The habit of not noticing is strong in modern America. Perhaps it has always bee the case. It is impossible to know. Not noticing what the ruling class is doing may very well be a part of the human toolkit. That’s really what we’re talking about with political correctness. You can notice all sorts of things about your fellow man, as long as the people in charge are OK with it. It’s so common it must be our natural inclination. Anyway, I thought of that whilst reading this post by Karl Denninger.
How can we defend this sort of crap — and help fund it?Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel pledged Monday to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in Arab east Jerusalem, in a move the Palestinians warned was likely to trigger an “explosion” of violence.
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The news emerged just weeks after hardline settlers took over 35 homes in Silwan, a densely populated Palestinian neighbourhood on the southern edge of the Old City, sparking fury in the West Bank city of Ramallah and condemnation from Washington.
So seizing land from people that live there simply on their political and ethnic background is ok?
What would be our reaction if a bunch of white families decided to take over 35 homes owned by black people in a US City? We’d call that what it is — grand theft and probably worse, and seek to put those people in prison, right?
Well?
No, we call it gentrification. How do you think Harlem went from being 100% black to majority white in a decade? Old white people bought up the housing, threw out the blacks and moved in their kids and grandkids from Connecticut and Westchester. Washington DC is going through a similar transition.
Is it really any more difficult than this to understand? I think not.
You cannot tell me that you want peace while at the same time you’re doing this — unless your definition of “peace” is in fact subjugation.
As I have repeatedly pointed out Israel has an intractable demographic problem in terms of who gives birth to how many kids, and there is no solution to this problem that maintains Israel as a Jewish state over time.
Maybe, but the Jews have done very well, everywhere, despite being surrounded by hostiles. Occidentals cannot point to the same record.
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In 2003 my fried took a job in the South End of Boston and moved into a studio apartment there at $1,800 a month. In my student days in the ’60’s that was an Irish slum. I got to chatting with a meter maid outside the apartment who grew up there and she said you could have bought the entire building at that time–four floors–for $25k. Now, of course, South Boston is fay, dink, or single. The lines of demarcation are rather sudden, sometimes a single street separating the hip from the not.
Technically, all US government “foreign aid” to Israel is conditional on it not being used to promote settlement in the occupied territories, but since money is fungible -the Israeli government can always use money for the settlements that they would have had to spend on other stuff if they weren’t being funded from the US- this is a wink and nod type of thing. Likewise, no one has pointed to an instance where some local government in the US sent in police to evict people from property they owned, so other people favored by the government could take over their… Read more »
New London seized people’s land so they could give it to a company that happened to be favored by the government.
New London seized people’s land so they could give it to a company that happened to be favored by the government The famous Kelo v. City of New London case decided by the SCOTUS, in which Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a withering dissenting opinion regarding the proper use of government’s eminent domain power. To this day the land that was confiscated by the city has never been developed, by the way, rendering the inconvenience and grief visited upon the victims totally unnecessary. This is a prime example where poor people with no political connections stood to make some money by… Read more »