tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587700778834733354.post1628151615934130843..comments2023-11-27T11:16:11.797-05:00Comments on Skeptic but Jewish: Sarah Palin's Blood LibelBaruch Spinozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11879864721961862810noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587700778834733354.post-68936128389350315182011-01-15T23:46:33.642-05:002011-01-15T23:46:33.642-05:00The other thing I want to say about Sarah Palin is...The other thing I want to say about Sarah Palin is that I do not hate her. She is irrelevant. Yes, she is a politician (which is the most useless job in the whole world). But as a person she is not a bad person. I am sure she is just like most parents. I am sure she is a good person because most people are good people. She does seem to have a nice personality. Yes, it is true that because she is in politics she does influence the direction of violence towards groups of people, but I doubt that she is smart enough to realize this - which is why I do not hold this against her. <br /><br />I ignore the politicians. They are unimportant, they just create the illusion that people have a freedom of choice. So I see them as illusions, as if they are non-existent. <br /><br />It seems to be standard human nature to look for scapegoats. The Nazis blamed the Jews. The Marxists blamed the businessmen. The liberals blame the conservatives. The conservatives blame the liberals. The KKK blames the blacks. The Westboro Baptist Church blames the homosexuals. And this keeps on going and going and going. <br /><br />Looking for scapegoats is not very useful at all. The fundamental source of much problems in the world is the use of violence. That is what we need to be arguing against. It is free from any group of people, it is free from a scapegoat. It is the idea, and a system based around this deeply flawed idea that creates so many problems and so much suffering in the world. <br /><br />Politics is a blame game. What did the Democracts say? What did the Republicans say? That is a discussion for the masses who do not think deeper than that. Politics is a distraction, like you said, from really important concepts that need to be discussed but are not.Baruch Spinozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11879864721961862810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587700778834733354.post-58875148638736944732011-01-15T18:40:05.815-05:002011-01-15T18:40:05.815-05:00It's the continual distraction game. Don'...It's the continual distraction game. Don't pay attention to questions about the legitimacy of government actions, look at the crazy guy shooting people! When Sarah Palin complains that she is accused of absurd things, make fun of a phrase she uses so that you don't have to address what she says. (Or explain why the Daily Kos isn't just as guilty - more so since the guy is a leftist.) <br /><br />Then there's the Jewish whining that they own the phrase. It seems to me most likely that she didn't know the history of the phrase, had heard it batted around her whole life, and made up her own meaning, then used it in accordance with that. So she's ignorant about Jewish history. Big news there. <br /><br />The whole issue is insane. Palin does use violent rhetoric that can predictably lead to violent outcomes - but isn't called on that - for example, her comments about Julian Assange. For that matter, she used to be the head of a violent organization, and wanted to be assistant head of another one. On the other hand, the government does use real violence - in fact, Congress does little but sit and discuss who they should be violent towards next - but that's ok. So the idea is: violent rhetoric or imagery bad, real violence good.Puzzledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12866127197554237039noreply@blogger.com