“(He said) that Jews control the government and that you need to be their friends in order to be successful”

mankai on March 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM

CorporatePiggy was speaking about people screaming “anti-semitism” at him, not Calypso Louie, obviously. And he’s right. He wasn’t being anti-semitic by stating that he thought Jews controlled a lot of stuff. Jews contribute disproportionately in most areas and it is not anti-semitic to interpret that presence as “control”. It’s a question of the establishment of some sort of unitary control and ability to thwart new entrants (assuming other qualified entrants) that is the issue. It’s a legitimate inquiry. Calypso Louie is allowed to propose it, too. But Calypso Louie wasn’t doing that. He was stating, “this is the facts” (as we would all expect of a university speaker) about an all-encompassing, beuniversalizing galactic conspiracy headed by some guy named Moishe in Jerusalem.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM

Try starting a conversation about black people with “they commit most of the crimes”. See if everyone, including conservatives, doesn’t call you racist. When you start off a conversation by invoking old stereotypes, there’s a reason people don’t take you seriously.

MadisonConservative on March 12, 2012 at 12:26 PM

But that’s a big part of the problem, itself. Content is divorced from motivation in a rational discussion. PC is all about forcing information’s publicly accepted truth or falsity to be based more on empathy than reality. That is never good.

As to Calypso Louie, while this is a legitimate discussion (Jews are highly successful in many important fields – Hollywood, physics, …) it is hardly appropriate material for a university speech, and Louie’s actual content was … let’s say, “lacking”.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 12, 2012 at 12:33 PM

It seems to me such reasoning is an admission that others are more intelligent and more capable then the person claiming victimhood. In order to believe Jews are secretly conspiring to repress people one must believe, unconsciously anyways, that one is inferior and incapable of such intelligent behavior themselves.

NotCoach on March 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM

Exactly. And that feeds on itself.

Farrakhan is hardly a serious person, in rational terms. Any school inviting him for any reason is pretty pathetic. His hate of Jews is instructive for America, though, as it is a pretty good view of the koran’s teachings about Jews. There’s some black American culture mixed in, but I think that Louie expresses the koran better than most on this. America should listen and understand, because getting much of this nation to even admit to what’s in the koran is much tougher a task than it should be. The book isn’t very subtle, really. It’s just like the way Farrakhan speaks.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on March 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM