Evil among us
Imagine you were acquainted with somebody you thought was an all-right guy -- a little odd maybe, but basically a decent person about most things. Then imagine you ran into him one day and noticed he was wearing a swastika armband -- a real, authentic, red-white-and-black Nazi swastika armband. It would be a bit of a shock, wouldn't it?
Well, imagine how I felt today when I was scrolling through a left-leaning blog which is usually pretty reasonable in its stances about most things, and I saw this:
You can click to enlarge to full size, if you must -- I can barely stand to have such a monstrostity posted here even at small scale.
The intent is very clear. Never mind that Israel, in its current conflicts, continues to go to almost absurd lengths to minimize enemy civilian casualties, such as telephoning ahead to warn them before terrorists in their areas are attacked -- things that no other country on Earth does. Never mind its restraint in response to October 7 -- the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, involving the mass rape, torture, burning, and so on and so on of entire families, entire towns, atrocities unmatched almost anywhere in modern times. Never mind that the Gaza "casualty figures" uncritically parroted by our mass media come straight from the Gaza "health ministry", which is part of Hamas -- that is, they are merely jihadist propaganda. Never mind that Israel has a better human-rights record than almost any Islamic country. Never mind that a nation armed with hydrogen bombs, which could easily just wipe out those who seek to destroy it, has maintained that self-restraint and an internal democracy including full participation by millions of Arab citizens, for decades, in the face of a relentless jihadist campaign of murder by every available means, openly aiming at the total annihilation of Israel and its people. Never mind all that. Never mind the truth. The Jewish state is the Devil itself.
This is literal demonization. It's like something out of the minds of those who launched the pogroms of centuries past. As a comment on the post where I found this said, it's an image that would be right at home in the pages of Der Stürmer.
Even people like Trump and Vance have repudiated Mark Robinson for posting statements like "I'm a black Nazi" and for wishing that slavery were still legal so he could "buy a few". And we rightly condemn them for implicitly coddling neo-Nazis at Charlottesville or associating with people like Laura Loomer. This is no different. Yes, people have a right to express Nazi-like, Jew-hating opinions, but decent people also have a right, and a duty, to reject them when they do so. We must stop accepting people who post things like this as members in good standing of the left, just as a right wing worthy of any respect could not accept Loomer, Robinson, or others who speak and believe as they do, as members in good standing.
And this is all the more urgent in the face of the horrifying reborn Nazi movement now festering in our country's streets and campuses.
I will say it: If you post things like this or consider them acceptable, then I do not want you, you are nothing to do with me, I do not accept you any more as a fellow leftist or as a fellow human being. We have to draw the line somewhere. This is light-years beyond it.
Well, imagine how I felt today when I was scrolling through a left-leaning blog which is usually pretty reasonable in its stances about most things, and I saw this:
You can click to enlarge to full size, if you must -- I can barely stand to have such a monstrostity posted here even at small scale.
The intent is very clear. Never mind that Israel, in its current conflicts, continues to go to almost absurd lengths to minimize enemy civilian casualties, such as telephoning ahead to warn them before terrorists in their areas are attacked -- things that no other country on Earth does. Never mind its restraint in response to October 7 -- the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, involving the mass rape, torture, burning, and so on and so on of entire families, entire towns, atrocities unmatched almost anywhere in modern times. Never mind that the Gaza "casualty figures" uncritically parroted by our mass media come straight from the Gaza "health ministry", which is part of Hamas -- that is, they are merely jihadist propaganda. Never mind that Israel has a better human-rights record than almost any Islamic country. Never mind that a nation armed with hydrogen bombs, which could easily just wipe out those who seek to destroy it, has maintained that self-restraint and an internal democracy including full participation by millions of Arab citizens, for decades, in the face of a relentless jihadist campaign of murder by every available means, openly aiming at the total annihilation of Israel and its people. Never mind all that. Never mind the truth. The Jewish state is the Devil itself.
This is literal demonization. It's like something out of the minds of those who launched the pogroms of centuries past. As a comment on the post where I found this said, it's an image that would be right at home in the pages of Der Stürmer.
Even people like Trump and Vance have repudiated Mark Robinson for posting statements like "I'm a black Nazi" and for wishing that slavery were still legal so he could "buy a few". And we rightly condemn them for implicitly coddling neo-Nazis at Charlottesville or associating with people like Laura Loomer. This is no different. Yes, people have a right to express Nazi-like, Jew-hating opinions, but decent people also have a right, and a duty, to reject them when they do so. We must stop accepting people who post things like this as members in good standing of the left, just as a right wing worthy of any respect could not accept Loomer, Robinson, or others who speak and believe as they do, as members in good standing.
And this is all the more urgent in the face of the horrifying reborn Nazi movement now festering in our country's streets and campuses.
I will say it: If you post things like this or consider them acceptable, then I do not want you, you are nothing to do with me, I do not accept you any more as a fellow leftist or as a fellow human being. We have to draw the line somewhere. This is light-years beyond it.
posted by Infidel753 at 10:29 AM
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