In the world of leftism, the only good Jews are the ones who would give Eretz Israel to the Muslims.

RSM exhibits the same intolerance towards the labour unions as he accuse the woman of…

I wrote, “the same intolerance”, which would be “unhinged and sometimes irrational intolerance “, which would be always bad in McCain’s book, as long as it comes from a liberal.

You say, “Liberalism is a mental disease”?

And you complain when liberals call you similar names in return?

You are so far down your own shit, you are undistinguishable from the turds of your own creation.

Liberals who take their liberalism seriously, at least to the point of wanting to be relatively consistent, not hypocritical, etc, are more or less bound by their ethics to not bash others’ faiths. But what to do with an ideologue who insists on bashing?

This is the eternal dilemma for libs.

For me it depends If the intolerant ideologue is in my culture and country, and his/her bashing puts pressure on me to convert or otherwise renounce my cherished whatevers, then i might bash. Thus i mostly bash Xians, and don’t bother much with, say, fanatic Muslims or benevolent Jews.

Over on “Loose Green Flatuses” the inimitable Chuckles Johnson has a favorite poster, LudwigVanQuixote, one of whose hobbies is to go on Jewish websites and tell his coreligionists that they shouldna oughtna vote GOP, because being conservative and AGW-skeptical is all evil and stuff. He also gets very upset at attractive women who anchor for Fox News, because they make him horny enough to occasionally think they might have a point. I think the woman in this clip could be his GF.

-To be a Committed Leftist [as distingushed from one who, without much deep thinking on the matter, adopts it's tenets] is to believe with every fiber of your being that you are one of the very few Enlightened Ones, that you and your comrades [pun intended] have found THE ANSWER in the sterile laboratory that is your detached-from-Reality mind.

-As for the Raised Fist symbol, herewith a brief primer on some of the groups, besides the modern AFL-CIO, that have used it:

Albanian National Liberation Front
American Indian Movement
Anarchist Black Cross
Black Panther Party
Democratic Labour Party of Brazil
Earth First!
Women’s Liberation
Food Not Bombs
International Brigades
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Italian Radical Party
Jewish Defense League
Kach
National Equality March
Otpor
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Socialist Party of Malaysia)
Revolutionary Socialist Workers’ Party (Turkey)
Red Front Fighters’ League
Saor Éire (1967-1975)
Socialist International
Socialist Party of England and Wales
Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
Socialist Youth Front
United Farm Workers
Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist]

And Stacy. To keep your Jewish friends happy (me! me! me!), you might want to get the spelling right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam

Tikkun olam and if you follow the Hebrew the first word ends with a nun not a mem.

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Weird. I knew how it was spelled — and I had it right in discussing Lerner’s magazine — but spelled it wrong three times anyway. When I find errors like that occurring in my work — where my fingers type something that my eye ought to recognize as an error — I begin to wonder if it’s early-onset Alzheimers or, more likely, some bizarre leftover side effect of the drugs I did back in the 70s.

The drugs had the opposite effect on me. Go figure.

There are two types of people in Judaism: those who think its about Social Justice and those who can read Hebrew.

Unfortunately the people in the first category tend to force the rest of us to apologize for them.

What’s sadly ironic is that if I were to call that woman a self-hating Jew, she’d go even more ballistic on me.

First off, I’d ask her what the meaning of “tikkun” really is, what the shoresh [root] of the word is, if she knows what the word “shoresh” is, how the verb “l’taken” is conjugated and if she knows that “tikkun” is the gerund form of that word.

Then I’d ask her about “olam” and it’s many meanings.

I’d ask her to tell me in what Jewish source does the concept of “tikkun olam” first appear. I’m sure she doesn’t know.

I’d ask her about other Jewish concepts, and where those concepts rank, in her value system, either above or below “tikkun olam” in terms of importance.

For example, is believing in the God of Abraham more important than “tikkun olam”? If she says no, well then what’s the urgency of “tikkun olam”? Who is obligating me to repair the universe?

Is observing Shabbat more important than “tikkun olam”? What about having honest weights and measures?

My point to the young Jewess would be that she’s actually an ignoramus about Judaism, most likely holds beliefs that are contrary to traditional Jewish beliefs, most likely regards much of traditional Judaism as a primitive patriarchy whose rituals she never performs (unless she can redefine them to fit into her progressive political ideology), but she feels she can lecture other Jews about being “bad Jews” because they aren’t politically left wing.

If that young Jewess is reading this, the following is directed to you, maidele:

Find a local orthodox shul and ask the rabbi or his wife if they can set you up with some Shabbas hospitality in a home where you can actually learn something about Judaism besides the watered down pablum at your family’s temple.

Still bucking for First Gentile President Of Israel, I see.

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No thanks – I have a life worth living.

Don’t worry, at the rate the Reform and Reconstructionist types aren’t having kids, in a couple of generations there won’t be any Jews who aren’t Orthodox. And I’m okay with that.