform Satanic rites with unleavened bread and infants, or just cheat in business. But their supposed smartness is really low cunning, and their supposed business acumen is really part of a vast conspiracy to do some damned thing or other. They’re also supposed to be physically puny and cowardly, and sneaky.

Ms. Omar is obviously anti-Semitic, and that’s not illegal, but it’s evidence that she should not be trusted on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and she’s an embarrassment to those Minnesota voters who chose her in good faith, thinking that she was a trustworthy, moral person who would advocate for Minnesota, and not against Jews, many of whom live in her district. She ought to be stripped of her membership in the Foreign Affairs Committee immediately, and of her membership in Congress in 2020. But those damned Eejitchins couldn’t even pass a resolution condemning her anti-Semitism by name, let alone do the right thing. Ten plagues upon them. It’s Jexodus time, not just for the Children of Israel, but for any mixed multitude who want out of the bondage of Eejit, too. Walkaway.


7 posted on 03/25/2019 10:42:35 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

I would not go to Sartre as an explainer of anything Jewish just as I would not go first to outside people (non-Jews) to explain my own people (Jews).

“If you examine history you will not generally find in ancient times the same prejudices againt Jews that you find now or for the past 2000 years since the diaspora.”

It was there. Alexandrians had a big pogrom during the reign of Emperor Caligula, who refused to protect the Jews, because they would not offer up any sacrifices to him.

“Jews historically have cut themselves off from other people in a number of ways which define the Orthodox practice of the religion. This refusal to become part of the larger group but to stand apart with specific rules and yet at the same time...”

And German Jews during the Weimar Republic...?

“...to be either successful or constantly springing back in spite of attempts to annihilate them seems to be one of the predominant reasons for Jew hatred.”

If we would stop springing back in spite of attempts to annihilate us, we would be loved and accepted? Why did they attempt to annihilate us, then?

“IMO racism is now a word without much meaning.” Thank the leftards for overusing it and misapplying it until it can mean anything. And when a word means anything, it means nothing. Only remedy is to either take the word back and recharge it with meaning, or find another one that can do better.


9 posted on 03/25/2019 11:41:00 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

The pogrom was in Alexandria. Believing one is a god is definitely crazy, but the anti-Semitism was in Alexandria. Further, Roman anti-Semitism was a good deal more understandable than medieval anti-Semitism, because Judaeans repeatedly rebelled against Rome. But in whatever form and for whatever reason, anti-Semitism has been a constant through the ages. Right now, the Persians are at it again. Same idea, different millennium.


11 posted on 03/25/2019 1:28:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

“...does not necessarily mean that these people were antisemitic but possibly driven by greed or envy.”

Greed and envy makes anti-Semitism profitable, which is why being model citizens providing valuable services does not win friends, but attracts enemies. Want to loot the home of the Jooo! whom you owe money? Kill him? Rape his wife? Easy. Plant a dead baby in his home and then “find” it. Voila! Blood libel. Something similar, I’ll bet, happened in Alexandria.


13 posted on 03/25/2019 3:14:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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From Wikkipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_riots_(38

The Roman emperor Caligula did not trust the prefect of Egypt, Aulus Avilius Flaccus. Flaccus had been loyal to Tiberius, had conspired against Caligula’s mother and had connections with Egyptian separatists.[28] In 38 CE, Caligula sent Agrippa to Alexandria unannounced to check on Flaccus.[29] According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.[30] Flaccus tried to placate both the Greek population and Caligula by having statues of the emperor placed in Jewish synagogues.[31] As a result, riots broke out in the city.[32] Caligula responded by removing Flaccus from his position and executing him.[33]

Riots again erupted in Alexandria in 40 CE between Jews and Greeks.[34] Jews were accused of not honouring the emperor.[34] Disputes occurred in the city of Jamnia.[35] Jews were angered by the erection of a clay altar and destroyed it.[35] In response, Caligula ordered the erection of a statue of himself in the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem,[36] a demand in conflict with Jewish monotheism.[37] In this context, Philo of Alexandria wrote that Caligula “regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his”.[37]

The sole source is Philo of Alexandria, himself a Jew, who witnessed the riots and afterwards led the Jewish delegation to Caligula, and requested the re-establishment of legal Jewish residence in Alexandria.[1] Philo’s writings on the topic are found in two sources: In Flaccum[38] (meaning “Against Flaccus”), which is wholly devoted to the riots, and Legatio ad Gaium[39] (meaning “Embassy to Caligula”), which makes some references to the event in its introduction.[40] Scholarly research around the subject has been divided on certain points, including whether the Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship or to acquire it, whether they evaded the payment of the poll-tax or prevented any attempts to impose it on them, and whether they were safeguarding their identity against the Greeks or against the Egyptians.[12]


14 posted on 03/26/2019 10:43:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

Wikipedia will suffice for an outline of an event in ancient Alexandria under Emperor Caligula. There is no significant difference of opinion regarding Philo’s account of the basic facts. I don’t have Philo in front of me. If you would provide me a copy, I’d be happy to render a freehand translation from Aramaic or Greek, but if it’s in Latin, you’d have to ask someone else.


16 posted on 03/26/2019 1:18:23 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: malach

So until we get ahold of Philo’s text and a good Greek dictionary for the difficult passages, we’ll just have to change the subject.

What about Lithuania. Until the 14th Century, they were still pagans there, and according to Tacitus they were still nomadic tribesmen in his time. And they had not so much as a drop of anti-Semitic sentiment. Then the young Lithuanian prince married the Polish princess and converted to Christianity, and their realms became one. And that’s when Lithuanians started making with the anti-Semitism, same as in Poland.

Then there’s also India. Rudyard Kipling wrote an anti-Semitic story about Jews in India once. Muslim terrorists tortured a rabbi (I knew him when he was a boy, and didn’t much like him) and his wife to death in Mumbai in 2008. But the Hindus have always been free of this prejudice. A small Jewish group, or tribe, or something, known there as the Bnei Yisrael, has lived there undisturbed for centuries, and the lost tribe of Menashe has lived in northeastern India since they became lost. The Menashites did encounter some persecution when they were wandering through China, which is why they have Chinese features (rape). But in India itself, they are perfectly at home, though most have either converted to Christianity or emigrated to Israel, where I have met them.

So are polytheists less susceptible to anti-Semitism than offshoot monotheists such as Christians and Muslims? Without Philo’s original text, we can’t draw any conclusions about pagan Alexandria, but the record with regard to medieval Lithuania and modern-day India does raise the question.


18 posted on 03/26/2019 3:36:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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