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David Schraub
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Sometimes lawyer. Sometimes law professor. All the time awesome. Associate Prof. at Lewis & Clark Law (con law and anti-discrimination). http://dsadevil.blogspot.com
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Albert Memmi was great and prescient on this in “The Liberation of the Jew”.

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First, we should place an important preliminary front and center: Memmi states outright that a reasonable, thinking Jew "can only be of the left". "[A] Jew," he writes, "is conservative only out of blindness or some short-sighted caution." While money or economic success may provide some measure of security in certain cases, "it is in the final analysis an illusory shelter; the Rothschilds themselves supplied their quota to the deportation camps. Whatever kind of insurance he has, the Jew remains a dominated person." And while right-wing politics occasionally gestures towards a sort of facile inclusion of the Jews, "[t]he government of the Right, cultivating the myth of the homogeneity of the nation, of the people or of the race, naturally tends to exclude the Jew, or at least limit his participation" (228-29). This echoed a point he made in his earlier Portrait of a Jew, where he said: How can a man be a Rightist when he is a Jew?. . . The alliance of Jewry with Right wing movements can never be anything but temporary . . . To preserve the existing order, the Right has to stiffen and emphasize differences while at the same time having no respect for what is different. To preserve itself as a privileged group, it must repulse, restrict and repress other groups. Now it may be that a Jew may desire the survival of a given social order in which, by chance, he is not too unhappy. But in addition, he wants the differences between himself and the non-Jews in that class to be forgotten or at least minimized. The Right, either openly or covertly, drives the Jew back to his Jewishness and can only condemn and burden his Jewishness (218-19).
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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This does not feel like something I should be proud of.
Banner announcing I have gold status at Jamba Juice
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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A friend was kind enough to take this photo!

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Me holding my book Deliberation, Dismissal and Democracy
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Fun discovery of the day: Nathaniel is INTO limes.

A little tanginess won’t stop him!
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The Jewish establishment center, re: Heritage giving its blessing to Nick Fuentes.
Community meme where Britta says "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at turning on Israel" and Shirley replies "You can excuse racism?"
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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If I were Susan Collins' press secretary, I'd fit her with a shock collar set to go off if she ever uttered the word "concerned".
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The tagline of my blog has been, since I first started in academia, “I’m a professor! Why isn’t anybody listening to me?”
Professor from Futurama with caption “I’m a professor, why isn’t anyone listening to me?”
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Pointless grouse of the day: I’m annoyed that “Jurassic Bark” has some of the funniest lines in all of Futurama, because obviously I’ll never watch it again.
Screenshot from Futurama protesting for the return of Fry’s dog.
October 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“I want a voracious reader,” he said. “I hope my baby devours books,” he said.
Baby book with a huge bite taken out of the spine.
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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It’s going to be a maze!
Scene from Community where Joshua reveals his swastika tattoo but explains it by saying “it’s going to be a maze!”
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Well, even if we can’t make it downtown, we can still sit in our front yard! #NoKings #PortlandStrong
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Jill is sick, we have a baby, and to be honest I hate crowds and never felt comfortable at a protest. So I'll just repost my protest slogan painting in good #NoKings virtual solidarity.

I won't pretend it's equivalent to hitting the streets, but every little bit helps.
Painting with various protest slogans: "No Kings/Si Se Puede/Elbows Up/Khuy Voyne/Ash-Sha'b Yurid Isqat An-Nizam/Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn/No Pasaran/Hands Off/Never Again."
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The car in front of me at the stop sign is the coolest.
Car with the license plate “AWOOGA”
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Scene from #wartornPortland yesterday. As you can see, things have gotten so dire that even our babies are being trained in amphibious operations.
Picture of my baby and his mom at the pool for swim lessons
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I love it when journalists subtly indicate that Trump is, in fact, a toddler. www.jta.org/2025/10/06/i...
Excerpt reading: "Trump also shared multiple pictures from the weekly Saturday night Tel Aviv demonstration calling for the hostages’ release, which also functions largely as an anti-Netanyahu protest. Trump, who has a longstanding interest in crowd sizes, did not comment on the pictures, but he cited the large numbers of people in the streets in Israel as evidence that Israelis want the war to end during his joint appearance with Netanyahu." The passage "Trump, who has a longstanding interest in crowd sizes," is highlighted.
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Portland strong.
Painting of liberal protest slogans
September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Thrawn bleeding out after being stabbed by Rukh: “But … it was so artistically done!”

