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Michael Ejercito
Jan 26, 2024, 1:58:11 AMJan 26
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America’s elites live in a world of their own
The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
access, and a graduate degree.
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
A woman held up a flag during a Donald Trump campaign rally at the
Rochester Opera House on Jan. 21, in Rochester, N.H. In an independent
survey, 70 percent of "elites" surveyed expressed confidence that
government officials will do the right thing most of the time, while
less than 25 percent of the general public has that kind of trust.
A woman held up a flag during a Donald Trump campaign rally at the
Rochester Opera House on Jan. 21, in Rochester, N.H. In an independent
survey, 70 percent of "elites" surveyed expressed confidence that
government officials will do the right thing most of the time, while
less than 25 percent of the general public has that kind of trust.CHIP
SOMODEVILLA/GETTY
Consider a few questions:
In America today, is there too much individual freedom or too much
government control?
To curb climate change, should gas, meat, and electricity be strictly
rationed?
Are your personal finances getting better or worse?
Can government be trusted to do the right thing most of the time?
Those were among the queries asked in a series of opinion surveys last
year by Scott Rasmussen, a longtime independent pollster not affiliated
with any candidate. Rasmussen was testing a phenomenon he had detected
over months of conducting nationwide polls. “I consistently noticed that
three groups held views that were different from most voters,” he told
me this week. “People with a postgraduate degree, people who lived in
densely populated urban areas, and people who made more than $150,000 a
year.”
Advertisement
In a standard poll of 1,000 adults, only about 10 respondents, or 1
percent, met those criteria. That’s too few from which to draw a
statistically significant conclusion. So last fall Rasmussen conducted
full-scale surveys of respondents meeting those conditions — a group he
calls “elites” — and sure enough, the pattern he had sensed emerged
full-blown. The views of elites weren’t just slightly out of sync with
those of the population at large. They were dramatically different.
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Take the questions listed above.
In Rasmussen’s general surveys, about 16 percent of respondents said
there is too much individual freedom, while 57 percent said there is too
much government control. But among the polled elites, three times as
many (47 percent) believed there is too much freedom. Just 1 in 5
responded that there is too much control.
Strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity? In broad-based surveys,
63 percent opposed rationing and 28 percent approved. When elites were
surveyed, on the other hand, the results flipped: Fully 77 percent
favored rationing, while only 22 percent said they were opposed.
Advertisement
Personal financial circumstances? Of the elite respondents, an
overwhelming 74 percent reported that their finances are getting better.
When the question was put to a cross section of the public, by contrast,
just 20 percent believed they were better off.
As for trust in government, 70 percent of elites surveyed expressed
confidence that government officials will do the right thing most of the
time. Yet among the general public, surveys have shown for years that
less than 25 percent has that kind of trust.
“We haven’t had a majority of voters trust the government most of the
time since Richard Nixon was in office,” Rasmussen told me. The reason
elites are so much more confident, he speculates, is that government
ranks are staffed disproportionately by men and women like themselves.
“A lot of people on the outside like to think there’s a conspiracy,” he
said. “It’s actually more like a fraternity.” Indeed, roughly half of
the elites in his surveys graduated from one of just 12 prominent
universities — the eight Ivy League colleges, Northwestern, Duke,
Stanford, and the University of Chicago.
Unlike more conventional descriptions of the “1 percent,” Rasmussen
doesn’t focus on the superrich. The key to elite status isn’t great
wealth; it is influence and access to the powerful. “This group may not
be the wealthiest,” he observed. “But they lead government agencies,
they are active in the media, they get involved in the political
process, and most of them happen to share a certain worldview.”
Advertisement
That worldview skews left: More than 70 percent of elites surveyed
identified themselves as Democrats. But even the small minority of
self-identified Republicans tended to embrace attitudes and opinions
quite different from those of the general public.
Rasmussen is quantifying a phenomenon that is as old as American
politics itself — a sense that there are two Americas: one well-off,
well-educated, and well-connected, the other less privileged and less
protected. William F. Buckley Jr. famously captured that sentiment when
he wrote in 1963: “I should sooner live in a society governed by the
first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society
governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” That was
not because he doubted the “brainpower” of the Harvard faculty, Buckley
added, but because he recoiled from their “intellectual arrogance.”
Decades later, Rasmussen’s data suggest that the arrogance of such
elites remains entrenched. In America they see a nation where people
have too much freedom and should be told what to do by a government that
knows best. Recounting a presentation he gave at Harvard a dozen years
ago, Rasmussen tells me he has never forgotten one faculty member who
demanded in exasperation: “Why won’t Americans let us lead? It’s what we
were trained to do.” You don’t have to scrutinize poll numbers to
recognize the impact of that attitude on America’s civic life. Too many
elites look down on their fellow citizens, and an awful lot of their
fellow citizens return the favor.
Advertisement
Jeff Jacoby can be reached at jeff....@globe.com. Follow him on X
@jeff_jacoby.
America’s elites live in a world of their own
The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
access, and a graduate degree.
