One Bigot Down, Plenty More to Go.
Helen Thomas announced her retirement today and I say good riddance to her. If we all can agree on nothing else, we can agree that we private citizens should ostracize, marginalize, and disempower bigots as much as we are able, not just this time but every time.
Neither should we let them or their former employers get off with deceitful explanations.
Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately.
Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet.
That is incorrect. Helen Thomas did not make comments about Israel. She made comments about Jews. You can tell because she repeatedly said “they” instead of “it”. The distinction between the two is not a small one. I have no doubt that Helen Thomas would be quite content with a nation called Israel populated exclusively by Arabs from which every Jew had been expelled. Thomas did not say she wanted Israelis to go home but that she wanted Jews to go home. That and not “controversial comments about Israel” is why she is being cast aside by people with anything remotely resembling a moral compass.
My only regret is that it took this long to chase her hate-filled carcass out of the White House.
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I'm unsurprised that the media is giving her a total pass. Otherwise they might have to acknowledge that anti-semitism is alive and well… and that yes, telling Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" in itself, even without the ignorant conjecture that they should "go back" to Germany and Poland (where things were going so well for them before), IS anti-semitism, period.
And I don't for one moment think her statements were the mindless yammering of a senile old woman. When studying the holocaust I must constantly remind myself not to fall into the belief that the Nazis suffered from a collective mental illness—they knew what they were doing—I want to believe that people aren't evil and must be crazy instead. Helen was being interviewed by a Jewish representative of a Jewish organization and she gave a brazen, articulate, hateful response. She's as senile and you or I.