Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight in Gaza and the West Bank, yet they're blind to the abysmal treatment that the millions of Palestinians receive who are domiciled, without citizenship, in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq? Where are the "journalists" when it comes to criticizing the "apartheid-like…
Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight in Gaza and the West Bank, yet they're blind to the abysmal treatment that the millions of Palestinians receive who are domiciled, without citizenship, in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq? Where are the "journalists" when it comes to criticizing the "apartheid-like" Palestinian refugee camps which exist in these Muslim-Arab nations?
Where's the fair minded Western journalistic integrity when it comes to explaining how non-Jewish Arabs, 20% of the population of Israel, live lives with all of the rights and privileges of its Jewish citizens? Find a Muslim-Arab woman who's an Israeli citizen who says she'd rather live in Islamic Pakistan or Afghanistan, or oil rich Saudi Arabia, and I'll show you a bald-faced liar.
Honor killings still thrive in Arab nations, but are illegal in Israel. Bari can enjoy being gay in Israel, as can any woman living or vacationing with the borders of Israel, yet homosexuality is still a criminal offense in the Arab nations of: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the PALESTINIAN terrorizes, Qatar, and of course...Saudi Arabia.
If you're a Muslim-Israeli citizen, you can pursue any career you want...doctor, lawyer, politician, educator, military officer, entrepreneur, or an Imam at one of the 20 mosques located within Israel...there are no limitations.
There are four Arab political parties that have full voting rights in Israel [Balad, Hadash, Ta'al and the Arab Democratic Party], and have become a formidable voting block (i.e. The Joint List), one which will most certainly hold sway in the formation of the next Israeli government. Of the 50 Muslim dominated countries in the world, 45 of which are deemed Islamic nations, how many allow Jews to form a voting party? Answer: NONE.
The media likes to feature the "right to return" to the ancestral homeland when it comes to "Palestinians"...but, they seem to forget that Jews, during the 20th Century, were systematically ethnically cleansed from: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, UAE, Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, and Tunisia. The majority of Israeli Jews have roots in Arab nations, but you wouldn't know it from the way the media focuses in the European and U.S. originated Jewish population. Jews have absolutely no rights under international law to return to these lands...just as they had no right to return to Poland, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Ukraine, and most other European nations to reclaim their confiscated (pre-WWII) property rights and bank accounts.
I'm an American Jew. I'm a Zionist. I'm a Bari Weiss fan.
"Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight in Gaza and the West Bank..." Easy. Israel gives people an excuse to indulge their latent antisemitism.
Simple. Altruism demands that one must always side with those they see as the oppressed. There is no room for reason. Those that align with this pathology would suggest turning off the iron dome as that would ensure an equitable outcome.
Well said CMM! I recall taking my wife, two daughters, and son to Universal Studios in Orlando one year. They were all in late high school and early college and a woman walked by wearing a burqa and I expressed an opinion that our country should not allow women to wear that as it was a product of a level of misogyny and subjugation that is inconsistent with our Judeo-Christian values. My youngest daughter chirped back at me, "Dad, that's her choice." Her answer was in part the product of third wave feminism which has given scant attention to the horrible oppression of women in most Muslim countries. American women go off to college and where they are fed a steady diet of anti-male rhetoric and many of our daughters come back hating their white fathers and accusing them of being part of the white male patriarchy that continues to horribly oppress women in the United States. The stranglehold the left has on the messaging in this country is outrageous. And so, as part of my uphill battle to offset the propaganda my children have been fed, I said to her: Sarah, it's not really a choice when to choose not to wear it means being ostracized from your family at best or buried up to you neck in sand and stoned to death at worst is it? She stared at me perplexed at which point my wife chimed in and said, "Let's not talk about politics when we're on vacation."
