Ideological Bigotry Part XV–Hatred’s Finale From Amy Klein

Eric at Tygrrrr Express* | July 14, 2008

One cannot teach an old dog new tricks, and one cannot teach an aging bigot the way to humanity and decency.

It seems that at that this rate, I might need an entire new blog just to detail the hate speech coming from an agent of tolerance of the Jewish Journal, Amy Klein.

When I use the word tolerance, I mean it the way a politically liberal person would mean it. One should show compassion for Gitmo detainees, Palestinian homicide bombers, and other terrorists, but republicans should be decried as evil at every possible turn.

I can understand making anti-republican remarks if one is a liberal debater on a talk show. Both sides spout their talking points, and move on.

What bothers me is when one engages in smears for no particular reason. Like the bully that steals school lunch money, there is no rationale. They do it “just because.”

When I go to the grocery store, I expect the checkout clerk to smile, offer me my change and my receipt, and ask me if I want paper or plastic. Assuming that my comments are equally benign, I would not expect the checkout clerk to then say, “Oh, and I hate republicans, especially George W. Bush.”

The above fictional situation is taking place in many areas across America. It is usually followed by foaming of the mouth, which is common in many liberals and other out of control rabid animals.

It is almost a disease, but then again our society treats everything from alcoholism to road rage as a disease. What it should actually be labeled is what society used to refer to it as…bad behavior.

This week, only one week removed from her previously bigoted comments, Amy Klein has struck again.

The basic substance of her column, and I use the word substance loosely, is that she desperately wants a husband. Like most Jewish liberals, she is angst ridden. This week she hemmed and hawed about whether or not to make a “list” of what she wants in a man.

She decided to make the list, and out of 25 qualities, 2 of them lunged out at me like a poisoned dagger.

2) Liberal.

This is fine by itself. She has every right to preach tolerance while excluding republicans. Yet further down the list is where her bile surfaced.

Empathy for the world (See # 2).

Had she just left # 8 without the parentheses, it would have been a beautiful character trait. However, by making # 8 conditional on # 2, she decided to offer a giant slap in the face to half of America, myself included.

This is another example of liberals claiming that conservatives and republicans are intolerant, when it is the left that possesses the hostility in abundance. The left will then claim that both sides do it, but the difference is that hostility on the right is from fringes, and it is quickly shouted down by the left and the right. Hostility and rage on the left is encouraged by the left, and even celebrated.

This can be seen in the venom being directed at Barack Obama for his support of President Bush’s faith based programs. Obama has criticized President Bush relentlessly, but the one time he says something remotely positive about a man he disagrees with on most issues, his most fervent supporters turn on him. One of them even threatened to castrate him. Folks, it is not republicans acting this way.

With regards to Amy Klein, let’s see how liberals have shown empathy for the world.

By banning DDT, liberals contributed to the mass murder of millions of Africans. Malaria is still killing them. This is liberal empathy.

By trying to ban all animal testing, liberals are delaying the ability to develop cures for diseases such as cancer and AIDS. AIDS activists are normally liberals. This is liberal compassion.

By caring about trees and animals more than human beings, liberals are putting many families out of work in the Pacific Northwest. Timber companies consist of blue collar workers trying to feed their children, but the various forms of the Spotted Owl matter more. This is liberal compassion.

Liberals support public school systems where kids go to die from drugs and guns, despite the fact that many black people in America, including liberal Barack Obama, support faith based programs (or at least claim they do). Black Americans want to send their children to religious schools, but the National Education Association would rather kids pray on their knees to the person about to shoot them than pray on their knees to the God at a religious school that loves them. This is liberal compassion.

Liberals want to ban all guns, while claiming that they only want “reasonable” gun control. Four liberal Supreme Court Justices believe that only criminals should have the right to own guns, leaving many people in poor neighborhoods, especially minorities, vulnerable at the hands of armed criminals. The states with the strictest gun laws have the highest rates of crime, but liberals will ignore this. This is liberal compassion.

So Amy Klein basically wants to kill all minorities. She wants black people to die especially violently from drugs, guns, and pestilence. This makes her a racist.

No, of course I do not believe that last sentence. However, It is that easy to slur a faceless individual.

I am a proud Jewish republican, and I absolutely have empathy for the world.

I have empathy for Afghani women who can now walk in the street without being beaten to death.

I have empathy for Iraqi citizens and their purple stained fingers, who are now free from the madman that was Saddam Hussein.

I have empathy for Israelis, 70% of whom supported President Bush in 2004, who at least now face homicide bombers not being funded by the deceased Mr. Hussein.

I have empathy for the woman who prevents somebody from raping her because she is allowed to own a gun to offend her attacker.

(Oh, and enough of these movies that show him taking the gun out of her weak and frail little wrists. That is sexism, or as liberals call it, compassion)

I have empathy for black republicans that have Oreo cookies thrown at them and the Jewish republicans that are called Nazis by “enlightened” and “tolerant” liberals, many of them Jews.

I have empathy for the surviving family members of a murder victim that cries out for justice when some liberal judge refuses to enforce the death penalty in the name of compassion.

One of the reasons that I despise the label “compassionate conservative” is because conservatism is compassion.

The highest form of Tzedakah (charity) according to Jewish law is the concept of helping somebody else become self sufficient, rather than giving them a handout. This is conservatism.

Welfare is not empathy. Welfare is poison. It is the modern version of slavery. Welfare reform is compassion.

One need no further proof of what benefits the downtrodden than the violent reaction of Jesse Jackson towards Barack Obama. Jesse Jackson has built his career on exploiting human misery and exacerbating racial tensions. Barack Obama, while not my candidate of choice, wants to truly bring racial healing.

Jesse Jackson can rail against Barack Obama all he wants, but it does not change the fact that Jackson is a miserable creature resigned to being yesterday’s news, while Barack Obama, win or lose, has already surpassed Jackson by wide country miles. Jackson keeps grousing, and Obama keeps smiling.

This analogy is how I shall deal with Amy Klein. As much as her ideological bigotry is hurtful, she remains nothing more than an angry woman desperate for a husband, unable to see that her own hatred for people she has never met prevents her from a brighter future. I have plenty of single friends, but I would not let them near her.

As for me, I remain blissfully happy with the Chicago Cannonball. While there are no guarantees, one thing that we both agree on is that our political differences will not keep us apart. She does not have to care about my politics. She cares about me, and I am one of the luckiest men on Earth.

She is liberal politically, and she is “tolerant,” loving, accepting, and empathetic of all people, even those who are different from her.

Amy Klein can learn from this empathetic liberal who cares about the world we live in.

She could also learn from this conservative who does as well.

I suspect she will not learn. Oh, well. My keyboard has time to deal with her and every other person who spreads ideological bigotry.

eric

Editor’s note: Mere hours after I wrote this column, but before it was published, I became aware that Amy Klein is no longer with the Jewish Journal. Apparently the separation occurred on July 7th, four days after I wrote my original column dealing with her conduct. Unless I am presented with direct evidence to the contrary, I shall chalk this up to a coincidence.

Am I happy about this? No. Am I sad about it? No. What I hope is that Amy Klein loses the hostility she has towards republicans.

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