Revenge: A Story of Hope
by Laura Blumenfeld
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Author: Laura BlumenfeldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 0743463390
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Washington Square Press
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Book Review: In 2003, "A Reader" Dared to Spew Hateful Radical Left Rhetoric. Let Me Show You the Folly of that Exercise.
Summary: 5 Stars
You fool; you insensitive--no, malevolently cruel fool: You can wax philosophic and even have a point. But there are times when such an intellectual exercise is inhumane to the extreme. This woman is writing about something intensely personal, about a loved one who was targeted for death. Your dragging politics into this is ugly and self-centered. Yes, YOU are self-centered and self-righteous, not the author. You are also half-baked; you didn't even read the summary of the book right here on Amazon. You pathetically lazy pseudo-intellectual. If you had read the summary, let alone the book (imagine that), you would in fact have found that the author forced herself to overcome her pain and proceeded to familiarize herself up close and personal with the sorrow of the Palestinian people. But that would refute your hateful thesis. Yes, you read me right: She develops compassion for the man who committed the crime, exactly because of the sad history you glibly cite. How many of us would have the emotional courage to do that?! And you, glib one, have you survived a shooting? Has one of your loved ones? Did you then go out and research the historic grievances of the would-be murderer? Is it not amazing that this woman did? But you are too blind to see what's before your very eyes, because your hatred clouds your vision; it even stops you from reading further: As soon as your prejudice is "confirmed," you perceive no need to read any further. Your comment exemplifies how the radical Left is just as malevolent and hateful as the radical Right. Radicals are blinded by hatred and the world suffers as a result. I don't think you will ever understand the human condition at any level unless misfortune comes your way, and you most certainly deserve such a "learning experience" in the happy event that someone with an axe to grind with the group with whom you affiliate goes after you. I hope you survive, so that you can spend the rest of your life wallowing in self-pity. That's all you would do: The lesson would be lost on you. You coward. Your ugly "wisdom" will crumble like a rotten log should you be unfortunate enough to experience what the author did. And, yes, I survived a drive-by shooting (with bullets penetrating my stomach, limbs and major arteries, the MDs were never quite sure how I lived through surgery I had lost so much blood) committed by someone who had a general grievance that was old-school racist in nature. Should I perhaps apologize for this criminal, explaining that neo-Nazis have their grievances and we have been remiss in addressing them?! Absurd comparison? I am making a point, Einstein. "Moral" apologetics are bankrupt in both cases: Thou shalt not kill, regardless of how angry you might be. This is not a religious precept: It is a basic human axiom that governs acceptable behaviour. You are wretched to miss that simple point. Remember, the extreme right hates you as much as it hates me. Shame on you, if you have the belated decency to even feel that level of remorse.
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