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Old May 31st, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Rachel Sklar: Feminist, SJW and Jew

Rachel Sklar: Feminist, SJW and Jew


I hadn’t heard of Rachel Sklar till an opinion piece popped up on my LinkedIn with her trying to (hilariously) claim that Gawker losing the legal case brought against them by Hulk Hogan (backed by Peter Thiel) was somehow an ‘attack on innovation’. (1)

The whole article was quite well… political… shall we say. Sklar didn’t even attempt to stay on topic or substantiate her thesis. Instead she raged against Donald Trump, fatuously claimed that ‘diversity brings innovation’ - a hilarious assertion really if you’ve ever read a decent history of technology and/or science – and repeated the mantra that there need to be ‘more women in STEM’.

You really couldn’t get any more hackneyed or cliché if you tried, but that doesn’t stop Sklar. She just ploughs right ahead and reproduces all the rubbish ideological claims that academics periodically collect and rip to shreds as if it were gold nuggets when it is really a bunch of iron pyrite.

The response from the generally socially liberal, but professional commentariat at LinkedIn was predictable. Sklar got ripped to shreds and exposed as politically-motivated arse that she is.

Here are some sample comments: (2)

‘Gawker was wrong and will pay for it. End of story. This piece has a political agenda, has nothing to do with trending in Technology, should not be in Linkedin and is full of B.S.’ – Dan Adam

‘The entire premise of your article is off base and myopic in scope. You MUST speak to the history of news outlets being sued by celebrities for sharing private info. You MUST speak to photographers who scale private walls and sneak into children's birthday parties because gossip sites incentivize them to do anything to get a scoop. You MUST address privacy and decency. You must basically be a journalist. This here are the ramblings of a misinformed person with an agenda.’ – Lee Moulton

‘What a pointless article. Not all innovations are created equal, nor are all new ideas meant to survive. The mantra "it's better because it's new and therefore we should embrace/love it" is outdated rhetoric. We need better, not "newer" stuff. Nobody needs Gawker because (quote): "tearing down is not the same as building up" ... right? Gawker is fuelled by envy, vanity and curiosity - hardly characteristics that drive "creation".’ – Frank Dehnke

The irony is that Sklar styles herself guru as promoting careers for women in STEM, but yet Sklar’s background isn’t in STEM: it is law and journalism. She left law for a career in left-wing yellow journalism as a founding editor the Huffington Post and then moved to the Daily Beast and Mediate. (3) Before transitioning into the feminist lobby scene when she set up advocacy group ‘TheLi.st’.

Sklar is clearly extremely egotistical as even the usually tame Jewish Daily Forward describes her as ‘an indefatigable networker and promoter (for herself and others) who knew how to attract the limelight’. (4)

Other evidence suggestive of such a conclusion is that a goodly portion of her articles from the Huffington Post are simply about her and what makes her special/wonderful/unique. (5) They also showcase her left-wing yellow journalist credentials and Social Justice Warrior (hereafter SJW) politics.

Sample article titles of the kind are: ‘How Canada Made Me An Obama Lover’ (she’s officially a Canadian), (6) ‘CBS and Its Homophobic Superbowl Double-Standard’, (7) ‘Barack Obama’s Running For President — And He Told YOU First’ (8) and ‘Boring, Warmongering Blowhard Christopher Hitchens Adds “Sexist” To His Resume’. (9)

You get the idea.

Predictably Sklar also screams histrionic abuse – the more absurd the better - at anyone of European origin who has a vaguely right-wing point of view in such articles as: ‘Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR’. (10)

Classic SJW: isn’t it?

In other words: my viewpoint is the only valid position therefore only I deserve air time and no one else.

It would be uproariously funny if it was so absolutely pitiful.

However there is a bit more to Sklar than just a typical SJW busybody. She also strongly identifies as being jewish (I presume through her mother) (11) and writes enthusiastic peons of praise for Israel such as ‘Israel Diary: Dispatch From The Holy Land’. (12) She barely mentions the Palestinians and is concerned instead about the ‘changing demographics’ of Israel (i.e. it is becoming less of a jewish state).

True to form she is also obsessed with the ‘Holocaust’, while knowing next to nothing about it. One result being a hagiographic piece on Elie Wiesel (who was exposed as a fraud within academe in the 1990s but his secular sainthood was too far gone) that just oozes tired and seriously overused clichés. (13)

You’ve got to laugh really, because Sklar is so stereotypically jewish with her ethnocentric double-standard (jewish nationalism [i.e. Israel being a jewish state] good, but European/American nationalism bad), endorsement of campaigning SJW politics and her shark-like networking and self-promotion.

I would also say that Sklar’s adoption of SJW campaigning (specifically in regards to feminism and to a lesser extent ‘racial injustice’) is driven at least in part by simple careerism. She wants to make money (and get a lot of attention [hence why she’s a single mother now]) (14) and as she couldn’t cut it in law – where careers are hit and miss as well as extremely hard work – she moved to journalism (finding this didn’t make her tonnes of money either [although it isn’t hard work]) to her latest money-spinning gig: feminist tech lobbying.

However it is also clear that Jewishness is key to who Sklar is in her own mind – remember that apparently race is a social construct but jewishness somehow isn’t – and therefore a central part of why she is a feminist SJW tech lobbyist.

Thus when she writes highly politicized bilge at LinkedIn trying to pass it off as a ‘valid business critique’ of the fact that Gawker have been more or less put out of business by their own business plan: it is partially the result, and not incidental to, her Jewishness.

After all who you are drives what you are unless we want to engage in the fantasy of behaviourism.


References


(1) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-c...y-rachel-sklar
(2) Ibid.
(3) http://forward.com/series/forward-50...r-and-rachel/; http://guestofaguest.com/new-york/gu...ol-of-the-list
(4) http://forward.com/series/forward-50...ar-and-rachel/
(5) Cf. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-sklar/
(6) http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-...b_2083699.html
(7) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel..._b_443281.html
(8) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel...r_b_38797.html
(9) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel...h_b_35777.html
(10) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel..._b_215781.html
(11) http://forward.com/series/forward-50...ar-and-rachel/
(12) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel..._b_329472.html
(13) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel..._b_211820.html
(14) http://forward.com/series/forward-50...lar-and-rachel

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This was originally published at the following address: http://www.semiticcontroversies.blog...w-and-jew.html
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