Subitted by Michael Spilo
Joe Angland and the Democratic Town Committee (DTC) continue the now long-standing tradition in which Greenwich’s leftmost sling hateful and false accusations at Republicans while claiming they want to “turn the page on partisan mudslinging.” (see links below) Previously we’ve been called Nazis, racist, and sexist, now the DTC calls Republicans “antisemites” for pointing out the political perspective of Scott Kalb, one of the Democrat BET candidates. With this rhetoric the DTC defiles the historical plight of Jews and belittles antisemitism.
Mr. Kalb is a former member of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a political lobbying organization which propagates the widely derided utopian idea of globalism. The WEF now attempts to distance itself from “globalism” by rebranding it “globalization,” “global cooperation,” “international order,” “democratic globalism,” and “stakeholder capitalism” all of which are still about centralized and collective control of property and trade.
This globalist perspective is affecting Greenwich today. Globalism is about allowing far away bureaucrats to take away your property rights and in Greenwich this takes the form of zoning decrees from Hartford demanding we build dense high-rise buildings, ruining our historic town, creating unfunded mandates, and destroying property values. Mr. Kalb is among several other (of various faiths and none) far-left globalist Democrats who are proponents of such mandates and Mr. Kalb and these others even voted to divert Town fees directly to such high-density endeavors, bypassing the checks and balances in our Town Charter.
Such politicians are often uncomfortable with different perspectives and try to distract and shut down debate with name calling. Labeling opposition to Mr. Kalb’s politics “antisemitic” is all about shutting down debate.
There are many prominent outspoken Jewish opponents of globalism, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Professor of Economics Zygmunt Bauman and Professor of Theology Yoram Hazony (see links), who believe that globalism / collectivism (by whatever name) are terrible ideas and clearly don’t think it is antisemitic to say so.
The reality is the opposite: it is antisemitic to claim that all Jews believe globalism is good, or that anyone attacking globalism is attacking Jews. The assumption that Jews are all the same is offensive and antisemitic.
Worse, the use of such accusations by the DTC to shut down political debate trivializes antisemitism, just like former Democrat BET member Goldrick’s use of Nazi comparisons trivializes the heroes and victims of WW II. Trivial misuse of these terms masks and makes it more difficult to point out actual racism and antisemitism where they do exist.
While this sort of low-brow behavior is no longer new in Greenwich it’s still very offensive and demands an apology from the DTC.
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Mr. Spilo is an RTM member from District 11. He is Chairman of the RTM Public Works Committee and of the RTM Labor Contracts Committee and he is the RTM representative on the Central Middle School Building Committee. The views presented are his own.