{"id":45506,"date":"2018-10-29T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45506"},"modified":"2018-10-28T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:25:42","slug":"esr-responds-to-the-synagogue-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/esr-responds-to-the-synagogue-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"ESR responds to the synagogue attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8183\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Raymond<\/a> posted this after hearing the news of the attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh*.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To my Jewish friends and followers:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grieving with you today. I know the neighborhood where Tree of Life synagogue sits &#8211; it&#8217;s a quiet, well-off, slightly Bohemian &#8216;burb with a lot of techies living in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not Jewish myself, but I figured out a long time ago that any society which abuses its Jews &#8211; or tolerates abuse of them &#8211; is in the process of flushing itself down the crapper. The Jews are almost always the first targets of the enemies of civilization, but never the last.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not posting to reply only with words.<\/p>\n<p>Any Jew who can get close enough to me in realspace for it to be practical and asks can have from me free instruction in basic self-defense with firearms and anti-active-shooter tactics. May no incident like this ever occur again &#8211; but if it does, I would be very proud if one of my students took down the evildoer before it reached bloodbath stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US official statistics indicate that Jews are still disproportionally the target of hate crimes:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US Hate Crime Data for 2016 (Most Recent Year Available): Blacks vs. Muslims vs. Jews <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/INkyUxCZYS\">pic.twitter.com\/INkyUxCZYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_J_Perry\/status\/1056386473828737024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/michaelbrown\/2018\/10\/28\/when-jewish-blood-is-shed-in-a-synagogue-n2532596\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Brown<\/a> at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Premeditated, cold-blooded murder is always unspeakably evil. But it is even more evil when the innocent, unsuspecting victims are children in a school or worshipers in their congregational building. How can we even describe monstrous evil like this?<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, we have witnessed horrific school shootings and barbaric church shootings. Now, we have witnessed Jewish blood being shed in a synagogue. And it was not just during a normal Sabbath service. It was during a bris, a special time of celebration when a Jewish baby boy is circumcised on the 8th day.<\/p>\n<p>Families have come together for this special occasion, sometimes spanning three or even four generations. A new Jewish life is welcomed into the world. And at the end of the ceremony, a prayer called <em>shehecheyanu<\/em> is recited: \u201cBlessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of <em>this<\/em> a mass murder took place.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, different groups will seek to politicize the slaughter. But at times like this, we do well to hold our peace. Already this week, an allegedly unstable Trump-lover was arrested for his role in the attempted pipe bombings. Now, an alleged Nazi Trump-hater was arrested as the synagogue shooter.<\/p>\n<p>So, I appeal to all people of conscience: Let\u2019s focus on the victims rather than on political debate. Let\u2019s hold our tongues out of respect for the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Rather than give the killer any &#8220;glory&#8221; by using his name, I&#8217;m following the recommendations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/please-support-the-some-asshole-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Asshole Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond posted this after hearing the news of the attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh*. To my Jewish friends and followers: I&#8217;m grieving with you today. I know the neighborhood where Tree of Life synagogue sits &#8211; it&#8217;s a quiet, well-off, slightly Bohemian &#8216;burb with a lot of techies living in it. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13],"tags":[304,49,446,203],"class_list":["post-45506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-religion","category-usa","tag-antisemitism","tag-guns","tag-judaism","tag-pittsburgh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bPY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45507,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506\/revisions\/45507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}