Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 6:04:51 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Calls for this jukebox

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 6:08:55 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 6:20:13 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 16:

Consider, that in this video, just being called a "frail" must be sexism

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 6:54:21 PM

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doppelganglander 1/1/2020 7:00:25 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

I'm with you. Jew-hate and Jew-hater are pity and to the point. Even Judenhass is better.

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 7:03:43 PM

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In #19 doppelganglander said: Even Judenhass is better.

"Judenhass" is still a foreign language, and needs to be explained---not to mention that it needlessly restricts Jew-hate, by implication, to the Germans, when it's a game that any and all ethnicities love to play.  Let's get away from harking back to the Holocaust and simply call it what it is, the more so since the Leftists who are most in love with coyly mincing around Jew-hate are wholly unused to being called out as "haters," and they need the shock.

Occasional Reader 1/1/2020 7:17:58 PM

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Occasional Reader 1/1/2020 7:20:14 PM

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My own new year and new decade began in the company of a lovely lady, so that’s definitely a nice way to start.

Occasional Reader 1/1/2020 7:24:15 PM

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And meanwhile, so-called journalists continue to be “terrified“ at the prospect of responsible, armed citizens:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/usa-today-dragged-to-hell-over-op-ed-on-terrifying-heroism-in-texas-church-shooting/

doppelganglander 1/1/2020 7:34:29 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 22:

Very nice indeed. I had a quiet night in with the BF watching "Casablanca."

Occasional Reader 1/1/2020 8:01:08 PM

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In #24 doppelganglander said: watching "Casablanca."

Never heard of it.

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So I do hope you regaled your boyfriend with explanations of the double entendre involved in the word “musical“; not to mention pointing out Captain Renaud’s weirdly ahistorical reference to being with the Americans “when they blundered their way into Berlin“ during the first world war. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 8:09:24 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

And, of course, that Strasse is street in German (although it is Major Strasser), so at the end, Captain Renault (a French car) crosses a major street

doppelganglander 1/1/2020 10:19:08 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

OMG, I actually did tell him about the double entendre of the word "musical." Yikes.

Syrah 1/2/2020 12:02:54 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

it was remarkable that of all the people that drew their side arm in that church, only one of them fired a single shot.

it didn’t turn into a turkey shoot like when the police stopped that highjacked UPS van and shot the hell out of it, killing the UPS employee in the process. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:04:39 PM

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THIRST!

Have a drink before reading my next post

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:07:07 PM

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Article suggesting a new term "Jew-haterism"

TO FIGHT Jew-hatred clearly, let’s retire that ambiguous, pseudoscientific term German Jew-haters coined – “antisemitism.” Start calling anti-Jewish bigotry by a less sterile name.

If racism is race-based hatred, and sexism sex-based hatred, call Jew-hatred “Jew-haterism.” Jewism sounds too close to Judaism – and isn’t ugly enough. Jew-hatred sounds episodic. Making it an “ism” captures the systemic way Jew-hatred operates, as the world’s most plastic hatred: endurable, adaptable, but artificial and often toxic.

In 1881, the Jew-hater Wilhelm Marr popularized the term “antisemitism.” Marr sought a scientific resonance to justify his Germanic obsession with the Jewish race. We know how that ended.

The most lethal strain of Jew-hatred since Nazism, Arab anti-Zionism hides its animus behind the term “antisemitism,” too. 

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 5:15:22 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

I see someone has---very badly---cribbed something I've been saying here, at WZ, and at PJM for some time; that "antisemitism" is a pseudoscientific term for Jew-hate popularized in the 19th century by Wilhelm Marr to make Jew-hate parlor-acceptable; to make it specifically racist, rather than religion-based (since Christianity was calving off like an Alaska glacier at the time); and to make it sound "intellectual."

In that, I cannot quarrel with the article; there is no reason to use the Jew-haters' pet word; it should be retired as a long-worn-out anomaly.  I do quarrel, however, with the author's addition of a wholly unnecessary additional syllable. "Jew-haterism?" Why make it so clunky and stupid-sounding?  Call it Jew-hate, period.

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 5:15:24 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

I see someone has---very badly---cribbed something I've been saying here, at WZ, and at PJM for some time; that "antisemitism" is a pseudoscientific term for Jew-hate popularized in the 19th century by Wilhelm Marr to make Jew-hate parlor-acceptable; to make it specifically racist, rather than religion-based (since Christianity was calving off like an Alaska glacier at the time); and to make it sound "intellectual."

In that, I cannot quarrel with the article; there is no reason to use the Jew-haters' pet word; it should be retired as a long-worn-out anomaly.  I do quarrel, however, with the author's addition of a wholly unnecessary additional syllable. "Jew-haterism?" Why make it so clunky and stupid-sounding?  Call it Jew-hate, period.

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:29:34 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

I do understand his motive for making at an "ism"

He wants it to sound like racism and sexism, and by doing so, adds credibility. The current outlier of these is Islamophobism, which would only make sense if fear of Muslims was unfounded, not that they have killed thousands of infidels - and other Muslims each branch considers infidels. Jewphobia would not be a good word.

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:34:00 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 5:36:53 PM

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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said: I do understand his motive for making at an "ism" He wants it to sound like racism and sexism, and by doing so, adds credibility. The current outlier of these is Islamophobism, which would only make sense if fear of Muslims was unfounded, not that they have killed thousands of infidels - and other Muslims each branch considers infidels. Jewphobia would not be a good word.

Sorry, no: keep it simple and terse.  Call it "hate," which is what it is, instead of playing footsie with all that "-ophobia" garbage.

buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 5:38:22 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6:

I have a straw hat like that; bought it 40 years ago in the old NYC millinery district.

lucius septimius 1/1/2020 5:45:14 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 8:

Why am I not surprised.

lucius septimius 1/1/2020 5:48:12 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/1/2020 5:57:07 PM

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In #9 lucius septimius said: Why am I not surprised.

It's a rare form of straw hat, nowadays; most of them are done with a pattern of flat, overlapping triangular scales.  The hat in the video is an earlier pattern, done with hollow straws, in a radiant pattern of spokes.

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:57:28 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 10:

I know a little German (points to midget in lederhosen), but that doesn't seem right to me

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 5:59:58 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 12:

I was right.

Kosh's Shadow 1/1/2020 6:02:07 PM

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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: I know a little German (points to midget in lederhosen), but that doesn't seem right to me

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