(There are maybe 20 people on this site who will get this reference and they are by definition the best people)
Thrawn after being stabbed by Rukh
September 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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It looks like they now have this separate “warning” category for schools like Liberty, whom they are grading (on a separate scale?) but not ranking.
September 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I had never seen this passage from Orwell on the sort of person who very abstractly adores political violence—often from the safety of a polity where such violence is significantly contained—and it is resonant and brilliant.
But there is one other thing that undoubtedly contributed to the cult of Russia among the English intelligentsia during these years, and that is the softness and security of life in England itself. With all its injustices, England is still the land of habeas corpus, and the over-whelming majority of English people have no experience of violence or illegality. If you have grown up in that sort of atmosphere it is not at all easy to imagine what a despotic régime is like. Nearly all the dominant writers of the thirties belonged to the soft-boiled emancipated middle class and were too young to have effective memories of the Great War. To people of that kind such things as purges, secret police, summary executions, imprisonment without trial etc., etc., are too remote to be terrifying. They can swallow totalitarianism because they have no experience of anything except liberalism. Look, for instance, at this extract from Mr Auden’s poem ‘Spain’ (incidentally this poem is one of the few decent things that have been written about the Spanish war): To-morrow for the young, the poets exploding like bombs, The walks by the lake, the weeks of perfect communion; To-morrow the bicycle races Through the suburbs on summer evenings. But to-day the struggle. To-day the deliberate increase in the chances of death, The conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder; To-day the expending of powers On the flat ephemeral pamphlet and the boring meeting. The second stanza is intended as a sort of thumb-nail sketch of a day in the life of a ‘good party man’. In the-morning a couple of political murders, a ten-minutes’ interlude to stifle ‘bourgeois’ remorse, and then a hurried luncheon and a busy afternoon and evening chalking walls and distributing leaflets. All very edifying. But notice the phrase ‘necessary murder’. It could only be written by a person to whom murder is at most a word. Personally I would not speak so lightly of murder. It so happens that I have seen the bodies of numbers of murdered men — I don’t mean killed in battle, I mean murdered. Therefore I have some conception of what murder means — the terror, the hatred, the howling relatives, the post-mortems, the blood, the smells. To me, murder is something to be avoided. So it is to any ordinary person. The Hitlers and Stalins find murder necessary, but they don’t advertise their callousness, and they don’t speak of it as murder; it is ‘liquidation’, ‘elimination’, or some other soothing phrase. Mr Auden’s brand of amoralism is only possible, if you are the kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled. So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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They say democracy doesn't come cheap, but they never saw the 30% off flyer on my book.

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30% off flyer for "Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy" with code AUFLY30
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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How does the Trump admin plan to deal with indicators suggesting the economy is running out of gas? I’m glad you asked!
Fuel gauge with the dial taped to “full”.
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Someone replied to my latest Nathaniel update post with a succinct "Free Palestine". That itself is, sadly, not notable -- people hitting Jews with "Free Palestine" in response to anodyne updates on their lives is hardly limited to me.

But looking over their profile -- this has to be a bit, right?
September 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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My apps screen right now.
Spiderman pointing meme, both labeled "HBO Max"
September 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Which one is the real one!?!
Smart tv screen with two different “HBO Max” apps.
September 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Trump is happy, healthy, and definitely alive.
Screenshot from Brooklyn 99 with a picture of Debbie Stovelman, wife of the founder of Nutriboom, and the quote "I'm happy healthy and alive."
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM