Wikipedia: “The parashah tells of Jacob’s travels to, life in, and return from Haran. The parashah recounts Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven, Jacob’s meeting of Rachel at the well, Jacob’s time working for Laban and living with Rachel and Leah, the birth of Jacob’s children, and the departure of Jacob’s family from Laban.”
* Blood and soil is the most basic, most commonsensical political philosophy. It is the philosophy of Torah. It is the philosophy of the Nazis.
Wikipedia: “Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden) is a slogan expressing the nineteenth-century German idealization of a racially defined national body (“blood”) united with a settlement area (“soil”). By it, rural and farm life forms are not only idealized as a counterweight to urban ones, but are also combined with racist and anti-Semitic ideas of a sedentary Germanic-Nordic peasantry as opposed to (specifically Jewish) nomadism. The contemporary German concept Lebensraum, the belief that the German people needed to reclaim historically German areas of Eastern Europe into which they could expand, is tied to it. “Blood and soil” was a key slogan of Nazi ideology. The nationalist ideology of Artamanen and the writings of Walther Darré guided Nazi agricultural policies which were later adopted by Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Baldur von Schirach.”
How is that different from Genesis 28?
13. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[d] 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
When God tells Jacob that He will give him and his descendants a particular piece of earth, does He mean that he will give this land to the Jews so that they can then be overrun and rendered a minority in the country they create?
Does God only give land to the Jews or does God also give Germany to the Germans, Japan to the Japanese, etc?
* Yggdrasil’s Eyes Wide Shut review.
* Gen. 28:1: “So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.” That sounds racist. How is that any different than telling your daughter not to marry a black man?
* The Atlantic: ‘The Making of an American Nazi: How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?’ Dennis Dale
Responding to her former teammate Aly Raisman — who said on Twitter that women dressing “sexy” does not entitle men to shame or sexually abuse them — Ms. [Gabby] Douglas argued that it was incumbent on women “to dress modestly,” “be classy” and not attract “the wrong crowd.”
Does how a woman dresses and comport herself have no affect on her likelihood of being raped? That’s absurd. If you choose to walk in a bad neighborhood alone and at night, does that increase your odds of being attacked? Of course. It does not morally excuse your attackers, but you deliberately put yourself in harm’s way.
Aly Raisman, who’s Jewish, said on Twitter: “Just because a woman does a sexy photoshoot or wears a sexy outfit does not give a man the right to shame her or not believe her when she comes forward about sexual abuse. What is wrong with some of you? AND when a woman dresses sexy it does not give a man the right to sexually abuse her EVER.”
In a legal claim, the longer you wait to make a claim, the less force it tends to carry (and often it is barred by a statute of limitations). For example, if you claim your life was ruined by a car accident but you wait two weeks to seek medical treatment for it, your claim is not strong.
So these women who are speaking up now about sexual abuse that happened years ago are not impressive if you judge them on the same standard that you would with other torts, or on the same standard you would judge men.
If you believe women have moral agency, then women waiting years to come forward with stories of sexual abuse are not impressive. If you view women as a natural resource that needs tending, directing, and protecting, then you judge women differently from men. You don’t expect women to take responsibility as readily as men do because until recently, women were regarded as the responsibility of their fathers or husbands or brothers, and so personal responsibility is new for them.
Women are not valid witnesses in Torah law. Wikipedia: “Testimony in Jewish law consists of testimony by eligible witnesses to a Beit Din (court) authorized to render decisions according to halakhah (Jewish law). Eligible witnesses must in almost all cases be free men who are not deaf, mentally or morally unsuitable, or too young for Bar Mitzvah; in particular, women are in most cases not eligible.”
* WP: “Stand-up is hard for anyone who does it, but it’s also long been a boys’ club — with extra obstacles for women.” Yeah, because women “comics” don’t tend to be very funny.
* The arbitrary morality of the Aaron Sorkin movie Molly’s Game.
* News: A woman claims she was physically attacked on an New York City subway Thursday after asking a [black] man to stop splaying his knees across several seats, colloquially known as “manspreading.”
* The 1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne short story Young Goodman Brown.
