…that the loathsome Whoopi Goldberg had said the Holocaust wasn’t about racism, I thought it was bad.
Hearing what she actually said?
‘When you talk about being a racist, you can’t call this racism,’ she said. ‘This was evil. This wasn’t based on skin. You couldn’t tell who was Jewish. You had to delve deeply and figure it out. My point is: they had to do the work.
‘When you talk about being a racist, you can’t call this racism,’ she said. ‘This was evil. This wasn’t based on skin. You couldn’t tell who was Jewish. You had to delve deeply and figure it out. My point is: they had to do the work.
“The Jews all look the same to me”.
Even worse.
It fits snugly into the left’s current notion that racism is a uniquely American phenomenon that has always driven everything about the American experiment.
Which is becoming accepted as gospel.
There is a book by Hillaire Belloc, written in the 1920s, called The Jews. I doubt if it is in print these days. Don’t know if you have heard of Belloc. He was an Anglo-French literary genius who is sometimes described as a Catholic chauvinist. In The Jews he makes the case that Jews were not, and never could be, European. He did not believe that you could be both a Jew and a citizen of a European nation. He came just short of calling for the banishment of Jews from Europe, possibly as a first step towards undoing the Reformation.
I thought I was a genius when I realized that Spielberg had named Belloc, the evil archeologist from Indiana Jones, after Hillaire Belloc, but a quick web search showed that this idea was already out there.
Ha! I have a 2nd edition of that book, MP. I was alerted to him many years ago, while studying the Communist revolution in Russia.
Belloc was a man ahead of his time, and treated the subject with great clarity and without the vitriol prevalent in his time.
BTW, Belloc thought assimilation was not possible, but he rejected expulsion.