The left seems indifferent to antisemitism

John Kass:

he hard left is always so angry, and uses emotion to great effect in our modern politics.

And shame — through social and mainstream media voices — is the left’s whip, keeping Americans in line.

Most Americans understand the penalty for thought crimes on issues ranging from traditional marriage to affirmative action to American citizenship. Say the wrong thing, write the wrong thing, even think the wrong thing, or tweet the wrong thing — in referencing positions that were mainstream only a few years ago — and you’ll be publicly shamed in media. And you’ll be shunned as a homophobe or a racist or ultra-nationalist and mocked and probably lose your job.

The left will see to that. And most Americans understand this.

But if you’re of the left, and happen to be a Democratic Party politician, you can get away with making excuses for notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

And when those excuses are made, the left is largely silent.

Farrakhan’s hate and the left’s silence are nothing new. It is part of Chicago’s political landscape, an unspoken contract, and Chicago has become quite used to it. Under this arrangement, in Washington, Chicago and just about every big city, African-American politicians can cozy up to Farrakhan, and his hateful eruptions are allowed to pass beneath our notice, like a stone tossed in the Chicago River.

And if it weren’t for The Daily Caller and CNN’s Jake Tapper, we wouldn’t have known about a particularly ugly Farrakhan eruption the other day at his Saviours’ Day 2018 address.

We also wouldn’t have known about the tortured logic that some, like U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, the Chicago Democrat, use to explain their relationship with Farrakhan.

“White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God's grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I'm here to say your time is up, your world is through," Farrakhan said in his speech.

He said other things too, but I’m not going to spread his hate here. What interests me is the silence of the left.

My barber Raffaele Raia understands this kind of silence.

“Chi tace acconsente," says Mr. Raia. “He who is silent says yes. The silence is the consent."
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Kass is right about the left's tolerance for intolerance coming from Farrakhan.  It is a hate they sometimes try to hide but it keeps slipping out like the picture of Farrakhan with Obama who also has not had much to say about his association with the mate monger.

I have noticed something else about the left these days.  They are also openly hostile to Christians.  The gratuitous insults to Vice President Pence by some athletes at the recent Olympics are just one example.  I was also shocked at the reaction by many on the left to the death of Billy Graham.

They seem intolerant about both Jews and Christians.  How much of this is coming from an embrace of Islam?  In Farrakhan's case, it is pretty obvious.