Anti-semitism at the DailyKos....
One of their diarists resigns...
But instead of handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving for votes the dozens of commentators on the DailyKos are driven by ideological passion and then some. And anti-Semitism is a significant source of that zeal.
Don't take my word for it. Ask Eyal Rosenberg who resigned as a diarist for the DailyKos on May 9 after in his words "all the Israel Hate spewing out of one too many diaries around here." As he wrote in his last post: "with this last post: Reading these past months on dkos has led me to believe that people here, under the 'progressive' banner, support views that end up in one place: Me dead."Mr. Rosenberg is not the only one they want to kill. Recently, a DailyKos diarist suggested "gassing Joe Lieberman like a dog." This exchange followed:
"I know you didn't mean it that way, but a reference to gassing a Jew needs to be hidden."I hope you will join me in asking that this comment be hidden and that there will not be a pile on. I will find some other comments of yours and uprate to make up for this."
Jew gassing is something to be hidden or uprated (whatever that means) but nothing to be ashamed of at the DailyKos.Mr. Rosenberg notes, contradicting Clinton spinmeister Wolfson, that the anti-Semitic attacks are not "isolated." In his brief time as a diarist (several months), he counted 5,000 Israel or Jewish references in the DailyKos. That's about 23 posts on Jews or Israel a day, most negative.
This past spring, during Passover, one of the site's diarists, a Belgian graphic artist, posted an image that morphs the face of Israel's minister of strategic affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, with that of Adolf Hitler's shown holding a skull painted with a Star of David, under the caption "Zionism was and remains a racist ideology."
Similarly, I found several posts from this year alone calling Jews "Zionazis" as in "anyone who in any way tells the truth or criticizes Jews is accused of anti-Semitism by the Zionazi lobby" or "I don't really care what those clueless fools in the Zionazi ADL yap about — their whole existence is to defend Israel rather than protecting against defamation as their name would proclaim" or my favorite "Zionanzis seems to believe that people should be forced to listen to that yapping idiot Horowitz — why ?? because he spews that BS calim [sic] that Jews are supposedly special?"
posted by GayandRight @ 1:34 PM
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When you stop to think that the Nazis form part of the socialist political continuum rather than the fascist one, this is hardly surprising. Add to that the fact that the political left is generally stuck in perpetual adolescence, it's hardly surprising that such childishly despicable behaviour not only occurs, but is applauded by the other children.
One must remember the old adage that a socialist is a conservative who has not yet had a taste of real life.
Caveman, there was nothing socialist about the Nazis, regardless of having the word in the title or not..
In fact, it was the very tendency of Ernst Röhm to believe in the idea of a socialist state (with the SA replacing the armed forces with paramilitary civilians) which led to his and (300+) others in the night of the long knives..
This fatal belief in the socialist ideal also led to the ascendancy of the SS under Himmler and Heydrich, and solidified the role of Hitler as dictator..
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