Lord Balfour, Villain

It’s just a painting! There’s a genocide going on and you’re worried about a painting!

Yes, because this is the rationale that permits driving a truck bomb into St. Peter’s for, oh, fill-in-the-blank. This is the rationale that permits taking a sledgehammer to the Pieta because it reinforced the gender binary. This is the rationale for shooting an artist who drew a blasphemous picture. This is the rationale of the mad and impatient, the lunatics who attend a bedside with a skeleton on the sheets and tell themselves they are midwifing the future. -James Lileks, The Bleat, Wednesday Review of Modern Thought

Lileks was even better than usual today--and that is saying a lot. Do not miss the article linked above.

I am surprised that Lord Balfour was not targeted earlier. More than four decades before Yassir Arafat and/or some Syrian ideologues invented the concept of a "Palestinian" national identity, the British rulers of former Ottoman territories politely and innocuously suggested that that spot would be a suitable place for a Jewish national homeland. This was formally stated in the famous Balfour Declaration. You can just feel the meanness and racism dripping in every line.

The same people who think that America's borders should be wide open to waves of uninvited foreigners tell us that it was unconscionable that the British allowed and for a while encouraged Jewish immigration into the ancestral Jewish homeland to join the Jewish population already there.

In the century since Lord Balfour wrote that, the Christian and Jewish minority populations in the Islamic world have been steadily exterminated. Actual genocide. Focused, intentional persecution. Islamist intolerance is epidemic. But for some reason, we are not allowed to notice that particular phenomenon.

The useless, narcissistic poser who defaced the painting is no different from other cognitively and morally impaired dhimmis who want to persuade us normals that Hamas is an official victim class. Posing as human rights champions, they nevertheless remain militantly silent about overt genocide by China against Uighurs and Tibetans, about ethnic cleansing, and the enslavement of Christians and others in Africa, persecution of Yassidis, the Baha'i and even disfavored Muslim sects in Iran, Iraq, and Yemen.

Our pompous princess, the anti-art jihadi, and her entire retarded tribe attack only Western culture, Western law, and Western society oblivious to the fact that Western culture is the ONLY force on Earth that has ever effectively opposed injustice, persecution, oppression, and bigotry. But let's destroy Daddy's portrait because even though he may have been a very good man he was not perfect and left me a world that is imperfect and filled with icky things and his failure makes me ever so cross. Not cross enough to oppose actual bad people who might hurt me, of course, but angry enough to demonstrate against Western people and their surrogates who, like Daddy, should somehow make all the badness go away. And I am such a good person for feeling this way.