wombatwoody wrote on Jun 8^th, 2024 at 6:50am:


The whole of tzarist Russia was sunk into the most abject superstition, fanaticism and ignorance, together with most of the Ottoman East.

But that was not the case in western Europe. Spinoza lived in Holland, Maimonides in Spain and North Africa.
Medieval Jewish astronomers
Jewish medicine


Anyway, secularization freed up not just Jewish thinkers but Christians as well. So when you say that the Jews were dogmatic in the Middle ages you need to say "like everyone else".

Frank wrote on Jun 8^th, 2024 at 11:43am:



"The Jewish theory that the Goyim envy the superior ability of the Jews is not borne out by the facts. Most Goyim, in fact, deny that the Jew is superior, and point in evidence to his failure to take the first prizes: he has to be content with the seconds. No Jewish composer has ever come within miles of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; no Jew has ever challenged the top-flight painters of the world, and no Jewish scientist has equaled Newton, Darwin, Pasteur or Mendel. In the latter bracket such apparent exceptions as Ehrlich, Freud and Einstein are only apparent. Ehrlich, in fact, contributed less to biochemical fact than to biochemical theory, and most of his theory was dubious. Freud was nine-tenths quack, and there is sound reason for believing that even Einstein will not hold up: in the long run his curved space may be classed with the psychosomatic bumps of Gall and Spurzheim. But whether this inferiority of the Jew is real or only a delusion, it must be manifest that it is generally accepted. The Goy does not, in fact, believe that the Jew is better than the non-Jew; the most he will admit is that the Jew is smarter at achieving worldly success. But this he ascribes to sharp practices, not to superior ability."

- H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

wombatstupidity goosestepping for the Final Solution.

What a surprise.

Marla wrote on Jun 10^th, 2024 at 6:31am:




"Hitler's legal power was based upon the 'Enabling Act', which was passed quite legally by the Reichstag and which allowed the Fuehrer and his representatives, in plain language, to be what they wanted, or in legal language, to issue regulations having the force of law. Exactly the same type of act was passed by the Knesset [Israel's Parliament] immediately after the 1967 conquest granting the Israeli governor and his representatives the power of Hitler, which they use in Hitlerian manner."

- Prof. Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, commenting on the Israeli military's Emergency Regulations following the 1967 War.  Palestine Magazine, Vol. 12, December 1983.

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Do you remember posting this?

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freediver wrote on Jun 13^th, 2024 at 7:01am:


How is that wrong?

The only thing I left out was that bit about Maimonides and Spinoza, but I conceded they were exceptions.

So how is the above wrong?

Or did you miss this part?

"Study of all languages was strictly forbidden, as was the study of mathematics and science. Geography, history—even Jewish history—were completely unknown. The critical sense, which is supposedly so characteristic of Jews, was totally absent, and nothing was so forbidden, feared and therefore persecuted as the most modest innovation or the most innocent criticism.

"It was a world sunk in the most abject superstition, fanaticism and ignorance, a world in which the preface to the first work on geography in Hebrew (published in 1803 in Russia) could complain that very many great rabbis were denying the existence of the American continent and saying that it is "impossible."

And about the 'tyrannical rabbis that controlled every facet of Jewish society', did you also miss this part?

"Before the advent of the modern state, Jewish communities were mostly ruled by rabbis who employed arbitrary and cruel methods as bad as those employed by totalitarian regimes."

freediver wrote on Jun 14^th, 2024 at 6:14am:


I wasn't wrong. I knew about those two. I just forget to mention them.

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In Reply #6 Frank said, 'the many more good things the Jews have done for the world in science, medicine, music, literature, technology etc.' So I corrected him by saying that's only recently happened and that there were very few if any Jewish achievements in those fields before the 1800s, apart from Maimonides and Spinoza, and even then the latter's contributions are debatable.

So far nobody's shown how Jews have excelled in that over and above non-Jews.