Poor Jonah Goldberg, he wandered into the method of explaining his
views with the use of metaphors not knowing it is a minefield that is likely to
blow him up at the time he expects it the least.
He wrote: “The Aristocracy of Victimhood,” apparently oblivious of
the fact that victimhood and Jews are associated together, as closely as flies
and dung are associated together. The sole exception being that the flies seek
nourishment for the day whereas the Jews seek the kind of undeserved
compensation that nevertheless promises to bump them up to a higher level of
aristocratic life.
The Jonah Goldberg article containing that blooper and more, was
published on March 8, 2019 in National Review Online. The writer began his
argument with what sounds like a fitting subtitle for the kind of article he
was writing. Here is that would-be subtitle: “If anti-Semitism is wrong, it's
no less wrong no matter how bad Ilhan Omar's childhood was”.
It is an illegitimate bastardization of the legitimate saying that
was bandied about for decades to the effect that stealing Palestine was wrong
no matter how self-destructive the Jewish existence had been since they came
into existence centuries ago. Still, the Jews managed to deploy that bastard
conception so effectively, they took control of (1) America's finances, thus
sucked billions of dollars from it to benefit Israel; (2) America's politics,
thus paralyzed the business of Americans to fast-track that of Israelis, and
(3) gave the children of Holocaust survivors absolute authority over America's
military, who used it to make America commit the worst mistake ever: the
complete demolition and invasion of Iraq.
Jonah Goldberg proceeded to tell what his beef was all about. Here
is a condensed version of that: “I'm still noodling over James Clyburn's
statement. He came to Omar's defense, [observing] that her experience is much
more empirical and powerful than that of people who are generations removed
from the Holocaust, and Japanese internment camps during World War II. There
are people who tell me, 'my parents are Holocaust survivors, and they did
this.' It's more personal with Ilhan Omar, Clyburn said”.
And this is how Goldberg responded to that: “Clyburn seems to
suggest that because of her [Omar’s] experiences and identity, her ideas
deserve more latitude than those of another person with the exact same views. I
have trouble with the logic here on a number of fronts. Ilhan Omar had a rough
childhood in Somalia. And therefore she earned the right to bitch about Israel
and the Jews? I'm missing something here. What the hell did the Jews or
Israelis have to do with her youthful travails?”
Well, like he says, Goldberg has trouble with the logic that seems
to suggest Omar's ideas deserve more latitude because she had a rough childhood
in Somalia, which earned her the right to bitch about Israel and the Jews. But
that's not the point Clyburn was making, given that Ilhan Omar made no claim of
any kind. In fact, she asked for nothing like (1) American finances to benefit
Somalia; or (2) paralyzing the business of Americans to fast-track that of
Somalis, or (3) giving the children of America's Slaves absolute authority over
the military with instruction to go bomb Israel into the Stone Age.
The actual point that Clyburn was making is that Ilhan Omar is
better equipped than anyone to feel the pain that the Palestinians feel due to
the money and weapons that America gives to Israel based on contrived
presentations made by American Jews about the pain that was felt decades ago by
European Jews. This would be Jewish pain that had nothing to do with the
Palestinians.
Furthermore, it was that contrived pain which was used as a
fabricated excuse by Dick Cheney to give the children of Holocaust survivors
complete authority to use America's military and go bomb Iraq into the Stone
Age. That was Iraq that had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
And then, to perpetuate the abomination, it was that same Dick
Cheney, now known as a moral prostitute, that allowed the Jews to brainwash his
daughter Liz, into bitching about America not doing enough to support Israel
against the Palestinians … which led Liz Cheney to demand the removal of Ilhan
Omar from the Foreign Relations Committee where the latter will have the right
to bring into focus the damage that Israel is doing to America.
It is like they say: A bitchy father that’s a moral prostitute
begets a bitchy daughter that’s also a moral prostitute, and there will always
be a Jewish pundit who will bitch to distort reality, trying to make the
aggressor look like victim, and the victim look like the aggressor. And there
is moral prostitution here too.
But Goldberg would not have written any of this, were it not for
the metaphor with which he started the article. Here is how he got on the wrong
foot to begin with:
“Imagine a middle-aged white guy saying that 'Jews are bad, and
they smell like cabbage.' Now imagine a one-armed lesbian Yemeni refugee that
had a rough childhood saying the same thing. Does the statement become any more
true?”
Goldberg created this analogy to pave the way for attacking the reality
that Ilhan Omar is motivated to work on alleviating the pain of the
Palestinians because she went through an experience similar to what they are
going through.
But if you compare this reality to the Goldberg metaphor, you'll
see a divergence that no logical argument, however much you stretch it, can
ever close. So the question to ask, is how did it happen that Goldberg got caught
in a trap of his making?
Well, there can only be one explanation. It has to do with the
Jewish habit of looking at themselves in the mirror, seeing what's horrifically
ugly about them, and attributing it to others.
This time Jonathan Goldberg looked — not in the mirror of vision —
but the mirror of odor. And he was hit with the smell of cabbage. So, he cried
out: Hallelujah, I have a great cabbage story to tell!