To a great extent, the Jews are now serving as the scapegoat (a convenient stand in for all “White settler colonialists”). So much of wokeism has simply been psychological projection. They attributed to MAGA their own thirst for authoritarianism.
Once again, they’re trying to gaslight us: they canceled people for minor misstatements, jokes in poor taste, or the inevitable “microaggressions”, all of which were claimed to be “violence”; and those people lost their friends and careers over nothing.
Now, these oh-so-delicate people (who couldn’t handle a microaggression) are making death threats, forming actual lynch mobs forcing Jews to lock themselves in a library, and praising a mass rape/murder, terrorism event, as “exhilarating“. Wow.
For a potential employer to withdraw a job offer to someone who publicly celebrates murder, or who calls for the murder of others is not “cancel culture”; rather it is an act of self-preservation. Who would want to go to the office and work alongside a known Hamas-cidal maniac? When a job candidate makes public statements that cause potential employers to wonder about their values and morals, that is absolutely an ironclad reason not to hire that person.
The Left’s (and Democratic Party) focus over the years on identity politics is leading to an overall decline in cohesion within the party. A big (sole?) factor in uniting a large part of the Left/Democratic party is the idea of ‘victimhood’ at the hands of ‘others’. State of Israel is now that ‘other’ - along with Russia, MAGA and White Colonialist structures. Now in situation where the ‘victim’(Hamas) is committing acts of aggression, they side w/ the predetermined victim regardless of the facts of a particular case. This is how you have people justifying these awful attacks from the ‘victims’. Or, for some, they are not fully justifying - but rather pointing out moral equivalency (Israel does it too!) to rationalize. Both of these are rather frightening. In my world I see the ‘youth’ more on this moral equivalence justification train, while older generations are not having it.
That's about the size of it. Whether or not the rank-and-file have any notion of the evil, vengeful theories behind their actions, the Ds are definitely the party of intersectional neo-Marxist grievance. "If it's white, it ain't right." And Israelis/Jews have white skin while the Muslims of Hamas are sort of brownish, so the battle line is easily drawn in the minds of these simpletons
I agree--the left rationalizes the evil butchery of Hamas and the right rationalizes Israel's scorched-earth response that plows under innocent civilians along with them, the Final Solution to the Hamas Problem, so to speak.
Making things even more difficult is the fact that--along with this stupid territorial dispute--Hamas is waging a religious war to advance an international Caliphate that Muslims everywhere feel obliged to support (if not cheer fanatically with riots and fireworks).
Funny thing is, while European-origin Ashkenazi Jews are white, many Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean origin are as brown-skinned as the Arabs in the region .
Sure. Any political faction is free to organize to make things difficult for its opponents as long as no laws are broken. I suppose it's legal for an employer to make hiring contingent on one's political views. After all, US universities have been doing this since the '90s, rejecting those who do not at least give lip service to the usual woke nonsense.
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Let employers create boilerplate application features like a written paragraph in response to a question regarding the applicant's politics, leaving them free to put any leftist applications into the circular file.
I'd like to believe the woke zealots would wake up from their totalitarian bend, but I'm not optimistic. Narcissism has turned into full blown psychopath behavior, as your Manson example illustrated. These people are truly brainwashed cultists now. I hope business people are waking up to this. Scrap the stupid DEI (DIE was always the appropriate order of letters) programs and cut off the insanity.
Surprisingly, Joe Biden and even Hillary Clinton realize how dangerous Hamas is, but cannot take a single ounce of responsibility for inciting these "activists" in the first place for their own political purposes. You even see it now. Clearly, antisemitism is skyrocketing, but they are concerned about...Islamophobia? They're concerned their pro-Israel stance will cost them Muslim voters the next time around. They're still trying to play politics instead of saving the country from a civil war.
The only thing these psychopaths are going to get if they keep down this path of woke insanity is a bullet. The people they will attempt to hunt down for their "whiteness" are quite well armed. There may be some restraint at first in their own defense against these woke zealots because most of them are also religious, but when they realize they are facing literal Nazis, it will get ugly quick.
Yeah, I’m not looking for the corporate DEI juggernaut to slow down anytime soon. Good thing I’m nearing retirement.
I doubt the casual news observer realizes the people currently promoting genocide against the Jews are the same ones who want to outlaw any speech they perceive as offensive.
It’s hard to believe that the horror of anti-semitism is oozing through almost every cultural institution in America. How have we allowed this to happen? Will we be strong enough to eradicate it before it strangles us?
We are fighting Nazis for the soul of America.
They have been tipping their hand for a while, but we couldn’t see it because Nazis in America was unthinkable. But consider the parallels:
1619 Project and CRT- Whites own more wealth and have more income than POC. This is proof that whites have been plotting against POC for centuries. It’s time to punish whites for their evil plots against the good POC. Whites are guilty. This is exactly what the Nazis accused the Jews of- they’ve been plotting against Aryans for centuries!