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
A woman held up a flag during a Donald Trump campaign rally at the
Rochester Opera House on Jan. 21, in Rochester, N.H. In an independent
survey, 70 percent of "elites" surveyed expressed confidence that
government officials will do the right thing most of the time, while
less than 25 percent of the general public has that kind of trust.
A woman held up a flag during a Donald Trump campaign rally at the
Rochester Opera House on Jan. 21, in Rochester, N.H. In an independent
survey, 70 percent of "elites" surveyed expressed confidence that
government officials will do the right thing most of the time, while
less than 25 percent of the general public has that kind of trust.CHIP
SOMODEVILLA/GETTY
Consider a few questions:
In America today, is there too much individual freedom or too much
government control?
To curb climate change, should gas, meat, and electricity be strictly
rationed?
Are your personal finances getting better or worse?
Can government be trusted to do the right thing most of the time?
Those were among the queries asked in a series of opinion surveys last
year by Scott Rasmussen, a longtime independent pollster not affiliated
with any candidate. Rasmussen was testing a phenomenon he had detected
over months of conducting nationwide polls. “I consistently noticed that
three groups held views that were different from most voters,” he told
me this week. “People with a postgraduate degree, people who lived in
densely populated urban areas, and people who made more than $150,000 a
year.”
Advertisement
In a standard poll of 1,000 adults, only about 10 respondents, or 1
percent, met those criteria. That’s too few from which to draw a
statistically significant conclusion. So last fall Rasmussen conducted
full-scale surveys of respondents meeting those conditions — a group he
calls “elites” — and sure enough, the pattern he had sensed emerged
full-blown. The views of elites weren’t just slightly out of sync with
those of the population at large. They were dramatically different.
Get The Primary Source
Globe Opinion's weekly take on politics, delivered every Wednesday.
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Take the questions listed above.
In Rasmussen’s general surveys, about 16 percent of respondents said
there is too much individual freedom, while 57 percent said there is too
much government control. But among the polled elites, three times as
many (47 percent) believed there is too much freedom. Just 1 in 5
responded that there is too much control.
Strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity? In broad-based surveys,
63 percent opposed rationing and 28 percent approved. When elites were
surveyed, on the other hand, the results flipped: Fully 77 percent
favored rationing, while only 22 percent said they were opposed.
Advertisement
Personal financial circumstances? Of the elite respondents, an
overwhelming 74 percent reported that their finances are getting better.
When the question was put to a cross section of the public, by contrast,
just 20 percent believed they were better off.
As for trust in government, 70 percent of elites surveyed expressed
confidence that government officials will do the right thing most of the
time. Yet among the general public, surveys have shown for years that
less than 25 percent has that kind of trust.
“We haven’t had a majority of voters trust the government most of the
time since Richard Nixon was in office,” Rasmussen told me. The reason
elites are so much more confident, he speculates, is that government
ranks are staffed disproportionately by men and women like themselves.
“A lot of people on the outside like to think there’s a conspiracy,” he
said. “It’s actually more like a fraternity.” Indeed, roughly half of
the elites in his surveys graduated from one of just 12 prominent
universities — the eight Ivy League colleges, Northwestern, Duke,
Stanford, and the University of Chicago.
Unlike more conventional descriptions of the “1 percent,” Rasmussen
doesn’t focus on the superrich. The key to elite status isn’t great
wealth; it is influence and access to the powerful. “This group may not
be the wealthiest,” he observed. “But they lead government agencies,
they are active in the media, they get involved in the political
process, and most of them happen to share a certain worldview.”
Advertisement
That worldview skews left: More than 70 percent of elites surveyed
identified themselves as Democrats. But even the small minority of
self-identified Republicans tended to embrace attitudes and opinions
quite different from those of the general public.
Rasmussen is quantifying a phenomenon that is as old as American
politics itself — a sense that there are two Americas: one well-off,
well-educated, and well-connected, the other less privileged and less
protected. William F. Buckley Jr. famously captured that sentiment when
he wrote in 1963: “I should sooner live in a society governed by the
first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society
governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” That was
not because he doubted the “brainpower” of the Harvard faculty, Buckley
added, but because he recoiled from their “intellectual arrogance.”
Decades later, Rasmussen’s data suggest that the arrogance of such
elites remains entrenched. In America they see a nation where people
have too much freedom and should be told what to do by a government that
knows best. Recounting a presentation he gave at Harvard a dozen years
ago, Rasmussen tells me he has never forgotten one faculty member who
demanded in exasperation: “Why won’t Americans let us lead? It’s what we
were trained to do.” You don’t have to scrutinize poll numbers to
recognize the impact of that attitude on America’s civic life. Too many
elites look down on their fellow citizens, and an awful lot of their
fellow citizens return the favor.
Advertisement
Jeff Jacoby can be reached at jeff....@globe.com. Follow him on X
@jeff_jacoby.
Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum
Jan 26, 2024, 9:43:16 AMJan 26
to
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>https://archive.is/jnNtw
>
>
>America’s elites live in a world of their own
>The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
>access, and a graduate degree.