Which way do you vote mountain man? Who did you vote for this last election? I want to know how many people denouncing this insanity voted Democrat; not to cancel you, or demean you, but I ask this question because I know too many people who continue to either vote for the Party that is supporting this nonsense or not vote at all. . As a left of center 65 year old Independent, with few exceptions, I have voted Democratic 90% of the time. The last Democrat I voted for was Obama 2. I will never vote Democrat again unless they transition from the party of deceit and division that they have now become. They now embody the principles they once denounced. The have become the Party of hatred and bigotry, the Party promoting segregation, the party silencing free speech and demonizing and then destroying those who dare to stray from their totalitarian playbook. Once the Party of non-violent resistance, it is now the Democrats who openly promote violence through their support of BLM and ANTIFA. I have no problem denouncing these two groups as hate groups. These Democrats are now even bullying our children; AND WE'RE LETTING THEM! Yes, our children are coming home from school and crying because they've been told that because they are white they are OPPRESSORS. What kind of parent who knew this was happening would send their child back to that school? Even one is too many! We need to stop posting and start acting, Action is what we need. When we find out that one of these schools is promoting this anti white racism and hurting our children we need to be out there confronting these racists. Where are we? What other group would allow teachers and school administrators to degrade, demean, and emotionally destroy their children in this manner? I'm not a Jew and I'm a Bari Weiss fan that wants her to set in motion some action. And no I'm not advocating violence of any kind but I am advocating a show of force that will turn heads and make people pay some attention to this Orwellian nightmare that they are visiting on our innocent children. Let's Go! I live in the Chicago metropolitan area and the organization that investigates the abuse or neglect of children is called DCFS. In Illinois all teachers and social workers are mandated to report instances of child abuse or neglect. Their guidelines state the following: "The mistreatment can either result in injury or put the child at serious risk of injury. Child abuse can be physical, sexual, or MENTAL (emotional injury or psychological illness). So now, not only do we not see teachers or social workers reporting this MENTAL abuse, but we now see them inflicting it WITH IMPUNITY. Please tell me, is my level of outrage unwarranted? Is the alarm I'm sounding exaggerated?
When the moral rot threatens to overtake public education, K-12, as it is now, you are not being an alarmist. I am thinking that only retirees can stop this because we do not fear losing a job. I’m 70-years-old with orthopedic issues, but I am ready to peacefully protest in a wheelchair if necessary. How does Seniors for Sanity sound?
Great perspective Marty and not only do we not fear losing a job but I actually fear my own death much less as I've raised my children already and my loss as a father wouldn't be as damaging. Yes, people are afraid and it's fear that has allowed this monster to grow relatively unabated now for over 50 years and don't think that people don't also fear physical injury or even death. Our opposition is quite comfortable using violence to achieve their totalitarian goals. I have already experienced the left's wrath and from my own flesh and blood. I was raised in an Irish Catholic family that voted Democrat. For a long time I considered myself a left of center Democrat. I experienced this current Democratic madness in its infancy. When I was a teacher in the Chicago area 30 years ago I attended teacher seminars where black activists spewed this same nonsense that the reasons black students were underperforming white students was the insensitive and racist teachers' fault. I actually wrote my black principal a letter objecting to this divisive lunacy and wasn't canceled. I left teaching for a job as an attorney with the Office of the Cook County Public Defender and represented diverse groups of defendants for 20 years where I gave it my all. I have also always had a genuine respect for police officers as my grandfather was a former Chicago Police Sergeant and my son then did a 3 year stint with the CPD following his 5 years of service with the USMC where he did two tours of duty in Afghanistan. I worried more about him patrolling the streets of Chicago than stepping over IED's in Afghanistan. He was a cop in Chicago during the BLM insurrection that gripped our nation and what he and his brothers and sisters in BLUE experienced was horrifying. And one of the most amazing things I learned from him, which you'd never hear from the MSM, was that the vast majority of the good law abiding citizens in those black neighborhoods would come up to him every day and tell him that they didn't hate cops, didn't want them "defunded", but wanted rather, to see MORE OF THEM! So I think I have a pretty open and broad perspective on this anti-cop madness. I've cross examined cops that I knew were lying and represented defendants that they were lying against. But like the majority of leftist narratives, the current narrative against police from BLM is a manufactured one and in my opinion here is why. Racism in law enforcement has always mirrored the general level of racism in our