Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Elephants are not birds, and other astounding facts




A conservative activist, Ashley St Clair, recently published an anti-trans book called "Elephants Are Not Birds". Details below. 

However, I was struck by something else in the article. Apparently, St Clair was expelled from Turning Point USA, a conservative activist organization, after being associated with "the anti-Semite Nick Fuentes" (of whom I know next to nothing) and "Baked Alaska" (who apparently supported the storming of the Capitol). 

There is just one little problem with this. It was Turning Point USA (or strictly speaking their branch-off Turning Point Action) which recently invited Donald Trump to adress their national rally *and cheered him on* when he insulted the Taliban leader and threatened Afghan civilians with genocidal violence. (I´m not sure if the rally was held in Nuremberg, Virginia or Munich, Tennessee, btw.) 

Now, I would be the last person to deny that the Afghans are a bit, ahem, rough in the edges and perhaps don´t understand liberal-democratic niceties, but isn´t it strange that St Clair is expelled, de facto accused of being a Nazi, while a guy who does his Hitler routine is cheered on by a huge crowd? Asking for a friend named Adolph. 

However, I *do* have a little theory about what caused this double standard to go into effect. Yes, it´s that little word "anti-Semite". The Taliban, whatever else they might be, are probably not a lost tribe of Israel. Nazi-Nazism is verboten at Turning Point USA´s monster mass meetings, but Nazi-Zionism is apparently all the rage! For the record, I support the so-called right of Israel to exist, so you can´t use this posting against me in a rabbinical court... 

"Elephants are not birds"

2 comments:

  1. "Nazi-sionism" är ett tvivelaktigt begrepp som jag först stötte på hos moreniterna. Hade en intensiv men kort diskussion med en ledande svensk morenist om begreppet någon gång i sent 80-tal. Den blev kort, därför han inte kunde svara på mina argument, så han bytte snabbt ämne. Hut definierar DU "nazi-sionism"? Tycker du verkligen att det är ett användbart begrepp?

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