>By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>https://archive.is/jnNtw
>
>
>America’s elites live in a world of their own
>The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
>access, and a graduate degree.
>By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
<b'rissed>
--
The Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus admits he got
no life AT ALL outside stalking on THE Usenet!
"Frankly, if he were gone, I wouldn't know what to do here."
Message-ID: <FCOQt.107901$hp7....@fx13.fr7>
The Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus, defending his fellow
Grik sodomite the Grikboxer® and under the delusion that he's
been able to grow a pair: "You'd have to get past me first,"
Message-ID: <LOOQt.337647$Qr2....@fx08.fr7>
Yet more proof that the Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus
thinks he got a pair: "Just to let you know: ANYONE who "befriends"
the subnormal swine will have to deal with me! Get ready, bitch!"
Message-ID: <FHg6t.166438$Nl5....@newsfe07.iad>
The Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus STILL seems to think
he got a pair: "Which will NEVER happen! You'd have to get past
me first, poor psycho! LOL"
Message-ID: <MCSIu.1$c5...@fx32.fr7>
The Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus having still MORE delusions
about growing a pair: "If ANYONE dared to grab me by the neck
like that he'd get my fist in his face."
Message-ID: <qeilfu$iog$1...@gioia.aioe.org>
And AGAIN: "YOU sick pedo swine and ridiculous overt sexual cripple certainly won't EVER
get past any of us! This is a PROMISE, our pedophilic punching bag! LOL:
Message-ID: <178eb1f58212ab1a$16$2903823$49d3...@news.newsdemon.com>
In spite of all the evidence, the Illiterate Foreskin Peeling Grik anus
STILL has delusions about growing a pair!
"What kind of other-worldly pussies (men?) are you all? If someone
would dare to grab me by the back of my neck like that and push me
around, my instinctive, AUTOMATIC reaction would be to knock him in
the face! NOBODY is allowed to do that to ANYONE!"
Message-ID: <qfnPE.73303$YG3....@usenetxs.com>
And the demented grik delusions continue: "You STILL can't get past
me, my psychopathic pwnling! LOL"
Message-Id: <17a82652457272d3$1118$2642209$c0d5...@news.newsdemon.com>
Best of all! From the Foreskin Peeler's doctoral dissertation in divinity,
'University' of Salonica (1992): "The jew g-d is your g-d's dad."
Peeler
Jan 26, 2024, 11:44:52 AMJan 26
to
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:43:14 +0000, clinically insane, pedophilic, serbian
bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
sexual cripple, making a total ass of herself as "Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>>America’s elites live in a world of their own
>>The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
>>access, and a graduate degree.
>>By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
>
> More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
No, but more of Jeff Jacoby's superior, intelligent analyses that clearly
surpass your mental abilities, nazitard!
> Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
Neither Jacoby, nor Michael, nor the American elites live in a housebound
smelly pervert's stinky dungeon like you do, pedo swine Razovic!
--
Pedophilic dreckserb Razovic arguing in favour of pedophilia, again:
"Why do we still have outdated laws prohibiting paedophilia? Do you
seriously think that a 12-year old who spends 15 hours a day on Facebook
doesn't know what's going on?"
MID: <FnMUE.676068$H25.2...@usenetxs.com>
So 12-year-olds are your thing, filthy old pedo swine?
bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
sexual cripple, making a total ass of herself as "Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>>America’s elites live in a world of their own
>>The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
>>access, and a graduate degree.
>>By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
>
> More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
surpass your mental abilities, nazitard!
> Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
smelly pervert's stinky dungeon like you do, pedo swine Razovic!
--
Pedophilic dreckserb Razovic arguing in favour of pedophilia, again:
"Why do we still have outdated laws prohibiting paedophilia? Do you
seriously think that a 12-year old who spends 15 hours a day on Facebook
doesn't know what's going on?"
MID: <FnMUE.676068$H25.2...@usenetxs.com>
So 12-year-olds are your thing, filthy old pedo swine?
Michael Ejercito
Jan 26, 2024, 12:02:33 PMJan 26
to
On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16 AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
Nazibabble is inane.
You are a Nazi.
As a Nazi, you are, above all else, a craven coward.
You are afraid to compete with others as equals because you know you
can not measure up.
You are afraid of your own inadequacy, so you want to murder your
betters.
You are afraid of the truth, so you want to murder those who would
tell it.
You are afraid of history, so you want to murder the past, to wipe
out the knowledge of the degeneracy, cowardice and failure of National
Socialism.
Finally, you are afraid of the power of educated, informed adults.
Freedom of choice terrifies you… which is why you choose minor children
as sexual partners. You can not interact with competent adults in a
consensually sexual way. You need to be able to impose yourself on a
helpless victim, be it a prepubescent boy, or a patient in a mental
hospital.
That is what you are, a Nazi, and there is nothing polite or honest
about it.
Michael
jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> >
> >
> >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> >access, and a graduate degree.
> >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> >
> >
> >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> >access, and a graduate degree.
> >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
>
>
> Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
>
> <b'rissed>
>
Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
Nazibabble is inane.
