Stay up-to-date via RSS!

“Anti-Semite” is more polite, perhaps? I dunno, both are so offensive that I feel like if you’re gonna reach for the latter, kick it up an extra few notches and reach for the “H” word instead. We know you’re thinking it, anyway.

We just touched on Howard Dean’s brilliant commentary, but I’d like to bring you a much brighter shining beacon of hate from the right.

Amanda argued that we can’t be scared of opposing Israel’s actions because of the threat of an Anti-semitism charge. Here, I’ll quote you the same bit used by the right-wing blogger in question:

There was a bit of a dust-up on Punkass Marc’s post on how he thinks Ned Lamont is going to be politics-as-usual because of his refusal to criticize Israel openly for what seems to be obviously wrong, which is, of course, killing innocents with such a slim excuse. [...] The problem with that is when Israel does something so obviously odious as killing innocent civilians and holding them culpable for what an unsanctioned organization does, well, even just straightforward reporting is going to seem critical [...]
The problem is–if I’m free to say so without dredging up the operant conditioning debate–is that whenever the fear of having right wingers equate criticism of Israel with being an anti-Semite makes a liberal or even just a journalist engage in self-censorship, that emboldens the right and undermines our position. The short term gains (not getting deluded with email, avoiding the inevitable attempts of your opponent to ruin your reputation) are causing, or at least enabling, serious long term problems. And I would characterize this invasion as one of those problems.

I encourage any of you to find the anti-Semitism in that quote or in her entire post. Please. Point it out in the comments and I’ll streak the Texas capitol building.

That didn’t stop Darleen, someone whose open jealousy for Amanda manifests itself in nasty personal attacks, from titling her post:
Amanda Marcotte ‘fucking kikes are just RUINING my election party plans. Not like I hate kikes, really …’

Really, just savor the misdirected hate in that title.

Bask in the misrepresentation of everything Amanda discusses (even in the part Darleen quotes).

Best of all, indulge in the amazing way it proves her point: talking about Israel’s actions gets you slapped with nasty Anti-semitism charges, so we have to deal with it and fight through it or we’ll embolden them because their cruel tactic worked in shutting us up.

But this isn’t really about insulting, Amanda, is it? No, there’s a lot of hate and anger in this Darleen person, and it isn’t just directed at a certain Pandagonian. She couldn’t wait to break out Jewish slurs, and the title isn’t near the end of it. She also used the following phrases:
-”icky, you know, jewish stuff”
-”a’scared of dem nasty old Jooooos”
-”those fucking Jews”
-”Those fucking Jews” (again)
-”Lieberman (that kike sleaze)”

So, um, this Darleen person extensively quoted Amanda’s post, no part of which actually contains any racism or discrimination. And somewhere deep down, I think Darleen can see that. But she wrote this post anyway. And all those slurs. And then she attached them to her least favorite liberal genius so she could vent them.

Own your hatred and prejudice, Darleen. Don’t wuss out and pin it on others who’ve done nothing but advance the cause of tolerance. At the very least, you should avoid quoting someone so extensively that you prove they can’t possibly hold the hate in their heart that you do.