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Flirtation With Evil Will Not End Well for Leftists
TikTok's days may be numbered in the U.S.
19 Nov 2023 ~~ By Roger Kimball
Has the TikTok Left just jumped the shark?
Well, yes. Imagine seizing on Osama bin Ladenās 2002 āLetter to the American Peopleā as a revelation to justify your wounded adolescent narcissism and historical ignorance? This past week, a bunch of videos from the Chinese owned data-hoovering and propaganda-peddling app took the meme-world by storm by showering some love on the defunct Islamic terrorist and kicking America in the process. Quoth one fragile female as she brushed her teeth: āTrying to go back to life as normal after reading Osama bin Ladenās āLetter to Americaā and realizing everything we learned about the Middle East, 9/11, and āterrorismā was a lie.ā Another client of this new experiment in juvenile mind control bleated that the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks taught her that America was a āplague on the entire world.ā
Those videos were watched by tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. Millionsāmillionsāhave searched for bin Ladenās paean to Jew-hatred, radical Islamic theocracy, and contempt for America. The Guardian newspaper, which had published a transcript of Osamaās letter back in 2002 when it first appeared, took it down because, an editorial note explains, it āhad been widely shared on social media without the full context.ā Ah, ācontext.ā Patient readers can still avail themselves of the 4,000-word lunatic effusion here. I offer two brief snippets, chosen more or less at random (slice him where you will, as Bertie Wooster observed, a hellhound is still a hellhound), just to give readers a little taste of the surreal world weāre talking about:
~Snip~
It is curious how people romanticize evil and insanity. The habit, I believe, is born in part of naivetĆ©, or at least inexperience. The college student who prances about in a T-shirt bearing the image of Che Guevara, for example, generally has no idea of what a malignant figure Che was, how treacherous, how cruel, how murderous. He sees only a handsome āfreedom fighterā swaddled in the gauze of exotic Latin flamboyance. The grubby reality escapes her entirely. Ditto with respect to Hamas.
~Snip~
My sense, however, is that a changed world has made changes in the nature of the radical assaults we see cropping up everywhere in the Western world. An uptick in anti-Semitism is always a sort of canary in the political mine, a reliable indication of brewing mischief. It is a curious fact, not without irony, that anti-Semitism is generally a feature of radical Left-wing activism. The sobering contingency this time is that anti-Semitism is not just a component, a leitmotif, of the protests but almost its main theme. Itās happened before, of course, but it did not end at all well.
Commentary:
Having read the 4-page āletterā, I paused over it and came to three observations.
I donāt think bin Laden himself wrote the piece. Text and word choices....itās an English-speaker. Unless he had a word-smith English secretary around...heās not the original creator of the text.
What every pinhead and commie trash attempts to do is cherry pick the letter and come back saying that it was all the fault of the US actions.
Read the entire damned thing. Bin Laden insisted on Sharia law and that the entire world must convert to Islam. Plus, he condemned the degeneracy.
I also seem to be wondering now if the idiots who got all hyped-up...will suddenly re-discover Hitlerās Mein Kampf, and feel enthusiasm for that BS.
While Democrat socialist spout their anti-Semitism in the 21st century within America it's no different than their history of anti-Semitism of the latter part of the 19th and most of the 20th Century with groups like the KKK and the Bund, and no different than Fascist and Socialist Europe.
TikTok's days may be numbered in the U.S.
19 Nov 2023 ~~ By Roger Kimball
Has the TikTok Left just jumped the shark?
Well, yes. Imagine seizing on Osama bin Ladenās 2002 āLetter to the American Peopleā as a revelation to justify your wounded adolescent narcissism and historical ignorance? This past week, a bunch of videos from the Chinese owned data-hoovering and propaganda-peddling app took the meme-world by storm by showering some love on the defunct Islamic terrorist and kicking America in the process. Quoth one fragile female as she brushed her teeth: āTrying to go back to life as normal after reading Osama bin Ladenās āLetter to Americaā and realizing everything we learned about the Middle East, 9/11, and āterrorismā was a lie.ā Another client of this new experiment in juvenile mind control bleated that the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks taught her that America was a āplague on the entire world.ā
Those videos were watched by tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. Millionsāmillionsāhave searched for bin Ladenās paean to Jew-hatred, radical Islamic theocracy, and contempt for America. The Guardian newspaper, which had published a transcript of Osamaās letter back in 2002 when it first appeared, took it down because, an editorial note explains, it āhad been widely shared on social media without the full context.ā Ah, ācontext.ā Patient readers can still avail themselves of the 4,000-word lunatic effusion here. I offer two brief snippets, chosen more or less at random (slice him where you will, as Bertie Wooster observed, a hellhound is still a hellhound), just to give readers a little taste of the surreal world weāre talking about:
~Snip~
It is curious how people romanticize evil and insanity. The habit, I believe, is born in part of naivetĆ©, or at least inexperience. The college student who prances about in a T-shirt bearing the image of Che Guevara, for example, generally has no idea of what a malignant figure Che was, how treacherous, how cruel, how murderous. He sees only a handsome āfreedom fighterā swaddled in the gauze of exotic Latin flamboyance. The grubby reality escapes her entirely. Ditto with respect to Hamas.
~Snip~
My sense, however, is that a changed world has made changes in the nature of the radical assaults we see cropping up everywhere in the Western world. An uptick in anti-Semitism is always a sort of canary in the political mine, a reliable indication of brewing mischief. It is a curious fact, not without irony, that anti-Semitism is generally a feature of radical Left-wing activism. The sobering contingency this time is that anti-Semitism is not just a component, a leitmotif, of the protests but almost its main theme. Itās happened before, of course, but it did not end at all well.
Commentary:
Having read the 4-page āletterā, I paused over it and came to three observations.
I donāt think bin Laden himself wrote the piece. Text and word choices....itās an English-speaker. Unless he had a word-smith English secretary around...heās not the original creator of the text.
What every pinhead and commie trash attempts to do is cherry pick the letter and come back saying that it was all the fault of the US actions.
Read the entire damned thing. Bin Laden insisted on Sharia law and that the entire world must convert to Islam. Plus, he condemned the degeneracy.
I also seem to be wondering now if the idiots who got all hyped-up...will suddenly re-discover Hitlerās Mein Kampf, and feel enthusiasm for that BS.
While Democrat socialist spout their anti-Semitism in the 21st century within America it's no different than their history of anti-Semitism of the latter part of the 19th and most of the 20th Century with groups like the KKK and the Bund, and no different than Fascist and Socialist Europe.