You are a Nazi.
As a Nazi, you are, above all else, a craven coward.
You are afraid to compete with others as equals because you know you
can not measure up.
You are afraid of your own inadequacy, so you want to murder your
betters.
You are afraid of the truth, so you want to murder those who would
tell it.
You are afraid of history, so you want to murder the past, to wipe
out the knowledge of the degeneracy, cowardice and failure of National
Socialism.
Finally, you are afraid of the power of educated, informed adults.
Freedom of choice terrifies you… which is why you choose minor children
as sexual partners. You can not interact with competent adults in a
consensually sexual way. You need to be able to impose yourself on a
helpless victim, be it a prepubescent boy, or a patient in a mental
hospital.
That is what you are, a Nazi, and there is nothing polite or honest
about it.
Michael
Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum
Jan 26, 2024, 2:46:36 PMJan 26
to
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> You are a Nazi.
You are a gook.
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
>jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > >
> > >
> > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> >
> > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> >
> > <b'rissed>
> Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
>Nazibabble is inane.
Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > >
> > >
> > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> >
> > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> >
> > <b'rissed>
> Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
>Nazibabble is inane.
absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> You are a Nazi.
You are a gook.
Peeler
Jan 26, 2024, 3:31:19 PMJan 26
to
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:46:33 +0000, clinically insane, pedophilic, serbian
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>> Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
>>Nazibabble is inane.
>
> Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is.
Your sick Nazibabble IS inane, you inane psychopath!
> And it is
> absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
There is NOTHING subhuman about your master Michael, nor is he exempt from
morals. In fact your master keeps TEACHING you morals!
>> You are a Nazi.
>
> You are a gook.
He isn't. But you ARE a sick subnormal degenerate and perverted psychopathic
swine! And the best part of it is, you KNOW it yourself! LMAO
--
"The Jews" about pedo swine Razovic:
"It's like he just sits on a busy street corner, in a puddle of his own
urine, holding a sign that says "KICK ME!"
MID: <f0sbhhhivojsqf37d...@4ax.com>
bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
sexual cripple, making a total ass of herself as "Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>> Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
>>Nazibabble is inane.
>
> Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is.
> And it is
> absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
morals. In fact your master keeps TEACHING you morals!
>> You are a Nazi.
>
> You are a gook.
swine! And the best part of it is, you KNOW it yourself! LMAO
--
"The Jews" about pedo swine Razovic:
"It's like he just sits on a busy street corner, in a puddle of his own
urine, holding a sign that says "KICK ME!"
MID: <f0sbhhhivojsqf37d...@4ax.com>
Michael Ejercito
Jan 28, 2024, 11:33:44 PMJan 28
to
On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:46:36 AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
>
> > You are a Nazi.
>
> You are a gook.
That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
You are a nithing- homo sapiens by birth, subhuman BY CHOICE. The
key word is CHOICE. You were born with the same human nature as the
rest of us. Your CHOICES made you a nithing.
Bill explains what nithings are.
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=9446
Define and Dehumanize the Enemy: Jihadists as Nithings or Nidings
by Bill Levinson
It is an ancient principle of magic (which modern people recognize as
stories that reflect a society’s culture and psychology) that
knowledge of a person’s real or True Name delivers power over that
person. What it really means is that, if you know the person’s
psychology, you can gain an advantage over him. It is also well known
that the side that controls the language of an argument controls the
argument. As an example, Hamas terrorists and their enablers refer to
Israel’s military as an “occupation force” and terrorisitic violence
against civilians as “resistance.”
We have long sought a single word that strips the enemy of all
humanity, and reduces him to something less than an animal that is
worthy of nothing less than extermination. As far as we know, the
English language contains no such word, although “dreck” (garbage or
refuse) comes close. “Homo sapiens by BIRTH, subhuman by CHOICE”
describes Islamic supremacists perfectly, but it is a phrase and not a
word. We now propose to refer to Islamic supremacists as nithings or
nidings: a Scandinavian word that strips its object of all humanity.
Webster’s dictionary (1913) defines it as “A coward; a dastard; — a
term of utmost opprobrium.”
We remind readers who object to the dehumanization of Islamic
supremacists that those enemies are already attempting to dehumanize
Jews, and to a lesser degree Christians, with images that could have
come directly from Adolf Hitler. As they have chosen to sow the
dragon’s teeth, our position is that they must now reap their rightful
harvest: the complete hatred and loathing of all civilized human
beings.
nithings
Nithing or niding was more than a common insult, because Scandinavian
culture required its subject to fight a duel with the accuser or
become an outlaw: totally devoid of rights, honor, and even
recognition as a human being. Per the Wikipedia entry,
The actual meaning of the adjective argr or ragr [= Anglo-Saxon
earg] was the nature or appearance of effeminacy, especially by
obscene acts. Argr was the worst, most derogatory swearword of all
known to the Norse language. According to Icelandic law, the accused
was expected to kill the accuser at once. …If the accused did not
retort by violent attack yielding either the accuser to take his words
back or the accuser’s death, he was hence proven to be a weak and
cowardly nithing by not retorting accordingly.
