CRT has birthed the Tropes that are now used to define power. "Colonialists" are the "oppressor." People of color, LGBTQXYZ+, indigenous peoples, etc are the oppressed. Jews are now colonialists, so the Palestinians are oppressed despite thousands of years of very complicated history. The Tropes are simple, effective and only require the brain of a large pea to define, defend and enforce. A very smart politician once said, "if you can define an issue in a soundbite, you will defeat anyone who requires more than 30 seconds." That's where we are now.
This is the best piece of writing I've read on here. Beautiful, searing, very moving. Thank you. It saddens me how the progressive left embraces profound anti-semitism all in the name of fighting colonialism. What a joke. Babies being beheaded is beyond imagination. And yet it's ok for that crowd.
I have been stunned by the reaction to the massacre in Israel by antisemites and shocked to learn that what my Jewish friends were telling me is absolutely true…hatred of Jews is just below the surface.
I have read of atrocities committed on 10/7 that are so brutal that I cannot write them…I shutter to think of a world where this exits…let alone is accepted.
I feel terribly sad reading this. I hope your daughter feels safe in her home. No doubt, she is thinking about people breaking in, hurting her family and taking her away. I hope she’s okay.
Is this finally the moment that the woke elite get what’s coming to them? Is anyone else deeply worried about the future because the elite college students of today are the powerful of tomorrow?
You wrote “Sarah perhaps doesn’t know that queerness can get you arrested, and far worse, in Gaza.” I think you are far too charitable. One of the older Arab chants was “the Jews are our dogs” - and Arabs famously in keeping with Mohammed’s teaching hate dogs. Remember those Muslim cab drivers of a few years back who would not allow the blind with guide dogs to enter their cabs? The real question is what has influenced her since her college days on Lake Michigan’s Gold Coast that turned her into a woman so full of hatred that she would support people who would kill her in a New York minute for her declared sexuality because they find their commonality in blind Jew hatred.
"I’m not sure non-Jews and ordinary passersby understand how painful this is."
My non-Jewish friends and me are universally horrified, infuriated, broken-hearted, and enraged by the responses of too many Americans (and people around the world) whom we've previously thought to be rational beings. Please know that you have the full-throated support of caring people who'll immediately rise to your defense.
Your former friend is not dedicating her life to bettering the world - that is your first mistake. At some point, you need to look past people’s intentions and see the effect of their actions. The description of your college years (renting about feminism and consent) says it all - you and she inhabited a world that was anti-human in its principles - not overtly so. She is the logical end-product of that world. You have managed to hold on to some of your humanity and reason - but understand she is the child of that university, the paradigm that NW was trying to produce - a perverse being who touts compassion and “practices” it by supporting principles that would destroy mankind.
Old-fashioned liberals in the US need to wake up. The Gramscian march thru institutions has created an entire generation (or two) who exist to destroy liberty and the human dignity that accompanies it. The foot soldiers are irrational and ignorant, yet we treat them as sages with good intentions. Shame on us.
I recall going to my nephew's UC-Berkeley graduation about 20 years ago. The campus was inundated with pro-Palestine kiosks and tables, advocating Israel's destruction ("from the mountains to the sea"). I was appalled. Candace and her many fellow Jews of the Left knew this and allowed this and let it fester, supporting the lies about "occupiers" and "apartheid". The silencing of factual arguments in opposition to those lies of the enemies of Israel...and of the United States. Rushing to be woke, while never awake.
People who will insist to your face that a man can be a woman can certainly handle the mental disconnect of believing they are "working to better their community" while "tearing apart pictures of kidnapped Israelis and flinging them to the ground like a dirty tissue."
This sort of mental distortion field simply does not infect the Right in the same way. You may disagree with the Right, but they are at least consistent about what they believe. That is why I think it is more possible to reach a rapprochement with them. You can find the bits you both agree on and reliably come together on that basis.
Also, people who are consistent can be reasoned with. You can change their minds because they have a mind that can be changed. It is possible. Not so with those infected with the mind virus.
They're getting ripped down because they are an offensive political stunt that cheapens efforts to help locate actual lost or trafficked loved ones here in the US.
They're getting ripped down because the people putting them up are trying to make Americans as crazy as Palestinians and Israelis and their supporters.
Please, please, if you want to say or do crazy shit about that issue and the political/ethnic/religious groups involved, just go to Palestine/Israel where most people care about it. We've got our own problems here.
There was the type of antisemitism that progressive Jews were comfortable with (Charlottesville) and what’s going on now. Very very uncomfortable
You need a new group of friends.
