Friday, July 5, 2019

Haggling over the Actual and the Potential

There is a headline that will make you realize it speaks of an endemic question requiring a major treatment of the subject. The headline is this: “Why Ocasio-Cortez's 'concentration camp' comparison still matters,” written by Kaylee McGhee, and published on July 3, 2019 in the Washington Examiner.

The headline forces the question: Why do normal people such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) see the things that brainwashed fanatics such as Kaylee McGhee, are incapable of seeing? A quick answer to this question goes like this: AOC and normal human beings, see and react not simply to the horrific acts which are committed by someone; they see and react to the demonstrated potential of that someone to commit even more horrific acts.

This is an abstract concept that begs to be illustrated with an easy-to-understand mechanical model. So, imagine you have a gun that shoots ordinary bullets through a sheet of steel that's a quarter of an inch thick. You now fire a bullet into a piece of wood that is a foot thick, and the bullet goes through it. Someone hands you a box of newly engineered bullets, claiming they will go through two-feet of wood –– twice as thick as what your bullets would go through.

You don't have a piece of wood that's two feet thick to test the new bullets, but you have a sheet of steel that is twice as thick as the quarter inch you used previously. You fire the new bullet into it, and the bullet goes through the sheet of steel. This performance convinces you that even if you did not fire the new bullet on wood, it has the potential to go through two feet of wood.

The point of that imagined experiment is to show that the best way to obtain proof of something, is always to witness the actual event. But if this cannot be done, you may conduct a similar kind of experiment, and extrapolate from it what would happen in case the actual event was duplicated. In fact, because we don't always have the full slate of information that we need to make the correct decision, ordinary human beings rely on that kind of thought experiment to navigate through the vicissitudes of the daily life.

It is what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did when she saw the condition in the Texas detention center. She concluded that the people who are responsible for this situation, had the potential to commit the horrific acts that were committed in the concentration camps of World War II. It is just that the Americans were not given the opportunity to go as far.

In fact, the same can be said about the monsters who committed the “No Gun Ri” massacre in South Korea in 1950, the “My Lay” Massacre in South Vietnam in 1968, the “Abu Ghraib” atrocities in Iraq and the waterboarding torture. Because they had it within them to do what they did when given the opportunity, it must be concluded that these American soldiers and border guards would have committed the atrocities that the Nazis did, had they been given the opportunity to unleash their savage instinct on those who cannot defend themselves. The potential was there –– thankfully, the opportunity was not.

So then, what does that say about the Jews who jump at every occasion to create an artificial gap between what happened to Jewish adults in a war situation almost a century ago, and what happens to infants and toddlers in today's peacetime America? What it says is that the Jews are not reacting to observed facts or to what can be extrapolated from them; they are reacting to a deeply ingrained cultural belief that is divorced from reality. And so, here is another experiment we can conduct to unveil what that belief is made of:

Ask those Jews what they would do to a ninety year old man that only stood guard at the gate of a concentration camp during World War II, and they'll say he should be deported so that justice be served decades later, even if he did not interact with the prisoners or mistreat them. The Jews will explain that having accepted to stand guard at the gate of a concentration camp, proves that if the man were given the opportunity to be as bad as those who committed horrible acts, he would have done the same thing. He had the potential that just did not come to fruition, they’ll insist. Thus, the Jews would punish the man, not because of what he did, which was little but for what they extrapolate was the potential within him to do. In their mind, he stands at par with the worst of the Nazi monsters.

Does that tell us what belief is deeply ingrained in the Jewish culture that keeps them divorced from reality? Yes. Simply put, it is the belief that they are so different and apart from the human race, they ought to be judged by a different set of rules … or not judged at all. It is why the Jews will not allow any kind of comparison between the Texas detention centers, set-up for ordinary mortals, and the concentration camps of an earlier era, set-up for extraordinary Jews.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is not handicapped by that sick fantasy or anything like it, observed a situation the way that normal human beings do, reacted to it the way that normal human beings do, and spoke out the way that normal human beings do.

And so, the self-declared abnormal Jews reacted by protesting being considered normal human beings. They want to remain separate and apart, especially when it comes to the application of the law.

It is their choice. Who are we to insist that they be treated otherwise?