A nithing was devoid of all human rights, and he was considered the
enemy of civilized humanity: a perfect depiction of Islamic
supremacists. The word therefore strips the enemy of all humanity, and
degrades him to the status of a wolf or strangler (per Scandinavian
tradition) or a virulent disease like the Black Plague. Black Plague
is a deadly and contagious disease whose vector consists of plague-
carrying rats, while the Green Plague of militant “Islam” is a deadly
and contagious ideology that is spread by bipedal rats: nidings or
nithings, non-humans that raise violent hands to all of civilized
Humanity.
The immediate consequence of being proven a nithing was
outlawing. The outlawed did not have any rights, he was exlex (Latin
for “outside of the legal system”), in Anglo-Saxon utlah, Middle Low
German uutlagh, Old Norse utlagr. Just as feud yielded enmity among
kinships, outlawry yielded enmity of all humanity.[63] …”Yet that is
but one aspect of outlawry. The outlaw is not only expelled from the
kinship, he is also regarded henceforth as an enemy to mankind.”
The actual definition of a nithing is somewhat more involved and
complex, and it gets into sexual perversions and zoomorphical
transformations (Loki’s transformation of himself into a mare to have
sexual intercourse with a stallion, and thus beget Odin’s horse
Sleipner is probably an example), but the following line is pertinent:
“The nithing used its malicious seid magic to destroy anything owned
and made by man, ultimately the human race and Midgard itself[6], due
to its basically unlimited envy, hate, and malice that were nith.”
"Destruction of everything owned and made by Man” (the Palestinians’
destruction of the greenhouses in Gaza comes to mind immediately) and
“unlimited envy, hate, and malice” describe militant “Islam”
perfectly, and further underscore the application of nithing or niding
to describe it. The propensity for mindless destruction also appears
in Orson Scott Card’s Alvin Maker series, in which a supernatural
enemy is known as the Unmaker: a personification of evil that is the
total antithesis of God the Creator.
The Unmaker is the main antagonist in Orson Scott Card’s
alternate history/fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. Never
directly confronted, it is a supernatural force that breaks apart
matter and aims to destroy and consume everything and everyone. …To
make something is to oppose the Unmaker, but a point often made is
that this is futile. By natural law the Unmaker can tear down faster
than any man can build.
This also is an outstanding definition of militant “Islam” or Islamic
supremacy: an ideology that seeks to destroy everything into which it
comes in contact, and with which no reason, negotiation, or compromise
is possible.
In summary, a nithing or niding is the enemy of Civilization, a
subhuman (through its behavioral choices, and emphatically NOT due to
its racial or ethnic origin) monster with total hatred and malice
toward all human industry and arts, and worthy of nothing but
extermination like any virulent disease. This is the word we will now
apply to Islamic supremacists and their enablers, and we encourage
others to do likewise.
jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> > >
> > > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> > >
> > > <b'rissed>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> > >
> > > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> > >
> > > <b'rissed>
> > Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
> >Nazibabble is inane.
> Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> >Nazibabble is inane.
> absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
> about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
>
> > You are a Nazi.
>
> You are a gook.
You are a nithing- homo sapiens by birth, subhuman BY CHOICE. The
key word is CHOICE. You were born with the same human nature as the
rest of us. Your CHOICES made you a nithing.
Bill explains what nithings are.
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=9446
Define and Dehumanize the Enemy: Jihadists as Nithings or Nidings
by Bill Levinson
It is an ancient principle of magic (which modern people recognize as
stories that reflect a society’s culture and psychology) that
knowledge of a person’s real or True Name delivers power over that
person. What it really means is that, if you know the person’s
psychology, you can gain an advantage over him. It is also well known
that the side that controls the language of an argument controls the
argument. As an example, Hamas terrorists and their enablers refer to
Israel’s military as an “occupation force” and terrorisitic violence
against civilians as “resistance.”
We have long sought a single word that strips the enemy of all
humanity, and reduces him to something less than an animal that is
worthy of nothing less than extermination. As far as we know, the
English language contains no such word, although “dreck” (garbage or
refuse) comes close. “Homo sapiens by BIRTH, subhuman by CHOICE”
describes Islamic supremacists perfectly, but it is a phrase and not a
word. We now propose to refer to Islamic supremacists as nithings or
nidings: a Scandinavian word that strips its object of all humanity.
Webster’s dictionary (1913) defines it as “A coward; a dastard; — a
term of utmost opprobrium.”
We remind readers who object to the dehumanization of Islamic
supremacists that those enemies are already attempting to dehumanize
Jews, and to a lesser degree Christians, with images that could have
come directly from Adolf Hitler. As they have chosen to sow the
dragon’s teeth, our position is that they must now reap their rightful
harvest: the complete hatred and loathing of all civilized human
beings.
nithings
Nithing or niding was more than a common insult, because Scandinavian
culture required its subject to fight a duel with the accuser or
become an outlaw: totally devoid of rights, honor, and even
recognition as a human being. Per the Wikipedia entry,
The actual meaning of the adjective argr or ragr [= Anglo-Saxon
earg] was the nature or appearance of effeminacy, especially by
obscene acts. Argr was the worst, most derogatory swearword of all
known to the Norse language. According to Icelandic law, the accused
was expected to kill the accuser at once. …If the accused did not
retort by violent attack yielding either the accuser to take his words
back or the accuser’s death, he was hence proven to be a weak and
cowardly nithing by not retorting accordingly.
