BTDT Files - Jew-Hating Anti-Semite

Wednesday, December 28, 2011:

American Power: Racist Walter James Casper III Doubles-Down on Endorsement of Revolutionary Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street:

"Racist Repsac3 has a big butthurt post whining about how he's not really a racist anti-Semitic Jew-basher, despite endorsing a movement that was founded on property expropriation, revolution, and anti-Jewish and anti-Israel eliminationism."

Leaving aside for a minute whether Dishonest Donald Douglas' assertions about the founding and purpose of the Occupy movement are even true, it is Donald's assertion that one can be labelled anti-Semitic if one supports a movement where any one person involved with it ever said a bigoted thing about Jews (or, as you'll see, disagreed with Israeli government policy.) If that's not guilt-by-association nonsense, I don't know what is...

"Jew-hating Walter James Casper weaselly claims that he's never said anything against the Jews. And that's irrelevant. He confirmed that he endorsed the movement but denies the central role of anti-Semitism to the group."

That's right... According to Dishonest Donald Douglas, it's irrelevant that one has never spoken ill of Jewish people. All it takes to be a Jew-hating anti-Semite is to endorse a movement at which a few individuals--either members of the general public, or in a few cases, longer term activists--have said some pretty horrible things about Jews. Your own words and actions are not what matter; if one member of your group says or does something shameful, every member of your group is responsible for those shameful words or deeds. I'm sure all of those adulterous, pedophiliac, white supremacist Republicans--including our own Dishonest Donald Douglas, of course--are down with Donald's belief in collective group guilt, as opposed to individual responsibility, for bad words and deeds.

As I've said before, these kind of sweeping generalizations about whole groups of people are what lead to stereotypes and bigotry. When one decides to believe--and worse propagate, as Dishonest Donald is doing--the idea that seeing a statistically small number of _______ people acting a certain way means that MOST or ALL _______ people act that way, that's bigotry, whether those blanks are filled in with the word "liberal," "conservative," "female," "male," "Jewish," "Muslim," "black," "white," "young," or "old."
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Sunday, September 12, 2010: Sasquatch Israel

Here's all you really need to know about Dishonest Donald Douglas as far as his specious accusations of anti-Semitism. He so hates everyone who doesn't agree with him politically or socially that he makes shit up in an effort to smear them. Nowhere was this more plainly obvious than in his infamous "Sasquatch Israel" post. While Dishonest Donald has since deleted the offending paragraphs from his original post (out of shame, one imagines), several bloggers recorded what he wrote for posterity. The following account is from long term American Nihilist friend James B. Webb, in his Brain Rage blog post American Power And Anti-Semitic Hominids:

So my conservative counterpart Donald Douglas of American Power was in New York City over the weekend for the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. His main post on the events has a lot of pictures taken from around the city and while it's a little heavy on religion and rantings about "the left's Media-Industrial-Islamist-Complex" it's still rather interesting to check out but it's his follow-up post about "the America-bashing, anti-Israel left" amongst the sign-carrying protesters of the various ideologies present that day that I found particularly entertaining. Amidst his claims about supposedly out-debating some anti-war "leftists" on the street I found this gem of an accusation:

Then turning around, I saw this kid yacking it up for the crowd, obviously having a blast with this ugly Jew-hating sign. And what does that mean, "SASQUATCH ISRAEL"? This is a play on the "legitimacy myth" of Israel's existence. As there's of course a "Sasquatch myth," it's worth noting the implied comparison: that Israel is also an ape-like beast existing only in historical folklore. Absent legitimacy, Israel has "no right to exist." This kid's sign is but one more example of eliminationist anti-Semitism. And look at how overjoyed he is in boasting this hatred. Creepy.

I'm sure you're all just as familiar as I am with this oh-so-common yet extraordinarily awkwardly worded insult comparing the country of Israel to the cryptozoological creature known as Sasquatch in order to advance the agenda of anti-Semitic eliminationism, right? You know, all those political cartoons you've seen in which Israel is portrayed as a large hulking fictional beast crashing through the dense underbrush of the Middle East with the words "SASQUATCH ISRAEL" written across its chest? Wait, you're not? Yeah, neither am I and it's because Don's claim qualifies as the very definition of the phrase "desperately grasping at straws". Here's a picture of said kid:

Now tell me, if you had to make a guess would you say that his sign reads "SASQUATCH ISRAEL" or does it perhaps read "SASQUATCH IS REAL"? One might even guess that there's a (very good reason that this kid is seemingly "overjoyed" and "having a blast" whilst holding up his sign:

So he's either just some kid having a laugh (or being somewhat serious, who knows?) about the disputed existence of Sasquatch or else he's an unabashed anti-Semite openly boasting of his ugly Jew-hating agenda, thus confirming Don's paranoid fears about the "nihilist left" (oh, and he can't spell very well either). This is what happens when the modern Republican persecution complex goes looking for anti-Semitism around every corner: it inevitably finds it, even in the face of incredulity at the obviously nonsensical nature of it. And on a personal anthropological note, I haven't seen a case of Sasquatch FAIL this bad since the fake freezer Bigfoot from a few years back. I've always suspected that the Sasquatch had a liberal bias...
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As I said at the time, "...to most of us, misreading the sign--seeing "Sasquatch Isreal," rather than "Sasquatch Is Real," isn't a big deal... A cringe-worthy mistake to be sure, especially when one goes out in public--say, on one's blog--misreading it for the whole world to see, but minor in the general scheme of things...

But making up some myth about anti-Semitism based on misreading the sign, and lying about a whole group of people just because you disagree with them politically, is pretty friggin' bad. - Dear Jan... (Repsac3's reply to an inquisitive American Power commenter)

Since then, the "jew-hating kid" with the sign has weighed in himself, with his own Facebook page: Sasquatch IsREAL (Also see: Sasquatch Israel Really Is Real... Really!!)
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See what others had to say, here: Sasquatch Israel (and don't miss SI's descendant--or ancestor, if you believe the aliens might've been here first--Jewbacca)
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American Power: Anti-American, Anti-Israel: Scenes From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010 — UPDATE: ''Don Douglas Hearts Juses'