country. The 1960's mostly white Chicago Police Department had its share of abusive cops and this continued through the 1980's. But then our urban police departments began to hire more Black, Hispanic, and female cops and the children of the baby boomers, who were the least racist generation is American history, began to fill these police positions. Urban police departments throughout this country are now very diverse and most urban police chiefs are Black or Hispanic. My son patrolled arm in arm with this diverse group of cops in his short career with the CPD. These cops now are better trained than ever, all have body cameras, and the vast majority no longer harbor the racial animosity that their predecessors did. No group in this country is under greater scrutiny. The idea that we continue to have racist homicidal cops infusing our police departments is ludicrous. Americans in the 60's would never have elected a black man to two terms as President but we did that in 2008. I voted for the man twice only to watch him divide this country with his woke identify politics, his "racism is in our (white people) DNA" lie! Because I am a criminal defense attorney working in an adversarial system of checks and balances, facts matter! The difference between a guilty and not guilty verdict may lie in one small fact. I am also a student of crime and crime statistics. No conversation of whether police disproportionately shoot black men can take place without discussing the disproportionate level of crime that blacks commit in this country. However, most Americans are TERRIFIED to address this sad reality for fear that they be labeled a "RACIST," which is what happened to me when I dared to recommend that my 5 siblings read the book by Heather McDonald, "The War On Cops." Several of them then viciously slandered me as a RACIST to some of my nieces. Horrible, horrible event in my life to say the least. So I'm all in Marty. I'm right there with you in your chair. I've already taken their best shot and lived to fight another day, as fight (non violently) I will. As MLK said, "I'M NOT FEARIN ANY MAN!" SENIORS FOR SANITY, I love it. God bless you Marty.
Every day I am stunned at the growing list of things I never thought I would see in this country. I add to my list - I never thought I would see a time when brave older Americans would have to weigh and discard risks not only to their livelihoods but now potentially to their lives in order to freely speak their minds in America. In America!! You guys are awesome!!
James, what an incredibly powerful statement you have made. My observations pale in comparison to your life experiences, and I am grateful for your validation. I worry for my grandchildren, ages 7 and 5, and what is coming to them in the Fairfax County, VA, school system system. Already the prized academic high school, Thomas Jefferson, is under attack by the equity maniacs. Parents fighting back have sued the school board which is 100% Democratic and in full acquiesce to CRT. Neighboring Loudoun County parents are fighting the same fight over their STEM high school. My grandchildren are so bright, they deserve every opportunity to develop their talents, as do all children of any race. The dumbing down of our educational system is tragic, and all for a half-baked Marxist theory. I have never physically demonstrated in my life, but I am ready now.
James...I grew up in a VERY liberal, Democratic family, during a time when Jews voted as a monolith for any local or national politician who represented the Democratic party, especially those of us residing in the New York-metropolitan region. The town that I grew up in has had a Democratic mayor for the entirety of my lifetime, which is almost 65 years. That said, I have the same social liberal values that I had a child growing up in an urban melting pot...but, I no longer share the ideology of the 21st Democratic Party. I never thought that Democrats, as openly voiced by the Squad, would ever spew anti-Semitic rhetoric in stump speeches, which is now a common practice.
I didn't vote for Biden. I didn't vote for Trump. I voted for Obama once...he charmed me, he fooled me...once was enough. Given the opportunity, I would vote for Tulsi Gabbard for POTUS...though ostracized by the Democratic elite, I think she was an exceptional politician, especially with regard to her opinions on defanging the Military Industrial Complex and tamping down our government's hunger for initiating ridiculous foreign wars and regime change.
To summarize the liberal background that I grew up in, I can say that both my parents grew up poor and Jewish, one from Newark (NJ) and the other from Brooklyn. They met in the Jewish Catskills during the 1940's, after my father served in WWII. My father went to medical school on the GI Bill, and set up an general practice in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial neighborhood. We lived a golf ball drive away from a prestigious private prep school, but my father felt that we, his five children, needed to mix it up with working class folk...so, I went to an urban public high with a majority black student population. I played football on a State Championship team and matriculated to one of the highest ranked liberal arts colleges in the nation.
My (dearly departed) best friend was an immigrant from Panama. I have many lifelong friends and acquaintances who are all shades of black...but I don't think that a black life matters any more than any other human who outwardly displays one of the other myriad pigmentations of skin.