A nithing was devoid of all human rights, and he was considered the
enemy of civilized humanity: a perfect depiction of Islamic
supremacists. The word therefore strips the enemy of all humanity, and
degrades him to the status of a wolf or strangler (per Scandinavian
tradition) or a virulent disease like the Black Plague. Black Plague
is a deadly and contagious disease whose vector consists of plague-
carrying rats, while the Green Plague of militant “Islam” is a deadly
and contagious ideology that is spread by bipedal rats: nidings or
nithings, non-humans that raise violent hands to all of civilized
Humanity.
The immediate consequence of being proven a nithing was
outlawing. The outlawed did not have any rights, he was exlex (Latin
for “outside of the legal system”), in Anglo-Saxon utlah, Middle Low
German uutlagh, Old Norse utlagr. Just as feud yielded enmity among
kinships, outlawry yielded enmity of all humanity.[63] …”Yet that is
but one aspect of outlawry. The outlaw is not only expelled from the
kinship, he is also regarded henceforth as an enemy to mankind.”
The actual definition of a nithing is somewhat more involved and
complex, and it gets into sexual perversions and zoomorphical
transformations (Loki’s transformation of himself into a mare to have
sexual intercourse with a stallion, and thus beget Odin’s horse
Sleipner is probably an example), but the following line is pertinent:
“The nithing used its malicious seid magic to destroy anything owned
and made by man, ultimately the human race and Midgard itself[6], due
to its basically unlimited envy, hate, and malice that were nith.”
"Destruction of everything owned and made by Man” (the Palestinians’
destruction of the greenhouses in Gaza comes to mind immediately) and
“unlimited envy, hate, and malice” describe militant “Islam”
perfectly, and further underscore the application of nithing or niding
to describe it. The propensity for mindless destruction also appears
in Orson Scott Card’s Alvin Maker series, in which a supernatural
enemy is known as the Unmaker: a personification of evil that is the
total antithesis of God the Creator.
The Unmaker is the main antagonist in Orson Scott Card’s
alternate history/fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. Never
directly confronted, it is a supernatural force that breaks apart
matter and aims to destroy and consume everything and everyone. …To
make something is to oppose the Unmaker, but a point often made is
that this is futile. By natural law the Unmaker can tear down faster
than any man can build.
This also is an outstanding definition of militant “Islam” or Islamic
supremacy: an ideology that seeks to destroy everything into which it
comes in contact, and with which no reason, negotiation, or compromise
is possible.
In summary, a nithing or niding is the enemy of Civilization, a
subhuman (through its behavioral choices, and emphatically NOT due to
its racial or ethnic origin) monster with total hatred and malice
toward all human industry and arts, and worthy of nothing but
extermination like any virulent disease. This is the word we will now
apply to Islamic supremacists and their enablers, and we encourage
others to do likewise.
Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum
Jan 29, 2024, 9:33:33 AMJan 29
to
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:33:41 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:46:36?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> > > You are a Nazi.
> >
> > You are a gook.
> That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
How the fuck CAN it be? I'm WHITE and you're a hideous slant eyed
Asiatic shitskin!
<inane repetition b'rissed>
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:46:36?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
>jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> > >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > > > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > > > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > > > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > > > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> > > >
> > > > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> > > >
> > > > <b'rissed>
> > > Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
> > >Nazibabble is inane.
> > Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> > absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> > about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
Not that you can show, gook.
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:43:16?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> > >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:58:00 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> > > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >https://archive.is/jnNtw
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >America’s elites live in a world of their own
> > > > >The real ‘1 percent’ aren’t the superrich but those with influence,
> > > > >access, and a graduate degree.
> > > > >By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated January 24, 2024, 3:00 a.m.
> > > > More of Jeff Kakobsteen's inane plagiarised jewbabble, gook?
> > > >
> > > > Does he really expect America's elites to live in hovels like yours?
> > > >
> > > > <b'rissed>
> > > Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
> > >Nazibabble is inane.
> > Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> > absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> > about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
> > > You are a Nazi.
> >
> > You are a gook.
> That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
Asiatic shitskin!
<inane repetition b'rissed>
Peeler
Jan 29, 2024, 11:52:41 AMJan 29
to
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:33:32 +0000, clinically insane, pedophilic, serbian
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>> Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
>
> Not that you can show, gook.
YOU keep showing your nazibabble yourself, every single day, you nazoid
laughing stock!
>> That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
>
> How the fuck CAN it be? I'm WHITE and you're a hideous slant eyed
> Asiatic shitskin!
