Failed exam

The recently uncovered quotes from Google's nowadays Diversity Head provide excellent source material for critical researchers deserving of this attribute and also for an open-minded public, for they demonstrate how antisemitic and racist thinking, while not being identical, feed on one another (or - as this does not mean that one is to be played off against the other - how they feed on one another without being identical):

“If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself ... 

“Self-defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others.”

“Suffering and oppression typically give rise to sympathy and compassion among the oppressed… I would conclude that my Jewish faith and the history of my people render me closer to human compassion; closer to the instinct to offer healing to hurt, patience to anxiety and understanding to confusion.”

 Within this narrow mindset everyone is accorded his own place in history and is supposed to act accordingly based on what group he was born into and what the specific projections cast onto this group are. So if you don‘t act according to given expectations you‘re a "bad Jew" who hasn‘t lived up to the potentials attributed to his tribe.

While this kind of mindset (let's call it "Twisty" for it is nothing but twisted) not only flies in the face of logic and common sense in so many respects, it in fact also exhibits pathological traits: For if suffering is supposed to improve man morally, then it is something that can be accorded a positive purpose - even if only ex post. So to stick with this line of thinking for a moment longer, it would mean that more suffering is in fact preferable to less suffering as this would ultimately serve the moral betterment of mankind. Yet why then still criticize those Jews who haven‘t lived up to expectations and are inflicting suffering on others? Well, Twisty would retort that they have already had their own share of suffering and still have not passed their morality finals. 

But still: Why then should they be criticized for at least they are still inflicting suffering on others (let's call them Palestinians for aren't we all Palestinians in a way?) who could thereby at least get their own chance of emerging morally enobled from their own suffering? The Palestinians have had their chance for the past 54 years (or 72 years if you really want to deny the Jewish State's right to exist point-blank) and their moral record has been - to put it diplomatically if not somewhat complaisantly - a rather mixed one. But before Twisty can reply that Palestinian acts of violence are just an expression of despair in the face of Israeli violence and would give way to moral impeccability (notabene as an entire group!) once the stranglehold put on them by Israel ceases, one should actually take his original line of reasoning and continue down its path: For what after all would be so wrong with an endless circle of violence and victimization? It would only increase the potential for moral enoblement as a precondition for human salvation that waits just around the corner for those who are still alive. So seemingly endless chains of suffering inflicted by one group of people on the next are not such a bad thing after all, as we learn from Twisty. By this logic (which in fact is no logic at all but rather its state of decay) the Holocaust must have been a tremendous effort at bringing about paradise - not just for the German "master race" but in the ideological variant in the current example - for mankind as a whole. If only the Jews had done their job at being "good victims" instead of depriving others of their salvation. They have spoiled it once again. As always.