I empathize with your rant. We most certainly live in a disturbing time in history. I lived through the wonders of the civil rights movement of the 60's and 70's, domiciled at its epicenter...and all the goodness that was created during the time seems to have been deconstructed, brick by brick...ever since the first black President of the United States was inaugurated. How ironic. People forget that the BLM movement was born during the Obama administration.
I don't have the answers to the nation's problems. I'm an impotent, disillusioned American...and I do believe that your personal outrage at the direction that our country is heading is warranted.
I am 9 years older than you and have lived a similar life experience. Your comments are spot on. I am frustrated. Who would have thought that it would fall to a 30 something year old gay Jewish woman to defend my right to feel this way.
CMM, I'm enriched when I visit Common Sense by the superb writing skills that so many members possess. We all have to be careful not to over immerse ourselves in our current political upheaval. I fluctuate between obsessive political rants when I feel that I'm not doing enough and periods of total abstinence. I envy friends who seem to emotionally manage themselves better than I do and am constantly trying to find the right gear that keeps me involved without becoming either too angry or too defeated. But just when I find myself slipping out of the grip that politics currently has on me I gaze upon the quote from Edmund Burke that I keep on my desk that reads, "The Only Thing Necessary For The Triumph of Evil Is For Good Men to Do Nothing," and there I go. Thanks for your pearls of wisdom.
"Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight" - Intersectionality totem pole. Gay ppl like Bari & Glenn Greenwald are now finding out they're barely above White Males. Palestinians are close to the top with Trans & American Indians.
Boris...my maternal grandparents and my paternal great-great parents fled Russian controlled territories before the Soviet Union was formed. Russian antisemitism, be it before the Soviets took control, or after the Wall collapsed, is an historical fact, not propaganda. The word "pogrom", a Slavic term which refers the genocide and/or expulsion of Jews from their native lands, originated in the Russian Empire. Too many Russian Jews emigrated to safer places, and told their stories, gave testimony of the atrocities committed against them, to be dismissed as a false narrative.
I agree with your assessment of the problem, but not what you attribute it to. I think John McWhorter has it right; it is a religion to the woke. Not metaphorically, but literally. They don't need to be rational; they are following their religious dictate. No thinking required.
Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight in Gaza and the West Bank, yet they're blind to the abysmal treatment that the millions of Palestinians receive who are domiciled, without citizenship, in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq? Where are the "journalists" when it comes to criticizing the "apartheid-like" Palestinian refugee camps which exist in these Muslim-Arab nations?
Where's the fair minded Western journalistic integrity when it comes to explaining how non-Jewish Arabs, 20% of the population of Israel, live lives with all of the rights and privileges of its Jewish citizens? Find a Muslim-Arab woman who's an Israeli citizen who says she'd rather live in Islamic Pakistan or Afghanistan, or oil rich Saudi Arabia, and I'll show you a bald-faced liar.
Honor killings still thrive in Arab nations, but are illegal in Israel. Bari can enjoy being gay in Israel, as can any woman living or vacationing with the borders of Israel, yet homosexuality is still a criminal offense in the Arab nations of: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the PALESTINIAN terrorizes, Qatar, and of course...Saudi Arabia.
If you're a Muslim-Israeli citizen, you can pursue any career you want...doctor, lawyer, politician, educator, military officer, entrepreneur, or an Imam at one of the 20 mosques located within Israel...there are no limitations.
There are four Arab political parties that have full voting rights in Israel [Balad, Hadash, Ta'al and the Arab Democratic Party], and have become a formidable voting block (i.e. The Joint List), one which will most certainly hold sway in the formation of the next Israeli government. Of the 50 Muslim dominated countries in the world, 45 of which are deemed Islamic nations, how many allow Jews to form a voting party? Answer: NONE.
The media likes to feature the "right to return" to the ancestral homeland when it comes to "Palestinians"...but, they seem to forget that Jews, during the 20th Century, were systematically ethnically cleansed from: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, UAE, Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, and Tunisia. The majority of Israeli Jews have roots in Arab nations, but you wouldn't know it from the way the media focuses in the European and U.S. originated Jewish population. Jews have absolutely no rights under international law to return to these lands...just as they had no right to return to Poland, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Ukraine, and most other European nations to reclaim their confiscated (pre-WWII) property rights and bank accounts.