That's easy: Anything would be better than being a miserable sexual cripple,
pedo swine and psychopath like you, pedophilic dreckserb Razovic! And you
KNOW it! LOL
bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
sexual cripple, making a total ass of herself as "Anita 'Annie' Shein is jew
paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum", farted again:
>> Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
>
> Not that you can show, gook.
laughing stock!
>> That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
>
> How the fuck CAN it be? I'm WHITE and you're a hideous slant eyed
> Asiatic shitskin!
pedo swine and psychopath like you, pedophilic dreckserb Razovic! And you
KNOW it! LOL
Michael Ejercito
Jan 29, 2024, 12:38:55 PMJan 29
to
On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 6:33:35 AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
Has anyone seen Topaz? Did he get caught stalking schoolgirls and
went to prison for violating his parole?
Skin color may be relevant to superficial characteristics like sex
appeal; it has no relevance to honor, decency, and integrity!
The following article explains your pathology.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/11/historys_oldest_hatred/
History's oldest hatred
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / March 11, 2009
Email|Print|Single Page||Text size – +
ANTI-SEMITISM is an ancient derangement, the oldest of hatreds, so
it is strange that it lacks a more meaningful name. The misnomer
"anti-Semitism" - a term coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm
Marr, who wanted a scientific-sounding euphemism for Judenhass, or
Jew-hatred - is particularly inane, since hostility to Jews has never
had anything to do with Semites or being Semitic.
Perhaps there is no good name for a virus as mutable as anti-Semitism.
"The Jews have been objects of hatred in pagan, religious, and secular
societies," write Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager in "Why the Jews?,"
their classic study of anti-Semitism. "Fascists have accused them of
being Communists, and Communists have branded them capitalists. Jews who
live in non-Jewish societies have been accused of having dual loyalties,
while Jews who live in the Jewish state have been condemned as
'racists.' Poor Jews are bullied, and rich Jews are resented. Jews have
been branded as both rootless cosmopolitans and ethnic chauvinists. Jews
who assimilate have been called a 'fifth column,' while those who stay
together spark hatred for remaining separate."
There was Jew-hatred before there was Christianity or Islam, before
Nazism or Communism, before Zionism or the Middle East conflict. This
week Jews celebrate the festival of Purim, gathering in synagogues to
read the biblical book of Esther. Set in ancient Persia, it tells of
Haman, a powerful royal adviser who is insulted when the Jewish sage
Mordechai refuses to bow down to him. Haman resolves to wipe out the
empire's Jews and makes the case for genocide in an appeal to the king:
"There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among . . . all the
provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of
other peoples, and the king's laws they do not keep, so it is of no
benefit for the king to tolerate them. If it please the king, let it be
written that they be destroyed."
When the king agrees, Haman makes plans "to annihilate, to kill and
destroy all the Jews, the young and the elderly, children and women, in
one day . . . and to take their property for plunder."
What drives such bloodlust? Haman's indictment accuses the Jews of
lacking national loyalty, of insinuating themselves throughout the
empire, of flouting the king's law. But the Jews of Persia had done
nothing to justify Haman's murderous anti-Semitism - just as Jews in
later ages did nothing that justified their persecution under the Church
or Islam, or their repression at the hands of Russian czars and Soviet
commissars, or their slaughter by Nazi Germany. When the president of
Iran today calls for the extirpation of the Jewish state, when firebombs
are hurled at synagogues in London and Paris and Chicago, it is not
because Jews deserve to be victimized.
Many Jews are no saints, but the paranoid frenzy that is anti-Semitism
is not explained by what Jews do, but by what they are. They are the
object of anti-Semitism, not its cause. That is why the haters'
rationales can be so wildly inconsistent and their agendas so
contradictory. What do those who vilify Jews as greedy bankers have in
common with those who revile them as fiendish Bolsheviks? Nothing, save
an irrational obsession with Jews.
At one point, Haman lets the mask slip. He boasts to his friends and
family of "the glory of his riches, and the great number of his sons,
and everything in which the king had promoted him and elevated him."
Still, he seethes with rage and frustration: "Yet all this is worthless
to me so long as I see Mordechai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
That is the unforgivable offense: "Mordechai the Jew" refuses to blend
in, to be just like everyone else. He goes on sitting there -
undigested, unassimilated, and therefore unbearable.
Of course Haman had his ostensible reasons for targeting Jews. So did
Hitler and Arafat, so does Ahmadinejad. Sometimes the anti-Semite
focuses on the Jew's religion, sometimes on his laws and lifestyle,
sometimes on his professional achievements. Under it all, however, it is
the Jew's Jewishness that the anti-Semite cannot abide.
With all their flaws and failings, the Jewish people endure, their role
in history not yet finished. So the world's oldest hatred endures too,
as obsessive and indestructible - and deadly - as ever.
jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:33:41 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:46:36?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
> > > >Nazibabble is inane.
> > > Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> > > absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> > > about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:33:41 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 11:46:36?AM UTC-8, Anita 'Annie' Shein is
> >jew paedophile BARRY SHEIN's dead circumcised jew mum wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:02:23 -0800, NOT Michael Ejercito
> > > <MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mangina, it is immoral for you to call me a gook, and your
> > > >Nazibabble is inane.