Jan 6 “insurrection”- MAGA whites are trying to destroy our democracy! The Nazis used the Reichstag fire to make the same claim against their political opponents, and used it to stop any opposition to their plans.
Joe Biden- an elderly figurehead President, just like Hindenburg.
George Floyd- a criminal held up as a martyr to the cause, just like Horst Wessell.
We are in an existential fight for our country. There is no outside savior who will come in and liberate us from Nazi control, like the US did for Germany. It’s up to us to stop this evil from taking complete control. We can only stop it if we understand the truth of what we are fighting.
Hey Jude, I think some of the seeds were sown in the early 1960’s when Affirmative Action and Title VII not only gave preferences to anyone who wasn’t a straight white male but also established policy and laws to not protect them from discrimination. These seeds were then nurtured and fostered in government and academia for decades. They bore their racist fruit for 2 generations now such that most black parents and their children have been indoctrinated by teachers, professors, tv and Hollywood to see whites as evil oppressors. I saw data on this recently and it’s an overwhelming majority with this attitude. Sad and scary.
Yes, they could not have gotten this far in only a few years. It’s been going on for decades. The mask has finally been slipping in the last few years, revealing more of what’s really behind it. Some say it is Marxism, but the Nazi ideas are coming to the fore.
Not to be Pollyanna about it, but I have noticed a trend among black people that rejects the DP and wokeness. many are listening to people like T. Sowell, L. Elder, and C. Owens and coming to understand that the Civil Rights Era is over and black people are now on equal legal footing with white people, and the key to success and social harmony is color-blind self-reliance in the face of leftist, DP tokenism and race hatred.
I hope you are correct and I would welcome the change. I will believe it more when I see universities select based on SAT scores (since hyperinflation of HS grades have rendered them meaningless) and employers hire and promote based on skill and merit instead of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Public education now operates under the woke racist paradigm. Only civic action, the replacement of School Board officials, can do anything to reform it. Even that's no guarantee, though, since university schools of education are the source of neo-Marxist praxis, with Paolo Friere held up as an Avatar of the Revolution.
The teachers Union is so powerful—all that $$ —and in my opinion this is why we have the open border mess—public schools (and the teachers Union) need students to function, and the more the better.
“We can only stop it if we understand the truth of what we are fighting.“
I don’t see that we can stop it. Too many of us for them to prevail. Too many of them for us to prevail. The momentum now is for ever worsening social breakdown and the unraveling of our society.
Trump is a puppet? He has 96 bogus criminal counts against him, Letita James in NY is trying to fine him $250M over bogus charges... He is having to spend much of his wealth fighting lawfare while a true puppet like Biden is being enriched by China.
They have bogusly shamed Trump, indicted him, impeached him, and indicted him. The only thing left to do is kill him. This proves he is the ONLY one not a puppet.
Of course it is a sham, but is being used to bleed him of money and keep him off ballots. He has never cheered for war, he just used missiles to take out our enemies.
Let's not throw in the sponge just yet. There are some hopeful signs, little embers of rationality that need more oxygen. See my comment on the black vote for one possible example.
No need to ask permission. Spread the alarm as far and wide as we can.
Nobody ever thinks it can happen to them. In hindsight, we all wonder “how did they not see it”? But just as no parent ever imagines their kid would shoot up a school, no society ever imagines they can fall into such evil. It seems unthinkable until it happens.
"A document issued by the [Israeli] Ministry of Intelligence, the full content of which is published here for the first time, recommends forcibly transferring the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be enlisted in the move. The document also proposes promoting a campaign dedicated to Gaza residents that will 'motivate them to agree to the plan.'"
I'm not inclined to read the entire "document." Seems like a better alternative than just bombing civilians indiscriminately or bombing Hamas embedded among so-called "human shields." The bit about motivation sounds rather sinister.
The left examines every conflict through a victim / oppressor lens and once it chooses which category each side fits into, the victim can do no wrong, and the oppressor can do no right.
The problem with Israel / Hamas is that both sides can credibly claim victim status, and that is the Achilles Heel of their social model.
So they try and claim that people with Gadsden Flag bumper stickers are the real villains here.
Completely agree with you, Brent. Facts do not matter, only which group is the predetermined victim. The fight is on for who is the biggest victim, Israel or people of Gaza/West Bank. It has potential to rip Democrats voters apart.
Michigan is attempting to remove Trump from the ballot, also. I’ll write him in, if I must. The Evil Triumvirate -- Whitmer, Nessel, Benson -- must not be allowed to prevail.
The two are not mutually exclusive and instead two-sides of the same racist coin. Sasha. I admire your courage for continuing to take on the tough issues and doing so with objectivity and empathy.
Sasha mentions Glenn Greenwald, "usually the voice of sanity and reason", and I agree-- he's also brave, with proven integrity , and I admire him; but Sasha's right too about his blind spot about Israel, his inability to connect Israel to the Jewish condition, and a tendency to minimize the extent that anti -Semitism plays in even the most egregious anti-Israel tirades.
