I've been having some pleasant online conversations with antisemites recently, trying to understand them. After several rounds, a pattern is emerging. One fundamental flaw in their arguments is to implicitly assume that Jews are not like the rest of us.
Humans are naturally quarrelsome. We each have different personalities, drawn by random, genetic chance. Lots of times those personalities conflict. It's not that the progressives are evil, it's that they are more open and compassionate than I am. It's not that I'm heartless, it's that my world view is more tragic than theirs. Neither of us is trying to do harm, but we drive each other crazy.
The antisemites see the Jews as a monolith, striving towards the common goal of world domination. They take quotes from the Torah or rabbis or political leaders and then look at how the Jews seem to succeed no matter where you put them. Adding those together, they get a global conspiracy of Jews.
None of it is real, of course. Wife kitteh and I couldn't get our extended family to agree on a location* or a schedule for a vacation meetup if we tried our best. Getting everyone in the family to sacrifice for an amorphous cause decades down the road is terrific raw material for a sitcom. Extending the population to all Catholics in San Diego would make an impossible task super very impossibler.
The Torah, the rabbis and the political leaders can combine into any manifesto for world domination you want. The fact that they're humans makes the realization of it utterly hopeless. There is no conspiracy and the Jews pose no threat because they are people just like us and people can't do those things.
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| Remember the CHAZ/CHOP zone in Seattle during the St. George Floyd riots? They were trying to solve a much simpler problem than the alleged Jewish plotters and with a population whose personalities were more attuned to each other. The thing ended up as a hilarious catastrophe in a matter of weeks. |
* - The correct location for a vacation meetup is, of course, Fairhope, Alabama. It's painfully obvious and yet those mule-headed dummies refuse to agree.
=="It's not that the progressives are evil, it's that they are more open and compassionate than I am."==
ReplyDeleteI rolled my eyes so hard, they fell out of my head.
==They take quotes from the Torah or rabbis or political leaders==
ReplyDeleteYou mean Talmud, not Torah.
Moreover, these irrational (and anti-Christian) Jew-haters *refuse* to distinguish between leftist atheists whose grandparents were Jews, on the one hand, and, well, actual Jews, on the other.
ReplyDeleteOf the leftist atheists, I should have said, "some of whose grandparents were Jews", for the reason that the Jew-haters -- while being almost invariably leftists themselves -- denigrate anyone supporting particular leftist tenets that they don't themselves like as being one of those perfidious Jews.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to be kind and somewhat humble.
ReplyDeleteTalmud. Check.
The antisemites take everything out of context and have a lethal case of confirmation bias. All they look for is plans for global domination and the ignore everything else. I'm relatively well-versed in the stuff and I'd never heard of their obscure quotes. I have no doubt at least some of them were invented.