This Week in Tikvah Tablet (7/5)
David Shasha
Tikvah Tablet Goes all Jonathan Haidt!
Alana Newhouse wants us to know that she will go to any lengths to attack what she sees as PC Social Justice culture.
On Monday she posted this gem:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/social-justice-solipsism
Kat Rosenfield’s article is another example of the Tikvah attack on Liberalism:
And like any other luxury lifestyle choice, this one is an ongoing investment. As a marketing strategy, convincing women that social justice is best achieved through endless self-interrogation is brilliant. The savviest brands on offer turn the profitable allure of unattainability into a core part of their ethic. DiAngelo herself talks about anti-racism the way some people would talk about training for a marathon—“I want to build the stamina to handle the discomfort so we don’t retreat in the face of it, because retreating holds the status quo in place”—only in this version, it’s endless preparation for a race that never comes. Not even DiAngelo herself can give a straight answer to the question of how well-meaning allies might put their education into action:
She sharpens the point on Anti-Racism in due time:
Meanwhile, as antiracist reading lists proliferate and book sales surge, the primary benefit is not to the marginalized communities who suffer most from oppression, but to the finances of the privileged class of professional diversity educators whose guidance is required, forever, to help you do the work. This may partly explain the dearth of solutions in books like White Fragility; after all, an anti-racist training program that actually made people not racist would ultimately render the author, and her entire industry, irrelevant.
Just to make the Tikvah Tablet way clear, the article comes with a sidebar of similar Haidt-like articles:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/birth-of-the-cool-guy
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/liberal-minorities-victimhood-identity
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/americas-white-saviors
On Tuesday she added to the Neo-Con racist menagerie with an attack on diversity by Zaid Jilani:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-diversity-trap-jilani
I particularly enjoy when Newhouse gets Muslims to argue against PC culture, as we will once again see in the following note.
Lyn Julius is all in with the Tikvah Tablet
Last week in the Tikvah notes I had an item on Newhouse’s HASBARAH deployment of the FARHUD:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/yahya-qassim-iraqi-jews
In my note I made reference to our dear friend Lyn Julius, and right on cue she posted the item:
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/06/liberal-fought-for-jewish-citizens.html
One of our more recent subscribers reminded me that some of you might still not know who Mrs. Julius is, so here are her SHU greatest hits:
And, of course, her article on the Nazi FARHUD:
I hope that covers it.
Julius and Newhouse are Tikvah birds of a feather.
Tikvah Tablet Gets Bosnian Sephardim to “Liberate”
One of the main Lysol issues is to get rid of the Lockdowns and “open” the economy.
Indeed, we have seen how lethal that has been.
Here is my article on how Newhouse has so very dutifully followed the Lysol Coronavirus talking points like the faithful Tikvah Trumpist she is:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/Davidshasha/MBv7Kkr0O4A/JrmDUBFPAQAJ
One of the many articles she posted was on the “Wuhan Virus”:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/origin-covid-outbreak-wuhan
I also made note there of her Neo-Con pitbull Liel Leibowitz and his conversation with Trumpscum Senator Ted Cruz, whose father killed JFK, which also provides the “Liberate” meme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDZcp9SQ2c
On Monday Newhouse took us on a trip to Bosnia where we saw “Liberate” in a new light:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/sarajevo-jews-pilgrimage
In addition to the Lysol “Liberate” meme, we get a nice piece of anti-Muslim attitude:
As the story goes, in 1820, after a murder of a local Dervish, Rudzi-Pasha, the corrupt Ottoman governor of Sarajevo, kidnapped 11 prominent Jews including Rabbi Danon. The Pasha accused them of the murder of the Dervish who was a convert to Islam, and held them for ransom, demanding 50,000 groschen of silver from the Jewish community.
Though the article notes the Interfaith harmony in Bosnia, the author, another Tikvah Tablet Ashkenazi supremacist, could not really help himself from taking a swipe.
Indeed, the Bosnia article reminds us of how Sephardim are not allowed to sit at the Tikvah Tablet Adult Table, and how important Trumpism is to Newhouse and her brand.
More Lysol “Open” Garbage – this one in a “Historical” Key
Just to add to the previous note, we have yet another plea to “Open”:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/department-stores-going-out-of-business
The article makes the point clear:
Shopping has been transformed into an almost exclusively digital phenomenon and the fate of department stores, already in parlous shape pre-COVID-19, hangs in the balance. The social distancing and quarantining occasioned by the virulent menace has left these former “cathedrals of commerce” high and dry, beached like a whale.
You see, the store closures are not about keeping the public safe; they are all about Jewish economic history:
Central to the smooth functioning of the social order, the department store was also a central component of the history of the Jews in America, dozens of whose names—think Abraham & Strauss, Macy’s and Gimbels, Neiman Marcus, I. Magnin, Bloomingdale’s, Filene’s, Bamberger’s, Hutzler’s, Rich’s, Hecht’s—proudly adorned its exterior. Some observers were inclined to Judaize the department store, characterizing it as a Jewish phenomenon, through and through. They were right—but for the wrong reasons. The ring of the cash register wasn’t a Jewish sound per se, nor was the fast-paced, jangly rhythm of the selling floor a particularly Jewish rhythm. The presence of so many Jews at the helm of the department store was a consequence of history, of marginalization, rather than a function of biology, or an organic predisposition toward the restless pursuit of money-making.
And naturally along the way we get a very duplicitous reference to the Civil Rights Movement:
Still, it was not for nothing that the NAACP and other civil rights groups such as the National Urban League made a point of singling out these formidable institutions for desegregation. What guided their efforts, from public protests to lobbying behind the scenes, was the moral conviction that unfettered access to the department store—that anchor of the civic square—should be within everyone’s reach. At stake, explains historian Traci Parker in her eye-opening book, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement, was the “right to freely experience all that … American consumer culture offered.”
Tikvah Tablet remains a racist White Jewish Supremacy institution, and no amount of false pandering can change it.
“Religious Liberty”: Andrew Cuomo and Jewish Summer Camps
For those who read the Jewish media you will already know the avalanche of articles agonizing over Summer Camp; as if Jews are the only ones with kids in the house.
Newhouse decided, in addition to going after her favorite target Bill De Blasio, that she would do Cuomo as well:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/cuomo-synagogues-summer-camps
The argument, in classic Meir Soloveichik Tikvah Neo-Con fashion, becomes a matter of “Religious Liberty”!
What if you have kids in the house and are an Atheist?
But such things do not concern Newhouse, as she continues to side with Lysol World and its many hypocrisies.
David Shasha