The Crackpot Jew Norman Finkelstein 4

Referring to "The Crackpot Jew Norman Finkelstein 1" we see how Professor Finkelstein earned his sobriquet: http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/crackpot-jew-norman-finkelstein.html This is how an article in Commentary portrays Mr. Finkelstein. This is due to the fact that Mr. Finklestein disgrees with the opinions expressed in Commentary.http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10136&page=all Neat,eh? Actually, they went further; they said " crackpot anti-semitic Jew...". I rather like the notion of anti-semitic Jews; it is so Alfred Rosenberg-like. It is so redolent of representatives of other long lived groups: the Armenian who hates Armenians, the Ethiopean who is virulently anti-Ethiopean, and the Native Americans you see at the moving picture show always rooting for the settlers and General Custer.

In The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2562
June 25, 2007  
Students Will Begin Hunger Strike in Support of DePaul Professors Denied Tenure
We read in the comments such insights as: ( all errors are as they appear in the comments.)

"...He did not get tenure becasue he was NOT ACADEMICALLY QUALIFIED, not because of any other reasons. Let him get a job where he belongs, like in QUatar , Libya, or Saudi Arabia. Let him work in Iran, I am sure they will give him tenure there. He is not an academic who has had jpapers published, just his books on the Holocaust, in which he has PROFITED..." and "Well now that school is out, his childrens’ crusade has another love-in planned. Don’t any of them have summer jobs, or anything else to do? I suppose not. Let them eat their secreted Mars bars! Universities are not required to grant tenure to vicious, clownish bogus academics who peddle opinion as “study.” And these cheap pressure tactics by a group of brainwashed kids is pathetic." and "Finkelstein actually defines the syndrome of a self-hating and efffectively antisemitic Jew. It seems topsy turvy, but this kind of Freudian inversion is a classic psychosis. Children who know no better, have been influenced by his charismatic, rebellious mien. He deserves dismissal (let alone tenure) as as a pathetic manipulative and racist headcase and poor role model. Would you have an amoral freakish charlatan who peddles such violent sickness on his own personal webiste[sic: website] to teach your children right from wrong?If he’s your idea of a hero, then fill your boots. "

Ah, what buffoons we mortals be ! I particularly liked the last comment above, since it demonstrate such a profound psychological insight: the illusions of the 20th century psychology in the habit of Freud. There are way too many oddballs on the Internet who posture and preen themselves on their pseudo-knowledge of Freudian psychology. Another intriguing aspect is belittling taking a Moral Stand: do they not have summer jobs? Truly, a summer job at Pop Tate's Choklit Shoppe is superior to taking a ( snicker! ) moral stand.