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House Rules

Joe Doakes formerly of Como Park emails:

 

 Scott Johnson has another post on Powerline demanding Republicans purge themselves of everyone insufficiently enthusiastic about Jews in general and Israel in specific.

 This is one more instance of playing the guilt card. America didn’t do enough to save the Jews from Nazis and therefore we are forever obligated to give them special consideration. 

 That was 80 years ago. I wasn’t even born yet, and neither were my kids or my grandkids.   None of us bear personal responsibility for the evils of Hitler any more than we owe reparations for those of Simon Legree.  Guilt card won’t work with people who don’t feel guilty about wrongs they didn’t commit.

 Why am I complaining about it to Mitch instead of posting on Powerline? Because I’m under a lifetime ban for pointing out the hypocrisy of demanding commenters post under their real names when Hindrocket, Deacon and The Big Trunk used pseudonyms until they retired and no longer had to fear being canceled.

Joe Doakes

 

First – “insufficiently enthusiastic”?  Or actively antisemitic, and ambivalent about the existence of the Jewish State?   You gotta admit there’s a wide range, even on this blog.  

As to the “real names” bit – that always confused me.  Literally everyone knew John, Scott and Paul’s real names by mid-2003.  They used their real names on the air in 2004 (not to mention on countless media appearances back into the ’90s.  

And of course, people certainly tried to cancel them.  I know if I could go back and pick a pen name, I would have.   

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  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I agree with Mitch’s First paragraph.

    I would also add that there are (leftist, I think) Jewish organizations like the ADL (and that detestable Jonathan Greenblatt) who very much act anti-white and indeed, even anti-American. They are pretty much the entry point for many who eventually become full bore antisemites.

    There are also a whole bunch of Jewish extremist settlers in Israel who go out of their way to antagonize their neighboring Muslims, Christians, and Druze. I can still remember during the week before the Oct 7 attack that there was an article written about how these extremists were going through the streets spitting on Christians who were visiting the Holy Land. Israel, for domestic political reasons, won’t come down as hard on these as they should.

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