tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7283977161950275020..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Anti-Semitism In EuropeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25865124183511291102018-11-30T22:02:59.327-05:002018-11-30T22:02:59.327-05:00True, a lot of anti-Semitism comes across as typic...True, a lot of anti-Semitism comes across as typical resentment of any good-old-boys system, a clique one doesn't happen to belong to. Other anti-Semitism is straight-up distrust of a foreign tribe and its incalculable loyalties. Only a few anti-Semites broadcast that peculiar specifically racist revulsion against what evidently strikes them as a tainted bloodline, the real Nazi sickness. I understand ethnocentricism, but the whole polluted-bloodline thing is madness to me.<br /><br />I was so struck, in reading the deeply weird "Last of the Mohicans," by the notion that a character might be tainted by a trace of Negro blood that wasn't otherwise apparent in her appearance or behavior, as if merely learning a secret fact of her ancestry could matter more than personal experience of her as an individual human being. It's a crazy kind of thinking also evident in the furor over Sen. Warren's 1/1024th indigenous heritage, or the enthusiasm for identifying royalty in one's distant family line.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-10553532077010781362018-11-30T15:28:40.304-05:002018-11-30T15:28:40.304-05:00Right-wing does have a variety of meanings, and no...Right-wing does have a variety of meanings, and not only in this recent populist vs country club divide. In Europe, the right wing is strongly nationalist, and that very often means tribalist as well. They mistrusted Jews because they felt they couldn't be counted on in a pinch, having loyalties outside the region. While nationalism has also had some WASPy flavor in America throughout its history, there has also been a strong "unity on the basis of values" as well. In the 19th C there was worry about Irish and Catholics because we weren't sure "they would share American values." I think that was partly what people really meant and partly just suspicion of foreigners. The cycle kept repeating with each wave of immigrants, who <i>did</i> actually change things a bit as they settled, but also basically did adopt American values. <br /><br />I still run across right-wing antisemitism in comments sections. It is not directed at Israel so much as Jews having some hidden network of power and having tricked the rubes into granting them special status. Weird. I don't know how much is simply the old European version with an American twist and how much is a resentment because Jews in America have not only adjusted but excelled under the New World, New Rules we have here. Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-45819530909954151872018-11-30T14:24:11.840-05:002018-11-30T14:24:11.840-05:00I am so right-wing, and so pro-Semite, that I'...I am so right-wing, and so pro-Semite, that I've always found this subject puzzling. Obviously the category of "right wing" has a variety of meanings.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-52105092364615341202018-11-30T11:59:34.945-05:002018-11-30T11:59:34.945-05:00I've not been able to find a link to the detai...I've not been able to find a link to the detailed survey data...nothing that answers the question of how much of the European anti-Semitism is from Muslim immigrants. The only occurrence of the word "Muslim" in the summary is in reference to negative attitudes *about* Muslims, not negative attitudes *by* Muslims.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-69687516072169236972018-11-28T02:18:02.737-05:002018-11-28T02:18:02.737-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.JuraganUserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235505800804618677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21400203132936106912018-11-27T21:38:10.741-05:002018-11-27T21:38:10.741-05:00I suspected the same, but reading the article caus...I suspected the same, but reading the article caused me to double back. The old antisemitism is still there, and that would presumably include rural.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-13505605083041512892018-11-27T21:18:54.627-05:002018-11-27T21:18:54.627-05:00I suspect the numbers in rural areas are between v...I suspect the numbers in rural areas are between very low and just damned few.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com