I'm an American Jew. I'm a Zionist. I'm a Bari Weiss fan.
"Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight in Gaza and the West Bank..." Easy. Israel gives people an excuse to indulge their latent antisemitism.
Bill Donahue, President of The Catholic League, used a descriptor of the media and radical left that is one of my favorites: “selective outrage.”
Simple. Altruism demands that one must always side with those they see as the oppressed. There is no room for reason. Those that align with this pathology would suggest turning off the iron dome as that would ensure an equitable outcome.
Well said CMM! I recall taking my wife, two daughters, and son to Universal Studios in Orlando one year. They were all in late high school and early college and a woman walked by wearing a burqa and I expressed an opinion that our country should not allow women to wear that as it was a product of a level of misogyny and subjugation that is inconsistent with our Judeo-Christian values. My youngest daughter chirped back at me, "Dad, that's her choice." Her answer was in part the product of third wave feminism which has given scant attention to the horrible oppression of women in most Muslim countries. American women go off to college and where they are fed a steady diet of anti-male rhetoric and many of our daughters come back hating their white fathers and accusing them of being part of the white male patriarchy that continues to horribly oppress women in the United States. The stranglehold the left has on the messaging in this country is outrageous. And so, as part of my uphill battle to offset the propaganda my children have been fed, I said to her: Sarah, it's not really a choice when to choose not to wear it means being ostracized from your family at best or buried up to you neck in sand and stoned to death at worst is it? She stared at me perplexed at which point my wife chimed in and said, "Let's not talk about politics when we're on vacation."
Which way do you vote mountain man? Who did you vote for this last election? I want to know how many people denouncing this insanity voted Democrat; not to cancel you, or demean you, but I ask this question because I know too many people who continue to either vote for the Party that is supporting this nonsense or not vote at all. . As a left of center 65 year old Independent, with few exceptions, I have voted Democratic 90% of the time. The last Democrat I voted for was Obama 2. I will never vote Democrat again unless they transition from the party of deceit and division that they have now become. They now embody the principles they once denounced. The have become the Party of hatred and bigotry, the Party promoting segregation, the party silencing free speech and demonizing and then destroying those who dare to stray from their totalitarian playbook. Once the Party of non-violent resistance, it is now the Democrats who openly promote violence through their support of BLM and ANTIFA. I have no problem denouncing these two groups as hate groups. These Democrats are now even bullying our children; AND WE'RE LETTING THEM! Yes, our children are coming home from school and crying because they've been told that because they are white they are OPPRESSORS. What kind of parent who knew this was happening would send their child back to that school? Even one is too many! We need to stop posting and start acting, Action is what we need. When we find out that one of these schools is promoting this anti white racism and hurting our children we need to be out there confronting these racists. Where are we? What other group would allow teachers and school administrators to degrade, demean, and emotionally destroy their children in this manner? I'm not a Jew and I'm a Bari Weiss fan that wants her to set in motion some action. And no I'm not advocating violence of any kind but I am advocating a show of force that will turn heads and make people pay some attention to this Orwellian nightmare that they are visiting on our innocent children. Let's Go! I live in the Chicago metropolitan area and the organization that investigates the abuse or neglect of children is called DCFS. In Illinois all teachers and social workers are mandated to report instances of child abuse or neglect. Their guidelines state the following: "The mistreatment can either result in injury or put the child at serious risk of injury. Child abuse can be physical, sexual, or MENTAL (emotional injury or psychological illness). So now, not only do we not see teachers or social workers reporting this MENTAL abuse, but we now see them inflicting it WITH IMPUNITY. Please tell me, is my level of outrage unwarranted? Is the alarm I'm sounding exaggerated?
When the moral rot threatens to overtake public education, K-12, as it is now, you are not being an alarmist. I am thinking that only retirees can stop this because we do not fear losing a job. I’m 70-years-old with orthopedic issues, but I am ready to peacefully protest in a wheelchair if necessary. How does Seniors for Sanity sound?