El Gato Malo pointed out today that the Woke have become what they hate: colonizers who insist on destroying all whom they consider inferior to themselves. They don’t oppose colonization, they ARE colonizers.“Her majesty’s troops will remain in the capital until the natives are pacified and recognize our rule.“.
I'm part Jewish myself, maternal grandfather. My mother was raised Jewish but converted to marry my Irish father. My wife is half Jewish.
I'm convinced that this is all karma (my beliefs are basically Buddhist now).
Systematic institutional hatred for "white people" was tacitly encouraged for decades by Jews. What is the mirror image of anti-Semitism? We don't even have a word for it, but it's a thing, a big thing. A lot of Jews really do hate ordinary white people, blaming all of them for the holocaust, just by race. I interviewed for a lab tech job once but was rejected because I had studied German and I look kinda German. Seriously, that was why I was rejected and it was made perfectly clear by the guy I interviewed with, who hates white people:
I was pretty stunned at such hatred based on my apparently white background and what I chose to study.
The ADL continues to aggressively promote the "white supremacy" slander even while leftists and Muslims mass in the street chanting anti-Semitic slogans:
The problem is not just anti-Semitism, not by a long shot. You'll know that the problem is solved when the Holocaust Museum has an exhibit on the mirror image of anti-Semitism, and you'll know that nothing is solved while that exhibit remains missing.
This illustrates the absolutely insane idiocy of race politics and the evil, corrosive definition of "whiteness" advanced by the critical studies priesthood. It will kill us all eventually if we don't get rid of it somehow.
But then there are so many nonJews who also hate white people due to their white guilt over slavery or whatever that I don’t see Jews as being anti-white. I don’t think of Jews in group terms so I just dislike the Woke ones and like the nonWoke.
We can tell it is anti-Whiteness because Lefties don't give a damn about the Kurds, along with what might be called "para-Kurds", being oppressed in Turkey, despite the fact that the Kurds are not really obscure. More or less the eastern third of Anatolia belongs to such speakers of Iranian languages. But there is no difference in skin-color. No Melanin Melodrama. End of story.
I used to want to ask how the way Lefties talk about Whites is different from the way the Nazis talked about Jews. Now I want to ask how the way Lefties talk about Jews is different from the way the Nazis talked about Jews. (By the way, how many Neo-Nazis have rallied for Hamas?)
Does "the right of return" apply to the descendants of the Germans who were driven out of Poland after WWII? Or does "the right of return" not apply to Whites?
Does "stolen land" apply to the Bantus who pushed into the southern half of Africa, literally marginalizing the Bushmen? Or does "stolen land" not apply to non-Whites?
Well done, Sasha. I am not optimistic though. I believe there’s about as much chance of the Woke becoming sane as there is of Hamas converting to Judaism. Not going to happen. Too many of us for them to win. Too many of them for us to win. Seems to me then that the path we’re on is heading for implosion aka civilizational collapse greatly amplified by our constant flood of “migrants” aka illegals.
Oscar Blue Ramirez is a Mexican journalist who covers the flood of migrants coming to the US. Here he is again interviewing the leader of the latest caravan, I think it’s up to 7,000, now heading for our open border. This caravan leader is a humanitarian basically just trying to help poor people and totally disgusted with Biden for opening the border and helping the cartels and also helping our enemies like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He understands quite well how disastrous this is.
I like this Oscar Ramirez and think he’s a good example of the fact that our reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke is very much a global war. Basically an anti-white race war but goes way beyond race and against anyone of any color who opposes them and also a war on meritocracy to eliminate standards for the sake of equal outcomes which is in effect a war on civilization itself since standards are the essence of civilization. A truly disastrous situation not only for us but for the world which is watching the disintegration of our once great nation.
“Listen to the message for the US gov and what the leader of caravan thinks of Joe Biden.” (6 min)
People get angry, but I believe America is going the way of all republics. It's been almost 250 years. Average life span of a republic. I'm not advocating for the USA's destruction. I'm just the messenger. It looks like our country is in its death throws.
“It looks like our country is in its death throes.”
For sure but if a country like America with all its many advantages can so easily collapse into insanity and self-destruct then what country can survive? And you also have to take into consideration that we now live in a thoroughly interconnected global civilization which will be hugely affected by the tsunami of shock waves that sweep the world as we go down. Where will this leave humanity? Personally, my hope is that AI will soon be advanced enough to save our sinking ship since we sure can’t save ourselves. We’re not all crazy but enough are to bring us all down.
Biden is in a bind. And believe me Biden See's everything through a political lens. He has got George Soros who is Jewish and Hollywood campaign money on one hand, on the other hand he has got Muslim voters in must win Michigan. He has lost 4 percent in his approval/disapproval since oct 7. For the life of me I don't understand the Jewish voters who don't side with trump and MAGA for their survival. No one has been more pro Israel than Trump and MAGA.
