Negative Space: anti-semitism
- Has Trump forced the media into a Kobayashi Maru?
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The Kobayashi Maru is that the media wants to be able to continue lying and be believed. People don’t distrust them because of Trump. People distrust them because they keep lying. It is a self-caused problem.
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- Universities Were Always Extreme
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“A century ago they believed that human beings were defined by race and they still believe it now. A century ago they were convinced that mankind would go extinct unless strong leaders clamped down on independent thinking and undertook emergency measures to impose order. And they still believe it now. A century ago they believed that the only way forward was a planned economy, expert rule and the necessary deaths of certain people and groups.”
- Strolling While Jewish
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“…there are people who find Jews all a bit Jewy and don’t want them in the country club… and there are people who cheer on the gang-rape of the Jewesses and the torching of their infants. A term that embraces the lot doesn’t seem terribly useful when the children of white upscale American liberals have moved en masse to the hardcore end of the spectrum—and pointing out Hamas atrocities doesn’t resonate with them because that’s what they like about it.”
- CNN Maybe Missed a Few Key Details About the Synagogue Vandal
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“Bear in mind, they omitted this information, then hid it, during a campaign which they themselves promoted to suggest that political violence can be inspired by political leaders. And bear in mind: Barack Obama posed with notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan. ‘Mainstreaming’ antisemitism, ‘sending the signal’ that antisemitism is acceptable.”
- Israel Today, the West Tomorrow
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In FlameWar, the novel I’m currently pushing to agents, one of the important plotlines is gays as the new Jews. Anti-semitism seemed so clichéd. But clichéd or not, I needn’t have bothered; Jews will always be the new Jews.
