Reply #119: Whatever Means Are Necessary, Sir [View All]

To smuggle such items into the discourse, some will avail themselves of.

The phenomenon you speak of is hardly unusual. In Black radical discourse, there is a whole vocabulary, from "Uncle Tom" through "Oreo" to use of "Negro" as a scornful slur, to express it, and exemplars of it ranging from Walter Williams to Clarence Thomas.

There are several well publicized instances of Jews prominently involved in Anti-Semitic hate groups: a local Nazi leader, who led the march into Skokie some years ago, and who's name mercifully escapes immediate recollection, was later found to be of Jewish parentage; in a recent issue of The Atlantic, there was a long article on a fellow once prominent among Neo-Nazis, jailed for planning a demolition, who was similarly exposed as having been born a Jew.

To take a similar thing directly from this forum: you may recall Mr. Quilp's recent statement that Arab Palestinians were collectively deranged; viewed harshly, that is an expression of bigotry beyond many for which, during my service as moderator here, it was my duty to expell several supporters of Israel over.