Great perspective Marty and not only do we not fear losing a job but I actually fear my own death much less as I've raised my children already and my loss as a father wouldn't be as damaging. Yes, people are afraid and it's fear that has allowed this monster to grow relatively unabated now for over 50 years and don't think that people don't also fear physical injury or even death. Our opposition is quite comfortable using violence to achieve their totalitarian goals. I have already experienced the left's wrath and from my own flesh and blood. I was raised in an Irish Catholic family that voted Democrat. For a long time I considered myself a left of center Democrat. I experienced this current Democratic madness in its infancy. When I was a teacher in the Chicago area 30 years ago I attended teacher seminars where black activists spewed this same nonsense that the reasons black students were underperforming white students was the insensitive and racist teachers' fault. I actually wrote my black principal a letter objecting to this divisive lunacy and wasn't canceled. I left teaching for a job as an attorney with the Office of the Cook County Public Defender and represented diverse groups of defendants for 20 years where I gave it my all. I have also always had a genuine respect for police officers as my grandfather was a former Chicago Police Sergeant and my son then did a 3 year stint with the CPD following his 5 years of service with the USMC where he did two tours of duty in Afghanistan. I worried more about him patrolling the streets of Chicago than stepping over IED's in Afghanistan. He was a cop in Chicago during the BLM insurrection that gripped our nation and what he and his brothers and sisters in BLUE experienced was horrifying. And one of the most amazing things I learned from him, which you'd never hear from the MSM, was that the vast majority of the good law abiding citizens in those black neighborhoods would come up to him every day and tell him that they didn't hate cops, didn't want them "defunded", but wanted rather, to see MORE OF THEM! So I think I have a pretty open and broad perspective on this anti-cop madness. I've cross examined cops that I knew were lying and represented defendants that they were lying against. But like the majority of leftist narratives, the current narrative against police from BLM is a manufactured one and in my opinion here is why. Racism in law enforcement has always mirrored the general level of racism in our country. The 1960's mostly white Chicago Police Department had its share of abusive cops and this continued through the 1980's. But then our urban police departments began to hire more Black, Hispanic, and female cops and the children of the baby boomers, who were the least racist generation is American history, began to fill these police positions. Urban police departments throughout this country are now very diverse and most urban police chiefs are Black or Hispanic. My son patrolled arm in arm with this diverse group of cops in his short career with the CPD. These cops now are better trained than ever, all have body cameras, and the vast majority no longer harbor the racial animosity that their predecessors did. No group in this country is under greater scrutiny. The idea that we continue to have racist homicidal cops infusing our police departments is ludicrous. Americans in the 60's would never have elected a black man to two terms as President but we did that in 2008. I voted for the man twice only to watch him divide this country with his woke identify politics, his "racism is in our (white people) DNA" lie! Because I am a criminal defense attorney working in an adversarial system of checks and balances, facts matter! The difference between a guilty and not guilty verdict may lie in one small fact. I am also a student of crime and crime statistics. No conversation of whether police disproportionately shoot black men can take place without discussing the disproportionate level of crime that blacks commit in this country. However, most Americans are TERRIFIED to address this sad reality for fear that they be labeled a "RACIST," which is what happened to me when I dared to recommend that my 5 siblings read the book by Heather McDonald, "The War On Cops." Several of them then viciously slandered me as a RACIST to some of my nieces. Horrible, horrible event in my life to say the least. So I'm all in Marty. I'm right there with you in your chair. I've already taken their best shot and lived to fight another day, as fight (non violently) I will. As MLK said, "I'M NOT FEARIN ANY MAN!" SENIORS FOR SANITY, I love it. God bless you Marty.
Every day I am stunned at the growing list of things I never thought I would see in this country. I add to my list - I never thought I would see a time when brave older Americans would have to weigh and discard risks not only to their livelihoods but now potentially to their lives in order to freely speak their minds in America. In America!! You guys are awesome!!
James, what an incredibly powerful statement you have made. My observations pale in comparison to your life experiences, and I am grateful for your validation. I worry for my grandchildren, ages 7 and 5, and what is coming to them in the Fairfax County, VA, school system system. Already the prized academic high school, Thomas Jefferson, is under attack by the equity maniacs. Parents fighting back have sued the school board which is 100% Democratic and in full acquiesce to CRT. Neighboring Loudoun County parents are fighting the same fight over their STEM high school. My grandchildren are so bright, they deserve every opportunity to develop their talents, as do all children of any race. The dumbing down of our educational system is tragic, and all for a half-baked Marxist theory. I have never physically demonstrated in my life, but I am ready now.