I do see them. But Hamas is to blame. They are using the Palestinians as shields. They broke the ceasefire to begin with. They knew Israel had no choice but to bomb the crap out of them. They wanted that to happen - they wanted this death and destruction to build their movement to ultimately eradicate Israel. War is hell. There is no way around that ugly fact. But it is not a game you play unless you are prepared to win.
Sasha, Hamas is not innocent Palestinian women and children and innocent Palestinian women and children are not Hamas. War is supposed to be proportionate and just; bombing and displacing millions in retaliation of a one day attack killing 2,000 innocent Jewish people is neither proportionate nor just. It begs the question, how many Palestinian children must now die, be maimed or made homeless in order for Israel to stop bombing them?
Yes, this is not an accident or a sudden inspiration. My take is that it was a well conceived plan, pushed along by Russia to get us out of Ukraine. Putin needed an alternative to a nuclear bomb. We pushed him up against the wall.
Palestinians are guilty for thier own deaths as a result of their disgusting culture that glorifies barbarism and martyrdom. This tragedy is 100% on Hamas ans Hamas supportes.
Not true. Palestinian and Jewish children were certainly not responsible for their own deaths. Both sides have intentionally killed children and neither has a compelling moral reason for doing so. Focus here though is anti white and ant Semite; both of which are racist and immoral.
The vast majority of the Palestinian parents don’t hate Jews and only want to feed and give shelter to their children. They neither attacked nor supported Hamas; and killing their children, or the children of any enemy, is never okay. It’s really simple; killing children is always evil. Amazing you want to rationalize it.
Sorry, but I really don't see any evidence of that, seems like mostly there are Hamas sympathizers looking for victim points. I know that there are cases to your point, but they seem very anecdotal as to making your point. I agree that killing children is always evil but it is Hamas that is doing so by hiding behind them. The way things have been done for the last 75 years has not worked.
The tactic of embedding missiles and other military stuff in civilian areas says a lot about how Hamas operates.
That said, it's difficult to say how or if Israel should moderate its scorched-earth retaliation. Ridding the world of Hamas may be a good thing, but civvies are being used as pawns . . . again.
Hi Peggy, I am outraged by the killing of civilians on both sides and have posted extensively about it on Sasha’s stack and others. So have at least several others here who have commented today. You make a good point.
That’s true. They are leveling Gaza which they claim is justified since some Hamas are hiding there but that certainly doesn’t justify it and is turning global opinion against Israel and also dragging us into it.
It’s not some, it’s all. Read Free Press. Palestine has refused to play nice or be good neighbors. If your neighbor tries to kill you for the fifth time, it’s valid to put an end to them, especially if you have no recourse with a higher power.
Leveling Gaza looks like a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem. The problem with this solution is that it’s seen as genocide by many people globally who watch it happening online. This will create an ever growing backlash against Israel globally.
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it”. Take that up with Hamas. We all have a right to defend ourselves, if one is defending themselves with children that is on them. Perhaps the mother doth not protest too much?
To a great extent, the Jews are now serving as the scapegoat (a convenient stand in for all “White settler colonialists”). So much of wokeism has simply been psychological projection. They attributed to MAGA their own thirst for authoritarianism.
Once again, they’re trying to gaslight us: they canceled people for minor misstatements, jokes in poor taste, or the inevitable “microaggressions”, all of which were claimed to be “violence”; and those people lost their friends and careers over nothing.
Now, these oh-so-delicate people (who couldn’t handle a microaggression) are making death threats, forming actual lynch mobs forcing Jews to lock themselves in a library, and praising a mass rape/murder, terrorism event, as “exhilarating“. Wow.
For a potential employer to withdraw a job offer to someone who publicly celebrates murder, or who calls for the murder of others is not “cancel culture”; rather it is an act of self-preservation. Who would want to go to the office and work alongside a known Hamas-cidal maniac? When a job candidate makes public statements that cause potential employers to wonder about their values and morals, that is absolutely an ironclad reason not to hire that person.
It goes beyond “morals and values”. I think it is closer to a serious mental condition.
It's not a mental disorder. They are evil
The Left’s (and Democratic Party) focus over the years on identity politics is leading to an overall decline in cohesion within the party. A big (sole?) factor in uniting a large part of the Left/Democratic party is the idea of ‘victimhood’ at the hands of ‘others’. State of Israel is now that ‘other’ - along with Russia, MAGA and White Colonialist structures. Now in situation where the ‘victim’(Hamas) is committing acts of aggression, they side w/ the predetermined victim regardless of the facts of a particular case. This is how you have people justifying these awful attacks from the ‘victims’. Or, for some, they are not fully justifying - but rather pointing out moral equivalency (Israel does it too!) to rationalize. Both of these are rather frightening. In my world I see the ‘youth’ more on this moral equivalence justification train, while older generations are not having it.
