More on the Hatometer

On 7/28/06, Esdmz <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

William, Joseph,

As the hatometer reads in decimal, turning it over will not yield your desired result Mr. Peachy.

But more to the point, there is practically no phenomena we encounter in the course of these discussions that can bear quantification.

That is what I was trying to say. But one small point can be quantified. There are more Moslems than Jews. That has an important bearing on the total amount of hate.

I have never been openly taught to hate anybody. I was rebellious enough as a young man that I would have instantly flown off the handle and perhaps started a fight if someone tried to indoctrinate me the way kids are routinely - and in huge numbers - indoctrinated in Moslem schools all over the world.

I recall a few comments, made by me in my younger days, in the course of otherwise casual conversations that had turned ugly and racist: "Well, you've got one big accomplishment to be proud of. You were born white."

Moslem kids are being taught - in well financed programs, systematically, in huge numbers - that Jews are monsters and should be eliminated. This is not a controversial claim. There is no corresponding effort among Jews - not even among the fanatics. Israeli racism - which is certainly real - arises in a completely different way. Anyone who has spent any time in Israel and is not deaf knows this.

I will assume instead, my oversight was not to provide some supporting arguments for a proposition I found self-evident.

I know from direct personal experience that the Saudi government has distributed extensive, explicit anti-semitic hate hate literature throughout the Muslim world, including its furthest non-Arab outposts. My lengthy time in SE Asia made it very clear to me that efforts to inculcate the populations of Malaysia, Indonesia and portions of the Philippines with anti-semitism were entirely successful, (that is, despite the vast majority having absolutely no experience with Jews).

Just look at the Poles. The Jews are still their great domestic nemesis and there are no Polish Jews to be had.

Why are Poles still picking berries 16 hours a day in the northern Swedish forests for less than the minimum wage? Why are they being kept as tomato picking slaves, under unspeakable conditions - in Calabria? Poland is and will remain the very last religious country in Europe. The Irish have succeeded in liberating themselves from their black midnight. The Poles failed and will fail forever.

Media throughout the Muslim world avails itself of imagery that may be traced directly to European anti-semitism, even to the creation of popular TV programming of unambiguous anti-semitism.

This will be very interesting to follow in the future. I'd guess that there's going to be a much higher price to pay for this crap soon. The world of ideas is getting easier and easier to navigate.