Perfect: succinct and clear. It is ironic that Islamic elites use neo-Marxist victimhood tropes to divert attention away from critique of their own dysfunctional societies, and focus the rage of their underclass against Jews, Israel, or the West.
this is SUPERBLY written and stated. (I've been in U.S. graduate school academic circles (was grad student) and also have lived overseas, quite some time in the "Middle East".) Tremendously impressed by this to the point I will share it with my ex Professors. Now a huge fan.
So the contrast between a colonial relationship and a non-colonial relationship is like if it gives the "colony" a proper trade that allows them to reinvest in the country right?
Is this not also the posture of many Zionists who make excuses for Israel's brutality through a victim narrative, one so complete in its narcissism it cannot admit any other people has ever suffered a genocide or that Jews in the Middle East can learn from anyone else's experience? Was this same grievance ideology not the foundation of the original fascist regimes of the early 20th century? In fact I might argue that the failure of fascism to take root in the English speaking works during the Depression has less to do with anti-fascists holding the line at Cable Street or Smedley Butler heroically reporting the Business Plot to Congress, than the fact that Anglos at the time had little interest in narratives of their own victimization.
you yet another version of the gassiest windbag version of Islamic deflectionism 🙄 and Israel derangement syndrome 😆🤭😜🤫🧠🤏
Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.
This is exactly the sort of moral idiocy I keep pointing out. Me good, them bad. Good people. Bad people. Good people. Bad people. They’re Bad, Bad, Bad, therefore we Good people don’t owe them any responsibility.
Can I interest you in some relics that signify and glorify European irrationality
The crown of thorns
A piece of the cross
Blood of Christ
The nappies of the infant Jesus
Another piece of the cross
Blood from a picture of Christ
The chain
Sacred cloth inserted in a picture
Stone from the tomb
Milk of the Virgin Mary
The spear
A victorious cross (Titulus)
The purple mantle
The reed
The sponge
A part of Christ's shroud (sudarii)
The towel used to dry the Apostles' feet
Moses' rod
A part of John the Baptist's head
St. Blas' head
St. Clement's head
St. Simeon's head
My favorite that's not on the list was the bottled last breath of St Philip, and hear you are of that genealogy coming at Jews with a chip on your shoulder and a sense of superiority and knowledge yet you're an ignorant cunt
lmao, you think you can upset me by blaspheming Christianity? I’ve never been a Christian, I’ve rocked out to metal music with far more obscene blasphemies than you could ever come up with. And just like I’m not a Christian, I never said anything about Jews, but about ISRAEL, which is a state that more than half of the world’s Jews don’t even live in! The crybullying of Israel’s apologists grows ever shriller, but nobody gives a fuck anymore. We’ve heard it all before. Now that the Trump administration is destroying what’s left of America’s alliance and trade system, Israel is out of friends and out of options. America can’t protect them. The world has no sympathy for them, especially not Russia and China. Many of their best and most talented citizens are leaving for the west. If Israel does not come to some sort of modus vivendi with Levantine Muslims soon, it will go the way of Rhodesia.
I'm speculating but not certain that Morocco with its now exiled Jewish population found it easy to establish basic economic ties in trade for Israel turning a blind eye to Morocco's occupation of Sahara or whatever it is and some of the mistreatment of their Tuareg people, I'm uncertain of deets on that also. There islamist activist rate seems low compared to the other 23 Arab countries though I heard Mauritania has the highest terrorist recruitment worldwide and is not Arabic and I'm in Minnesota where the somalis have set the Nationwide record for terror arrests it's just a thing a feature not a bug of Islam
We need more analyses that tie ideologies to the unhealthy character traits they engender (resistance to self-examination and eternal victimhood in this case).
Palestinianism is anti-israel anti-jew anti-zionist framing themselves as the eternal victim of a war that they started over and over, the Arab cries out, the Jew hit me back, the Jews have been the victims and despite what some rabbis say that are completely Fringe and anti-zionist Zionism means that we're not waiting for God to create a Homeland and every inch of Israel is legitimate and the world wines endlessly and indulges the palestinianists in perpetuity with funding their perpetual fuckery to the amusement of all those who are pre-wired to be triggered by Jews and them having sovereignty in the nation of their own creation with complete and utter justification.
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Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.
Quick Question; "The Decolonial delusion" Why/How did you decide to write this piece? I never think of this things and I have never heard anyone talk about it.
"A culture that refuses to face itself cannot change. A politics built on deflection will eventually collapse." Sounds like government around the world.
Perfect: succinct and clear. It is ironic that Islamic elites use neo-Marxist victimhood tropes to divert attention away from critique of their own dysfunctional societies, and focus the rage of their underclass against Jews, Israel, or the West.
this is SUPERBLY written and stated. (I've been in U.S. graduate school academic circles (was grad student) and also have lived overseas, quite some time in the "Middle East".) Tremendously impressed by this to the point I will share it with my ex Professors. Now a huge fan.
