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Tuesday 
16 December 2008
Madoff’s gift to anti-Semites
It is every Jew’s lot in life to cringe anytime a fellow Jew who happens to be filthy rich has the spotlight on them, particularly if said wealthy Jew has done something wrong.
It is the enduring nature of one of the primary negative stereotypes about Jews, and to Jews who know their history Bernard Madoff’s crimes come at the perfect time to fan the flames of anti-Semitism.
The economic depression in Germany in the 1930s, after the 1929 Wall Street crash, was worse than it was anywhere else in Europe, even worse than in the U.S., and scapegoating the Jews was central to the rise of the Nazis.
I originally was going to post something like a countdown to see how many days it would take before the exploitation of the fact that Madoff is Jewish makes it to the internet, but a simple Google search has already yielded stuff like this headline and lede from Friday:
Bernard Madoff (jew) arrested over $50 billion fraud
Apparently the assets of pension funds, mostly in the US and UK, were passed to Bernard Madoff by other jews for a massive Ponzi scheme.
It is unlikely he will go to prision or even be found guilty. jews never pay for their crimes in the USA (they own the USA).
I’d like to think that anti-Semites will never again be able to persuade millions of people to blame Jews for a nation’s economic woes, but all the evidence in the world that this won’t happen is still not enough to counter the post-traumatic fear response most Jews experience in situations like this.
Interestingly, Josh Marshall posted yesterday about Richard Whitney (decidedly NOT a Jew) whose story from the time of the Great Depression is similar to Madoff’s.
Does that bring me some kind of relief? Not really.
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Hey Gonzo, the anti-semite screed was some blogger at Guerrilla.TV. It seems among the lefty wingnuts they have over there, there are a few anti-semite wingnuts, too. His blog posts are all highly incendiary (there’s a post about British soldiers getting killed in Afghanistan, there’s one about an Obama supporting teacher in South Carolina, and other tripe). To me it seems he seems to be the definition of a troll. Then again, perhaps that’s just what I’m thinking after years of exposure to the Jew controlled media and educational system.
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Good sir,
As Kirk mentions, you may want to relax before putting too much stock in the statements of one lefty blogger. Sanity among lefty bloggers is not a prized commodity. Particularly in this case, when one considers all the Jewish charities who have lost money in this deal.
You did miss the most interesting part of this scandal, though. Madoff’s political donations to so many of those prominent congressional architects of a current recession - $39K to Schumer alone, and of course Barney Frank, and the DCCC (which got $100K in the last few years).
I look forward to your thoughts on the insidious relationship of Democratic pols in those states with a major financial company presence and Mr. Madoff. It no doubt will be illuminating.
With warmest regards.
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Kirk, funny punchline, LOL!
A couple of things in response to your comment.
First, that was merely the first link I clicked on when I Googled the keywords Madoff-Jew. Make no mistake, there were many other hits, leading to disturbing websites filled with hate.
Second, the whole left vs. right thing doesn’t work here, so this is one area where you won’t see me blaming just rightwingnuts. All you have to do is attend an anti-war rally and you will find leftwingnuts who don’t understand the simple difference between the government of Israel and the entire international population of Jews.