Sartre on Fur.

My mind’s a bit cloudy at the moment for anything other than short posts, but I thought Ben use of Sarte at Z-Word makes a very astute observation on the nature of antisemitism:

Antisemitism is unlike most other forms of emotionally-grounded hatred, which are normally provoked by a certain experience. You may hate your landlord for raising the rent, or your cellphone company for providing lousy service, or a particular airline for giving you a middle seat when you were promised the aisle. But antisemitism functions differently. “It precedes the facts that are supposed to call it forth; it seeks them out to nourish itself upon them; it must even interpret them in a special way so that they may become truly offensive,” writes Sartre.”

Couldn’t have said it better and one day I promise I’ll read Sartre, proper.