That's about the size of it. Whether or not the rank-and-file have any notion of the evil, vengeful theories behind their actions, the Ds are definitely the party of intersectional neo-Marxist grievance. "If it's white, it ain't right." And Israelis/Jews have white skin while the Muslims of Hamas are sort of brownish, so the battle line is easily drawn in the minds of these simpletons
I agree--the left rationalizes the evil butchery of Hamas and the right rationalizes Israel's scorched-earth response that plows under innocent civilians along with them, the Final Solution to the Hamas Problem, so to speak.
Making things even more difficult is the fact that--along with this stupid territorial dispute--Hamas is waging a religious war to advance an international Caliphate that Muslims everywhere feel obliged to support (if not cheer fanatically with riots and fireworks).
Funny thing is, while European-origin Ashkenazi Jews are white, many Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean origin are as brown-skinned as the Arabs in the region .
They lust for power.
The dominant phobia in America is MAGAphobia - the fear of making America great again.
Sure. Any political faction is free to organize to make things difficult for its opponents as long as no laws are broken. I suppose it's legal for an employer to make hiring contingent on one's political views. After all, US universities have been doing this since the '90s, rejecting those who do not at least give lip service to the usual woke nonsense.
"What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Let employers create boilerplate application features like a written paragraph in response to a question regarding the applicant's politics, leaving them free to put any leftist applications into the circular file.
I'd like to believe the woke zealots would wake up from their totalitarian bend, but I'm not optimistic. Narcissism has turned into full blown psychopath behavior, as your Manson example illustrated. These people are truly brainwashed cultists now. I hope business people are waking up to this. Scrap the stupid DEI (DIE was always the appropriate order of letters) programs and cut off the insanity.
Surprisingly, Joe Biden and even Hillary Clinton realize how dangerous Hamas is, but cannot take a single ounce of responsibility for inciting these "activists" in the first place for their own political purposes. You even see it now. Clearly, antisemitism is skyrocketing, but they are concerned about...Islamophobia? They're concerned their pro-Israel stance will cost them Muslim voters the next time around. They're still trying to play politics instead of saving the country from a civil war.
The only thing these psychopaths are going to get if they keep down this path of woke insanity is a bullet. The people they will attempt to hunt down for their "whiteness" are quite well armed. There may be some restraint at first in their own defense against these woke zealots because most of them are also religious, but when they realize they are facing literal Nazis, it will get ugly quick.
Those who live by expediency die by expediency.
Very, very ugly.
Yeah, I’m not looking for the corporate DEI juggernaut to slow down anytime soon. Good thing I’m nearing retirement.
I doubt the casual news observer realizes the people currently promoting genocide against the Jews are the same ones who want to outlaw any speech they perceive as offensive.
Well done as always.
It’s hard to believe that the horror of anti-semitism is oozing through almost every cultural institution in America. How have we allowed this to happen? Will we be strong enough to eradicate it before it strangles us?
We are fighting Nazis for the soul of America.
They have been tipping their hand for a while, but we couldn’t see it because Nazis in America was unthinkable. But consider the parallels:
1619 Project and CRT- Whites own more wealth and have more income than POC. This is proof that whites have been plotting against POC for centuries. It’s time to punish whites for their evil plots against the good POC. Whites are guilty. This is exactly what the Nazis accused the Jews of- they’ve been plotting against Aryans for centuries!
Jan 6 “insurrection”- MAGA whites are trying to destroy our democracy! The Nazis used the Reichstag fire to make the same claim against their political opponents, and used it to stop any opposition to their plans.
Joe Biden- an elderly figurehead President, just like Hindenburg.
George Floyd- a criminal held up as a martyr to the cause, just like Horst Wessell.
We are in an existential fight for our country. There is no outside savior who will come in and liberate us from Nazi control, like the US did for Germany. It’s up to us to stop this evil from taking complete control. We can only stop it if we understand the truth of what we are fighting.
Hey Jude, I think some of the seeds were sown in the early 1960’s when Affirmative Action and Title VII not only gave preferences to anyone who wasn’t a straight white male but also established policy and laws to not protect them from discrimination. These seeds were then nurtured and fostered in government and academia for decades. They bore their racist fruit for 2 generations now such that most black parents and their children have been indoctrinated by teachers, professors, tv and Hollywood to see whites as evil oppressors. I saw data on this recently and it’s an overwhelming majority with this attitude. Sad and scary.
Yes, they could not have gotten this far in only a few years. It’s been going on for decades. The mask has finally been slipping in the last few years, revealing more of what’s really behind it. Some say it is Marxism, but the Nazi ideas are coming to the fore.
Not to be Pollyanna about it, but I have noticed a trend among black people that rejects the DP and wokeness. many are listening to people like T. Sowell, L. Elder, and C. Owens and coming to understand that the Civil Rights Era is over and black people are now on equal legal footing with white people, and the key to success and social harmony is color-blind self-reliance in the face of leftist, DP tokenism and race hatred.
