A few days ago three ethnic Palestinians – two of whom I understand are American citizens – were shot in Vermont. It appears the shooter, while being yet another “known wolf” lunatic, did target them because they identified themselves as Palestinian by wearing a copy of the dishrag Arafat used to wear over his bloated head. Immediately upon news of this breaking, there was universal condemnation of the action. Well, nearly universal. There was at least one person I know who simply couldn’t work up a condemnation.
That person was me.
Don’t get me wrong. I oppose shooting random people even if they self-identify as wicked. I expect the perpetrator to be punished according to law and I won’t shed a tear for him when he gets his due. But what I can’t do is work up anything like sympathy for the victims. I did try; it wasn’t there.
Now, why is that? Well, as I pondered it I realized that myself, my fellow Americans, Christians worldwide, white people in general and, of course and most especially, Jews have spent the last 50-60 years under the threat that at some point some Muslim will decide to kill us just to make a point. Doesn’t matter who you are or your beliefs – if you are white, American, Christian, Jewish or any combination of these things, Muslims have declared open season on you. They do have their reasons for this. Their reasons are drivel – because regardless of what Israel, the USA, Europe has done or is doing, random me – random Jew, random Christian, random white guy – walking down the street is not directly, immediately responsible for it. Furthermore, we randoms are not at the time engaged in a military or political action against Muslims. Almost invariably those who are killed by Muslims are people who are quite literally defenseless and not doing anything to anyone.
And we’ve just accepted it, haven’t we? Muslims attack and one or a thousand of us are killed and then we pick up the bodies (or pieces of bodies), wipe up the blood…and maybe bomb something but we also say we’re willing to talk. We provide aid. We promise that we’ll help them set up a government entirely outside our control. And, of course, if any one of us even looks crossways at a Muslim, we apologize. And this is after they killed some of us – and with the full promise that as soon as they’re ready, they’ll kill even more of us. We’re supposed to put up with this? Forever? And feel sad that some of them were randomly cut down?
I’m afraid I’m quite done with this. And once I realized I had no sympathy for the victims it immediately came into my mind that it really for the same reason I never have had – and never will have – any sympathy for what the WWII generation of Germans and Japanese went through. Any time I hear them whine about Dresden or Hiroshima you always find me saying words to the effect of, “gee, isn’t that just too danged bad”. Why? Because those sons of bitches spent WWII lording it over everyone they got control over. They were the Master Race…and anyone outside their Race was a slave…someone to be beaten, humiliated, raped, murdered. After the Germans and Japanese spent years doing that – and it was common Germans and Japanese who actually did the deeds – I look upon their ruined cities in 1945 and go, “well, you got what you wanted: now, how does it taste?”. The Muslims have that same Master Race disease the Germans and Japanese had – they do think they are superior to all and that God has ordained them to rule over slaves. What angers them about Israel is that there is a corner of the world that someone else runs. That’s what they hate about it. They know very well they could be rich and free under Israeli rule…but the very thought of having someone other than themselves in charge…of having a system where they can’t abuse subhumans, makes them furious.
So, yeah: I’m kinda done playing this charade where I pretend there are two parts of Islam – the good part and the part that blows my people up. No; there is one Islam. It is all the same. That we might find individual Muslims who reject it is fine…but the general run are all of one mind and heart. That is, they are masters and all of us are their slaves, actual or potential. Remember: they do celebrate when we’re killed. After the rape/death squads withdrew from Israel the people of Gaza went wild with joy. They knew their men had just gone in to rape, torture and murder Israelis and they were proud of their men for doing it. They can’t wait for it to happen again. They are enduring the Israeli response in the hope that one day they’ll be able to rape, torture and murder every Israeli.
So, spare me this “we’re better than that” stuff. Sure we are – we don’t send in rape/death squads. And if anyone on our side did send in rape/death squads, we’d kill them, ourselves. I am under no obligation to shed a tear when someone treats them as they’ve been treated. When Islam wakes up from its fever and admits that I as a Christian, white American am their equal, then will be the time when I can express sympathy. Until then, nothing doing.
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Welcome to the party, Mark.
On another topic, Manic Contrarian writes: In my view, DeSantis is clearly and without question the most capable, competent, and ruthlessly effective chief executive we have seen, perhaps ever, at least in the political sphere. But, as I have written about incessantly, the most powerful force on Earth is the power of the right idea, and DeSantis needs to do a better job of expressing his.
most capable, competent, and ruthlessly effective chief executive we have seen, perhaps ever, at least in the political sphere. But his modest Everyman demeanor hides a lot of this.
I had this same conversation with a client of mine the other day, and he is more sympathetic to Islam than I am of course. I challenged him on a few things, specifically ….
Why did Yassir Arafat walk away from a two state agreement not once, but twice?
Why does the governing body of Hamas use foreign aid money to build bombs and tunnels rather than schools and parks?
Why won’t other Arab countries take in the Palestinians?
And why wont Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran ever recognize Israel’s right to exist? And considering that fact, why should Israel recognize their right to exist?
My earliest memory of radical Islam was the 1972 Munich Olympics, and it hasn’t stopped since. It is time to end it.
