> Katha responds to my gentle correction of
> her evident gross misinformation about populists
> and gold by tying WJ Bryan (and me, implicitly)
> to anti-semitism. Nice. Now I have a taste
> of what some black people feel like when they
> are called 'oreos' for straying from a white
> notion of orthodoxy.
>
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding Max. I appreciated your correction, and I certainly don't think you're an anti-semite. (I don't even know you're not Jewish yourself after all -- I've never even met you! On e mail one tends to forget that, maybe that's why tempers fray).
I don't know a thing about monetary policy, but it's true -- I do think of the populists as anti-semitic, as most American Christians were before WW2. Didn't they tend to blame their problems on international conspiracies of jewish bankers and so on? The Cross of gold image did strike me, just when I was writing, as having a subtext. maybe I was being too literary critical.
I would be amazed if Bryan, a minister who believed, like pat robertson, that those who rejected Christ were bound for Hell, regarded jews in a positive light. But I'm ready to be instructed.
does anyone know about this?
curiously,
Katha