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February 27, 2004

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SwampWoman

I support Israel 100%. Guess I must be Jewish. Wonder if that means I can't go out for barbecued pork ribs tonight?

feste

These are the sort of asshats who would go ballistic and bring on a raft of lawyers if their names appeared on a list of anti-Semites.

I tend to think we should ignore such nonsense, that engaging them validates their ideas and advances their cause in some manner. However, we cannot or like cockroaches they will only multiply in the dark.

Rivrdog

I disagree. Leave the asshats alone with their anti-semitism. One of the greatest political mysteries left in the world is: Why are the Jews so liberal? I think it's because society has constantly (since the Holocaust) shielded them from the effects of anti-semitism.

Imagine the change in just the politics of the USA if the Jews were to side with the conservatives (where, realistically, they belong). The (D)onks would have lost one of their major constituencies, with nothing to replace it. The switch in popular vote would be at least 10% at the base level. (D)onk politics would have to move AT LEAST back to the center just for survival. A GOP super-majority in Congress would be likely, as well as a dynasty of GOP POTUS's.

So, I ask again, why do we conservatives keep shielding the Jews from the effects of anti-semitism?

Raging Dave

I think it's a side effect of conservative's normal reaction to Anti-Semitism, actually. Jim is right, we DO live by the slogan of "Never Again", and we tend to come down pretty hard on anti-semites. So rather than Jewish people feeling the effects of anti-semitism, they see the conservatives get pissed, performing damage control.

Personally, I think that if we just sit back and watch, interesting things will happen. But I believe in that old Woodrow Wilson quote - if you see ten rocks rolling down a hill at you, do nothing. Nine of them will invariably roll off the road and out of your path, leaving you with only one rock to deal with. If we let asshats like Adbusters show their idiocy to the world, we might be able to do some good afterwards.

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