Jobellerina, Antisemitism Is NOT ‘A Virus’ – It’s Being A Bigot

You read crap like this from fellow WordPressers (thankfully confined to Twitter in this case, but all the same, come on!) who ought to know better, and despair.

Antisemitism is not ‘a virus’.

Rabies is a virus.

The flu is a virus.

Herpes is a virus.

Being a pathetic bigot who doesn’t like Jews for whatever f**ked up reason they can think of is not, repeat not a virus.

That is being ludicrously emotive.

That is being Owen Jones or one of the other silly little hysterical tween girls who write for ‘The Guardian’.

That is when people stop taking what you have to say seriously.

Not least of all because that is behaving exactly like the very morons you are criticising.

People are antisemitic because scapegoating and hating ‘others’ is human nature, hardwired in our DNA in the competition for survival. You can substitute Jews for just about every other group on the planet and you can be sure there’s someone else being blamed by someone else for everything and anything.

The trick is training oneself to overcome it. There’s a technical term for it – it’s called ‘growing up’. Civilisation depends on it.

Unfortunately that’s something very few do today, largely because everyone’s fallen over themselves to be ‘non-judgemental’, which has allowed all sorts of nasty people for the sake of being nasty to exploit it to the hilt. Ho-de-hum, and who didn’t see that one coming?

Labour’s current troubles are hilarious because they’re reaping what they’ve sown for decades worth of pandering to all sorts of brochialists, misogynists, tribal groups and career snowflakes in return for their support at election time, turning a Nelson’s eye to their deeply sinister attitudes and bully-boy behaviour.

Now it’s come back to bite them in the arse at precisely the correct moment. Karma.

A perfect storm? The far right? You mean the far right which is standing one – let’s repeat that – ONE candidate in the entire British general election (unless you go by the Hope Not Hate stretchy vegan cheese definition where it means ‘anyone you don’t like’). Even Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson has realised his fifteen minutes of fame and fail are over.

There’s more chance of ‘a gathering storm’ from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party – it at least can get twenty four people to find other people to provide £500 to stand for election and another £1300 for the ‘free’ leaflet drop from the post office.

You may as well blame ‘South Park’, where Cartman has been antisemitic for years without anyone being dumb enough to consider it any threat – but a sense of proportion is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?

Stop talking up trouble because you want it to happen, because ‘drama is exciting’ – so long as it’s happening outside someone else’s front door or street and not your own. Real life isn’t a bloody Harry Potter adventure.

Stupid skeet!