Typepad's comment filter is broken. I can't reply to Quius, and I can't even post test comments such as "I am a tree" on my own blog.
Good job, Typepad.
Here's my response to Quius, as well as comments like these:
I'm not going to waste my time refuting these pointless points in detail. Let me make it short:
- "Koreans have nothing against..." You don't speak for all Koreans. Irrelevant.
- "Some Koreans have married Jews." Irrelevant.
- "Most Koreans didn't even know about anti-Semitism until the West..." Not true for the Korean nationalist intellectuals, who in the 1890's trhough the early 1900's were reading Chinese and Japanese translations of racist Western sociology, anthropology, and history and very much translating Social Darwinism, racist notions of nation and culture, as well as anti-Semitic views into latent Korean ideology that has remained a streak among Korean "intellectuals" to this day.
- "Most of the major movie studios and media outlets are jewish-owned." OK, movie studios. Back when penny arcades and "moving picture shows" were considered lower-class pursuits, fresh Jewish immigrants often ran these businesses, much like Koreans coming from the 70's and 80's dominated greengrocers and liquor stores. Well before "movies" became a billion-dollar industry, many Jews were already placed here. The same is true for comic books, many of which were penned by Jewish hands when Jews found little room in other mainstream artistic and publishing outlets. It wasn't some "grand plan" and Jews were just lucky that these "vulgar" arts became mainstream only a couple decades later. Learn some history.
- "Financial companies" and "overcoming racism in Europe." Well, for as much as talk of Jews controlling Europe had far more currency than it does today, they certainly didn't seem to be able to stem the Holocaust that quite nearly wiped out all Jewry in Western Europe. Some influence, huh?
- And Israel. Yeah, yeah, "they" have lobbying power. But the concerns about Israel are bigger than that – anyone forget the Cold War? The beginning of major tensions in 1954 with Iran? The US overturning Mossadegh and installing puppets such as the Shah, which directly led to the fundamentalist backlash that was Khomeini?
- "America's blind support for Israel" Yes, I disagree with policies that seem that way these days. But it's not just "Jewish money" - it's geo-politicial circumstances, too. Hello? Fundamentalist/radical governments, the specifics of the PLO and Islamic groups becoming bedtime allies because of shared interests (one mostly political, the other overtly anti-Semitic)...come on, I don't agree with Israel on a lot of levels, but they are fighting for the right to exist while surrounded by some pretty hostile governments who would like them to cease to exist. And have attacked them with the purpose of carrying out that goal. But to say, in the end, it's just "Jewish lobbying" and not some very real, very concrete circumstances is...just...well, ignorant.
And calling Israeli nationalism, bad American foriegn policy, or anything else "fascism" in anything other than the rhetorical sense is just plain simplistic. I make the rhetorical parallel between Nazi anti-Semitism and some aspects of Korean ideology, but I never go so far as to say "Korean national ideology = Western European fascism." That's just ludicrous.
Quius – have you anything to say grounded in actual knowledge of history or logic? Have you any arguments based on anything other than superficial hearsay, which is itself mostly just recycled ignorant stereotypes?
It sounds to me like you're a high school or early college student who actually hasn't done a lot of reading about history or society; it sounds to me like your ability to constuct a rational, sound argument is pretty poor.
So far, you haven't offered anything in your comments besides, "I heard somebody say this" or "Everybody knows that X is true about this group." Frankly, your logic and way of thinking is pretty intellectually flimsy.