You linked the woke dei culture of the west with the middle east in way i never thought of. And it makes so much sense. Beautiful.
This is deep, I am reading it for the 2nd time to make sure I wrap my head around the main concept.
Brilliant. Deep and original insight. Thank you.
One read, one new subscriber.
So the contrast between a colonial relationship and a non-colonial relationship is like if it gives the "colony" a proper trade that allows them to reinvest in the country right?
Is this not also the posture of many Zionists who make excuses for Israel's brutality through a victim narrative, one so complete in its narcissism it cannot admit any other people has ever suffered a genocide or that Jews in the Middle East can learn from anyone else's experience? Was this same grievance ideology not the foundation of the original fascist regimes of the early 20th century? In fact I might argue that the failure of fascism to take root in the English speaking works during the Depression has less to do with anti-fascists holding the line at Cable Street or Smedley Butler heroically reporting the Business Plot to Congress, than the fact that Anglos at the time had little interest in narratives of their own victimization.
you yet another version of the gassiest windbag version of Islamic deflectionism 🙄 and Israel derangement syndrome 😆🤭😜🤫🧠🤏
Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.
১১
Abe Greenwald
Executive Editor of Commentary Magazine
This is exactly the sort of moral idiocy I keep pointing out. Me good, them bad. Good people. Bad people. Good people. Bad people. They’re Bad, Bad, Bad, therefore we Good people don’t owe them any responsibility.
Can I interest you in some relics that signify and glorify European irrationality
The crown of thorns
A piece of the cross
Blood of Christ
The nappies of the infant Jesus
Another piece of the cross
Blood from a picture of Christ
The chain
Sacred cloth inserted in a picture
Stone from the tomb
Milk of the Virgin Mary
The spear
A victorious cross (Titulus)
The purple mantle
The reed
The sponge
A part of Christ's shroud (sudarii)
The towel used to dry the Apostles' feet
Moses' rod
A part of John the Baptist's head
St. Blas' head
St. Clement's head
St. Simeon's head
My favorite that's not on the list was the bottled last breath of St Philip, and hear you are of that genealogy coming at Jews with a chip on your shoulder and a sense of superiority and knowledge yet you're an ignorant cunt
lmao, you think you can upset me by blaspheming Christianity? I’ve never been a Christian, I’ve rocked out to metal music with far more obscene blasphemies than you could ever come up with. And just like I’m not a Christian, I never said anything about Jews, but about ISRAEL, which is a state that more than half of the world’s Jews don’t even live in! The crybullying of Israel’s apologists grows ever shriller, but nobody gives a fuck anymore. We’ve heard it all before. Now that the Trump administration is destroying what’s left of America’s alliance and trade system, Israel is out of friends and out of options. America can’t protect them. The world has no sympathy for them, especially not Russia and China. Many of their best and most talented citizens are leaving for the west. If Israel does not come to some sort of modus vivendi with Levantine Muslims soon, it will go the way of Rhodesia.
Is Morocco similar to the Gulf states and other Arab monarchies in refusing to adopt the decolonization ideology?
I'm speculating but not certain that Morocco with its now exiled Jewish population found it easy to establish basic economic ties in trade for Israel turning a blind eye to Morocco's occupation of Sahara or whatever it is and some of the mistreatment of their Tuareg people, I'm uncertain of deets on that also. There islamist activist rate seems low compared to the other 23 Arab countries though I heard Mauritania has the highest terrorist recruitment worldwide and is not Arabic and I'm in Minnesota where the somalis have set the Nationwide record for terror arrests it's just a thing a feature not a bug of Islam
We need more analyses that tie ideologies to the unhealthy character traits they engender (resistance to self-examination and eternal victimhood in this case).
Palestinianism is anti-israel anti-jew anti-zionist framing themselves as the eternal victim of a war that they started over and over, the Arab cries out, the Jew hit me back, the Jews have been the victims and despite what some rabbis say that are completely Fringe and anti-zionist Zionism means that we're not waiting for God to create a Homeland and every inch of Israel is legitimate and the world wines endlessly and indulges the palestinianists in perpetuity with funding their perpetual fuckery to the amusement of all those who are pre-wired to be triggered by Jews and them having sovereignty in the nation of their own creation with complete and utter justification.
66
Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.
১১
Abe Greenwald
Executive Editor of Commentary Magazine
Decolonisation theories fixate on the actions and agency of the western European colonial powers, particularly in centuries past.
https://1000yearview.substack.com/p/the-immoral-morality-play-of-settler
They play down, ignore, or outright deny the crimes by any other empires, even those of the present day.
https://maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/matryoshka-of-lies-imperial-innocence
https://daryazorka.substack.com/p/putins-war
https://efdavies.substack.com/p/the-russian-myth-of-the-soviet-creation
Quick Question; "The Decolonial delusion" Why/How did you decide to write this piece? I never think of this things and I have never heard anyone talk about it.
"A culture that refuses to face itself cannot change. A politics built on deflection will eventually collapse." Sounds like government around the world.