In 1996 the late Marge Schott, owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, was blasted for anti-Semitic remarks.  She said that Hitler started out OK  “but went too far”.  Commenting on the unimportance and excessive indignation the media gave this case Charles Krauthammer commented,

“Marge Schott is a rich ignoramus of zero consequence. Only an idiot celebrity culture- a culture in which Barbara Streisand lectures on politics at Harvard, in which the first issue of John Kennedy Jr.’s magazine features Madonna on “If I Were President”, in which Jessica Lange plays a farmer in a film and then testifies before a House committee on farm legislation- would care what these people think. .. Punish Schott on Hitler?”  the real scandal here is that what can only be called comic anti-Semitism arouses enormous indignation when the real thing evokes general cowardice.”

(Krauthammer was referring to the genuine anti-Semitism of Louis Farrakhan.)

From” Jewcentricity- why the Jews are praised, blamed, and used to explain just abou0t everything” by Adam Garfinkle

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