A week or so ago, I posted a comment in response to a FACEBOOK post that posed the question, and I paraphrase, “Considering how few there are of us, why do they hate us so much?”
My comment was, and again I paraphrase, that “…we are first rate fantasy villains for third rate minds.”
The first reply to my comment was, and again, forgive the paraphrase, “Maybe if your missiles weren’t murdering children…”
My reply was, and no paraphrase needed, was “I am an American. So fuck your “your.”
Perhaps I should have said “please.”
The next comment was, and back to paraphrase, “So you really want to be disliked more than you already are?”
I did not reply—the equivalent of a “Just when did you stop beating your wife?” query merits nothing. The casual hope on the part of an all too vast a swathe of the remaining 98.98% of humanity is that we’ll just fuck off and die quietly, so they can be wistfully nostalgic about those wild and crazy Jews and all their curious neuroses. Comedy gold!
In that regard, I gather that among the plans for a post war Pax Germanica was a Jewish Ghetto theme park, with (gentile, naturally,) actors portraying the murdered “Israels” and “Sarahs” for the delight of National Socialist nostalgists.
The American tourists among them I would suspect to likely be of the same sort who find authenticity in their delusional belief of having a bit of Native American, usually Cherokee, blood in their most decidedly White Anglo-Saxon, ancestors responsible for the slaughter of indigenous peoples, veins.
As frequently noted, Dara Horn has it right on the money.
The third comment, and this is when I moved on, was, “You would make great charcoal.”
The first reply, of course, posits the ‘International cabal of Jewry” narrative, the fantasia of our “Rootless Cosmopolitanism” “clannishness,” “cliquishness,” “They all know each other” bullshit, secretly controlling events from behind the scenes, confirming us, as per my comment, as first rate fantasy villains for third rate minds.
The escalating harassment of Jews in the West has found in defensive response to a terrorist attack its convenient excuse for terrorizing of innocents, for vandalizing of property, for murder, in several cases, in a war separate and distinct from their actual experience.
The second reply desperately wants to believe that Anne Frank’s cruelly ultimately ironic “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart” excuses the systemic distaste for Jews that has never left society, and has now returned to unite political polar opposites to find common ground in the metastasizing public demonization of Jews, a loathing which has been gestating for decades, just waiting for its cue and follow spot from both wings.
The third requires no contextualizing whatsoever, other than wondering whether Herr Schmartypantz there alternates his CAMP AUSCHWITZ and 6MWE t-shirts between work and leisure time.
ISRAEL. ZIONIST. JEW.
Believe you me, it grows tiresome to continually point out that I have never visited Israel. I regard its current head of state as, you should pardon the expression, a complete and utter cunt.
I have no family who made it there to safety, because any and all of my European ancestors who chose not to flee to the relative safety of the west, or, like the doomed majority, found themselves unable to do so, were murdered, mostly by Germans, the remaining few a few years later by Russians, in both cases under completely legal circumstances by authorized police and military representatives of these respective totalitarian fascist states.
In that latter case, modern progressives consistently hold the right guilty for all past crimes done by fascist governments, while absolving themselves for any such crimes committed by left wing Communist/Socialist totalitarian regimes.
This is a tangential, albeit unspoken collateral example of the “It’s okay when we do it” hypocrisy, fecklessly deployed by every self-serving shitweasel, left and right, shitweaseling out of responsibility while calling out the other side for perfidy already or soon to be acted out by the accuser.
Needless to say, but say it I will, this two faced bullshit has a happy home at every point on the political horseshoe, left, right and center.
The choice to hear “ISRAELI” when the word “JEW” is spoken is, of course, as I have to apparently repeat for the nosebleed seats, a convenient canard to excuse harassment, terror and murder in situations and landscapes having no relationship whatsoever with the Middle East.
The recently and conveniently revived “ZIONIST” provides the perfect cover for going public with Jew loathing, because, hey, colonialism, genocide and ethnic cleansing=Jews, right?
In reality of course, the KGB funded the PLO and other terrorist organizations, useful idiots all, all with the sole rationale of demonizing and destroying Israel, the USSR’s identified USA’s proxy presence in the region.
Soviet contempt for Arabs in general, and Islam in particular, is on record. Thus, it’s the surrounding theocracies that have deliberately engaged colonialism, genocide and ethnic cleansing of any Jews in their populations in the service of Soviet Communism and Arab colonialism.
But, of course, we’re talking about Jews. Who far too many of my fellow Americans have the suspicion that they have it coming, as long as what’s coming is universally painful.
I mean, Jews, right?
Again, as noted, I am an American. I live in the land of useful idiots, indeed, a seemingly endless stream of willfully ignorant ninnies who might never have actually finished a book, with neither knowledge of nor curiosity about actual geopolitics, let alone geography, its reality, its implications.
Remember, many if not most of these dipshits now justifying going after Jews with no connection to a war they don’t understand were earnestly and actively weaponizing their fragility only yesterday, with their demands for trigger warnings, safe spaces, aversions to microaggressions and cultural appropriation.
“Words are Weapons!”
“Except when we do it.”
