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Yet Kissinger still walks among us. What's his secret?
by drewcoo 5y ago
Yet Kissinger still walks among us. What's his secret?
- cwkoss 5y ago
- woodruffw 5y agoFar be it from me to naysay criticism of Kissinger, but framing it in terms of the blood libel[1] is, as they kids say, "not a good look." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
- Synaesthesia 5y agoWell he is probably the one of the most cynical and heartless leaders in history.
- throwaway5752 5y agoHe's famously Jewish and blood libel is an old and notorious anti-semitic attack, used by Nazis and the Holocaust and Imperial Russian pogroms. There are countless of ways to attack Henry Kissinger without debasing one's self in that way.
- kopol 5y agoPlease don't baselessly accuse people of anti-semitism. That anti-semites have referenced drinking the blood of children, does not mean that anyone else who says similar is being anti-semitic. Kissinger being Jewish is not the issue here, you have chosen to make it the issue for some unknown reason.
- woodruffw 5y agoNowhere in my original comment or the GP’s response is anyone being accused of antisemitism. Lots of people reference the blood libel without realizing that it’s an antisemitic canard; the object of the comment is to educate rather than shame.
- throwaway5752 5y agoAgreed, I didn't accuse anyone here of anti-semitism, either, my comment was in the same spirit. You can say Kissinger is a ghoul and murderer. I have no problem with that. I endorse that.
- kopol 5y agoIt was a finger-wagging, needlessly deflecting type of 'education' that had no real relevance to the actual topic at hand. No-one was discussing his monstrous behavior in terms of his Jewishness.
- woodruffw 5y agoYou do see that everybody in this thread agrees that Henry Kissinger is a monster and a war criminal, correct? Nothing has been deflected; we are all on the same page. There is no excuse for invoking the blood libel, barring the basic kind of ignorance that was presumed in my initial response. If you want to describe Kissinger’s monstrosity, you can do better than leaning on cheap antisemitic canards.
- woodruffw 5y agoThis can (and is) true, and it is simultaneously true that you shouldn’t debase that truth with cheap prejudice.
- lllliiIl 5y agoWho cares how it looks? The man is monstrous in the scale of harm he has wrought upon humanity.
- fknorangesite 5y ago> The man is monstrous in the scale of harm he has wrought upon humanity. The objection is not with Kissinger's monstrosity; it is with describing that monster - that Jewish monster - using an anti-Semetic canard.
- kopol 5y agoIt is entirely irrelevant that he is Jewish. No-one was discussing this or even vaguely alluded to it.
- woodruffw 5y agoThe blood libel is a frequent allusion.
- kopol 5y agoNo it's not.
- fknorangesite 5y agoPart of resisting antisemitism is recognizing and calling attention to their dog whistles and shibboleths.
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- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoReptilian DNA. Edit: From Zeta Reticuli of course!
- Synaesthesia 5y agoNoam Chomsky did a great intellectual takedown of Kissinger in an article reviewing his memoirs. https://pauleccles.co.za/wordpress/index.php/2022/01/09/chomsky-reviews-kissingers-memoirs-with-hilarious-results/ https://pauleccles.co.za/wordpress/index.php/2022/01/09/chom...
- fknorangesite 5y agoCome on. Are you going to use some triple parentheses next?
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- paxys 5y agoTIL Kissinger is older than Queen Elizabeth. Which makes me think – who is the oldest person alive who has had a non-trivial amount of impact on global politics and the current world order? Edit: just realized Jimmy Carter is older than both of them!
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