From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 15 Jun 2003 - 20:49:30 GMT
From: "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Nazion
Date sent: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:34:08 -0700
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>
> > From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Joe's anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic attacks
> >
> > >From: joedees@bellsouth.net
> > >
> > >From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
> > >
> > > > This is addressed to the host of this list:
> > > >
> > > > Are Joe Dees and others not enjoined from posting anti-Islamic
> > > > diatribes from this list, and was Joe not suspended already once
> > > > from this list for doing so?
> > > >
> > > > Will you enforce your rule, or are we again, on this list, to be
> > > > subjected to this nonsense?
> > > >
> > >I am not anti-Muslim; rather, I am opposed to the virulent
> > >Wahhabist convert-enslave-or-kill mutation that originated in Saudi
> > >Arabia and has taken hold in Egypt, Pakistan and the West Bank and
> > >Gaza. Anyone who is in favor of participatory democracy, religious
> > >and philosophical freedom, and equal civil and human rights should
> > >share my concerns. I simply could not, in all good conscience,
> > >allow Dace's gratuitous and unsolicited antijewish hate-propaganda
> > >diatribes to go unanswered onlist. Of course, Lawry would NEVER
> > >complain about the original rabidly Jew-hating screeds that
> > >provoked my responses, now WOULD he?
> > >
> > >
> > OK guys this is getting out of hand again.
> >
> > Dace, Lawry, and you have your biases and you're not going to
> > convince
> each
> > other otherwise.
>
> I see a memetic explanation of your misunderstanding. When
> particularly unpleasant conflicts erupt, you tend to view all sides as
> being equally guilty. This is the simplest way to put a stop to the
> fighting. The meme in question here exploits your desire to protect
> the group from tearing itself apart. If this way of thinking belonged
> to you alone, it would merely be a personal habit. But since this
> approach is common across many groups, it can be described as a
> culturally-transmitted habit, i.e. a meme.
>
> > > From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
> >
> > >From: Jkr438@aol.com
> > >
> > >[Jake] Could Godwin's rule be invoked here?
> > >
> > That's likely. This brings up the larger issue of why comparisons of
> > ideologies or groups people dislike to Nazism or Nazis or leaders
> > people dislike to Hitler are so common. Does the comparison add
> > anything informative to the topic at hand or detract?
>
> I wasn't comparing Zionism to Nazism. Rather I was tracing the
> existence of this malignant form of Zionism to its gestation in the
> death camps of Nazi Germany (just as Hitler's murderous impulses can
> be traced, in part, to the mechanized killing of World War I). It's a
> question of epidemiology, not a simple comparison. (It should be
> noted that Zionism preceded Nazi persecution, but then the Nazis were
> just the climax of a long tradition).
>
> > >Or even if not, is this really a
> > >good use of the memetics list? Surely some forums revel in this
> > >kind of theorizing, so I can't imagine that the memetics list has
> > >anything to add to this.
> > >
> > Some aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict are topical, but as we've
> > seen cannot be handled without people getting their feathers
> > ruffled.
> >
> > The ideology of Zionism (which isn't a bad word) would be
> > interesting to look into with some depth and objectivity. I actually
> > have Herzl's book around here somewhere. Zionism itself breaks up
> > into subideologies, with rightward and leftward leanings. The
> > difference between the Labor Zionism
> of
> > David Ben-Gurion and the Revisionist Zionism of Vlad Jabotinsky
> > would be one such polar subgrouping.
>
> Funny you should bring this up, since the equation of criticism of
> Israel with race hatred against Jews originated in none other than
> David Ben-Gurion. Here's a paragraph from Noam Chomsky's *Fateful
> Triangle,* page 16:
>
> >>>
> Christopher Sykes, in his excellent study of the pre-state period,
> traces the origins of this device ("a new phase in Zionist
> propaganda") to a "violent counterattack" by David Ben-Gurion against
> a British court that implicated Zionist leaders in arms-trafficking in
> 1943: "henceforth to be anti-Zionist was to be anti-Semitic." It is,
> however, primarily in the post-1967 period that the tactic has been
> honed to a high art, increasingly so, as the policies defended became
> less and less defensible. >>>
>
> > Another interesting, but far too emotionally charged, topic would be
> > the origin and propagation of the blood libel that Jews have some
> > need for Gentile blood. This has appeared in a recent form with
> > Arabs cast as
> victims
> > of the mythical bloodthirsty Jew. The blood libel is a notion that
> > has worked itself into propaganda spread by Arab media, and one
> > wonders what influence this might have on the perception Arab
> > childen have of Jews.
>
> Is this the origin of the vampire myth? I thought that came from
> anti-Slavic racism.
>
> > Other interesting topics relevant to cultural evolution would be
> (especially
> > as ideological antipodes to Zionism) ideologies of pan-Arabism and
> > Islamicism and how these might be broken into subgroupings.
> >
> > Instead we have Dace versus Joe or Lawry versus Joe.
>
> This is a very serious mischaracterization, and again I smell a meme.
> I am in no way attacking Joe, and neither is Lawry. I made a comment
> Joe didn't like, and he then accused me of an "antijewish diatribe."
> I have now defended myself from his unwarranted attack by noting that
> he's proving my point about the "accuse-all-critics-of-racism" meme.
> Your alarm at the threat to the integrity of the group (a noble
> concern, I might add) causes you to roundly condemn all parties,
> regardless of the facts.
>
> Ted
>
Ted is not only antijew, but unconsciously, taken-for-grantedly so; he
cannot even see that he is. However, his stance can clearly be seen
when one takes into account the supposed facts that he emphasizes,
and the other facts which he chooses to ignore.
>
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