And, while the oligarchic right wields a series of dog whistles, tragicomically transparent beards for what boil down to offering a useless and pointless White Supremacy to a terrified swarm of useful idiots in return for abject fiefdom, these culturally appropriating microaggressors screaming “Globalize the Intifada” mean to put it bluntly, kill Jews where they live in the name of a complete misunderstanding and disregard of actual geopolitical reality.
And, but, for one more fucking time, this is still not about the Middle East.
In that realm of tiresome, as noted above, I repeat. I am an American. A disaffected leftist, left adrift between two entrenched belief systems, both of which hate Jews for their own irrational and all too frequently fantastical reasons.
And, no, I’m not saying one side of the political spectrum is as awful as the other. No relativism here. The currently in charge authoritarian crowd wins that dubious prize, unfortunately and simply by being in the catbird seat, the prime position from which to act on its cowboy cruelty.
None of which dissuades me from the assumption that, if the shoe were on the other foot, I have the distinct impression that there would be echoes of the current social gangsterism now buckshot aimed at immigrants to deflect from the shameless guilt of the actual oligarchic culprits, to instead be directed at Jews.
Let us not forget, it was a liberal government that looted, disenfranchised and dumped Americans into isolated camps in the 1940s, Americans identified as “Others.” And remember, Americans of ancestry tracing back to our other Axis foes got a free pass.
Not quite “Other” enough, I would suppose.
Jews, the original and still tops of the pops universal “Other,” are regarded as mud people, spawn of Satan, and vermin by right wing antisemites.
To be clear, not White. No sir.
Left wing antisemites consider Jews the very archetype of White privilege, incidentally, and, to be sure, fantastically, the instigators and administrators of the transatlantic slave trade.
Sure. Of course. Naturally. Really.
You can’t make this shit up.
But someone did.
So, believe you me, perhaps if not to a completely equal degree, the current iterations of left wing and right wing bullhorn of bullshit culture suck in their own special and distinct ways.
And finally—that’s right, finally, sorry but this piece really started out to be short one, so regrets to the TLDR bunch—one of the flabbergasted accusations and observations thrown over the wall by the progressive left at the regressive right is the mystified reaction to the continual voting for and signing on to platforms and political agendas that are clearly against those voter’s interests.
I will admit that I have indulged in such calumny myself, despite the fact that, unlike so many of those with whom I used to share the left, I actually know flesh and blood examples of that right wing. They are my neighbors.
I am not some privileged white dipshit living in an upscale urban bubble, surrounded by an echo chamber of the sort of bullet pointy headed identitarianism that has led to my disaffection from the left.
I live in a small purple town, in a red state, cheek by jowl with the sort of voters mocked, too often justifiably, by the Daily Show, Stephen Colbert, and the like.
All that said, disgree with it wholeheartedly as I do, I get it. For some, a little pain is, for this crowd, worth the taking to fuck over those they’ve been unfortunately convinced are a threat to their lives, their livelihood, their existence.
They may be—wait now—are completely full of shit, but they have the courage of their convictions, as delusional as those convictions may be.
Now, of course, the progressive left has transmogrified from regarding over sensitivity to disagreement as purity, to platforming personal discomfort over Halloween costumes as moral acuity, into a political arena of cosplay and cultural appropriation in violent support of a fascist, sexist, homophobic, misogynistic, theocratic, colonizing intersectional chain of terrorist links.
Thus, they can no longer regard with the contempt those on the right who have voted their lives, their health and their safety away.
Those under educated over privileged ninnies shouting for the murder of Jews worldwide might do well to reach out to all those leftists in Iran who participated in the overthrow of the Shah, facilitating the advent of the Ayatollahs. You know, for tips.
Oh, wait, that’s right.
They’re all dead, first immediately imprisoned and then murdered, executed by Islamic militants within days of that power shift. Nobody likes a fellow traveling wiseguy. Just consider Ernst Rohm. Or Leon Trotsky.
Or don’t, at your peril.
So, the butthole serfers in their red hats and their rallies are convinced they’re just one Scratcher away from that mink sink and atomic TV, only a little dismayed at the occasional queasy making reminder that they’ve trashed their children’s future, a dismay that evaporates like a potable water supply with whatever today’s distracting bullshit might be.
Meanwhile, their fellow useful idiots on the other side of the valley of self deluding nonsense have incomprehensibly shifted from whiny, privileged, oversensitive uberbrats, offended by everything except antisemitism, to worshipers of a death cult which, given half a chance, will rape and murder every last one of these ninnies, lest their infidel degeneracy contradict the tenets of a radical Islam, a theocratic fascism as removed from its actual origins as modern American Christianity is from its own.
But, certainly, pointing any and all of this to any and all of these willfully ignorant dipshits is pointless. First, because it’s next to impossible to be jaws of life crowbarred out of a self dug trench that confirms ones deepest core beliefs, and second, because rational thought for either extreme has long vanished, exterminated by the passion of the mob.
And in the progressive case, after whatever dust there might be has settled, maybe the elimination of Jews might be its own mink sink, too.
Trust me on this.
As ever, I remain,
Howard Victor Chaykin…a Prince.