Comments on: The Irrepressible Mencken https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/06/the-irrepressible-mencken/ Founded by H.L. Mencken in 1924 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Luis https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/06/the-irrepressible-mencken/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:51:42 +0000 https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1591#comment-2245 My favorite Mencken quote is this:

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule”.

]]> By: Jett Rucker https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/06/the-irrepressible-mencken/comment-page-1/#comment-2234 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:16:23 +0000 https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1591#comment-2234 I’ve read Teachout’s biography, and it did not brand M as an anti-semite. It REPORTED (faithfully, I presume) INCIDENTS which led to his being so branded. The key one I remember is a most peculiar mixed bag: as he and the rest of America became aware of the deteriorating situation for Jews in Europe, M proposed that the US open its borders for all German Jews.

So far, so good, right? Then he went on with regard to similarly beleaguered Jews east of Germany (Poland, etc.), and said that he didn’t care for THOSE Jews, and did not favor opening the US to them.

Some (many?) Jews in the US and Germany might have sympathized with him, but the ones who gained the rostrum seem to have been those who condemned him.

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