tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post2188081320160046088..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: Not talking about S**** P****Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-86958719866576857832008-09-13T17:39:00.000-04:002008-09-13T17:39:00.000-04:00Even though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool leftwinger, I f...Even though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool leftwinger, I find myself more intrinsically hostile to annoying extreme left-wingers than their right-wing counterparts. I think its a mix of a) a sentiment that the lefties should know better and b) that the left-wing crazies tend to utilize concepts and ideals I care about to justify arguments I find abhorrent. So to me, it feels like important commitments to me (anti-racism, or anti-colonialism, or equality) are being corrupted.<BR/><BR/>Similarly, I find right-wing Jewish social conservatives (ala Dennis Prager) to be far more infuriating than his Christian analogues (Pat Robertson and the like). When Christians go off on how God and the Bible mandate that we hate on gays or whatever, I can just shrug and say "that's why I'll never be Christian". When Prager does it, I feel like it makes me personally look bad.David Schraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-56953719211581152882008-09-12T19:23:00.000-04:002008-09-12T19:23:00.000-04:00"The sense I've gotten from the RNC and its afterm...<I>"The sense I've gotten from the RNC and its aftermath is that the less appetizing aspects of the right now have a very good shot at winning once and for all."</I><BR/><BR/>Having nightmares and anxiety about Sarah Palin leading a right-wing nativist movement? Ask your doctor if <A HREF="http://thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=671760&hp" REL="nofollow">Jewbutrin</A> is right for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-62103174585868635632008-09-12T17:50:00.000-04:002008-09-12T17:50:00.000-04:00"That's now much of a nutty Zionist I am, I believ...<I>"That's now much of a nutty Zionist I am, I believe there should be a two-state solution, with one of the states being a Jewish one."</I><BR/><BR/>Good for you. At this rate, you'll be (correctly) condemning the settlement policy as bad for the future of Zionism in no time at all.<BR/><BR/><I>"I'm put off by those on the left who argue that it's racist for Israel, whatever its borders, to be a Jewish state."</I><BR/><BR/>I guess my complaint is that you generally conflate those on the pro-Zionist left who are in favor of a genuine two-state solution with those on the far left who are actually opposed to the Zionist project. (I'm not saying you are doing that here, but that it seems to be your default orientation...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com