tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post111024876176446321..comments2023-06-14T09:10:27.097-04:00Comments on Gray Falcon: Playing the Anti-Semitic CardCubuCokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-1110989692313657042005-03-16T11:14:00.000-05:002005-03-16T11:14:00.000-05:00First off, let me thank Jared - whom I likewise re...First off, let me thank Jared - whom I likewise respect as a friend and colleague - for a detailed response. My reply will be much shorter, mostly because I agree with so many of Jared's points and therefore will not repeat them.<BR/>The ones I want to focus on are my "defense" of Obraz and "attack" on Jews for participating in victim politics.<BR/>I'm not defending the <I>position</I> of Obraz, which I actually disagree with, only their right to free speech without the censorship of IWPR Commissars. But the point of my answer was not whether Obraz was right or wrong to attack Zionists, but that IWPR was committing a drive-by smear of Obraz by equating "Zionist" and "Jew." Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews. I support the existence of Israel, so that makes me a Zionist. Yet - not Jewish. QED.<BR/>As for my "taking IWPR's bait" in regards to victim politics, I have to disagree, and strongly. Jared says that Jews are being victimized, and I agree with him entirely. But "victim politics" means using one's victimhood, real or perceived, to gain political favors and special treatment. <BR/>Aca Singer's comments about outlawing anti-Semitism are without a doubt an effort to criminalize speech and thought, and I cannot possibly ever agree with that.<BR/>Yes, Korac and other Jacobin quislings are accusing Serbs of having a "victim complex" and participating in "victim politics," but in addition to being wrong, they also don't oppose victim politics on principle. They see nothing wrong with shamelessly exploiting the Shoah or any other tragedy to advance their political goals. Surely one should oppose such perversion, if nothing for violating the victims all over again. The very worst instance of victim abuse I can think of in this particular context surely must be when the PR agencies in the service of Croatia and Bosnian Muslims pitched the fabrication of "Serb death camps" to American Jewish organizations, and <I>they</I> by and large took the bait, helping associate Serbs with Nazis even though the real, historical Nazi allies were precisely Croats and Muslims. Jared and Emperors-Clothes have done a lot of excellent work on this topic.<BR/>I never once said that IWPR was a competent judge of someone's anti-Semitism, or a legitimate voice of Jews, and I resent Jared's implication of that. What I tried to do is defend free speech and condemn IWPR's cheap smear tactics, duplicity and propaganda. If Jared thinks this is not "appropriate" somehow, I would kindly suggest that he writes an expose of IWPR himself. I'm sticking to mine.CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-1110566137006183822005-03-11T13:35:00.000-05:002005-03-11T13:35:00.000-05:00Хвала! Додуше, ја и нисам доводио у питање постоја...Хвала! Додуше, ја и нисам доводио у питање постојање самог списка, јер сам за њега чуо из новина и прије него што се појавио чланак IWPR. Моја критика је била упућена анонимним "коментаторима" које IWPR цитира. Оне који позивају на јавни линч Јевреја не морам ваљда да критикујем, њихово понашање је толико очигледно одвратно...CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.com