“Conspiracy Theory Rock”

“Since Patrick ostensibly no longer participates.” “Ostensibly.” That’s cute. “Ostensibly.” You crack me up.

I have used the phrase Jew-hatred here because one of the colonists who have ruined this place’s decorum, “Sunaj,” has repeatedly insisted that the English language word for it—”Anti-semitism”—shouldn’t be used because it can be construed as an arcane reference to linguistics, and thus Arabs, who speak a semitic language, must be included in our thoughts when the word is heard. Which is the stupidest rubbish imaginable; no one, in history, has ever been called and Anti-semite for hating Arabs—because everyone knows what Anti-semitism is. Arabs ain’t it. If you called a hater of Arabs and Anti-semite, no one would know what you are talking about. They’d ask themselves if the fool was taking about secret Jews.

But notice. When I say “Jew-hater,” none of the Anti-semites complain that it’s a made-up term self-serving Jews hoodwink everyone with because they are “perpetually aggrieved” or some such nonsense. It’s just another term for the same thing, but they really DO hate Jews, so they can’t wiggle free from it. They hate Jews, so the words stick to them. They hate being stuck with that more than they hate Jews. They want an intellectual, even a theological, dispensation for their hate. It should be clinical, to their minds.

I call them out.

What I find odd is that a few people have mentioned in recent days a sense of relief that I have not been here recently, complaining about the Jew-hatred so boisterously celebrated. What a relief, these haters express.

Note though, that they have not complained about the enthusiastic Jew-hatred I find so distasteful. It’s my calling it out that seems to be the spot of bother.

Mark/folktruther for years accused MHB of being Anti-semitic, and we laughed at him because it was so transparently untrue. Now, sadly, it has become almost as disgusting as nodisinfo or VT in that respect. I never thought I would miss him, but I do. He is, of course, a Jew, and one can’t blame him for leaving. As for me, I continue to observe this formerly pristine waterway that has become a sewer (for how much longer I shall continue, I can’t say). But I won’t swim in it. As long as I continue to observe, when my name is mentioned, I shall notice, and if necessary, reply.

Dachie’s fevered imaginings are a source of amusement to me, but I can assure her that I have never had any role in moderating this site. I have written articles for it, with happy gratitude for the opportunity. And when the tone and tenor of the place was still lovely, I contributed quite a lot to the conversation. What fun we had! People hated Jews, but maintained a standard of civilized manners.

Now, I only write to correct misinformation. Most of my friends are gone anyway. I communicate with some via email; all are deeply saddened by what these colonists have done to this virtual continent. James Tracy caught lightening in a bottle, and it lasted a long time. He might call himself a “moderator,” but he sure let the place fall to ruin. I can’t see how it amounts to “moderation.”

In my book How the West Was Lost I posit that Western Civilization came to an end with the 9/11 event. What was “The West”? It was the outworking of the Old Testament, through the New Testament. It is Christianity. And Christians are a people, from all the nations, who are grafted onto the roots of the vine/olive tree that is Judaism—the race that God created for that purpose. Hatred of the Jews is hatred of ourselves.

Why is it so effortless for conspiracy observers to hate the Jews, and assign to them all the ills that befall everyone else? Because the West is no more. We can easily blame the Jews for the same reason an infant victim of divorce can develop an attitude of disdain for the institution of the nuclear family. The Jews are our parents, culturally speaking. Do children of bad parents hate those parents? Should they?

A while back, Dachsie posted a silly “proof” from the Old Testament that some of us noticed, but unaccountably vanished. Much complaining ensued. That subject being my bailiwick (one of them), I was slightly astonished at its weakness of reasoning. It was a cut-and-paste of an article, as I recall, purporting to prove that since God’s promises to Abraham were fulfilled, Israel is no longer of Biblical value. Something like that. Of course, any such effort is an exercise in futility. The Prophets are replete with end-times promises of the role of the ethnic descendants of Abraham in the events soon to unfold. Jerusalem WILL be a “cup of trembling” for all the world. The last chapters of Zechariah WILL come true. We should be preparing ourselves for that reality, and be on the right side (with God) of that equation. This web site should be a place for sober-minded analysts of current events to work out the elements of that unfolding to gather—not a hate-fest of ignorant yahoos to spout asinine, knee-jerk, Jew-hate.

Alas.