I hope you are correct and I would welcome the change. I will believe it more when I see universities select based on SAT scores (since hyperinflation of HS grades have rendered them meaningless) and employers hire and promote based on skill and merit instead of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Well . . . we may need to wait quite a while before such reforms come to pass.
“Pittsburgh public schools approve measure to instruct teachers on ‘White supremacy’ in math classes.” (2 min)
Fox News. Nov 1, 2023
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pittsburgh-public-schools-approve-measure-to-instruct-teachers-on-white-supremacy-in-math-classes/ar-AA1jao34?ocid=sapphireappshare
Public education now operates under the woke racist paradigm. Only civic action, the replacement of School Board officials, can do anything to reform it. Even that's no guarantee, though, since university schools of education are the source of neo-Marxist praxis, with Paolo Friere held up as an Avatar of the Revolution.
The teachers Union is so powerful—all that $$ —and in my opinion this is why we have the open border mess—public schools (and the teachers Union) need students to function, and the more the better.
“We can only stop it if we understand the truth of what we are fighting.“
I don’t see that we can stop it. Too many of us for them to prevail. Too many of them for us to prevail. The momentum now is for ever worsening social breakdown and the unraveling of our society.
Well I hope AI and people like Vivek and Trump can stall it long enough to establish a critical mass to severely hamper it.
Trump is a puppet? He has 96 bogus criminal counts against him, Letita James in NY is trying to fine him $250M over bogus charges... He is having to spend much of his wealth fighting lawfare while a true puppet like Biden is being enriched by China.
They have bogusly shamed Trump, indicted him, impeached him, and indicted him. The only thing left to do is kill him. This proves he is the ONLY one not a puppet.
Of course it is a sham, but is being used to bleed him of money and keep him off ballots. He has never cheered for war, he just used missiles to take out our enemies.
Let's not throw in the sponge just yet. There are some hopeful signs, little embers of rationality that need more oxygen. See my comment on the black vote for one possible example.
The parallels are alarmingly undeniable. I'd like to ask permission to quote your comment.
No need to ask permission. Spread the alarm as far and wide as we can.
Nobody ever thinks it can happen to them. In hindsight, we all wonder “how did they not see it”? But just as no parent ever imagines their kid would shoot up a school, no society ever imagines they can fall into such evil. It seems unthinkable until it happens.
Here's the point:
"A document issued by the [Israeli] Ministry of Intelligence, the full content of which is published here for the first time, recommends forcibly transferring the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be enlisted in the move. The document also proposes promoting a campaign dedicated to Gaza residents that will 'motivate them to agree to the plan.'"
I'm not inclined to read the entire "document." Seems like a better alternative than just bombing civilians indiscriminately or bombing Hamas embedded among so-called "human shields." The bit about motivation sounds rather sinister.
Your comparisons are right on. When I watched 1/6 on TV I thought about the Reichstag fire. I didn’t think about Hindenburg and Wessel though.
The left examines every conflict through a victim / oppressor lens and once it chooses which category each side fits into, the victim can do no wrong, and the oppressor can do no right.
The problem with Israel / Hamas is that both sides can credibly claim victim status, and that is the Achilles Heel of their social model.
So they try and claim that people with Gadsden Flag bumper stickers are the real villains here.
Completely agree with you, Brent. Facts do not matter, only which group is the predetermined victim. The fight is on for who is the biggest victim, Israel or people of Gaza/West Bank. It has potential to rip Democrats voters apart.
They are looking at big donors pulling money from the universities and shitting their pants for 2024.
Sasha, great post exposing the total hypocrisy of the woke left’s selctive sensitivity. Unmasked, it’s all about power. Disgusting.
Michigan is attempting to remove Trump from the ballot, also. I’ll write him in, if I must. The Evil Triumvirate -- Whitmer, Nessel, Benson -- must not be allowed to prevail.
The two are not mutually exclusive and instead two-sides of the same racist coin. Sasha. I admire your courage for continuing to take on the tough issues and doing so with objectivity and empathy.
Sasha mentions Glenn Greenwald, "usually the voice of sanity and reason", and I agree-- he's also brave, with proven integrity , and I admire him; but Sasha's right too about his blind spot about Israel, his inability to connect Israel to the Jewish condition, and a tendency to minimize the extent that anti -Semitism plays in even the most egregious anti-Israel tirades.
In this specific case especially. I probably agreed with him more in the past but after the attack on Oct 7 I could not.
he's smart and fearless, but that doesn't mean he's always right.
El Gato Malo pointed out today that the Woke have become what they hate: colonizers who insist on destroying all whom they consider inferior to themselves. They don’t oppose colonization, they ARE colonizers.“Her majesty’s troops will remain in the capital until the natives are pacified and recognize our rule.“.
