Tigerhawk frowns on the latest Iranian anti-Israel hatefest and makes the following observation:
The Islamic Republic of Iran's campaign to deny the Holocaust is rooted in the idea that the Holocaust is the moral basis for the establishment of Israel. If the moral foundation under Israel cracks, the thinking goes, war to eradicate Israel -- to "wipe it from the map" -- is suddenly justifiable. That is why Iran is holding its conference. There is no other convincing explanation.
The thing is, the road to Tehran's denial was paved by Western chattering classes, who have recently indulged in absurd invocations of the word "genocide" and casual comparisons of the Israelis to Nazis.
Of course, the "chattering classes" are so enamored of Bush-hatred that they instinctively adopt Iran's absurdist fantasies which largely track their own, in which Amerikkka, particularly under W, and any of its allies, particularly Israel, are the cause of all world evil. They have no problem doing this, of course, because for them, everything is morally equivalent anyway.
Tigerhawk thinks about this and draws the following entirely rational, and delightfully snide conclusion (itals by HazZzMat):
The Islamic Republic, which by ideology and practice believes in moral absolutes, is exploiting Western post-modernism's unwillingness to stand and defend any single truth. Even the most basic and verifiable historical truth, which is yet within the memory of thousands of witnesses still living, is attackable because Western intellectuals no longer believe in any truth. Among the complicated people who shape the considered opinion of the Western elites, it is entirely acceptable to question all interpretations of facts (with the obvious exception of facts that bear on global climate change).
Perfect. But labeling these destructive leftist idiotarians "intellectuals" would seem to posit a new hypothetical plane of existence that thrives in a continuum (or vacuum) considerably beyond that territory once defined by the term "oxymoron."
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Abu Ghraib is considered equivalent to Auschwitz by liberal New Yorkers -- I heard this at a book party recently. Considering the speaker, this goes beyond strange. It's a proof that in order to hate Bush as if he were Satan, the leftist has to so hugely amplify his "crimes" that real crimes, like the murder of six million Jews, are made meaningless.
Father Tuck
And your last paragraph is likewise perfect! I had a pastor who once asked, "How can they be scholars if they are always so wrong!" Alternate reality indeed.
Great comments, most excellent dudes. Many thanks. And I'd agree that today's "scholars" are almost always wrong. Maybe Mao had the right idea about sending these clowns out to the rice paddies to learn something of the world during the Great Cultural Revolution, eh?
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