[lit-ideas] Ein Antisemit brennt [was: Another Bush failure?]
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:32:26 +0200
On 30. Aug 2006, at 15:15, Mike Geary wrote:
CB:
Where have you been, Julie? The person who posts...under various
versions of the name 'Josie Wells' has
been spewing rabidly racist and antisemitic material for years!<<
I assure you, Chris, Julie was being ironic. I laughed out loud at
her post.
Oops - sorry, Julie. And thanks, Mike.
I'm obviously still over-sensitive to the fact that 'Josie Wells' got
away with her/his/their less straight-forwardly obvious antisemitic
rantings and ravings for quite a while on a previous list. Many of us
(I include myself here) were lulled into a state of unwatchfulness -
until somebody blew the whistle.
Here's a bit of local graffiti from a neighbourhood bus shelter which
I'll take the liberty of renaming (title of the original: 'Ein Nazi
brennt') in 'Josie Wells' (dis)honour:
EIn Antisemit brennt
Erst ein Arm,
Dann ein Bein,
Dann das ganze
Nazischwein.
(An antisemite burns
First an arm,
Then a leg,
Then the whole
nazi pig.)
While the rest of us celebrate, 'Ms/Mr/Mrs Wells' will no doubt wish to
mourn the fact that the leader of the NPD (National Party of Germany -
a neo-nazi party that unfortunately is managing the spring the 5%
hurdle for representation in German legislative bodies because of poor
voter turnout) faction of the Saxony parliament was killed Wednesday
morning when he ran headlong into a truck while 'executing a dangerous
passing manouvre'. The man (whose name I won't bother cross the room
to look up in the newspaper cutting I've saved to share with other
lists fighting Holocaust denial) was apparently a driving instructor.
The people of Saxony - to say nothing of his driving students - are
much richer for this recent favour that he has done us all.
'Ms/Mr/Mrs Wells' has done well in emulating the recently deceased's
antisemitic and Holocaust denial rhetoric. Perhaps she/he/they/it will
do the list a favour and replicate his recent driving escapade as well.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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