Ossian
December 15th, 2003, 12:57 PM
If you would be Politically Incorrect in the full (or perhaps fulsome) sense of the term then you have got to do the Big Thing which hardly anyone except a Full-Blooded Bigot will do, which is to bash Jews. Now Jew-bashing, of course, is a very old sport -- Martin Luther used to do it, even, and he's been dead for a couple of years, now. But since the defeat of Hitler and the arrival of Political Correctness, Jew-bashing has gone very much out of style, so that means that if you want to be a Full-Blooded Bigot you have simply got to bash Jews once in a while. But you have also got to be sophisticated, because doing things like calling them "Christ killers" and "parasites" just doesn't carry much weight any more -- most people are atheists nowadays (at least in the practical sense that they place their faith in technology rather than miracles); and most folks are sophisticated enough now to realize that "parasitism" is just the whine which jealous people emit when they see that Jews are richer than they are. So, if you want to engage in Jew-bashing, it is well to be sophisticated about it, and the ultimate in sophistication -- the Latest Model, you might say -- is Holocaust Revisionism.
Of course, as its proponents never cease to point out, Holocaust Revisionism is not and absolutely will never be Jew-bashing, which is literally true, except -- that the sounds you hear when you fire up the Revisionist machine are mostly the bloody squeals of Jews being involuntarily separated from their mythology, or perhaps just being gassed -- it's really tough to tell. I'll go out on a limb and admit that I like Jews. It is a vice, perhaps, but I just can't help myself. But I also like Jew-bashing, at least in its more sophisticated varieties, and not just because the Revisionists are right, which they surely are, but also because I get a kick out of shocking people, and there is just no better way to shock people than to bash Jews. I mean, let's face it -- Jews are the most intelligent, sophisticated, nicest and most beautiful people on earth, schnozzes not excepted (they were called "aquiline noses" and greatly admired in Roman times, and, hey, am I being illuminating with this kind of reference to Rome, or what?). And what's more, everybody knows it, including (and especially) the bigots. Which is exactly why bashing Jews shocks people so much -- they say, "Hey, when you've got such nice people, it is absolutely the worst possible manners to bash them. Blacks -- well, most of them are genuine low-lifes -- but Jews -- Jesus H Christ -- I mean, if the Jews want to have a Holocaust mythology, who the hell cares? We don't bash Primitive Baptists or Jehovah's Witnesses or Big City Methodists or any of the other Truly Weird People or their Totally Crazy Beliefs. So leave the Jews alone. And besides, I don't want to lose my job!"
So why bash Jews? Well, besides the shock value, it's like Mt Everest -- we want to climb it because it's there -- or, in the case of Jews, because they have shoved the "Holocaust" in our face and down our throats and up our tushies and dared us to challenge it, and in FACT -- most countries except America have actually made laws against challenging it.
Which means it is also a free-speech issue, as are similar politically-correct mandates forbidding "hate speech", "sexual harassment" and the like which have been implemented by liberals, which Jews mostly are. Or to put it another way, Jew-bashing of the sophisticated variety is not merely fun, but it actually has a point, which at least puts it one-up on the KKK and their similar ilk.
In spite of the 'liberal' assault on just about everything good, decent and right about America, all "respectable" folk are content to take a few potshots at liberals while babbling on and on about politics and politicians and the US Constitution. What these same folk ought to do, then, is to stop pu-syfooting around the shallows, and instead dive off the deep end into the Slough of Despondent Bigotry.
Or to put it another way, by pulling their punches and not hitting the liberal monster in its direct center -- namely, Jews -- these "respectable" folk are not only missing a great sport, but are also helping to throw a good many others off the target.
--John Bryant
Of course, as its proponents never cease to point out, Holocaust Revisionism is not and absolutely will never be Jew-bashing, which is literally true, except -- that the sounds you hear when you fire up the Revisionist machine are mostly the bloody squeals of Jews being involuntarily separated from their mythology, or perhaps just being gassed -- it's really tough to tell. I'll go out on a limb and admit that I like Jews. It is a vice, perhaps, but I just can't help myself. But I also like Jew-bashing, at least in its more sophisticated varieties, and not just because the Revisionists are right, which they surely are, but also because I get a kick out of shocking people, and there is just no better way to shock people than to bash Jews. I mean, let's face it -- Jews are the most intelligent, sophisticated, nicest and most beautiful people on earth, schnozzes not excepted (they were called "aquiline noses" and greatly admired in Roman times, and, hey, am I being illuminating with this kind of reference to Rome, or what?). And what's more, everybody knows it, including (and especially) the bigots. Which is exactly why bashing Jews shocks people so much -- they say, "Hey, when you've got such nice people, it is absolutely the worst possible manners to bash them. Blacks -- well, most of them are genuine low-lifes -- but Jews -- Jesus H Christ -- I mean, if the Jews want to have a Holocaust mythology, who the hell cares? We don't bash Primitive Baptists or Jehovah's Witnesses or Big City Methodists or any of the other Truly Weird People or their Totally Crazy Beliefs. So leave the Jews alone. And besides, I don't want to lose my job!"
So why bash Jews? Well, besides the shock value, it's like Mt Everest -- we want to climb it because it's there -- or, in the case of Jews, because they have shoved the "Holocaust" in our face and down our throats and up our tushies and dared us to challenge it, and in FACT -- most countries except America have actually made laws against challenging it.
Which means it is also a free-speech issue, as are similar politically-correct mandates forbidding "hate speech", "sexual harassment" and the like which have been implemented by liberals, which Jews mostly are. Or to put it another way, Jew-bashing of the sophisticated variety is not merely fun, but it actually has a point, which at least puts it one-up on the KKK and their similar ilk.
In spite of the 'liberal' assault on just about everything good, decent and right about America, all "respectable" folk are content to take a few potshots at liberals while babbling on and on about politics and politicians and the US Constitution. What these same folk ought to do, then, is to stop pu-syfooting around the shallows, and instead dive off the deep end into the Slough of Despondent Bigotry.
Or to put it another way, by pulling their punches and not hitting the liberal monster in its direct center -- namely, Jews -- these "respectable" folk are not only missing a great sport, but are also helping to throw a good many others off the target.
--John Bryant