{"id":8399,"date":"2021-03-28T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2021-03-28T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T12:57:32","slug":"racism-as-the-new-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/racism-as-the-new-communism-8399.htm","title":{"rendered":"Racism as the New Communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[8399]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems.jpg 1566w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jews-and-Moslems-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those of us with Bircher relatives remember that they saw everything through the lens of communism: whatever went wrong, it must be the fault of communism. They were right to some extent: the communists were making life miserable for a lot of people, and, yes, Alger Hiss was a communist. But most evils were the result of other bad tendencies in human nature.<\/p>\n<p>Racism has become the new communism. A man kills prostitutes: it must be because he is a racist. The serial killer of prostitutes is a recognized type of criminal from Jack the Ripper onward. There is something about the warped sexuality of a few men which makes them murderously angry at prostitutes. Race has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Passover a Syrian immigrant drives 25 miles to a supermarket that advertises its Kosher department and murders the people from the Jewish neighborhood who are shopping for Passover. The media cannot fathom a motive because there is no racial angle. Antisemitism is the most likely motive, but not a peep has been heard from the media about that possibility, because it does not fit the obsession with racism that dominates newsrooms.<\/p>\n<p>European countries are discovering that they can have a Jewish minority or a Muslim minority; they cannot have both and have social peace, and there are more Muslim voters than Jewish. The United States may discover the same painful truth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8399\" data-postid=\"8399\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8399 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Those of us with Bircher relatives remember that they saw everything through the lens of communism: whatever went wrong, it must be the fault of communism. They were right to some extent: the communists were making life miserable for a lot of people, and, yes, Alger Hiss was a communist. But most evils were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[611,1608,287],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","tag-antisemitism","tag-colorado-shooter","tag-racism","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}