"Lighter Politics" Humour

BTP-KennethWRoyce said:

Obviously it's antisemetic. The caricatures are deliberately degrading.
But is there any truth to the meme? Take the frame "Hollywood & TV", for example.
Then read L.A. Times Jewish columnist Joel Stein's 2008 piece "Who runs Hollywood? C'mon"

In my book I'll try to winnow out the truth from the frothing noise.

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I would be curious to know though, in your research have they ever (apart from Jews as the nation of Israel), acted as a unified body? I think that's the more important question. One none of the Islmaphobic people care to ask. It's so much easier to just lump a group of people together and hate them collectively.

DonPablo said:

I would be curious to know though, in your research have they ever (apart from Jews as the nation of Israel), acted as a unified body? I think that's the more important question. One none of the Islmaphobic people care to ask. It's so much easier to just lump a group of people together and hate them collectively.

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This is something I'll address in the chapter, and it's a valid question.

What is difficult to pin down is when do the goals and actions of some members of a discernible people, which are supported (or, at least, not countered by) the rest of that group, become nearly indistinguishable from that of an actual unified body?

Unification has many forms, the rarest of which is overt high-% membership in some group.
Not to be minimized are the common interests of a people which coalesce into real-world strategies and events. For example, only a minority of Muslims in Western countries explicitly rally for Sharia law...yet, those same Muslims never seem to protest its growth, either. Similarly, although "not every Muslim is radical jihadist" I don't see Muslim communities rounding up the jihadists in their midst and turning them in.

Thus, the "they're not acting as a unified body" rationale goes only so far. "They" don't have to act as a unified body. Generational consensus (coupled with relentless political activism/lobbying by a few) is nearly as effective to accomplish their broadly held goals.

"It's so much easier to just lump a group of people together and hate them collectively." Absolutely, and I am striving mightily in my book to hinder a modern rehabilitation of Hitler and Nazism, not fuel it. I've always found Hitler's whole-cloth blaming "the Jews" for all of Germany's woes to be shallow rabble-rousing. And, disingenuous, as his 1922 interview to journalist Josef Hell illustrates:

It is manifestly clear and has been proven in practice and by the facts of all revolutions that a struggle for ideals, for improvements of any kind whatsoever, absolutely must be supplemented with a struggle
against some social class or caste.

My object is to create first-rate revolutionary upheavals, regardless of what methods and means I have to use in the process. Earlier revolutions were directed either against the peasants, or the nobility and the clergy, or against dynasties and their network of vassals, but in no case has revolution succeeded without the presence of a lightning rod that could conduct and channel the odium of the general masses.

With this very thing in mind I scanned the revolutionary events of history and put the question to myself against which racial element in Germany can I unleash my propaganda of hate with the greatest prospects of success? I had to find the right kind of victim, and especially one against whom the struggle would make sense, materially speaking. I can assure you that I examined every possible and thinkable solution to this problem, and, weighing every imaginable factor, I came to the conclusion that a campaign against the Jews would be as popular as it would be successful.

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This was confirmed by his 1910 Vienna shelter friend Reinhold Hanisch:

In those days (of 1910) Hitler was by no means a Jew hater. He became one afterward. He used to say even then that the end sanctions the means, and so he incorporated anti-Semitism into his program as a powerful slogan. ...[H]e didn’t care much about anti-Semitism.

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Hitler was a deeply flawed and genetically compromised man, of towering narcissism and grandiosity. He was a homeless street person, both in history and at heart, lazy and vindictive. His Mein Kampf was the seething manifesto of a mass-shooter who committed suicide when finally cornered. Had Hitler "merely" removed the "Jewish plutocrats" from power and position, creating a new Germany as an experiment for the world to judge, that'd have been one thing. However, his vast genocide embracing even the children of harmless Latvian tailors was a result of his natural hatred and resentment at the world.

I'll dismantle the popular "stab in the back by the November 1918 criminals" theory, etc.

I'll also analyze why Jews have been so negatively stereotyped throughout history, and why such has recently flared up again (largely due to the IDF response to Hamas in Gaza).

I agree with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the definition of antisemitism:

First let me define antisemitism. Not liking Jews is not antisemitism. We all have people we don’t like. ...Second, criticising Israel is not antisemitism.
Antisemitism means denying the right of Jews to exist collectively as Jews with the same rights as everyone else. ...It takes different forms but it remains the same thing: the view that Jews have no right to exist as free and equal human beings.
— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 9/2016, to the European Parliament

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I'll explain the difference between neutral asemitism (e.g., Cornell student Austin Franco's reply) and actual antisemitism. Jews today could stop giving their foes such easy ammunition against them. To have doxxed Franco and then sympathy toured the media was the worst thing the Einhorn brothers could have done. It confirmed nearly every antisemitic trope. The world's highest IQ breeding group should have known better than to tumble into this public image disaster.

It's called "whistling past the graveyard".

JOHN GRENZ said:

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There you go with facts again. Don’t you know its all about how it makes you feel.