5.10.04

In a poor attempt to keep moi blog short, and hopefully, sweet, i have decided not to say wat me poor and miserable life had been, and jump straight into the point of the day, which happens to be, WHY DO WE HATE JEWS? And surprisingly, if u do a search, there are quite a number of articles written on this subject. And i lift the whole passage from here.

Prejudice, it seems, is a standard fare of life. In his folksong entitled "National Brotherhood Week," Tom Lehrer sings:

Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics,
and the Catholics hate the Protestants,
and the Hindus hate the Moslems
and everybody hates the Jews.

(banedon's notes: Hmmm if u really hum it, it really rhymes. I love it man. But they should add, "With the atheist hating them all".)

In this song Lehrer expresses a truism, that hatred for the Jew is uniquely commonplace. The question is: Why?

What lies behind these millennia of hatred? Why has the undercurrent of anti-Semitism bubbled and boiled and exploded against Jews everywhere, time and again throughout history?

Historians propose six possible reasons.

It has been said that the history of almost all of the Jewish holidays can be summed up succinctly: "They wanted to kill us; we won. Let's eat." With increasing anti-Semitism -- in Europe, the World Court attack on Israel, in the movie theaters -- it is a good time to look at the causes of anti-Semitism and what we can do about it.

Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE a period of 1,700 years Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various countries in Europe an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries.

Historians have classified six explanations as to why people hate the Jews:

Economic -- "We hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power."

Chosen People -- "We hate Jews because they arrogantly claim that they are the chosen people."

Scapegoat -- "Jews are a convenient group to single out and blame for our troubles."

Deicide -- "We hate Jews because they killed Jesus."

Outsiders -- "We hate Jews because they are different than us." (The dislike of the unlike.)

Racial Theory -- "We hate Jews because they are an inferior race."



As we examine the explanations, we must ask -- Are they the causes for anti-Semitism or excuses for Anti-Semitism? The difference? If one takes away the cause, then anti-Semitism should no longer exist. If one can show a contradiction to the explanation, it demonstrates that the "cause" is not a reason, it is just an excuse. Let's look at some contradictions:

Economic -- The Jews of 17th- 20th century Poland and Russia were dirt poor, had no influence and yet they were hated.

Chosen People -- a) In the late 19th century, the Jews of Germany denied "Choseness." And then they worked on assimilation. Yet, the holocaust started there. b) Christians and Moslems profess to being the "Chosen people," yet, the world and the anti-Semites tolerate them.

Scapegoat -- Any group must already be hated to be an effective scapegoat. The Scapegoat Theory does not then cause anti-Semitism. Rather, anti-Semitism is what makes the Jews a convenient scapegoat target. Hitler's rantings and ravings would not be taken seriously if he said, "It's the bicycle riders and the midgets who are destroying our society."

Deicide -- a) the Christian Bible says the Romans killed Jesus, though Jews are mentioned as accomplices (claims that Jews killed Jesus came several hundred years later). Why are the accomplices persecuted and there isn't an anti-Roman movement throughout history? b) Jesus himself said, "Forgive them [i.e., the Jews], for they know not what they do." The Second Vatican Council in 1963 officially exonerated the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Neither statement of Christian belief lessened anti-Semitism.

Outsiders -- With the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, many Jews rushed to assimilate. Anti-Semitism should have stopped. Instead, for example, with the Nazis came the cry, in essence: "We hate you, not because you're different, but because you're trying to become like us! We cannot allow you to infect the Aryan race with your inferior genes."

Racial Theory -- The overriding problem with this theory is that it is self-contradictory: Jews are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew and members of every race, creed and color in the world have done so at one time or another.

Every other hated group is hated for a relatively defined reason. We Jews, however, are hated in paradoxes: Jews are hated for being a lazy and inferior race but also for dominating the economy and taking over the world. We are hated for stubbornly maintaining our separateness and, when we do assimilate for posing a threat to racial purity through intermarriages. We are seen as pacifists and as warmongers; as capitalist exploiters and as revolutionary communists; possessed of a Chosen-People mentality, as well as of an inferiority complex. It seems that we just can't win.

And so u have it, frm me, that it is all in their faces and maybe the star of david but anyway, i dont hate them. I hate protestant more. And i am not a catholic, if u r wondering. Why protestant? Why the hell would they go around and "muscle" ppl into their faith? WHY? And why are pretty(and dumb) girls fall so easily into it? If i have no backbone and not as sturborn as now, i would join city haverst(a protestant) and woo all the pretty ones there. And of course, screw them along the way. Damn, makes me wanna join... Cheaper than escorts and cleaner than prostitute, and of course, u got the kick of wooing someone.

And if there happen to have protestant reading this, just be reminded, dont flame me, dont stalk me, dont kill me, u will be comforted that i will burn in hell after i am dead. But hey, "GET OUT OF HELL FREE!!!". It simply dont exist. Period.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the Jews were called a chosen people it was not that they were consideered (or consider themselves) elite but that god, so it is said n the Old Testament, choose them to spread the word of monotheism.

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