Matthew Yglesias: Anti-Semitic Genocidal Maniacs Are Hip, Terrorists Are Fashionable (UPDATED AND BUMPED: Yglesias Article From Today Predictably Anti-Semitish)
UPDATE: No sooner do we propose that people who dress like terrorists should be circumspect, then we find Yglesias article from this morning. It's the usual nonsense - the pro-Israel lobby prevents anyone from anyone from criticizing them. This argument has always contradictory- if you can publish an article about censorship, then it's not very effective censorship. And in a global environment where Israel is trashed by a UN that it pays dues to with annual events demanding that it cease existing - well, then the "we can't say anything bad about Israel" goes from contradictory to stupid. But now it's just getting pathetic. These over-educated Che wannabes (or is that now suicide bomber wanabes) just want soooo much to be chic resistance fighters. They're willing to pretend that there's this big bad Jewish conspiracy stifling "legitimate criticism of Israel" in America - which is convenient, since that makes them the brave, lone voices of patriotic dissent. How willfully stupid do you have to be to believe that criticizing Israel is brave in a liberal thinktank or on a college campus? Seriously.
ORIGINAL (07:40 PST) - We got this from Anne this morning , who's following up on a MR post we did last September. Our post was about Matt Yglesias saying that Bush should follow the example of genocidal lunatic Ahmadinejad... because Ahmadinejad is hip.
"I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well -- Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style... There was also this clip of him walking down some hallway shooting the shit with Kofi Annan. It's like diplomacy! Bush should try it."
Can we just focus for a second on how Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who wants to get a nuclear weapon and wipe out millions upon millions of Jews? That has to mean something, right? Even a little? "But it goes deeper". "It's like diplomacy". Holy shit. What is wrong with these people?
Yglesias is among the elite of the elite of liberal bloggers and grassroots opinion-setters. He's a staff writer for The American Prospect, one of the bastions of contemporary leftist intellectualism. In his own mind he is a serious person - so much so that he modestly subtitles his blog "a reality based weblog".
Though - while being a Nuanced And Serious Person in his own mind (as opposed to the President, to whom he talks down) - he also thinks that it's oh so witty to dress like a terrorist:
Terrorist chic is merely the latest retarded hipster trend to confirm the brutally obvious: spoiled liberal Ivy kids are not ready to talk to adults yet. The Left is not serious. They just don't get things. Like "terrorism is not ironic or cool". They just don't get it. They're in it for the smirks - and for their parochial back-patting sessions regarding their imagined cosmopolitan superiority.
Previously: Liberal Back-Patters Get Dismantled by Real Life Expert, Things That Are Awesome About The Recent "Don't Worry About the Strange, Nazi-Like Iranian Behind the Curtain" LA Times / CFR Article, OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute
