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ANTISEMITISM ALIVE AND WELL
Attention, antiauthoritarians and social justice activists who often think they’re immune from racism and prejudice! Help is now available:
Antiauthoritarians and social justice activists often think they’re immune from racism and prejudice. But many Jewish activists’ experience shows that forms of antisemitism are alive and well in the social justice movement. This not only drives away many Jewish activists, but profoundly affects our work as a movement.
This workshop brings together two longtime activists who have studied how the left responds to antisemitism for an evening of instruction and experience-sharing that will help us understand and combat its effects in the activist community.
Via Norm Geras, who’ll be in Australia this summer for the cricket. Coverage will be extensive! Fear for baseball fan McKreck:
Once I made the mistake of reading a cricket report that Tim Blair had linked to. I knew nothing about cricket and was simply curious. If I hadn’t known cricket was a legitimate sport loved by millions, I’d have thought the writer a candidate for a lobotomy. The story sounded that insane to me. I’m not sure I’ve fully recovered from trying to understand it.
That’s the first step towards understanding the game, McKreck! Surrender to the insanity!
I thought the first step was heavy drinking, Tim?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 07 19 at 02:11 PM • permalinkhow the left responds to antisemitism
In my experience their response is best described as “embracing it”.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 19 at 03:31 PM • permalinkHey, if you have a problem, like antisemitism, all you have to do is get together and talk things out; get at the root causes, understand the other guy, and learn to get along for the sake of the antiauthoritarian collective.
How they get around the fact that one man’s antisemitism is another man’s social justice, I don’t know.
Once I made the mistake of reading a cricket report that Tim Blair had linked to. I knew nothing about cricket and was simply curious. If I hadn’t known cricket was a legitimate sport loved by millions, I’d have thought the writer a candidate for a lobotomy. The story sounded that insane to me. I’m not sure I’ve fully recovered from trying to understand it.
Reminds me of the Family Guy episode when some British guy tried to explain Cricket to Peter.
Its getting a bit sickening, the rampant displays of anti-semitism going on out there. “I’m not anti-semetic, I just hate the Jews” seems to be a rather common meme out there at the moment.
It seems to me that Israel is the new Poland at the moment, with the exception they have the weapons they need to defend themselves, unlike the Poles when the Nazis invaded.
Israel has the Islamofascists (Nazi German) attacking from one side, while the Old Europe Socialists and their fellow travellers (Soviet Union) stab them in the back.
The Islamofascists and Socialists have also struck there own Molotov-Ribbentrop Accord to allow them to concentrate of their current shared enemy, Western Democracy. In time though they will turn on each other and you can be certain the elitish Ivory Tower intellectuals that run the Socialists will be willing to sacrifice huge numbers of the great unwashed masses to ensure their survival and comfortable existance, just like Stalin did.
I never quite got past the problem that “anti-authoritarians” should be opposed to “social justice advocates”, since the latter wants to tax people to achieve “social justice”. Where does the anti-authoritarian part come in, again?
Posted by Foobarista on 2006 07 19 at 09:06 PM • permalinkmemo: Mr McKreck: Baseball must have evolved from a form of cricket, which is almost four hundred years old..
“Must have” is overstating it somewhat. Take a look at the list, and choose the game you most like the sound of as the ‘origin of baseball’. It’s probably as good a bet as any other…By the way, the apparent ‘tone’ of your comment suggests to me that you didn’t follow the link and read the full text of what McKreck actually said. To summarize; Cricket seems as crazy to him as baseball must to many of his overseas readers.
Cricket isn’t a sport, it’s a gentlemans pastime. It allows a chap to avoid his family for a whole afternoon and then get drunk.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 20 at 12:46 AM • permalink
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With the World Cup coming up I may try again with cricket, but the memory of my last ill-fated foray may be too much to bear. Some other brave American may have to take my place.
Thanks for the link.