No Catholic should ever be taken in by the oldest and stupidest hate.
Antisemites Only Lie While They Are Awake
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
If the devil can’t bait you with the oldest and stupidest hate, he’ll bait you with detraction.
Yes evil is always antisemitic, but not all criticism is.
True, but I note that Israel is often held to standards that apply to no other nations on Earth.
Evidently, Corey J. Mahler was born in Los Angeles County on 15 October 1985. He attended Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in suburban Los Angeles. (The high school is located to the west of the city limits and near the coast). His mother and father have apparently lived in that section of Los Angeles County for > 40 years. His father is a building contractor who specializes in swimming pools and is pushing 70. His mother is just past 60. I doubt he learned this crud at the kitchen table.
Anybody know what Noah Rettberg was trying to say about the context of the picture?
My favorite author, Andrew Klavan, says the reason anti-semites hate Jews is because they actually hate “the big Jew in the sky.” The Jews are the chosen people and “Salvation is from the Jews” [John: 4:22.] and that is something they cannot accept.
Optimist –
the full tweet:
“100,000 jewish Germans served in WWI, out of a population of merely 500,000, meaning 40% of all male jewish Germans served.
“Also one has to understand one context about that picture:
“It was taken not in Germany but in Poland, which German had just taken from the Russian Empire.
“Russia was an extremely antisemeitic society while German at that time was one of the most philosemitic in Europe. So theese Jews are not laughing at the German soldier, they are happy about Germany defeating Russia.”
David WS – Financelot was being anti-Semitic though. Mahler was inaccurately conflating Hitler and Christianity, presumably to praise Hitler, although some people have made the same conflation in order to criticize Christianity. These tweets weren’t about honest critiques of Israeli governmental policy, they were acts of anti-Semitism.
there’s brooding in hell… one who rues… “if it wasn’t for you… if it wasn’t for you..” that in reference to nation(s) and people(s).
Yes evil is always antisemitic, but not all criticism is.
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Israel’s detractors are pretty uniformly unreasonable in one way or another.
This myth of Hitler being “Christian” (usually specifically Catholic) is a lie that never seems to die. Only those phenomenally ignorant of the evidence can assert such nonsense.
By all accounts, Mahler still lives with his well off parents, which explains much.
I wish the cancer of Jew hatred was limited to the evil idiocy of Mahler and those like him. Unfortunately, it’s spreading to the bloodstream.
I do have to laugh at myself, though. I was just thinking that 40% sounded unusually high, so maybe I should double-check that number, then I thought “oh no, I don’t want to be the guy who double-checks *that* number”.