not Martin but Mircea

[Mark Thibodeau]

I assume this is directed at me.

By "compare", I didn't mean you couldn't measure one against the
other, which I think is pretty obvious. I simply meant that Eliade
leaves Heidegger in the dust when it comes to virulent, hateful,
murderous anti-Semitism. And I think that's inarguable.

Furthermore, if you think Heidegger's thoughts re: Jews and Modernism
are beyond some kind of pale, then you're most likely an irrational
hysteric and any attempt at discussion would most likely prove
fruitless.

Also, your bizarre non sequitur re Pynchon vs. Eco - a call-back to a
minor disagreement we had like half a year ago - signals to me that
you're the kind of person who holds a grudge like a canvas holds
paint, and thus best avoided.

Take care,
yer old pal Jerky

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not?
>
> If you say "far more" you goddam compare.
>
> Both were anti-Semites when it was the premier cri and when it was not they
> never said sorry.
>
> I even compare Pynchon and Eco because one is a giant and one was a dwarf
> "compared" to him.
>
>
>
> 2016-05-20 23:57 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:31 AM
>> Subject: not Martin but Mircea
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>
>>
>> In the annals of anti-Semitism, Romania holds a particularly egregious
>> position. For example, it is estimated that 130,000 local Jews were
>> slaughtered in Romanian-occupied Ukraine, and that Romanian forces massacred
>> 150,000 Jews in the area of Odessa and Golta. In a pogrom in 1941, as
>> Sebastian records in his Journal, Jews were herded into an abattoir and
>> hanged by the neck on meat hooks. “A sheet of paper was stuck to each
>> corpse: ‘Kosher Meat.’”
>>
>> Of course, Romania was not unique in this regard. In the early years of
>> Nazi conquests in Eastern Europe the ravening enthusiasm for pogroms among
>> the indigenous populations of countries such as Poland, Lithuania, and
>> Estonia startled even the SS. However, the detestation of Jews among all
>> levels of Romanian society, particularly intellectuals, was unrelenting.
>> Here is a typical outburst, recorded in the Journal in September 1939:
>>
>> The Poles’ resistance in Warsaw is a Jewish resistance. Only yids are
>> capable of the blackmail of putting women and children in the front line, to
>> take advantage of the Germans’ sense of scruple…. What is happening on the
>> frontier with Bukovina is a scandal, because new waves of Jews are flooding
>> into the country. Rather than a Romania again invaded by kikes, it would be
>> better to have a German protectorate.
>>
>> Who might the speaker be? Some embittered partisan, perhaps, or a
>> street-corner orator? No: the speaker is Mircea Eliade, one of Romania’s
>> leading scholars and writers of the time, who after the war slipped away to
>> America and there became a highly respected and influential thinker and
>> historian of religions. In 1937 Eliade says of a left-wing student flogged
>> by Iron Guardists that personally he would have put his eyes out as well.
>> Sebastian writes, “Perhaps one day things will have calmed down enough for
>> me to read this page to Mircea and to see him blush with shame.”
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/surrounded-by-jew-haters/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism&utm_content=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism+CID_ab89f8bfb0519728730ad1d09ee20312&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Surrounded%20by%20Jew-Haters
>>
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