> 2. The Anti-Semitic Meme > > David Brooks earns a slot here for promoting this nasty little meme, > having launched it on the op ed page of the New York Times, no less. > > After dismissing the protests as "inconsequential," he observes that > "this uprising was sparked by the magazine Adbusters, previously best > known for the 2004 essay, 'Why Won't Anyone Say They Are Jewish?' -- > an investigative report that identified some of the most influential > Jews in America and their nefarious grip on policy." > > Hmm. The movement seems to be "consequential" enough to panic Brooks > into scaring up a seven-year-old magazine article in support of his > smear campaign. Accusations of anti-Semitism are a tired ploy of > conservatives who have severe allergic reactions to popular movements. > Perhaps if Brooks actually attended any of the gatherings and marches, > he might ask the Jewish OWS protesters how they feel about his charge. > They are plentiful in the 99 percent.
Alas, the anti-Semitic meme is everywhere, even among the good people. Or maybe it's stupidity that's everywhere. from the L.A. TIMES blog (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/la-unified-fires-substitute-teacher-after-alleged-anti-semitic-remarks.html) Teacher who allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks fired October 18, 2011 | 3:33 pm Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy condemned the alleged anti-Semitic remarks by a district employee taking part in the Occupy Los Angeles protest and said she would no longer work for the school system. In a video that gained traction in the conservative blogosphere, Patricia McAllister, a substitute teacher for L.A. Unified, said that Jews run the nation's banking infrastructure and should be forced from the U.S. "I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government -- they need to be run out of this country," McAllister said in the video by Reason.tv, a Libertarian-leaning news organization. She said in the video that she was an employee of L.A. Unified, although she was representing herself at the protest. Deasy, in a statement released Tuesday, acknowledged that McAllister was offering her "private opinions" and said the district recognizes "the law is very protective of the freedom of speech rights of public employees when they are speaking as private citizens during non-working time." However, Deasy said McAllister, as a day-to-day substitute teacher, was an at-will employee, and as of Tuesday she was no longer employed by the district. Deasy said that district officials would "never stand for behavior that is disrespectful, intolerant or discriminatory." -- Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
