If they get their carrier ideas expanded, and operating at carrier full strength capabilities and rampaging around the world I might have a rethink.

Personally, I’m much more interested in their amphibious fleet.

Their carriers and submarines don’t bother me nearly as much as a capability to capitalize on their force projection by putting boots on the ground.

Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch is my new favourite TV show.

Regarding the inability for the MSW plods to hear the words “Gas the Jews”, it appears more likely than not that they chose not to hear it as if they heard it they would have an obligation to act.

There are in fact laws regarding threats and incitement to violence which such a chant would certainly seem to violate. Such as the Crimes Act of 1900 – Sect 93Z.

“Offence of publicly threatening or inciting violence on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex or HIV/AIDS status”

Perhaps it is time a Judge explained in the most direct terms possible that laws are not suggestions and that ignoring them will have personal consequences to police officials who decide to do so.

Whatever they were shouting it was just repetitive chanting. Repetitive chanting is a sure sign of morons.

The pleasures of antisemitism

From Fathom a decade ago.

Antisemitism is much more than a cognitive error. It attracts by providing the deep emotional satisfactions of hatred, tradition, and moral purity.

There is something strangely ineffective about many of our attempts to combat anti-Semitism. We treat it as involving various cognitive errors – false beliefs about Jews or about Israel, the application of double standards to the assessment of Jewish activities, the one-sided focus on things which can be criticised and the neglect of things which might be praiseworthy. We try to combat these cognitive failures (of which there certainly are plenty) by pointing out the errors involved, listing the relevant facts which correct those errors, and revealing the logical inconsistencies involved in, for example, the use of double standards. And when these attempts prove to be totally fruitless, as they so often do, we’re puzzled and dismayed. Don’t people want truths which would enable them to abandon their hostilities to various aspects of Jewish existence?

The answer, of course, is very often that no, they really don’t want these truths. They prefer the errors, with all their dramatic fears and hatreds, and the excitement of conspiracy stories, to the unremarkable truth that Jews are on the whole just like everyone else, a mixture of good and bad, strong and weak, but with a history which has very real and terrible implications for the present. Why is this? We can’t explain it just in terms of cognitive error, since part of what we want to know is why the cognitive errors are so immune to alteration, why they appear and reappear so very persistently. We have to look outside the cognitive domain to the realm of the emotions, and ask: what are the pleasures, what are the emotional rewards which anti-Semitism has to offer to its adherents?

Anti-Semitism is fun, there’s no doubt about it. You can’t miss the relish with which some people compare Jews to the Nazis, or the fake sorrow, imperfectly masking deep satisfaction, with which they bemoan the supposed fact that Jews have brought hatred on themselves, especially by the actions of Israel and its Zionist supporters, and that they have inexplicably failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust.

(from the conclusion)
But we’ll do better in the combat, however we conduct it, if we realise that the views which we’re struggling against provide deep emotional satisfactions to those who hold them, satisfactions not easy either to overcome or to replace.

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And for those who excused the completey unhindered free run given to Bird’s anti-Semitic ravings in the early days over there with “poor Adam, he’s soooo busy with the lollies” might want to reflect that this bile has been pouring out of his blog for months now.

I must admit that ‘in the early days’ I was one of those people. I haven’t visited there for a long time, I only pop in here in spasms, and I was under the impression that Adam had a myriad of responsibilities. But yes, providing others (strangers) the opportunity to purvey their inner beliefs to a wider, public audience, requires a more hands-on approach, especially when considering (a). The history of the forum (under previous slumlords) and commenters it has attracted, (b). Possible legal issues under the new gov legislation, and (c). Current events, which rare individuals may seek to manipulate the perception of.

Mea culpa.

That’s why anti-semitism is so marked among lefties. They get off on a completely spurious sense of moral superiority. Of course, you also have to be extremely crass to be able to deceive yourself this way. Lefties are.

Academic lefties have a second line of defence of their moral superiority – they have certificates saying they’re smart, so they believe they couldn’t possibly be deceiving themselves.