Is this anti-semitism?

does he call her a nazi groupie?

I didn't get this far but max otm

One thing the new evidence has done is re-enforce a perception I’ve had that Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” description of Eichmann—the concept of “banality of evil” itself—is now looking ever more foolish. I’ve argued that Arendt arrogantly and ignorantly bought into Eichmann’s defense that he was “just following orders” in a way that absolved him from the “radical evil” that she, Arendt, once believed in.

A little more info about the jewish mouth stapling bizarro crime above:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2019017260_apuscollegestudentattacked.html

tbh i instantly check out when a writer feels the need to remind us that he's 'already argued' something in the past.

xpWhich if you listen to the police basically = kid got beat up for some nonsense and then made up ridiculous anti-semitic fantasy which his parents are now running with...

way to not get it, ron

I’ve argued that Arendt arrogantly and ignorantly bought into Eichmann’s defense

no, fuck you

he had a long terrible thing last year about arendt that was similarly and more insistently wrong, i mean almost a complete misreading

Hannah Arendt: too nuanced, insufficiently vengeful

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2012/08/_holocaust_obsessed_it_s_the_new_anti_semitic_slur_.html

― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:16 (1 hour ago) Permalink

this article is complete crap and I couldn't finish it

kid got beat up for some nonsense and then made up ridiculous anti-semitic fantasy which his parents are now running with...

this was my suspicion tbh. getting yr mouth stapled shut is such a WTF method of assault there was no way that was real

xp lol i haven't even read it yet

I really think there might be a little more to what Arendt meant by "the banality of evil" than Rosenbaum is giving credit for

Nope that's it, that's why she's arrogant and ignorant, right?

there's the whole sleeping w/ a nazi thing too

(nb i really like arendt's writing and i mean any digs itt in jest)

if you HAD to pick one nazi to bone...

iirc the last rosenbaum column on arendt leaned really heavily on her relationship w/ heidegger as a reason to dismiss her

while we're chatting about arendt, this is my fave book of hers

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K59C6E96L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

also, since it is the anti-semitism thread, i've never read origins of totalitarianism but i've always been curious about

http://bks3.books.google.com/books?id=-zjXRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&imgtk=AFLRE711ebuQ2-0G-kc8srAtXPbzm0J-vGmxnPiGtuLSbwG66EsEoptaUo2FsT2h8O5ick72K19iTd1YFBkA8K3FdMtrFMoweFbHE4g0BJebEVvqSGpWDTn8ulbNPk-Y1Tp_my_yHj_f

every rosenbaum article reads exactly like this one. pissy, long, and full of pompous references to himself and how smart he is.

http://m.forward.com/articles/162511

I would answer in the affirmative, in regards to the thread title.

ok, just checking

i know we've got a thread for circumcision somewhere (or did we discuss those bizarro anti-circumcision comics here?): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/world/europe/circumcision-debate-in-europe-reflects-deeper-tensions.html

ppl obsessed w/ banning circumcision are among humanity's greatest weirdos imho.

unrelated to the Germany ban, but i have a Jewish media colleague who is obsessed w/ preventing male circumcision (i think bc he feels sexually deficient, maybe, due to his own?) - he is also very active in the 'men rights' movement. i think they're connected!

that's definitely a type, but i know plenty of liberal women who are against it too on secular individualist grounds. giles fraser, ex-canon @ st paul's, got a roasting after his article decrying the german court ruling against child circumcision; feels like the euro left is not keen on it in general

(or did we discuss those bizarro anti-circumcision comics here?):

Is this anti-semitism?

fwiw that german judge's ruling got basically no coverage in germany. i think he's kind of the equivalent of that birther sheriff in arizona, i.e. kinda lol, kinda sad. only a concern in a "poisoning the well" sense, not a practical one.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083174/Dubai-gym-slammed-using-Nazi-death-camp-Auschwitz-promote-weight-loss.html

arbeit macht sw0le

almost as strange as the thought that someone actually thought that ad was a good idea is that there are people who that concept actually appeals to. Massochists, I guess?

Anger: The Circuit Factory in Dubai sparked outrage with this insensitive advert using Auschwitz, where millions of Jews were starved or gassed to death, to promote weight loss

^ helpful and informative appositive phrase, tyvm daily mail

At least there were commas.

respect

Occupy Wall Street just posted this on their Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=434443503290296&set=a.217603604974288.57691.217514361649879&type=1&relevant_count=1

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/530806_434443503290296_172246698_n.jpg

leaning yes on this one

arguable

jesus christ

poor Romeny

i argued from the beginning of OWS that it wasn't anti-semitic and that any anti-semitism came from ppl that did not speak for the entire movement - that some anti-semitism was a consequence of having such a non-hierarchical organizational structure and that we should tolerate the few crazies bc the greater purpose is important.

and actually caught flack in my community bc of that argument!

well it's not surprising that you would catch flak from your community for that comment tbh

flak*, thx. and not surprising but i went out on a limb for OWS, so this kind of thing makes me feel like a - idk - useful idiot.

friend of mine on fb:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2dj0y11.png

yeah was gonna say, this is the "real" OWS page https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

I'm relieved that it's not an official OWS account, but I remember seeing anti-semitic messages in the mix at Occupy London. It's always been there on the fringes - an inevitable side-effect of a broad-based, non-hierarchical movement.

I guess that's supposed to be the dome of the rock mosque? Reference to status of Jerusalem?

ohh it is. i thought it was the US capitol!

i can't figure out if its ironic for me to be Gargamel for halloween since he was basically "a Jew"

ha