{"id":9699,"date":"2010-03-06T19:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2010-03-06T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T02:19:38","slug":"bigotry-thy-name-is-marty-peretz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9699","title":{"rendered":"Bigotry, Thy Name is Marty Peretz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2010\/03\/06\/peretz\/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+salon\/greenwald+%28Glenn+Greenwald\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> is right. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/the-spine\/sorry-the-verdict-the-long-american-excursion-iraq-and-it-favorable\">pro-Iraq War column by Marty Peretz<\/a> is not only wrong, but it contains an unbelievably racist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were moments&#8211;long moments&#8211;during the Iraq war when I had my doubts. Even deep doubts. Frankly, I couldn\u2019t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well. This is, you will say, my prejudice. But some prejudices are built on real facts, and history generally proves me right. Go ahead, prove me wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are racist bigots who have argued that Jews cannot be trusted, because they&#8217;re inherently deceitful people. These racist bigots are rightly called anti-Semites, and they are despised by anyone with a functioning brain.<\/p>\n<p>Marty Peretz just argued that Arabs can&#8217;t be trusted, because they&#8217;re inherently deceitful people. He&#8217;s a racist bigot, and he should be despised by anyone with a functioning brain.<\/p>\n<p>This is not new. And it should not be ignored. <a href=\"http:\/\/toohotfortnr.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/i-see-you-crawling-in-your-garden.html\">Marty Peretz is a flaming racist douchebag<\/a>. He <a href=\"http:\/\/toohotfortnr.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/civilized-man-you-were-keeper-to-me.html\">views Arabs as less human than the rest of humanity<\/a>. He is not merely prejudiced. He is proudly so.<\/p>\n<p>His opinions are of no more merit than those of David Duke. And no decent human should think otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald is right. This pro-Iraq War column by Marty Peretz is not only wrong, but it contains an unbelievably racist statement: There were moments&#8211;long moments&#8211;during the Iraq war when I had my doubts. Even deep doubts. Frankly, I couldn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}