CRT has birthed the Tropes that are now used to define power. "Colonialists" are the "oppressor." People of color, LGBTQXYZ+, indigenous peoples, etc are the oppressed. Jews are now colonialists, so the Palestinians are oppressed despite thousands of years of very complicated history. The Tropes are simple, effective and only require the brain of a large pea to define, defend and enforce. A very smart politician once said, "if you can define an issue in a soundbite, you will defeat anyone who requires more than 30 seconds." That's where we are now.
This is the best piece of writing I've read on here. Beautiful, searing, very moving. Thank you. It saddens me how the progressive left embraces profound anti-semitism all in the name of fighting colonialism. What a joke. Babies being beheaded is beyond imagination. And yet it's ok for that crowd.
I have been stunned by the reaction to the massacre in Israel by antisemites and shocked to learn that what my Jewish friends were telling me is absolutely true…hatred of Jews is just below the surface.
I have read of atrocities committed on 10/7 that are so brutal that I cannot write them…I shutter to think of a world where this exits…let alone is accepted.
I feel terribly sad reading this. I hope your daughter feels safe in her home. No doubt, she is thinking about people breaking in, hurting her family and taking her away. I hope she’s okay.
Is this finally the moment that the woke elite get what’s coming to them? Is anyone else deeply worried about the future because the elite college students of today are the powerful of tomorrow?
You wrote “Sarah perhaps doesn’t know that queerness can get you arrested, and far worse, in Gaza.” I think you are far too charitable. One of the older Arab chants was “the Jews are our dogs” - and Arabs famously in keeping with Mohammed’s teaching hate dogs. Remember those Muslim cab drivers of a few years back who would not allow the blind with guide dogs to enter their cabs? The real question is what has influenced her since her college days on Lake Michigan’s Gold Coast that turned her into a woman so full of hatred that she would support people who would kill her in a New York minute for her declared sexuality because they find their commonality in blind Jew hatred.
"I’m not sure non-Jews and ordinary passersby understand how painful this is."
My non-Jewish friends and me are universally horrified, infuriated, broken-hearted, and enraged by the responses of too many Americans (and people around the world) whom we've previously thought to be rational beings. Please know that you have the full-throated support of caring people who'll immediately rise to your defense.
"I’m not sure non-Jews and ordinary passersby understand how painful this is."
Heartbreaking.
Your former friend is not dedicating her life to bettering the world - that is your first mistake. At some point, you need to look past people’s intentions and see the effect of their actions. The description of your college years (renting about feminism and consent) says it all - you and she inhabited a world that was anti-human in its principles - not overtly so. She is the logical end-product of that world. You have managed to hold on to some of your humanity and reason - but understand she is the child of that university, the paradigm that NW was trying to produce - a perverse being who touts compassion and “practices” it by supporting principles that would destroy mankind.
Old-fashioned liberals in the US need to wake up. The Gramscian march thru institutions has created an entire generation (or two) who exist to destroy liberty and the human dignity that accompanies it. The foot soldiers are irrational and ignorant, yet we treat them as sages with good intentions. Shame on us.
I recall going to my nephew's UC-Berkeley graduation about 20 years ago. The campus was inundated with pro-Palestine kiosks and tables, advocating Israel's destruction ("from the mountains to the sea"). I was appalled. Candace and her many fellow Jews of the Left knew this and allowed this and let it fester, supporting the lies about "occupiers" and "apartheid". The silencing of factual arguments in opposition to those lies of the enemies of Israel...and of the United States. Rushing to be woke, while never awake.
Wish I could edit. From the River to the Sea. There, I fixed it.
People who will insist to your face that a man can be a woman can certainly handle the mental disconnect of believing they are "working to better their community" while "tearing apart pictures of kidnapped Israelis and flinging them to the ground like a dirty tissue."
This sort of mental distortion field simply does not infect the Right in the same way. You may disagree with the Right, but they are at least consistent about what they believe. That is why I think it is more possible to reach a rapprochement with them. You can find the bits you both agree on and reliably come together on that basis.
Also, people who are consistent can be reasoned with. You can change their minds because they have a mind that can be changed. It is possible. Not so with those infected with the mind virus.
They're getting ripped down because they are an offensive political stunt that cheapens efforts to help locate actual lost or trafficked loved ones here in the US.
They're getting ripped down because the people putting them up are trying to make Americans as crazy as Palestinians and Israelis and their supporters.
Please, please, if you want to say or do crazy shit about that issue and the political/ethnic/religious groups involved, just go to Palestine/Israel where most people care about it. We've got our own problems here.
This is a really well written, touching article. Thank you