Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question.
But it’s the why that is so interesting:
The lack of a coherent legal conception of Jewish identity has rendered the Office for Civil Rights (henceforth, OCR) unable to cope with a resurgence of anti–Semitic incidents on American college campuses, of which the Irvine situation is enragingly emblematic. The problem stems from the fact that federal agents have jurisdiction under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act over race and national-origin discrimination—but not over religion. And because they have been unable to determine whether Jewish Americans constitute a race or a national-origin group, they found themselves unable to address the anti-Semitism […]
Race (as it has been traditionally used in this country) is a fictional construct. But that doesn’t make racism any less real.
If the only way forward, as a way to fix the problem of prosecutory discretion, is to view Jews as a race, federal agents should just go ahead and do so. After all, Hitler did. And so do many of those who still desire to put all of “them” in ovens.
(thanks to Carin)
Gee, I wonder what would happen if Moslems (or Muslims, depending) were similarly attacked?
No, I don’t, not really.
When this kind of shit starts happening, keep a look out for the modern-day brownshirts. They’re just around the corner, waiting in the shadows to see if enough people of good conscience exist to shut them down. If not, we’ll have ourselves a war again.
Jews are a genetically identifiable ethnic group rather than a “race.” Decendants of at minimum Jacob/Israel and usually of Judah.
Methinks that the people who are prone to chuck Jews in ovens aren’t terribly particular about whether any particular Jew is down with the “Jewish project” or if they’re anti-Israel or whatnot.
But who knows? If American proggs are doing it, maybe they will single out those who can’t show a long line of anti-Zionist bona fides (read: non-leftists) and toss in a few pro-Israel Christians for good measure.
Don’t forget the mental defectives, useless eaters and Gypsies.
They’re working on the two former with all the euthanasia and the abortions. As to the latter, when was the last time Ron Wood had a decent solo record out?
was the Civil Rights Act written on purpose to exclude protection of Jews?
We Dutch are the canaries in civilization’s coalmine.
No, that’s not it either…
By the way, any of you note the intentionalist argument used by the Marcus?
Okay. Someone in the White House is thin skinned. I am guessing payback for Michael Savage being banned from the UK. Triangulation!
BTW Jeff, Rush mentioned today that the problem with Republicans is they try to be too reasonable. And they allow the left to define what reasonable is.
Where have I heard that before?
#7 – You mean this one?
That decision—in the case of Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb—held that Jews are a “race” within the meaning of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, because Congress had, at the time of the 1866 Act’s passage, considered Jews a racial group.
This is just depressing.
Identity groupists.
You. Bet.
Because when a government of any stripe over, say, the last 3,000 years gets around to “classifying” Jews, well…that always ended up great.
Yes. Yes, let’s go with that. Classify the shit out of ’em.
Up is down. Black is white. This is Ministry of Truth worthy stuff.
Once you abandon rationality for a world dominated by will, truth becomes whatever forwards the
cause/cult for today.Mohammed the ProphetGuy and his contemporary chroniclers didn’t have a circa 1830 concept of “race” to lean on when they spoke or penned Hamas’s oft cited * the rocks and trees will expose them, calling out “there is a Jew behind me, kill him!” *
But then rocks and trees must know stuff compared to Government worker drones.
Talking, genocidal rocks & trees? In a desert? I think Mohamed (Psilocybin Be Upon Him) was trippin’.
LYBD,
That would be one explanation for the flight on Burak too.
Perhaps our own “flight on Barack” also?
Nah, bad trip, cut with belladonna.
If your goal is to destroy free-market capitalism, your first step has to be to destroy the über-capitalists, whom everyone knows are all JOOOOOOOOZ.
Racism indeed: History has been whitewashed to make it seem as if Hitler merely had problems with an ethnic group and projected it into his Grander Delusion, but if you read other Socialists, you’ll see that they also identified JOOOOOOOZ as the embodiment of Them As Gots To GO.
As with eugenics, Hitler merely took what was already in the air and brought it to its logical conclusion for all to see: we root out the Jews because of their filthy capitalism, not because they just happen to be different.
Does today’s Left see the JOOOOOOOZ as anything other than the Embodiment Of Western Evil?
How depressingly predictable. People say that the Left and Imperial Islam hold common cause because both hates them some America, but you can’t leave out the Jew-hatred from the equation. Imperial Islam is no more congenial to capitalism than the Left is, and they figure that after they’ve put the rest of us down, they can fight out whether the Atheist Left or the Fanatical Muslims will be running the show.
Too bad none of us will be around for the popcorn.
I thought this was interesting:
That “slaughter to the jews” stuff? Merely one protesting against the jewish political position regarding Israel.
But, opposing Obamacare? Racism straight up.
That would be one explanation for the flight on Burak too.
Must have been some bad shit cause that nasty “she-burro” has got nothing on Pegasus.
Least the Greeks had imagination.
