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MICHAEL SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> NRA homepage: http://www.nra.org
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> Charlton Heston's 'Culture War' Speech at Harvard
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> Harvard Law School Forum: "Winning The Cultural War"
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> Delivered by Charlton Heston February 16, 1999
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The term "culture war" is a translation of the German *Kulturkampf*, coined by
Imperial German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the 1880's. The original
*Kulturkampf* was cast as a struggle against non-German influences--partly
meaning the Catholic Church, which was positioning itself in opposition to the
"Social Darwinism" espoused by many of the leaders of German industry; and
mostly meaning Eastern European Jews, who were flooding into Germany and
especially into Berlin, and who often refused to assimilate. As the campaign
evolved, it focussed more and more on what a later generation would call "the
Jewish problem," and eventually *Kulturkampf* came to be a code word for
official bureaucratic anti-Semitism.
To hear so prominent a public figure as Charlton "Moses" Heston use this term
scares the pants off of me. "Culture war" is a term so loaded, so freighted
with historical burden, that I can only assume that Heston used it
deliberately. And *that* leads to the conclusion that he was aiming his
comments, not at his Harvard audience, but at another audience...the supposed
liberal Jewish Establishment, especially the Democratic Party activists around
Bill Clinton. His message, unfortunately, can only be interpreted as
"Remember, you too could hear that midnight knock on the door..." It is a
not-so-subtle threat to Jewish Democrats that if they don't abandon their
liberal policies and fall into line with the dictates of the Religious Right,
they can and will be purged. And when they're done with the Jews...
Bob
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