Considering that Democrats are sympathetic to Hamas, I think MAGA should take a page from the Hamas playbook and not recognize Democrats right to exist. Can we do that?
So yesterday in the previous thread we learned that Amazona maintains a dossier on other BV4 posters going back over a decade(!). Considering she accused me of doing the same thing (without any evidence whatsoever, just her fervid imagination) and called it creepy, I do find this turn of events rather ironic.
Would that be like the Steele Dossier?? You’re familiar with that fake document, so it’s predictable that you would contrive another dossier. Now run along and go save democracy somewhere, you guys are really good at that.
And yet, I don’t obsess over trivial shit like that. Speaking of trivial obsessions of yours, have you thought of Trump today?
Just in case anyone still wonders why forty is not allowed to blather on this blog, this little spittle-flying screed is a perfect example. Now, in his fever swamp of imagination, a single blog thread, saved because of its content and not because of who posted it, constitutes “a dossier on other BV4 posters going back over a decade(!)” Speaking of “fervid imaginations” this is a great example.
What I actually said was that I “…ran across an old blog thread, with several back-and-forth posts, that I found interesting enough at the time (September 2012) to copy into a Word file and save.” A single blog thread, out of literally thousands in the two decades I have been posting here, was saved because it uniquely represented the sole effort of a Liberal to explain a political philosophy that was marginally more coherent than the usual drivel of desired outcomes presented as political thought, and not because of who wrote it. After I copied it into a comment block it occurred to me that part of it echoed what forty had once claimed, which as a comment from forty is meaningless but repeats the same plaintive cry of so many Leftists that they do, they really really DO, “believe in the Constitution” even as they explain how and why they think it should be violated. So I dared to mention what is, evidently, He Who Must Not Be Named, prompting some hysteria and claims of, well, of something bad.
This petty hissy fit compiled of equal parts paranoia, narcissism and lies is a perfect example of why all the administrators of this blog have agreed that there is no reason to retain any of his troll droppings on the blog. Every such effort can be just as easily deconstructed and debunked, but why bother? It’s all just a pathetic cry for attention and although some reward it most simply ignore it.
I do not recognize Democrats right to exist ….
Outrage in Oakland as residents DENY that Hamas killed Jews on October 7 and say anyone who supports Israeli strikes is a ‘white supremacist’ in SIX-HOUR town meeting
A major league rat has decided to abandon the Biden ship (hat-tip Jeff Childers).
SACHS: “First thing, don’t believe anything the government says. It makes up whatever is convenient.
Welcome to the club Mr. Sachs. I am reminded of this morning as I listened to some Biden administration hack telling me how great the economic data was, and remembered, well this is the same administration that lied to me about Covid, masks, the border, the Ukraine war, etc., their credibility is …. ZERO
If that’s not a sign that Biden’s political future is numbered, I don’t know what is.
Well, it doesn’t really matter any more, as his “political future” is now so damaged by so many other bungles and disasters it is in tatters, even if it were not at the mercy of his rapidly accelerating mental and physical decline.
He has been called “one of the most influential economists of our time.
But when he has been called that, it was while he was still a Democrat. I don’t see how a competent economist can be a Leftist. The effort to fit the two into the same space means I can’t seriously consider anything he says. So what if he has finally had an epiphany about one single thing? I guess I need to check out the second part of the interview to see if he has gotten past what so far feels like Identity Politics.
I did listen to the second part of the interview and my opinion of Sachs did not improve. For someone obviously considered an “intellectual” he struck me as very much a lightweight, and his so-called political position does seem to be mostly if not entirely superficial. So he stopped being a Democrat because of the lying about Ukraine—not about the consolidation of power in the hands of a few, not about a tinhorn dictator forcing people to inject an experimental drug or lose their jobs or military positions, not about abuse of power and trading influence for big bucks, not about the weaponization of federal agencies to punish and/or silence political opposition, not about the efforts to use political power to rig the next election by preemptively removing a candidate, etc. He’s always, evidently, been fine with all that and still hasn’t mentioned any of it as a reason to step away from the party.
I can’t argue with the “major league rat” comment but I don’t see his jumping ship as making any difference. He still won’t vote for a Republican and doesn’t seem to have the heft to change anyone else’s perspective of the Dems.
The most important thing to remember about our political, military and economic leaders is that they’re stupid. This is outside their overall Left views and such – they are really just dimwits. Ignorant, into the bargain.
There are lots of cross-currents in this Ukraine mess but the bottom line is that Russia has always taken a paranoid stance on their security. This goes back to literal Ivan the Terrible times. Russia looked with horror at the prospect of a NATO-aligned Ukraine on their doorstep. Just look at a map and see why; huge amounts of the Russian heartland are strategically vulnerable if there is a hostile power in Kiev. All we had to do was finesse this thing a bit and there never would have been a war.
All we had to do was finesse this thing a bit and there never would have been a war.
But we (not you and me) WANTED A WAR.
All we had to do was finesse this thing a bit and there never would have been a war.
It also would have helped if we had not funded the war because it was more important to cripple our own energy sector than let Russia struggle financially.