-Caveat Lector-
Well, I have been reading a most of the stuff from CTRL for about six
months and this following seems to me to be the take the prize as the
most ridiculous thing I have read so far. Rather then make a rational
argument in opposition to the points made in Heston's speech, this
writer makes a convoluted argument linking the derivation of the term
Heston used to Bismarck and then to Hitler to "prove" that Heston should
be ignored because he is anti-Semitic. "culture war" is a term that is
made up of two english words which are familiar to most. In combination
they seem to me to accurately describe what Heston was talking about. I
certainly did not find anything forced about putting those two words
together. I do not believe that smearing one's opponent in a debate in
the manner such as below endears one's argument to any thinking human.
Howard Davis
Robert Tatman wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> MICHAEL SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > NRA homepage: http://www.nra.org
> >
> > Charlton Heston's 'Culture War' Speech at Harvard
> >
> > Harvard Law School Forum: "Winning The Cultural War"
> >
> > Delivered by Charlton Heston February 16, 1999
> >
> <snip>
> 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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