Many, perhaps most, leftists — from former President Carter down to lowly bloggers like Matthew Yglesias — obviously believe that opposition to Obama is fueled by racism.
So, following their analytical example, perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that anyone who disagrees with me must be anti-semitic. (Or maybe just a Yankee, since my Jewish friends tell me I’m more Southern than Jewish.) And it follows that if any foreigner rejects my wisdom, the explanation is that he or she must be anti-American.
Heck, they don’t even value my literature in college these days. As a panel at the Modern Language Association (“Does The English Department Have A Jewish Problem”) just heard,
English departments that would never allow themselves to be without experts in the literatures of many racial and ethnic groups in the United States don’t think twice about failing to have a knowledge base in American Jewish literature.
The English Department at one top university proudly reported on its web site that its American literature faculty represents
the full scope of ethnic American literatures: African American, Asian American, Caribbean, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Native American.
Sounds to me like that department also has a Southern problem.
I can see their point. After all, we are all aware of the great contributions of Latino(a) literature to the American canon. What Jewish American writers have works that can compare with that?
Well it used to be that opposition to left/liberal policies was racist because those policies helped minorities, so…
Hi John,
How come these academics never have courses studying the oppression of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Bhuddists etc in the predominately Muslim countries? Bob