I'm part Jewish myself, maternal grandfather. My mother was raised Jewish but converted to marry my Irish father. My wife is half Jewish.
I'm convinced that this is all karma (my beliefs are basically Buddhist now).
Systematic institutional hatred for "white people" was tacitly encouraged for decades by Jews. What is the mirror image of anti-Semitism? We don't even have a word for it, but it's a thing, a big thing. A lot of Jews really do hate ordinary white people, blaming all of them for the holocaust, just by race. I interviewed for a lab tech job once but was rejected because I had studied German and I look kinda German. Seriously, that was why I was rejected and it was made perfectly clear by the guy I interviewed with, who hates white people:
https://immunologyphd.hms.harvard.edu/people/martin-dorf
I was pretty stunned at such hatred based on my apparently white background and what I chose to study.
The ADL continues to aggressively promote the "white supremacy" slander even while leftists and Muslims mass in the street chanting anti-Semitic slogans:
https://patrick.net/uploads/5/7/8/578942650f1e5b590bb5bec43c9c1ce5.png
The problem is not just anti-Semitism, not by a long shot. You'll know that the problem is solved when the Holocaust Museum has an exhibit on the mirror image of anti-Semitism, and you'll know that nothing is solved while that exhibit remains missing.
This illustrates the absolutely insane idiocy of race politics and the evil, corrosive definition of "whiteness" advanced by the critical studies priesthood. It will kill us all eventually if we don't get rid of it somehow.
“It's also Jewish hatred for white people.”
But then there are so many nonJews who also hate white people due to their white guilt over slavery or whatever that I don’t see Jews as being anti-white. I don’t think of Jews in group terms so I just dislike the Woke ones and like the nonWoke.
True, but that's a different thing.
I definitely know some anti-white Jews. My father-in-law does not hide it very well.
The irony is Ashkenazis are white.
karma is real
Yes Sasha you hit it on the nose!
We can tell it is anti-Whiteness because Lefties don't give a damn about the Kurds, along with what might be called "para-Kurds", being oppressed in Turkey, despite the fact that the Kurds are not really obscure. More or less the eastern third of Anatolia belongs to such speakers of Iranian languages. But there is no difference in skin-color. No Melanin Melodrama. End of story.
I used to want to ask how the way Lefties talk about Whites is different from the way the Nazis talked about Jews. Now I want to ask how the way Lefties talk about Jews is different from the way the Nazis talked about Jews. (By the way, how many Neo-Nazis have rallied for Hamas?)
Does "the right of return" apply to the descendants of the Germans who were driven out of Poland after WWII? Or does "the right of return" not apply to Whites?
Does "stolen land" apply to the Bantus who pushed into the southern half of Africa, literally marginalizing the Bushmen? Or does "stolen land" not apply to non-Whites?
So the Blacks of southern Africa do not qualify as "Indigenous Peoples". A fact to break a Lefty's heart.
love youl kep it going.
Well done, Sasha. I am not optimistic though. I believe there’s about as much chance of the Woke becoming sane as there is of Hamas converting to Judaism. Not going to happen. Too many of us for them to win. Too many of them for us to win. Seems to me then that the path we’re on is heading for implosion aka civilizational collapse greatly amplified by our constant flood of “migrants” aka illegals.
Oscar Blue Ramirez is a Mexican journalist who covers the flood of migrants coming to the US. Here he is again interviewing the leader of the latest caravan, I think it’s up to 7,000, now heading for our open border. This caravan leader is a humanitarian basically just trying to help poor people and totally disgusted with Biden for opening the border and helping the cartels and also helping our enemies like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He understands quite well how disastrous this is.
I like this Oscar Ramirez and think he’s a good example of the fact that our reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke is very much a global war. Basically an anti-white race war but goes way beyond race and against anyone of any color who opposes them and also a war on meritocracy to eliminate standards for the sake of equal outcomes which is in effect a war on civilization itself since standards are the essence of civilization. A truly disastrous situation not only for us but for the world which is watching the disintegration of our once great nation.
“Listen to the message for the US gov and what the leader of caravan thinks of Joe Biden.” (6 min)
Oscar Blue Ramirez. Nov 2, 2023
https://youtu.be/B7wEgR6x9uU?si=VLiqAcflD5lip2Z3
People get angry, but I believe America is going the way of all republics. It's been almost 250 years. Average life span of a republic. I'm not advocating for the USA's destruction. I'm just the messenger. It looks like our country is in its death throws.
“It looks like our country is in its death throes.”
For sure but if a country like America with all its many advantages can so easily collapse into insanity and self-destruct then what country can survive? And you also have to take into consideration that we now live in a thoroughly interconnected global civilization which will be hugely affected by the tsunami of shock waves that sweep the world as we go down. Where will this leave humanity? Personally, my hope is that AI will soon be advanced enough to save our sinking ship since we sure can’t save ourselves. We’re not all crazy but enough are to bring us all down.
