BTW, the vast majority of Jews were desperately poor so I'm not sure what there was to be jealous of in most cases.
BTW, the vast majority of Jews were desperately poor so I'm not sure what there was to be jealous of in most cases.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Damn foreigners right? Heaven forbid that we try to advance beyond primitive tribalism and try to employ a little higher order thinking. We have a big brain and use very little of it because we think that people who speak different languages, worship different deities and/or have different colored skin are sooo very different from ourselves. Eeek.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Captdon (10-30-2018),IMPress Polly (10-31-2018)
Well, I'm not Jewish, and AFIK, there is no Jewishness among my ancestors, but I find this post quite anti-semitic in its implications. Leaving Israel and Zionism out of it - I also find anti-semitism totally ridiculous. My family has old friends, both here and in the UK, who are Jewish, and I know a tiny bit about Jewish culture. It values education, and has contributed awesomely to western culture and civilisation. Bernstein, Mahler, and Mendelssohn were all Jewish, as were Chagall and Modigliani, and loads of modern musicians are Jewish.
I don't know whether the writer of that article is right to say that your President has created the atmosphere for violent acts, or not, but I don't think he is being unfair just because he is Jewish. I think you are being unfair to Jewish people by implying that.
Oh, I wish I were a glow worm,
for a glow worm's never glum,
'cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum!
Common Sense (10-29-2018),IMPress Polly (10-31-2018)
anti-semites = embarrassing the human race for millennia.
Alaska Born ~ Oregon Grown
Captdon (10-30-2018),IMPress Polly (10-31-2018)
Anti-semitism was so extreme in Russia and the Ukraine, that most Jews were forced to live in fairly ostracized villages under oppressive laws and barred from almost all means of making a living. That also worked against them because they were perceived as being other. Furthermore, since there were so many extremely poor people in the Russian Empire that if neighboring villages were suffering economic reversals and if any Jewish village seemed to be managing, they were, in fact, jealous and wanted what little their Jewish neighbors had. Hence the history of pogroms. The same thing happened in America with black villages. They were destroyed by jealous whites who begrudged blacks any success at all. Human behavior is nothing, if not predictable. The majority culture/race, no matter how economically stratified, has a sense of entitlement that becomes most pronounced when times are tough. Anyone not a member of the majority becomes a target, a scapegoat or whatever the majority needs them to be in order to take away what they think is their due.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
IMPress Polly (10-31-2018)
Captdon (10-30-2018),Helena (10-29-2018),IMPress Polly (10-31-2018)
For a few years I posted on a board that had several antisemites on it. For a long time I was all STFU with them, and I defended Jews whole heartedly without reservation. But at some point you have to take a harder look at what peoples' issues are with Jews, and there's substance to it, unfortunately. Then a friend of mine who is a Jew posted severally about Jewish beliefs, and I have not been the same about them since.
Their problem would largely be resolved if they would stand down. You don't hear about Presbyterian persecution or Methodist persecution, right? That's because they don't stick it in your face and invite trouble. Jews do. They seek to control you. They have themselves been proven responsible for a significant number of vandalism incidents against Jews. It's fake as can be, at least sometimes. I am persuaded to think they play the public as a bunch of fools quite a lot, actually. But I don't know all the facts either.
It has been pointed out that they've been kicked out of every country in Europe to which they've ever immigrated. "Persecution", as they call it, seems to be an integral part of their culture. In other words, they bring it on to themselves. Because it works, at least for awhile. They don't seem to understand that they cause it.
Last edited by Lummy; 10-29-2018 at 09:05 PM.
Mister D (10-30-2018)