Let me say at the outset that I don't believe the Earth is flat,
and I have no proof to this effect. What I have are several true stories which,
in this day and age, sound as amazing as someone saying the Earth is flat.
It was sometime in the mid-1960s when I loved to read a print
magazine (no internet then) called Popular Mechanics. One day, I bought the
newest edition, and there was a long article in it under a title which said
something to the effect that the Soviet space achievements were fake. In a well
written and elegant article, its writer pointed out, in meticulous details, why
that view was correct. But in time, the view proved false.
Decades later, I was teaching in my own school when a student
approached me to say I was missing something. I asked what it might be, and he
said his uncle wrote a book, and I ought to read it. The title of the
self-published book said something like the Earth was flat. From reading the
first few paragraphs, I determined it was not a metaphor, but that the writer
had set out to earnestly prove the Earth was not a sphere but a flat expanse.
I stopped reading the book but glanced through the rest of it to
see how someone would go about making such an argument. Well, like the guy that
said the Russian space program was fake, this one too set out to explain in
meticulous details –– though a less elegant style –– why everything that gave
the impression the Earth was a sphere, was actually an optical illusion.
It is with this in mind that I sat down to read the 2,100-word
essay written by Stella Morabito which came under the title: “Why Rashida
Tlaib's Holocaust Comments Were Propaganda,” and the subtitle: “How might
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib's comments about the Holocaust play into a campaign
against Israel in particular or the Jewish people in general?” It was published
on May 20, 2019 in The Federalist.
The opening paragraph in Morabito's article contains the highest-ranking
trope in the Fascist playbook. It says that the free expression of the people's
opinions creates divisions among the masses. Applied to America, this is how
Stella Morabito expressed that thought: “elites have created dangerous
divisions among Americans.” When you probe deep into what the Jews and their
gentile lackeys mean by that, you'll find it to be that Jewish and Israeli
causes must always enjoy bipartisan support in America.
If you ask for an explanation, you're told that any “daylight”
between the Jewish demands and the American assent to them, is dangerous for
the Jews and for Israel. Thus, what Stella Morabito did, was to begin her
article by arguing that if you're going to talk about something Jewish or
Israeli, you must find out what is valid at this time and parrot it, or keep
your mouth shut.
That's because what is valid in one conversation may be that A is
true whereas B is false. An hour later, in another conversation, the same B
might be true whereas the A might be false. To be safe, therefore, don't argue
at all. But if you must join the conversation, say you agree (even if you
don't) with everything Jewish and Israeli because Jews and Israelis are perfect
in every way. Benito Mussolini, the father of fascism, would have loved to be a
Jew under these conditions.
If you, my friend, find this Jewish style reasoning to be as
primitive, backward and ignorant as to say that the Earth is flat, or that
American astronauts are taken to the space station on fake Russian rockets,
you'll find that when Stella Morabito defends the view which says the free
expression of opinions creates divisions among the masses –– she replicates the
argument that said the Soviet space achievements were fake; also replicates the
argument that said the Earth was flat. Here is a sample of how she spun what
Representative Rashida Tlaib had expressed:
“It's the shock effect of Tlaib's preface that gets our attention.
It also gets her claim circulating in public discourse. That's how an
'availability cascade' works. According to Cass Sunstein's and Timur Kuran's
wonkish definition, an availability cascade 'is a self-reinforcing process of
collective belief formation by which an expressed perception triggers a chain
reaction that gives the perception of increasing plausibility through its
rising availability in public discourse.'” Huh!
All that Rashida Tlaib did to merit that mumbo-jumbo gibberish
being thrown at her, is that she said she found a soothing kind of solace in
the fact that the tragedy which befell her people was not in vain, given that
it helped rescue another people from the clutches of the Nazis. It is just that
they happened to be the Jews who never say thank you even when you rescue them
from certain death.
As to the noble sentiment that Rashida Tlaib has expressed, let it
be known that she was not the first to express it. In fact, it was detected
long ago, and given the name Stockholm Syndrome.
It came about when bank robbers in the city of Stockholm took
hostages. While negotiations were ongoing with the police to free the hostages,
the latter came to understand the desperation of the robbers, and began to
sympathize with them. After their release, the hostages surprised everyone by
refusing to testify against their captors.