Whoopie Goldberg deep thoughts on Holocaust, hating jews and other stuff

The asininity cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race; Hitler wasn't exactly hiding the ball when he stated in “Mein Kampf”: “Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race?” Hitler repeatedly referred to the Jews as a race of parasites, and targeted Jews on the basis of ethnicity rather than religious adherence.

The question must be asked, then: What, precisely, did Goldberg think she was doing? The answer is that she believed she was upholding the intersectional theory of race and racism. That theory holds that society is structured in a hierarchy of victimized and victimizing groups; that groups that are disproportionately successful are victimizers, and that groups that are disproportionately less successful are victimized. Jews are disproportionately successful; thus, they are white. And, intersectional theory posits, racism is not defined as a belief that any other race is superior or inferior to another; instead, racism means -- as the Anti-Defamation League recently defined it -- “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”

These two concepts, taken in tandem, mean that Jews cannot be considered victims of antisemitism. They are highly successful; they are white. Thus, they cannot be members of a victimized minority. This is why the mainstream Left is so reluctant to recognize the antisemitism of Hamas (Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, for example, condemned Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks by Hamas by decrying “Black and brown bodies being brutalized and murdered”); it is why the mainstream Left is complicit in the lie that the only true antisemitism springs from white supremacists, ignoring actual acts of Jew-hatred by members of minority populations. The intersectional Left's conspiracy theory -- that a cabal of white victimizers (including Jews, and now, Asians) control society for its own benefit -- inherently crosses streams with antisemitism.

Goldberg's comments aren't an aberration. They're merely the latest iteration of a pernicious and perverse theory of power in politics -- a conspiracy theory about groups that succeed and the systems in which they succeed.

Crusader wrote:If she hates Jews so badly, why did she choose the last name "Goldberg"?