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September 21, 2006
Yet Another Racism Flap
So.
Senator George Allen's maternal grandfather spent time in one of Hitler's concentration camps.
Senator Allen's mother concealed her Jewish background due to a fear (probably well-founded) that Coach Allen's parents would disapprove of her Jewish background.
And Wonkette, among others, is having kittens.
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And George Allen — whose mother was, yes, of the prosperous and well-known Jewish Lumbroso family — clearly so shocked — shocked! — at the question that he can’t bring himself to just fucking say “yes, my mom was a Jew, that’s why I bring up the fact that my grandfather was in a fucking concentration camp.” No, instead he suddenly (and temporarily, one presumes) becomes a First Amendment absolutist of a stripe we’ve never seen before: one who takes “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” to mean “the press doesn’t have a right to ask me if anyone in my family was ever a member of the Tribe in front of my milky-white constituents.” |
Did it never occur to you, that even as late as the 1960's, even in oh-so-liberal and enlightened Los Angeles, California, that there was (and is) a large segment of the population that did, and does, regard Jews as pushy interlopers, as "different", and as "someone to be polite to, but not to invite to family time, because he's Jewish you know".
(I heard the quote above from a high-school class-mate's mother in 1966. In L.A., where I lived until I was 25.)
Did it never occur to you that at time that the elder George Allen was courting his wife-to-be, that Hitler's death camps were a raw, painful, recent memory? And that many Jews felt they had very good reason to keep a very low profile?
So, yeah, I believe that the Senator's mom didn't even tell him. Oh, he probably had his suspicions, no doubt. But he didn't push the issue, because it wasn't important.
And it shouldn't be.
It is painfully obvious to even the casual reader that "Wonkette", whoever he/she/it might be, is a classic anti-Semite, and probably a general all-around racist. Closeted, of course.
Posted by ward at September 21, 2006 05:27 PM