"If a country like America with all its many advantages can so easily collapse into insanity and self-destruct then what country can survive?"
Good question. Looks like last post. Reason enough to not give in to despair and defeatism.
TikTok’s algorithm is a form of AI. How’s that working for you.
The more advanced form of AI is AGI. Not here yet but expected soon.
Biden is in a bind. And believe me Biden See's everything through a political lens. He has got George Soros who is Jewish and Hollywood campaign money on one hand, on the other hand he has got Muslim voters in must win Michigan. He has lost 4 percent in his approval/disapproval since oct 7. For the life of me I don't understand the Jewish voters who don't side with trump and MAGA for their survival. No one has been more pro Israel than Trump and MAGA.
*Biden's handlers are in a bind
FTFY
I don't understand why you aren't just as outraged over all the atrocities committed by Israel to the Palestinian people?
I do see them. But Hamas is to blame. They are using the Palestinians as shields. They broke the ceasefire to begin with. They knew Israel had no choice but to bomb the crap out of them. They wanted that to happen - they wanted this death and destruction to build their movement to ultimately eradicate Israel. War is hell. There is no way around that ugly fact. But it is not a game you play unless you are prepared to win.
Sasha, Hamas is not innocent Palestinian women and children and innocent Palestinian women and children are not Hamas. War is supposed to be proportionate and just; bombing and displacing millions in retaliation of a one day attack killing 2,000 innocent Jewish people is neither proportionate nor just. It begs the question, how many Palestinian children must now die, be maimed or made homeless in order for Israel to stop bombing them?
Yes, this is not an accident or a sudden inspiration. My take is that it was a well conceived plan, pushed along by Russia to get us out of Ukraine. Putin needed an alternative to a nuclear bomb. We pushed him up against the wall.
Agree but also think the plan was likely brewing even before Ukraine.
The population of Gaza has doubled since 2006. I do not believe that you understand the definition of “genocide”. Read a dictionary, moron.
To summarize: Hamas' deliberate slaughter of civilians and Israel's response to the atrocity demonstrate both Hamas and Israel wanted this war.
Now they have it. Let them destroy each other as they see fit. Any outside participation is Doomsday-level folly.
Finally, can we stop yammering about "genocide" already? It's a bad metaphor deployed against the faction one opposes in any war.
No, I didn't. Why should I? What's your point? If you give me some idea, maybe I'll read what's at the other end of the links you posted.
Palestinians are guilty for thier own deaths as a result of their disgusting culture that glorifies barbarism and martyrdom. This tragedy is 100% on Hamas ans Hamas supportes.
Not true. Palestinian and Jewish children were certainly not responsible for their own deaths. Both sides have intentionally killed children and neither has a compelling moral reason for doing so. Focus here though is anti white and ant Semite; both of which are racist and immoral.
I was obviously referring to the decision makers. It is the parents who hate Jews more than they love thier children who are to blame.
The vast majority of the Palestinian parents don’t hate Jews and only want to feed and give shelter to their children. They neither attacked nor supported Hamas; and killing their children, or the children of any enemy, is never okay. It’s really simple; killing children is always evil. Amazing you want to rationalize it.
Vengeful impulses are immune to such moral precepts.
This stupidity has been going on longer than the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which only lasted less than 20 years
Sorry, but I really don't see any evidence of that, seems like mostly there are Hamas sympathizers looking for victim points. I know that there are cases to your point, but they seem very anecdotal as to making your point. I agree that killing children is always evil but it is Hamas that is doing so by hiding behind them. The way things have been done for the last 75 years has not worked.
The tactic of embedding missiles and other military stuff in civilian areas says a lot about how Hamas operates.
That said, it's difficult to say how or if Israel should moderate its scorched-earth retaliation. Ridding the world of Hamas may be a good thing, but civvies are being used as pawns . . . again.
Hi Peggy, I am outraged by the killing of civilians on both sides and have posted extensively about it on Sasha’s stack and others. So have at least several others here who have commented today. You make a good point.
That’s true. They are leveling Gaza which they claim is justified since some Hamas are hiding there but that certainly doesn’t justify it and is turning global opinion against Israel and also dragging us into it.
It’s not some, it’s all. Read Free Press. Palestine has refused to play nice or be good neighbors. If your neighbor tries to kill you for the fifth time, it’s valid to put an end to them, especially if you have no recourse with a higher power.
“it’s valid to put an end to them,”
Leveling Gaza looks like a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem. The problem with this solution is that it’s seen as genocide by many people globally who watch it happening online. This will create an ever growing backlash against Israel globally.
How much more of a backlash against Israel could there be on top of what has existed for decades?
Because defense is warranted when they set your children on fire.
Bombing millions of other children is neither moral, defense or just. Never was and never will be. Try to not rationalize the killing of children.
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it”. Take that up with Hamas. We all have a right to defend ourselves, if one is defending themselves with children that is on them. Perhaps the mother doth not protest too much?