Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag: Racist, Bigot & Hypocrite
By Daniel G. Jennings
It is sickening to see the tribute our media (particularly the major newspapers) is giving to a terrible person a bigot, racist and hypocrite named Susan Sontag who recently died.
For those of you out in there in the real world who don=t have the time to care about people and things outside the real world Susan Sontag was a leftist intellectual who became famous in some circles by writing books nobody read (I=m a prolific reader and something of an intellectual myself and I can=t even name any of Ms. Sontag=s works which shows her real influence). A few intellectuals read the books and proclaimed them brilliant so the usual cadre of journalists, professors, actors, directors and other pseudo intellectuals hailed Ms. Sontag as a genius.
Ms. Sontag may or may not have been a great writer but she was a hypocrite, a racist and a bigot as her actions prove. In the 1960s Ms. Sontag became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War and supporter of North Vietnam. She traveled to Hanoi and championed the cause of one of the most corrupt and oppressive dictatorships on Earth. She demanded that America pull out of Vietnam not because she cared about the American soldiers fighting and dying there but because she wanted the Communists to win.
After the Communists won in Vietnam, set up a dictatorship and herded a large percentage of the population into concentration camps called reeducation centers Ms. Sontag didn=t care. She didn=t care when the Vietnamese Communists allies the Khmer Rouge murdered millions in an attempt to create a Communist utopia in Cambodia or when tens of thousands of South Vietnamese drowned in the South China Sea trying to get away from her friends from Hanoi.
This is where the racism part comes in, even though Ms. Sontag didn=t care about the poor Asian people murdered, tortured, oppressed and exploited by her Communist friends. She did care about the poor white people of the former Yugoslavia. The same woman who demanded that the American troops protecting the poor people of Asia from Communist thugs in the 1960s and 70s be withdrawn in the early 1990s demanded that US forces be dispatched to Yugoslavia to protect the poor white people there from ethnic cleansing and other thuggery. That is the height of both hypocrisy and racism, why was it wrong for Lyndon Johnson to send troops to Vietnam to defend human rights but right for Bill Clinton to send troops to Yugoslavia to defend human rights? Could it be that Ms. Sontag believed that only white people are entitled to human rights or that thugs and gangsters are good people as long as they have a copy of the Communist manifesto in their pockets?
If this hypocrisy wasn=t bad enough there was Ms. Sontag=s reaction to the Sept. 11 atrocity she wrote an essay praising the terrorists and even called them brave. She tried to justified their cause. This woman felt more sympathy for terrorists who killed Americans than her fellow citizens who had been savagely murdered in New York. And her sympathy like her sympathy for Ho Chi Minh was motivated by bigotry.
Ms. Sontag hated America she believed that America was a corrupt and evil nation built on racism and genocide. Naturally Ms. Sontag never lived anywhere besides America. If America was so bad why didn=t Ms. Sontag leave it? Perhaps she didn=t want to give up her comfortable apartment in Manhattan or the big checks she received for her writing. That too is the height of hypocrisy.
In a sane society somebody like Ms. Sontag would be left alone to die a miserable lonely death in a walk up apartment with a couple of cats. Unfortunately in our country she is hailed by some segments of society as a genius when she clearly wasn=t. Worse a hypocrite is celebrated as a profoundly moral person, and a friend of tyranny is hailed as a champion of freedom.
It is a testimony to the greatness of America that people like Ms. Sontag are tolerated here and even allowed to thrive. Only in a free country society like America could some Ms. Sontag function. The question today=s intellectuals should ask will people like Ms. Sontag be tolerated, especially if large numbers of American bodies start piling up in the streets of our homeland or the Middle East?
By Daniel G. Jennings
It is sickening to see the tribute our media (particularly the major newspapers) is giving to a terrible person a bigot, racist and hypocrite named Susan Sontag who recently died.
For those of you out in there in the real world who don=t have the time to care about people and things outside the real world Susan Sontag was a leftist intellectual who became famous in some circles by writing books nobody read (I=m a prolific reader and something of an intellectual myself and I can=t even name any of Ms. Sontag=s works which shows her real influence). A few intellectuals read the books and proclaimed them brilliant so the usual cadre of journalists, professors, actors, directors and other pseudo intellectuals hailed Ms. Sontag as a genius.
Ms. Sontag may or may not have been a great writer but she was a hypocrite, a racist and a bigot as her actions prove. In the 1960s Ms. Sontag became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War and supporter of North Vietnam. She traveled to Hanoi and championed the cause of one of the most corrupt and oppressive dictatorships on Earth. She demanded that America pull out of Vietnam not because she cared about the American soldiers fighting and dying there but because she wanted the Communists to win.
After the Communists won in Vietnam, set up a dictatorship and herded a large percentage of the population into concentration camps called reeducation centers Ms. Sontag didn=t care. She didn=t care when the Vietnamese Communists allies the Khmer Rouge murdered millions in an attempt to create a Communist utopia in Cambodia or when tens of thousands of South Vietnamese drowned in the South China Sea trying to get away from her friends from Hanoi.
This is where the racism part comes in, even though Ms. Sontag didn=t care about the poor Asian people murdered, tortured, oppressed and exploited by her Communist friends. She did care about the poor white people of the former Yugoslavia. The same woman who demanded that the American troops protecting the poor people of Asia from Communist thugs in the 1960s and 70s be withdrawn in the early 1990s demanded that US forces be dispatched to Yugoslavia to protect the poor white people there from ethnic cleansing and other thuggery. That is the height of both hypocrisy and racism, why was it wrong for Lyndon Johnson to send troops to Vietnam to defend human rights but right for Bill Clinton to send troops to Yugoslavia to defend human rights? Could it be that Ms. Sontag believed that only white people are entitled to human rights or that thugs and gangsters are good people as long as they have a copy of the Communist manifesto in their pockets?
If this hypocrisy wasn=t bad enough there was Ms. Sontag=s reaction to the Sept. 11 atrocity she wrote an essay praising the terrorists and even called them brave. She tried to justified their cause. This woman felt more sympathy for terrorists who killed Americans than her fellow citizens who had been savagely murdered in New York. And her sympathy like her sympathy for Ho Chi Minh was motivated by bigotry.
Ms. Sontag hated America she believed that America was a corrupt and evil nation built on racism and genocide. Naturally Ms. Sontag never lived anywhere besides America. If America was so bad why didn=t Ms. Sontag leave it? Perhaps she didn=t want to give up her comfortable apartment in Manhattan or the big checks she received for her writing. That too is the height of hypocrisy.
In a sane society somebody like Ms. Sontag would be left alone to die a miserable lonely death in a walk up apartment with a couple of cats. Unfortunately in our country she is hailed by some segments of society as a genius when she clearly wasn=t. Worse a hypocrite is celebrated as a profoundly moral person, and a friend of tyranny is hailed as a champion of freedom.
It is a testimony to the greatness of America that people like Ms. Sontag are tolerated here and even allowed to thrive. Only in a free country society like America could some Ms. Sontag function. The question today=s intellectuals should ask will people like Ms. Sontag be tolerated, especially if large numbers of American bodies start piling up in the streets of our homeland or the Middle East?
posted by great one at 7:30 PM
1 Comments:
Dan,
I like your article. It is thorough and well reasoned.
Isn't it ironic that Susan, the child of Jewish parents, was so hateful towards the U.S., the country beloved by so many Jews who saw the U.S. as liberators during WWII? If she was an intellectual why didn't she see value in history?
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