My grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and the delight these schmucks - all card-carrying members of the dominant hegemony - take in calling me a Nazi borders on the orgiastic. It’s perverse.
They’re having so much fun. 2020s protest movement = 1990s rave culture, but with Jew Hate in lieu of glowsticks. I am so grateful to be old.
Well said. I ended two friendships because of accusations that Israel was engaged in “apartheid”, which is exactly your point. Jew-haters took one of the most odious regimes on the planet and transferred its malevolent qualities to Israel. It’s what they do, isn’t it?
And the famous 20th century Jewish historian Salo Baron spent his career trying to counter the “lachrymose conception of Jewish history.” In the end, the Jews never identified themselves with victimhood nor did they adopt the Christian concept of finding virtue or redemption through suffering. For him, as it should be for all of us, Jewish history is marked by stunning achievements against sometimes ferocious oppositions and always against the odds.
Does that reminder to others that we all (not just Jews) have agency annoy them as it means that the finger of blame for failure can often be pointed at the face in the mirror? No doubt, but it is a liberating way to live. And that too, many find a frightening prospect. So much the worse for them.
You hit the nail on the head! The first pro-Palestinian friend I broke off all relations with was a woman I was intending to remove from my life because some of her talk so disgusted me. Like me, she saw herself as a Progressive, but she continually expressed her hatred of people who had different feelings than she did. And what I found so unsettling was the glee she took in expressing her desire that they be hurt/killed in "the most horrible way possible." Like me she wanted Trump to go to jail for his crimes, but she concentrated on talking about her desire that he be raped and tortured in prison. Ironically, she heavily disapproved of men who didn't play traditional gender roles with women and would start inveighing against men who were submissive sexually shouting angrily that she would like to beat and torture them so severely that they would stop refusing to dominate women as she believed all men should. Then she'd screech that she hated S/M. I tried to reason with her about the obvious truth that her desires were disturbingly sadistic, but then she turned on me! On October 9th, just 3 days after the Hamas attack, she began yelling that Israel was committing genocide and that she wanted to see all the Israelis killed "in the most horrible way possible." I finally gave up on trying to help this emotionally ill woman.
Yes. Shortly after I unfriended her on Facebook and blocked her everywhere, her daughter reached out to tell me that her mother is seriously disturbed and that she (the daughter) stands with Israel. I have been cutting disturbed people out of my life since then. I can't make them sane and it's exhausting.
It’s good to know that someone around her recognizes the problem and hopefully can do something about it. This is a touchy subject, and I do not want to stigmatize mental illness, but in my experience an obsession. with Jews is often a first sign of disorder.
I think you are right about this. In the late 1980s I was a caregiver for a close friend who had AIDS. He had always been a sweet, supportive friend and never racist or antisemitic. He was friendly with my whole family and we spent holidays together. But he was a natural foods fanatic and stopped taking his meds and instead took herbal remedies. He developed AIDS dementia and the first sign was that he became a Holocaust denier. He then said such grotesque things about Jews that I had to end our relationship. His gentile friends tried to get him back and the meds and to be sensible but he was too far gone.
A good example of this kind of thing is the Irish Holocaust Day memorial in which their president compared "the genocide in Gaza" to the Holocaust. When two Jewish women who participated in this memorial angrily objected they were forcibly carried out of the room my security guards.
I hadn't heard this term, but it sounds all too apt. I remember a friend who always used to say, "We're laughing through our tears."
My grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and the delight these schmucks - all card-carrying members of the dominant hegemony - take in calling me a Nazi borders on the orgiastic. It’s perverse.
They’re having so much fun. 2020s protest movement = 1990s rave culture, but with Jew Hate in lieu of glowsticks. I am so grateful to be old.
You are right. I've been thinking that for a while. Very sick people.
Well said. I ended two friendships because of accusations that Israel was engaged in “apartheid”, which is exactly your point. Jew-haters took one of the most odious regimes on the planet and transferred its malevolent qualities to Israel. It’s what they do, isn’t it?
And the famous 20th century Jewish historian Salo Baron spent his career trying to counter the “lachrymose conception of Jewish history.” In the end, the Jews never identified themselves with victimhood nor did they adopt the Christian concept of finding virtue or redemption through suffering. For him, as it should be for all of us, Jewish history is marked by stunning achievements against sometimes ferocious oppositions and always against the odds.
Does that reminder to others that we all (not just Jews) have agency annoy them as it means that the finger of blame for failure can often be pointed at the face in the mirror? No doubt, but it is a liberating way to live. And that too, many find a frightening prospect. So much the worse for them.
You hit the nail on the head! The first pro-Palestinian friend I broke off all relations with was a woman I was intending to remove from my life because some of her talk so disgusted me. Like me, she saw herself as a Progressive, but she continually expressed her hatred of people who had different feelings than she did. And what I found so unsettling was the glee she took in expressing her desire that they be hurt/killed in "the most horrible way possible." Like me she wanted Trump to go to jail for his crimes, but she concentrated on talking about her desire that he be raped and tortured in prison. Ironically, she heavily disapproved of men who didn't play traditional gender roles with women and would start inveighing against men who were submissive sexually shouting angrily that she would like to beat and torture them so severely that they would stop refusing to dominate women as she believed all men should. Then she'd screech that she hated S/M. I tried to reason with her about the obvious truth that her desires were disturbingly sadistic, but then she turned on me! On October 9th, just 3 days after the Hamas attack, she began yelling that Israel was committing genocide and that she wanted to see all the Israelis killed "in the most horrible way possible." I finally gave up on trying to help this emotionally ill woman.
You are certainly better off. There are deeply disturbed people out there.
Yes. Shortly after I unfriended her on Facebook and blocked her everywhere, her daughter reached out to tell me that her mother is seriously disturbed and that she (the daughter) stands with Israel. I have been cutting disturbed people out of my life since then. I can't make them sane and it's exhausting.
It’s good to know that someone around her recognizes the problem and hopefully can do something about it. This is a touchy subject, and I do not want to stigmatize mental illness, but in my experience an obsession. with Jews is often a first sign of disorder.
I think you are right about this. In the late 1980s I was a caregiver for a close friend who had AIDS. He had always been a sweet, supportive friend and never racist or antisemitic. He was friendly with my whole family and we spent holidays together. But he was a natural foods fanatic and stopped taking his meds and instead took herbal remedies. He developed AIDS dementia and the first sign was that he became a Holocaust denier. He then said such grotesque things about Jews that I had to end our relationship. His gentile friends tried to get him back and the meds and to be sensible but he was too far gone.
A good example of this kind of thing is the Irish Holocaust Day memorial in which their president compared "the genocide in Gaza" to the Holocaust. When two Jewish women who participated in this memorial angrily objected they were forcibly carried out of the room my security guards.