> > > Needledick, there is no 'Nazibabble', whatever that is. And it is
> > > absurd and ridiculous for a subhuman like you to screech/wail/howl
> > > about immorality when you are EXEMPT from morals.
> > Nithing, what you write is Nazibabble!
> Not that you can show, gook.
You keep writing Nazibabble over and over again, like Topaz did.
> Not that you can show, gook.
Has anyone seen Topaz? Did he get caught stalking schoolgirls and
went to prison for violating his parole?
> > > > You are a Nazi.
> > >
> > > You are a gook.
> > >
> > > You are a gook.
> > That would be better than being a Nazi nithing.
> How the fuck CAN it be? I'm WHITE and you're a hideous slant eyed
> Asiatic shitskin!
>
> <inane repetition b'rissed>
> How the fuck CAN it be? I'm WHITE and you're a hideous slant eyed
> Asiatic shitskin!
>
Skin color may be relevant to superficial characteristics like sex
appeal; it has no relevance to honor, decency, and integrity!
The following article explains your pathology.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/11/historys_oldest_hatred/
History's oldest hatred
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / March 11, 2009
Email|Print|Single Page||Text size – +
ANTI-SEMITISM is an ancient derangement, the oldest of hatreds, so
it is strange that it lacks a more meaningful name. The misnomer
"anti-Semitism" - a term coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm
Marr, who wanted a scientific-sounding euphemism for Judenhass, or
Jew-hatred - is particularly inane, since hostility to Jews has never
had anything to do with Semites or being Semitic.
Perhaps there is no good name for a virus as mutable as anti-Semitism.
"The Jews have been objects of hatred in pagan, religious, and secular
societies," write Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager in "Why the Jews?,"
their classic study of anti-Semitism. "Fascists have accused them of
being Communists, and Communists have branded them capitalists. Jews who
live in non-Jewish societies have been accused of having dual loyalties,
while Jews who live in the Jewish state have been condemned as
'racists.' Poor Jews are bullied, and rich Jews are resented. Jews have
been branded as both rootless cosmopolitans and ethnic chauvinists. Jews
who assimilate have been called a 'fifth column,' while those who stay
together spark hatred for remaining separate."
There was Jew-hatred before there was Christianity or Islam, before
Nazism or Communism, before Zionism or the Middle East conflict. This
week Jews celebrate the festival of Purim, gathering in synagogues to
read the biblical book of Esther. Set in ancient Persia, it tells of
Haman, a powerful royal adviser who is insulted when the Jewish sage
Mordechai refuses to bow down to him. Haman resolves to wipe out the
empire's Jews and makes the case for genocide in an appeal to the king:
"There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among . . . all the
provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of
other peoples, and the king's laws they do not keep, so it is of no
benefit for the king to tolerate them. If it please the king, let it be
written that they be destroyed."
When the king agrees, Haman makes plans "to annihilate, to kill and
destroy all the Jews, the young and the elderly, children and women, in
one day . . . and to take their property for plunder."
What drives such bloodlust? Haman's indictment accuses the Jews of
lacking national loyalty, of insinuating themselves throughout the
empire, of flouting the king's law. But the Jews of Persia had done
nothing to justify Haman's murderous anti-Semitism - just as Jews in
later ages did nothing that justified their persecution under the Church
or Islam, or their repression at the hands of Russian czars and Soviet
commissars, or their slaughter by Nazi Germany. When the president of
Iran today calls for the extirpation of the Jewish state, when firebombs
are hurled at synagogues in London and Paris and Chicago, it is not
because Jews deserve to be victimized.
Many Jews are no saints, but the paranoid frenzy that is anti-Semitism
is not explained by what Jews do, but by what they are. They are the
object of anti-Semitism, not its cause. That is why the haters'
rationales can be so wildly inconsistent and their agendas so
contradictory. What do those who vilify Jews as greedy bankers have in
common with those who revile them as fiendish Bolsheviks? Nothing, save
an irrational obsession with Jews.
At one point, Haman lets the mask slip. He boasts to his friends and
family of "the glory of his riches, and the great number of his sons,
and everything in which the king had promoted him and elevated him."
Still, he seethes with rage and frustration: "Yet all this is worthless
to me so long as I see Mordechai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
That is the unforgivable offense: "Mordechai the Jew" refuses to blend
in, to be just like everyone else. He goes on sitting there -
undigested, unassimilated, and therefore unbearable.
Of course Haman had his ostensible reasons for targeting Jews. So did
Hitler and Arafat, so does Ahmadinejad. Sometimes the anti-Semite
focuses on the Jew's religion, sometimes on his laws and lifestyle,
sometimes on his professional achievements. Under it all, however, it is
the Jew's Jewishness that the anti-Semite cannot abide.
With all their flaws and failings, the Jewish people endure, their role
in history not yet finished. So the world's oldest hatred endures too,
as obsessive and indestructible - and deadly - as ever.
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