Oy Vey-tican!
I have been reading a lot of antisemitic stuff for one reason or another (mainly because I've been thinking about the "new antisemitism" some accuse the left of indulging in). In some places, the far right intersects with the conspiracy world -- a haunt of mine from time to time -- and it's no big surprise to find the 9/11 was done by Jews "theory" exploited by the far right. (The leftist version has Mossad involved for reasons of creating an attack on Iraq, a nation of concern to Israel or variations on that idea; another version has it as an insurance scam created by a Jewish businessman with connections to prominent Jews in the administration. The far right simply believe it's one more manifestation of the Vast Jewish Conspiracy to take over the world and force us all to eat bagels.)These people interlink and reinforce each other. Some are hubs for this bullshit, but others are just outliers. The hubs are echoed over and over in a vast chamber of nutters. Sadly, the echoes sometimes spill over into more reasonable discourse. This is a real worry for people of goodwill and what makes it doubly so is that the left is not at all worried!
Even by their standards -- if I can abuse that word; we are talking about people who genuinely believe Jews ritually murder Christian babies and invented the prochoice movement so that they could indulge -- Eric Hufschmid would have to be considered a bit loopy. He does though answer the age-old question: Is the Pope Catholic?
His answer? No.
posted by Dr Zen @ 3:15 pm
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