Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "John Anderson Media"
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@honestjohn6418 Yes, and I wish we could expand the dimension of our understanding on how, what you so eloquently described, is being turned into a dogmatic ideology at best, and an alternative religion at worst. We can't solely blame Marx, it's not the tip of the spear, what you just described, is. I am 65 and watched this regressive "Back to the Garden" message flower since Woodstock. We are faced with several generations now believing there's a Unicorn Utopia just waiting for them if this, that, and the other occur. Their foundational precepts are flawed, so the framework will collapse, no doubt. I'd like to see John focus on this, perhaps with an anthropologist and social scientist. Go for it, John. Pandora needs a spanking.
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@honestjohn6418 I want to more fully respond to you later, but quickly, I lived in a prosperous suburb of Los Angeles, and at 15, in 1970, our household included a Jewish mother and black step-father, so I don't have the "guilt/shame" nexus of my white peers, drives them crazy. In 1971 Jazz became sort of a religion to me, and through the 1970's to the year 2000, I made my living at it, not as a musician, but in the business. The "hipster" friends you described is not new, and predates the Carnaby Street of even your parents youth. Check out this essay by Norman Mailer from 1957, "The White Negro" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Negro
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"Atheists", if you discount, or are unaware of, the influence of Aristotle, Plato, the philosophies of Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, and Epicureanism, on the early Christian Church Fathers, including St. Paul, and later St. Augustine, then you have no real understanding of your own faith, and little business criticism others who do.
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@jamesw17 Great question! I've been thinking about writing a counter-factual novel like Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" about that very subject. If John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglas were of different mind, and instead of Lincoln, a Quaker had been elected president, what would America have been like. But I realized the novel would have been really, really boring. Perhaps if John Brown had spent time with the shamans of the American Southwest, partook in the Peyote rituals, and then brought a transcendent, mystic message to the slave states instead of a Jeremiah, hum.... that might work.....
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@honestjohn6418 Um, Jazz was a true convergence of culture, it transcended culture, and expressed something wholly spiritual, like Indian Classical music. In the late 1950's that changed, it became fractured, categorized, politicized, and some white jazz musicians referred to this as "Crow Jim", or reverse discrimination, since they said only Black people could play jazz. That is not an academic statement from me, it is one I saw first hand, and have listened to stories from musicians who both perpetrated it, and were affected by it. It killed Jazz, and I mark its death as 1967, with the passing of John Coltrane, everything since is just an echo of what he did. The full franchise expression of American Black music since then leaves me empty and disgusted. I often apologize to foreign visitors for its virulence which has overtaken the globe. It is, that bad.
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‘Steering’ is Illegal under the Fair Housing Laws
(1968)
The Federal Fair Housing Act makes it illegal for an agent “…to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” (See 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c))
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@farapipsqueek636 The issues related to Hutu and Tusti predate colonialism and "class struggle", as does your view of Jewish history in Europe. I take a longer view of history and the behavior of humans, as well as all biological life. The Hutu and Tusti was but one example of perceived differences leading to oppression and genocide, another would be the Han Chinese treatment of ethnic groups like the Uyghurs and Yao people, and recent violence against Africans after an outbreak of African swine virus that decimated the Chinese pork industry. If you investigate the history of antisemitism in the U.S., you will see it also breaks down into perceived differences between Spanish Jews of the Iberian diaspora who arrived in North America in the middle of the 17th century, the later German Jewish migration in the mid-19th century, and then the Eastern European Jew flavor of the later part of the 19th and early 20th Century. Read Carey McWilliams work on this: A Mask for Privilege, Anti-Semitism in America, written in 1948. I like that it was written prior to 1970, when the failed Marxists took the issue over and related everything to class struggle and the social injustice of capitalism. I just don't see this issue in that narrow framework, partly because that framework has failed to be effective, doesn't fully explain the issue, and I believe, needs to be to put it aside. If we are forced to reduce our perspective to a Marxist system of reality, human progress will fail.
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@LS-td3no Yes, I have seen it, and the broader story, too, about the birth of the Israeli Air Force and the irony that many flew Czechoslovak-built German Messerschmitt in 1948. It was available on Amazon Prime. BLM supports DD, BDS, and considers Israel and illegal state. BLM was founded by Marxists who are atheists. One of the founders was born of a Black father and Jewish mother, brought up as a Zionist, but in college renounced all religion and became a devout Marxist intent on ending Capitalism around the world. I have neighbors who are Christian BLM supporters unaware of the atheism of this movement, not reported on MSM. I am a non religious Jew, and do not support all the policies of Israel. Here's a speech by former Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver that tells the "past is prologue" story of BLM: https://youtu.be/-MPxlemtm90
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