Why Jew Hatred Is Always A Hallmark Of The Totalitarian LeftThe Judeo-Christian idea that language corresponds with reality, a feature of the classical liberal system, is for the left a bug that must be crushed by the totalitarian boot.
By Peter Burfeind
October 26, 2020
Bari Weiss’s recent essay in Tablet, “Stop Being Shocked,†is a must-read for anyone hot on the trail of the metaphysical shift going on in American culture. She exposes the threat leftism poses to Jewish self-identity, but at a deeper level, she adds to the growing body of evidence proving the hopeless incompatibility of leftism and liberalism. ...
The Judeo-Christian orientation truly is the secret sauce of the West, the basis not only for discussion of various competing philosophies and rationalist systems, but for Enlightenment science, democracy, the idea of universal human rights, and so on. Such things cannot arise but in the cosmic orientation passed on from Sinai.
The First Jew-Haters
Leftism cannot accept that orientation. Theirs is a revolution against the foundations of reality as bestowed by that Judeo-Christian orientation. Ground Zero of that revolution is the correspondence between language and reality. The Judeo-Christian idea that language corresponds with reality, a feature of the classical liberal system, is for the left a bug that the totalitarian boot must crush. ...
It all must come a-tumbling down. As Weiss writes: American liberalism is under siege. There is a new ideology vying to replace it. The new creed’s premise goes something like this: We are in a war in which the forces of justice and progress are arrayed against the forces of backwardness and oppression. And in a war, the normal rules of the game — due process; political compromise; the presumption of innocence; free speech; even reason itself — must be suspended. Indeed, those rules themselves were corrupt to begin with — designed, as they were, by dead white males in order to uphold their own power.
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