Love announced that “although offensive to the Jewish students, the . . . events at issue were not based on the national origin of the Jewish students, but rather based on opposition to the policies of Israel.” For this reason, Love concluded, “these incidents, therefore, were not within OCR’s subject matter jurisdiction.”
His head should have immediately assploded.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda, JD.
Carin – That new tv show Detroit 187 looks good.
So the failure of a coherent legal concept of a Jewish identity means that we have to accept your fictional construct means that we slide the Jews under the door? Try again, and get behind the Mexicans.
Don’t forget my fellow droogs, that Jews are fairly affluent, uniformly white, identified with two unambiguously proud Western oriented nation states that have a defined, frequently traditionalist religous identity. If that poopwich wasn’t enough, consider that in movement progressive hierachy, consideration is only afforded those who “lose.” In other words, the nation states that fail–or should fail–are given preferrential treatment.
Even if that means getting behind the old-timey murder-state that was the USSR, the modern Iran, the Palestinian necromancic death cult….
Here’s a definition for those university administration poltroons: When sh!t like that is happening on American campuses, especially when instigated by Muslims, we are all Jews.
Poltroons. I like saying that word. Makes me feel all Mencken-y inside.
cynn is into the box wine again.
JD: And you’re just into the box.
This one?
Or this one?
It is also amazing the number of people who think Hispanic is a race.
Everybody, I would like to introduce you to Ines Sainz.
Everybody, I would like to introduce you to Ines Sainz.
Do it again. Do it again!!!
LYBD – Ask, and you shall receive
Ended up watching Tony Bourdain’s Madrid visit tonight and great as the jamon looked it’s hard to say it was any better than that one . . .
she has a shape
Sigh…
Thank you.
Or four
Thank you, google images.
I swear, this is the last one … my personal favorite.
Fucking soccer players…
Really?
I could understand if she was with one of the wealthier hooligans, or one of those rugby dudes… but a soccer player?
The rest of the world is just plain wrong.
All of it.
There are many things wrong with this world, LYBD, but what you just described is clearly one of the most egregious.
Criminally egregious.
#41 – Having played two decades of rugby, I am firmly in favor of your position on hot women and rugby dudes…
Honestly, I think cynn got into the wormwood liquor. Or the wood alcohol.
Absinthe, perhaps?
This is how I always picture cynn …
Let’s see her without her
clothesmake-up. I’m hoping she doesn’t really need it.Oh gawd! Someone pass the brain bleach!
I hate you all with your fancy comments.
Thomas Sowell parses “Social Justice.” It’s not that it’s a great article, but the subject is right up jeff’s alley.
#49 – I suppose that next time I hear someone use that phrase (in an unironic way) I will immediately ask them to define it…
That would be entertaining. I hear the phrase more and more. I heard it just the other day.
LTC John, it means “give me power so I can beat up on people.” See how many of them get it right.
Regards,
Ric
Forgive the presumption Ric, but I think what it means is “give me power so I can beat up on people for their own good.”
Spare the rod, spoil the populace.
Sheez, youse guys like that clothes-hanger? Woman looks like she has six elbows and all of them akimbo.
I really didn’t notice that she had elbows.
Ernst, “…for their own good” is a justification, not the core demand.
Regards,
Ric
Baby’s got back. No brains, but lotsa back.
Can’t have everything, I suppose.
Baby got back? Baby got baby and husband, too. She’s also a futbol sideline reporter… a Mexican Erin Andrews?
Erin Andrew, I lurv, but she is so far out of Senorita Sainz’ league that it makes any comparison laughable. It would be like comparing the South Bend SilverHawks to the New York Yankees.
Oh, and Senorita Sainz is the Yankees in that poorly constructed comment.
Why are most of the comments not addressed to the anti-Jewish bigotry on campus? There is something wrong with the comments section in this blog.
Is it thus you would correct what you see as a failure Mean Joe, by not addressing your comment to the antisemitism on campus?
someone should explain to mean joe about the shape
Saliva mixed with certain milk proteins can make a spectacularly droopy gel-like semi liquid. I’ve seen it done.
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cause the ‘shape’ bedazzled us all
omg, it’s full of but-implants !!
According to DNA Jews are a race. For most of them there are identifying markers. Similar to but different from Middle Eastern markers. This is true of Jews of European origin as well as the Jews of the Middle East – most of whom were ethnically cleansed from their countries of origin.
M Simon, you are sadly mistaken.
1st, examine the definition and shape of a normal curve. 2nd realize that all human genetic markers and their phenotypes (physical expressions) form normal curves. 3rd ponder the fact that deciding where to “split” one “group” from another on a normal curve is completely arbitrary.
The conclusion of the above is that Obama is probably greater than 50% white and less than 50% black and yet gets called black. This is illogical, just as your comment is. Segregating humans by race, ethnicity, religion is arbitrary, illogical, capricious and the result of someone with an axe to grind. On the other hand, you might be 100% stupid; it’s a conclusion I am willing to consider.