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pecuniumI'm fighting with the balance of school and money. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but as of yet I don't know if it's the end, or a slow moving train. Chin up, and all, I'm not more than passing depressed (and more at the structure, than the facts. I have friends, I have hope. Someday the GI Bill will come; I know how to work beauracracies [and if I'd not learned that before, 16 years in the Army will teach anyone some of that]; I don't expect to starve).
So it's always a pleasure to read a really good takedown of an asshat.
Michael Gerson, Your Stetl Pass is Revoked
Here's the great bit, but go, read the whole thing.
What the hell, it's almost Yom Kippur, so I can always atone for my tone. But seriously: Michael Gerson needs to shut his fucking mouth before he ever even thinks accusing a Jew of insufficient vigilance against antisemitism. I don't know what lack of self-awareness convinces right-wing evangelicals that they're the true guardians of the Jews, but that condescending and parochial nonsense is its own form of antisemitism. We Tribesmen do not need some wire-rimmed enabler of one of the most destructive and inept presidents in American history to protect us from the perfidies of the world. It's us and not him who will pay the price for antisemitism, so if Gerson wants to actually act like a righteous gentile, he can start by not accusing Jews of apathy to their own people's wellbeing for the sin of not sharing his politics.
Because yeah... some moron in a comment thread is so much worse than Beck, O'Reilly, Savage, Coulter, Malkin and Limbaugh; none of whom I listen to, all of whom I can name.
So it's always a pleasure to read a really good takedown of an asshat.
Michael Gerson, Your Stetl Pass is Revoked
Here's the great bit, but go, read the whole thing.
What the hell, it's almost Yom Kippur, so I can always atone for my tone. But seriously: Michael Gerson needs to shut his fucking mouth before he ever even thinks accusing a Jew of insufficient vigilance against antisemitism. I don't know what lack of self-awareness convinces right-wing evangelicals that they're the true guardians of the Jews, but that condescending and parochial nonsense is its own form of antisemitism. We Tribesmen do not need some wire-rimmed enabler of one of the most destructive and inept presidents in American history to protect us from the perfidies of the world. It's us and not him who will pay the price for antisemitism, so if Gerson wants to actually act like a righteous gentile, he can start by not accusing Jews of apathy to their own people's wellbeing for the sin of not sharing his politics.
Because yeah... some moron in a comment thread is so much worse than Beck, O'Reilly, Savage, Coulter, Malkin and Limbaugh; none of whom I listen to, all of whom I can name.
