Comments on: Debbie Schlussel and Masada2000: Match Made in the Gutter

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:23:54 +0000

@John Dickerson: Oh yeah. I don’t believe I ever saved this comment but…one of them wrote this horrific, graphic sexual fantasy/nightmare suggesting I should be raped by an Arab male. There is a lot of sexual domination, sadism, shame and humilitation at work in their libidos. One can only wonder where this stuff comes from in their twisted psyches.

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:02:19 +0000

(Is it just me or) Does’t that particular subset of wingnuts seem to have a very profound anal fixation?

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:38:27 +0000

@gene schulman:

I consider myself an agnostic & am not prepared to do away with God entirely as I feel too close to my religious tradition to do so.

You certainly know more about Spinoza than I, but I always had the impression that he was deeply imbued with an interest in theology and inquiring into the nature of the divine or at least of what some of us might call the divine.

By: gene schulman

gene schulman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:07:48 +0000

Richard.

Ethically, morally and intellectually, you are worthy. You just have to remember one thing; Spinoza did a way with “God.” As did Einstein. Are you willing to do that? I did, a long time ago.

By: beth

beth — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:09:23 +0000

The sexual fantasies of Debbie, Masada2000 and there ilk are just sick.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:36:48 +0000

@gene schulman:

I only hope that I can be worthy to be Spinoza’s heir.

On a humorous note, whenever I hear that a fellow Jew is ostracized for their political views or hounded out of a job with a Jewish organization for violating communal consensus over some issue or another I always jokingly invite them to join the Spinoza Society, a group of honorable Jews whose views are too hot for the community to handle. If it was good enough for Spinoza, then it’s good enough for me.

By: LeaNder

LeaNder — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:20:01 +0000

Richard this reminded me of your experiences with the Masada2000-style-ideologues:

Lauren Booth: Psychological Terrorism

By: americangoy

americangoy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:54 +0000

“if these lunatics are heirs of Spinoza then Julius Streicher was a heir of Goethe.”

hee hee hee brilliant line.

By: gene schulman

gene schulman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:04:04 +0000

Fiddler,

Sorry, I may have misstated myself. I didn’t mean them, I meant us - you and I, and Richard are the heirs of Spinoza. I hope.

By: fiddler

fiddler — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:29:55 +0000

I note you’re on Masada2000’s “SHIT” list, along with many others whose company I’d regard the highest honour. Even Judah Magnes, lo and behold, is there (although that might just be Jerry Haber).
Their language though is straight out of The Eternal Jew.

@Gene: if these lunatics are heirs of Spinoza then Julius Streicher was a heir of Goethe.