tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8732180048459170725..comments2024-03-28T21:07:00.650-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Jews may not like life more than you do, but they talk about it moreNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83046474629921308532018-10-29T16:49:12.409-05:002018-10-29T16:49:12.409-05:00Anti-Semitism is always bad but sometimes complica...Anti-Semitism is always bad but sometimes complicated and not always lethal. My best friend in junior high school was Jewish, and my parents were friendly with his family, as they were with other small business people they associated with. Yet they sometimes associated the appearance of supermarket chains that threatened the viability of their 'Ma and Pa' grocery store with rich Jews. My uncles, who took their politics from Colonel McCormack's tribune hoped that my sister, when she went to the University of Wisconsin, would not be influenced by all the left-wing New York Jews who were thought to infest the Madison campus.<br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-65216530948404847302018-10-29T16:45:27.616-05:002018-10-29T16:45:27.616-05:00What I am most sure about Trump is his amorality.What I am most sure about Trump is his amorality.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63605284037321410452018-10-29T14:32:12.899-05:002018-10-29T14:32:12.899-05:00There's a story in the New Yorker by Janet Mal...There's a story in the New Yorker by Janet Malcolm that just arrived in today's mail about her journey from Europe to Brooklyn in 1939 along with her mother and father that would be lovely at any time, but is especially poignant because of the horrors of the past few days. She says, "We were among the small number of Jews who escaped the fate of the rest by pure dumb luck, as a few random insects escape a poison spray."<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20815822349377208002018-10-29T09:39:12.565-05:002018-10-29T09:39:12.565-05:00To me, it hardly matters whether Trump is anti-Sem...To me, it hardly matters whether Trump is anti-Semitic or not. Given how valueless he is, I would guess anti-Semitism is just another belief he doesn't hold, but is willing to use if it draws in the dupes. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2688342149674601312018-10-29T09:23:48.995-05:002018-10-29T09:23:48.995-05:00My take on Trump and anti-Semitism is that he'...My take on Trump and anti-Semitism is that he's like Joe McCarthy, the demagogue he most closely resembles IMO. McCarthy wasn't personally anti-Semitic; he relied heavily on a Jewish chief of staff, Roy Cohn (who went on to become Trump's mentor). But McCarthy's attitude toward the anti-Semites who inevitably gravitated toward his bandwagon was, hey, you do you.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-34554490469427085592018-10-29T09:02:18.243-05:002018-10-29T09:02:18.243-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.com