James...I grew up in a VERY liberal, Democratic family, during a time when Jews voted as a monolith for any local or national politician who represented the Democratic party, especially those of us residing in the New York-metropolitan region. The town that I grew up in has had a Democratic mayor for the entirety of my lifetime, which is almost 65 years. That said, I have the same social liberal values that I had a child growing up in an urban melting pot...but, I no longer share the ideology of the 21st Democratic Party. I never thought that Democrats, as openly voiced by the Squad, would ever spew anti-Semitic rhetoric in stump speeches, which is now a common practice.
I didn't vote for Biden. I didn't vote for Trump. I voted for Obama once...he charmed me, he fooled me...once was enough. Given the opportunity, I would vote for Tulsi Gabbard for POTUS...though ostracized by the Democratic elite, I think she was an exceptional politician, especially with regard to her opinions on defanging the Military Industrial Complex and tamping down our government's hunger for initiating ridiculous foreign wars and regime change.
To summarize the liberal background that I grew up in, I can say that both my parents grew up poor and Jewish, one from Newark (NJ) and the other from Brooklyn. They met in the Jewish Catskills during the 1940's, after my father served in WWII. My father went to medical school on the GI Bill, and set up an general practice in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial neighborhood. We lived a golf ball drive away from a prestigious private prep school, but my father felt that we, his five children, needed to mix it up with working class folk...so, I went to an urban public high with a majority black student population. I played football on a State Championship team and matriculated to one of the highest ranked liberal arts colleges in the nation.
My (dearly departed) best friend was an immigrant from Panama. I have many lifelong friends and acquaintances who are all shades of black...but I don't think that a black life matters any more than any other human who outwardly displays one of the other myriad pigmentations of skin.
I empathize with your rant. We most certainly live in a disturbing time in history. I lived through the wonders of the civil rights movement of the 60's and 70's, domiciled at its epicenter...and all the goodness that was created during the time seems to have been deconstructed, brick by brick...ever since the first black President of the United States was inaugurated. How ironic. People forget that the BLM movement was born during the Obama administration.
I don't have the answers to the nation's problems. I'm an impotent, disillusioned American...and I do believe that your personal outrage at the direction that our country is heading is warranted.
I am 9 years older than you and have lived a similar life experience. Your comments are spot on. I am frustrated. Who would have thought that it would fall to a 30 something year old gay Jewish woman to defend my right to feel this way.
CMM, I'm enriched when I visit Common Sense by the superb writing skills that so many members possess. We all have to be careful not to over immerse ourselves in our current political upheaval. I fluctuate between obsessive political rants when I feel that I'm not doing enough and periods of total abstinence. I envy friends who seem to emotionally manage themselves better than I do and am constantly trying to find the right gear that keeps me involved without becoming either too angry or too defeated. But just when I find myself slipping out of the grip that politics currently has on me I gaze upon the quote from Edmund Burke that I keep on my desk that reads, "The Only Thing Necessary For The Triumph of Evil Is For Good Men to Do Nothing," and there I go. Thanks for your pearls of wisdom.
It’s the narrative, CMMan. It won’t change unless the dems are defeated.
"Why is it that the liberal media only sees the Palestinian plight" - Intersectionality totem pole. Gay ppl like Bari & Glenn Greenwald are now finding out they're barely above White Males. Palestinians are close to the top with Trans & American Indians.
Again thanks for the education.
Boris...my maternal grandparents and my paternal great-great parents fled Russian controlled territories before the Soviet Union was formed. Russian antisemitism, be it before the Soviets took control, or after the Wall collapsed, is an historical fact, not propaganda. The word "pogrom", a Slavic term which refers the genocide and/or expulsion of Jews from their native lands, originated in the Russian Empire. Too many Russian Jews emigrated to safer places, and told their stories, gave testimony of the atrocities committed against them, to be dismissed as a false narrative.
Brilliant!
I agree with your assessment of the problem, but not what you attribute it to. I think John McWhorter has it right; it is a religion to the woke. Not metaphorically, but literally. They don't need to be rational; they are following their religious dictate. No thinking required.