Posted on 03/30/2016 8:33:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It’s a question of what decade you’re talking about. Of course there were Jewish Bolsheviks. Trotsky. Duh. Later they were purged. Ice pick? Mexico City? Jews had horrific lives in the Soviet Union as time went on. By the mid-20’s life was intolerable. I have my father, his siblings and my grandparents as primary sources on that. The Jews who may have hung on in the echelons of power for a little longer were toadies and traitors, and in the end they met their ends.
The problem is that you don’t see the prejudiced ugly thinking behind some of those videos. And I have no greater chance of making you see that than I have with any of the other peopleI’ve crossed paths with in my life who had an idea of what “the Jews” were like.
My grandmother’s eight brothers were murdered, and my grandmother herself tormented, by people who had broad preconceived notions, every one of them false, about who we are.
Nothing will make you see that. I asked my grandmother how she managed to survive Maidanek. She told me the one thing that got her through: gratitude that she didn’t have to live inside the heads of her tormentors. That she wasn’t one of them.
Thank you for this.
Thank you. I hope IChing reads this as well.
I’m thinking your post #61 was intended for IChing, not BroJoeK.
Free Republic does not tolerate blatant racists or antisemites, so people like IChing only dare to vaguely hint at their real beliefs, but then must soon run away when seriously challenged.
I for one greatly appreciate and thank you for your posts and personal experience on these matters.
Statistics are one thing — “millions dead” — but personal experiences such as “my grandparents escaped persecution” have a very different quality.
Thanks again.
As soon as somebody says “Are you sure it was really six million?” (even though the full exact number can of course never been certified, and is open to research and discussion) you know you are at the gateway of the bad stuff. When I was a kid the anti-semitism was on the right. Now it has shifted to the left. Please, IChing, don’t let it come back to our side!
Yes, anecdotes must trump all statistical aggregates and political correctness must prevail over all informed, conscientious dissent. We must ALWAYS advocate for sacred protected species against the white devils!
You say virtue and treachery are equally spread. So your position is that Mohammedans are just as good as Jews, or Christians, Hindus, etc?
For that matter, blacks are 13% of the U.S. population, yet members of that demographic commit over 50% of all murders and robberies in this country — yet according to you, virtue and treachery are uniformly distirbuted among all demographics!
Right; the official FR cuckservative position is: If you’re non-white and you advocate for your own race, you’re good to go; if you’re white and advocate for non-whites, you’re a saint; but if you’re white and advocate for your own, you’re a bad person, to be blacklisted.
Don’t you people get sick and tired and disgusted by helping to perpetuate political correctness?
Yes. Or just as bad. Works both ways.
And whites commit at least 50% of the much bigger crimes of banking fraud, war profiteering and stock market manipulation. Far more damage done.
Correction: I shouldn’t say far more damage done. Let’s keep to also a lot of damage. Is white dominance in corporate crime because of their racial makeup? No. I think it’s opportunity. Good and bad, equally distributed, and it surfaces in different ways in difference cultures.
Religion of peace. Got it.
I see, multiculturalism and diversity is our strength, etc....how nice
In all my years on Free Republic, having tangled with a good many rough hombres, I've never seen any who argue against, or even express skepticism about, the Holocaust of six million Jews.
So the answer is: of course six million is an estimate, and estimates vary, but as long as we're on this subject, 20 million is the estimate of non-combatants killed by Nazis in Europe, 35 million is the estimate of total Europeans killed by Hitler's war in Europe, and 75 million is the total number believed to have died worldwide from WWII.
The difference between those 75 million and the 6 million Jews was that Nazis made the Holocaust more systematic, industrial and thorough than any other killing program.
National7: "When I was a kid the anti-semitism was on the right.
Now it has shifted to the left.
Please, IChing, don’t let it come back to our side!"
Actually, no, years ago the greatest anti-Semites in the US were, like IChing, also the greatest racists, and those were all Democrats, largely Southern Democrats.
Today the old racist Southern Democrats, aka "Dixiecrats", are politically homeless, rejected by both liberals and conservatives, they wander the internet, posting rubbish and hoping to excite some interest.
So IChing is not "right wing" in the American sense of that term, he's just an anachronism, a homeless ex-Democrat.
So, you agree with Comrade Stalin in my post #54 on this matter?
IChing: "...political correctness must prevail over all informed, conscientious dissent"
So, do you fantasize that you have some "informed, conscientious dissent" to offer up?
If so, what might that be, pray tell?
IChing: "We must ALWAYS advocate for sacred protected species against the white devils!"
"species"? "devils"?
What on earth are you blathering about?
Crime rates tend vary according to education, income and family status such that rates amongst well educated, moderately well-off two-parent black families are roughly the same as whites of the same status.
Uneducated & poor from broken homes get into more trouble, regardless of their race.
"cuckservative"? What kind of talk is that?
Are you anti-conservative, and so mock us with the word "cuckservative"?
So, if you are anti-conservative, what kind of word do you use to describe your own views?
IChing: "Don’t you people get sick and tired and disgusted by helping to perpetuate political correctness?"
I have no idea what you're talking about, and doubt if you do either, right?
PapaBear3625 from post #47: "FR is changing.
Just a few years ago, the Mods would have pulled this thread with a 'no thanks'."
I never heard that term "cuckservative" before, and despite IChing's claims, his test does not apply to anyone posting on Free Republic that I've ever seen.
Yes, it certainly applies to the radical left -- Bernie Sanders fans -- but no serious conservative falls into such easy traps as your link lays out.
Indeed, since much of your problem revolves around relative IQ's, let's set that matter to rest.
In any population you wish to pick, and however you wish to define it -- as "race", or "culture", or "ethnicity", "nationality" or "religion" -- within that group you will find IQs spread along a Bell Curve from around 75 to 150.
You can call that range 100% since 150 is double 75.
Of course, each population will have a different average IQ, some higher others lower, but the averages only vary by 15% to 20% max.
In other words, the highest average IQs are only 20% above the lowest, while within any population, the highest IQs are 100% above the lowest.
So, what makes IQ?
The answer, in summary is: 60% nature, 40% nurture.
And we can see the effect of that 40% in the fact that over the past 100+ years, average IQ scores among all modern populations have steadily risen.
More people are smarter today than were their ancestors 100 years ago.
IChing from post #66 of that link: "I’m a paleoconservative or neoreactionary."
"Paleoconservative" means nothing more than conservative and "not a neo-con".
Nothing wrong with paleoconservative that I can see.
Neoreactionary, on the other hand, is something different, having more to do with authoritarian & racial ideals, only recognizable as something out of our racist past.
Not acceptable on Free Republic or any other conservative site.
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