Anti-Semitism Is Now Respectable

It wasn't very long ago that I suggested, mildly, that the Black Lives Matter movement had an anti-Semitic bias. Once we saw the Nation of Islam providing security at the funeral of George Floyd, we could easily have seen that the current infatuation with BLM was going to make anti-Semitism respectable again. 

So, here we are, with someone named Chelsea Handler offering words of praise for one Louis Farrakhan, a leading anti-Semite, misogynist and homophobe. It shows you the danger of having brain dead celebrities lead public debate. As you see, when your brain is empty you think you can learn from Louis Farrakhan. (via Hot Air)

One of Handler’s followers replied:

One replied, “So, based on this logic, if you find a video of Hitler saying something positive and powerful, will you feel equally compelled to share it? You gave hate credibility and a large platform today.”

To which Handler answered:

Handler responded, “No, because Hitler was responsible for killing millions of lives. Farrakhan is just responsible for his own promotion of anti-Semitic beliefs. They are very different.”

She added, “Another thing: perhaps Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic views took form during his own oppression,” she wrote. “We know now that oppression of one race leads to an oppression of all races.”

I will not dignify this with the name of thought. If someone were to promote beliefs that were racist, those beliefs, in and of themselves would be considered cause for expulsion from the human species.

And Handler was not alone. A number of other nitwit celebrities joined the party:

Actress Jessica Chastain also re-posted the video clip to her Instagram story, and according to several circulating screencaps of Jameela Jamil’s Instagram, she too may have posted it before deleting. “Powerful,” Lisa Rinna wrote in the comments to Handler’s video. “This should be played on a loop. Everywhere. Always,” wrote Sean Hayes.

Mediaite is reporting that “fellow celebrities Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, and Michelle Pfeiffer” also liked the post. And all of this comes a couple days after Ice Cube put up a tweet post praising Farrakhan.

You get the picture. Now that Black Lives Matter, Louis Farrakhan has become a beacon. Let’s remember that, in the waning days of the Obama presidency, Farrakhan held a rally with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Given that Obama was Wright’s protege, you might want to ask yourself how it happened that Obama spent twenty years in the pews of Wright’s church, listening to hate preaching, and did not notice what was going on.