With apologies to my mother, who does not like when we use certain language in describing events and feelings here on line...
We now know precisely how sincere his statement was yesterday. It took only a day to walk it back. It will take a lifetime to walk back our moral standing in the world. In the mean time, where do the rest of us go to protect ourselves from the monstrosity that occupies the White House and the under the surface evil he has unleashed.
We are back to there are bad people on all sides. Ok, there are bad people on all sides. How many bad people on the left yelled nazi slogans in Charlottesville? How many bad people on the left were there with a published purpose to let the world know that Jews, Blacks, Immigrants, Gays, Transgenders or anyone "who does not look like us" does not belong? How many bad people on the left ran down the good folk on the right with their cars, killing and maiming along the way? How many bad people on the left put those good little nazis on the right in hospitals?
But they were just protesting the removal of statues and renaming of a park. Never mind that the statues were offensive to a very large percentage of the citizens of this country, many of those offended not being Jews, Blacks, Immigrants, Gays, Transgenders or anyone "who does not look like us". Where does it stop, he wants to know.
No, it does not stop at Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson. I may not have taken all the history classes at Penn, where I am ashamed to say he also attended, but if I search the back of my mind, I seem to recall something along the lines of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson being generals in an army that fought against the United States in the Civil War. They were Americans who fought against their own country. Translation -- they were traitors. Worse, they committed treason against this country. Last I looked, we did not erect statues and celebrate treason and traitors.
Yes, it does stop short of George Washington. Last I looked, he was and is still called the father of this country. He fought to establish this country, not to tear it apart. I know you did not major in history at Penn, but I would have thought this knowledge was a basic requirement to entrance at the university.
This false equivalence is bad enough, but he used it to try to justify the behavior of nazis.
Think about that for a second.
The president of the United States just tried to justify the behavior of nazis.
NAZIS.
Holy shit.
He just tried to justify the behavior of nazis in this country, just barely a generation after THE greatest generation, of which I am sure he tries to think himself a part of, fought and died in a war to defeat nazis and save the free world. Since that war, more than a generation has lived by "NEVER AGAIN". When a list of the worst people in the history of the world is compiled, Hitler, the leader of the nazis, is always at the top. There are countries in the world where just being a nazi is a crime. That's how bad it is.
But according to this jerk, "there were many very fine people from both sides in the crowd".
I suppose those were the ones yelling "Jew will never replace us", because we know that the Jews had everything to do with the South being on the losing end of the Civil War, which led to the erection of the statue being taken down and the renaming of that park that all those very fine people were "concerned" about.
I may have missed the class that he apparently took at Penn where we were taught that the nazi salute was a call to arms for all the good people of the confederacy, and has since morphed into a source of cultural pride for them. Maybe that's what those very fine people were there remembering.
Or maybe those very fine people were the ones walking around in white shirts with symbols of the old South emblazoned over their hearts, carrying tiki torches to remind everyone of the good old days when those lovable louts from the Klan rode into town all robed up and with torches so they could lynch the nearest uppity nigger. Ah the history. Ah the nostalgia.
Here's a clue for the clueless.
THERE ARE NO VERY FINE NAZIS. THERE ARE NO VERY FINE GRAND WIZARDS OF THE KKK. THERE ARE NO VERY FINE BLOOD AND SOILERS. THOSE "VERY FINE FOLKS" ARE NOT BIDING THEIR TIME WAITING FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT TO CONVINCE EVERYONE ELSE THAT THEIR COMRADE REALLY DID NOT MEAN IT WHEN HE PUSHED US INTO THE OVENS, HUNG US FROM THE TREES ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, OR JUST SHOT US AND BURIED OUR REMAINS IN EARTHEN DAMS OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
Just because your daughter married a Jew does not make you one of us. It also does not make you tolerant. Some of the worst anti-semites, racists, etc., try to convince you that they are not who they really are because they "have a friend who is a (fill in the blank)". I am sure Ivanka loves her husband. That does not make you a true friend of any Jew on this planet, other than perhaps your son in law.
Let me clue you in further.
YOU ARE NOT ONE OF US. YOU WILL NEVER BE ONE OF US.
There is no Jew who can now morally claim any part of their heritage and embrace you. The same goes for people of color, women, gays, transgenders, immigrants, Native Americans, anyone who does not look like you, most people who do look like you, and anyone who has a brain and a heart.
You have ceded the moral ground permanently. For crying out loud, the leader of fucking GERMANY, the birthplace of the nazis, came out with the appropriate statement. She came out quickly, and without the need to be told it was the right thing to do.
The president of this country is supposed to be our moral compass. We now have no compass, no rudder, no steering wheel, no navigational system. We do, however, have all those good nazis and klansman who prevented an all out massacre last weekend, and their cheerleader in the white house.
We also have a congress who can now not avoid their moral and constitutional duty to this country to get this menace away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as fast as their grubby little minds can move him.
Until then, God help us all.
No comments:
Post a Comment