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| A Speech for the Ages: Bari Weiss' Battle Cry to Save the West |
| 2023-11-24 |
| [SIGNAL] Bari Weiss, the former New York Times editorial writer, delivered a tour de force speech explaining the West’s current war of ideas and laying out what we must do to save our civilization. Speaking at The Federalist Society’s annual National Lawyers Convention, Weiss spoke after receiving a prize named after Barbara K. Olsen, a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She perfectly encapsulated the "civilizational war" the West faces, a war that "too many had foolishly thought was over." She eloquently used the dual catastrophes of 9/11 and the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel to underscore the current war of ideas, conviction, and will. Throughout her 38-minute speech, Weiss proved eloquent, poignant, and self-deprecating. She used humor to disarm and challenge the primarily conservative audience to look past the reality of her same-sex marriage and support for abortion to the stark truth that she, and millions like her, are allies with them in the more profound and deeper fight to save Western civilization as we know it. She opened by noting that the attacks of Oct. 7 were not like "previous wars or battles Israel has fought in its 75-year history." It was a "genocidal pogrom," akin to the Nazi Holocaust, the European pogroms, or the Farhud, the 1941 massacre of Jews in Baghdad. Comparisons between the 9/11 and Oct. 7 attacks are apt because, as she noted, "the spectacle and savagery were the point." Yet while the West responded with due horror to 9/11, Weiss lamented the West’s response to Oct. 7 as a "moral and spiritual catastrophe, revealing the rot permeating our civilization. At the Sydney Opera House, protesters shouted "Gas the Jews." People celebrated "on the streets of Berlin, London, Toronto and New York." Black Lives Matter of Chicago created an image of the Hamas paragliders as a "symbol of freedom." Posters materialized on college campuses calling for "Israel to burn." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 "Yet while the West responded with due horror to 9/11," The unduly horrific Western response to 9/11 showed the world that the West had turned into a finlandized, masochistic warped caricature of its former self. There's no serious political commitment to Western self-defense. No one, Muslim or not, fears and/or respects the West anymore. Western deterrence is all but gone. Israel would be well advised to heed these lessons and not to emulate the US&NATO post 9/11- |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2023-11-24 21:19 |
| #6 Bari Weiss is Jewish. ... She's still anti-white. Informative. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-24 15:19 |
| #5 Yes. The Maher / Taibbi / Weiss "smell the coffee" act is just that, an act. They sold what they are complaining about now for a long time and now they are cashing in on calling out the worst excesses that they facilitated while not admitting to any previoys flaws in their world views. No Sale... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-24 13:47 |
| #4 Bari Weiss is Jewish. She hasn't changed a bit from her NYT roots. She's still anti-white. She just got angry that HER speech was being censored and quit. |
| Posted by: Glenter Gleremble1307 2023-11-24 13:39 |
| #3 What rings hollow is that she hasn't actually abandoned her own political views and progressive attitudes. She just sees a more immediate and existential enemy to them now emerging from the ranks of her former "allies" as their mask slips away. Now she wants to engage the right as allies, because the sweet ride that has been Western Civilization is teetering after decades of corrosion from people like her, and that suddenly is frightening. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-11-24 13:29 |
| #2 As a rule, good people spend more time trying to tell themselves there are no bad people than accepting that there are bad people. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-24 12:40 |
| #1 At the Sydney Opera House, protesters shouted "Gas the Jews." People celebrated "on the streets of Berlin, London, Toronto and New York." Black Lives Matter of Chicago created an image of the Hamas paragliders as a "symbol of freedom." Posters materialized on college campuses calling for "Israel to burn." I remember a book about Germany in 1930es. One Jewish character says "They don't really mean that.". |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-24 12:14 |