Chesterton is, like Oscar Wilde, more quoted than read, and he is, as Gopnik writes, \u201can easy writer to love \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 a brilliant sentence-maker, a humorist, a journalist of endless appetite and invention. His aphorisms alone are worth the price of admission, better than any but Wilde\u2019s. Even his standard-issue zingers are first-class \u2014 \u201cAmericans are the people who describe their use of alcohol and tobacco as vices;\u201d \u201cThere is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grape-nuts on principle;\u201d \u201c\u2018My country, right or wrong,\u2019 is a thing that no true patriot would think of saying. \u2026\u00a0It is like saying, \u2018My mother, drunk or sober\u2019\u201d \u2014 while the deeper ones are genuine Catholic koans, pregnant and profound: \u201cBlasphemy depends on belief, and is fading with it. If anyone doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.\u201d Or: \u201cThe function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.\u201d Or: \u201cA key has no logic to its shape. Its logic is: it turns the lock.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat\u2019s terrific stuff. Chesterton had a knack for making his insights sound like jokes and his jokes sound like insights. But he is also, to use the current euphemism, problematic<\/em>, as Gopnik also discusses: \u201cThose of us who are used to pressing his writing on friends have the hard job of protecting him from his detractors, who think he was a nasty anti-Semite and medievalizing reactionary, and the still harder one of protecting him from his admirers, who pretend that he was not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nGopnik\u2019s essay is particularly sharp in confronting, and trying to understand, Chesterton\u2019s \u201cJew-hating\u201d:<\/p>\n
A reader with a casual interest in Chesterton\u2019s life may have a reassuring sense, from his fans and friendly biographers, that his anti-Semitism really isn\u2019t all that bad: that there\u2019s not much of it; that a lot of it came from loyalty to his younger brother Cecil, a polemical journalist in the pre-war years, and to his anti-Dreyfusard friend Belloc; that he had flushed it out of his system by the mid-twenties; and, anyway, that it was part of the time he lived in. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\nUnfortunately, a little reading shows that there\u2019s a lot of it, that it comes all the time, and that the more Chesterton tries to justify it the worse it gets.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd towards the end of his essay, Gopnik grapples with the fact that Chesterton\u2019s anti-Semitism \u201cis not incidental\u201d but is inextricably tied up with the underlying logic and philosophy at the core of his thinking. As with Martin Luther, \u201cThe anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it\u2019s explicit. It\u2019s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThat concluding argument is, I think, a smart and wise discussion and a helpful one for anyone who admires Chesterton and his often otherwise admirable writing. But here I\u2019m not so much interested in Chesterton himself as I am in what we can learn from him about how bigotry works<\/em>.<\/p>\nHere was a brilliant, educated man with a nimble wit, religious devotion, and a capacity for empathy, irony and humility. And yet even he managed to wind\u00a0up obsessively consumed by the willful ignorance, stupidity, blasphemy and arrogance of bigotry. He had education, Jesus, and a sense of humor \u2014 three things that it seems ought to preclude such crude prejudice and hate. Yet they did not rescue him. Or, at least, he did not allow them to rescue him. He still swallowed whole all the cognitive tricks that such bigotry teaches and requires \u2014 and then fortified them with his formidable intellect, religious fervor, and wit.<\/p>\n
After World War I, Gopnik writes, \u201cChesterton\u2019s hatreds became ugly and obsessive\u201d:<\/p>\n
From then on, however, Chesterton hammers relentlessly at the idea that there is \u201ca Jewish problem,\u201d the problem being that Jews are foreigners, innately alien to the nations into which they\u2019ve insinuated themselves. Writing in 1920, he tells us that Jews are regarded, by the Arabs in Palestine, as \u201cparasites that feed on a community by a thousand methods of financial intrigue and economic exploitation.\u201d Chesterton then adds that this charge may not be entirely true but needs to be addressed by the Jews \u2014 as though they were compelled to consider themselves permanently on trial by their persecutors. Later in the decade, writing about a journey to America, he says, in defense of Henry Ford, \u201cNo extravagance of hatred merely following on\u00a0<\/span>experience<\/em>\u00a0of Jews can properly be called a prejudice. \u2026\u00a0These people of the plains have found the Jewish problem exactly as they might have struck oil; because it is\u00a0<\/span>there<\/em>, and not even because they were looking for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a deeply racial, not merely religious, bigotry; it\u2019s not the Jews\u2019 cupidity or their class role \u2014 it\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>them<\/em>. In his autobiography, Chesterton tries to defend himself by explaining what it is that makes people naturally mistrust Jews. All schoolboys recognized Jews as Jews, he says, and when they did so \u201cwhat they saw was not Semites or Schismatics or capitalists or revolutionists, but foreigners, only foreigners that were not called foreigners.\u201d Even a seemingly assimilated Jew, in Chesterton\u2019s world, remains a foreigner. No one born a Jew can become a good Englishman: if England had sunk into the Atlantic, he says, Disraeli would have run off to America.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe dynamics here, the mental mechanics and gymnastics at work, are all too familiar to anyone who has ever visited the United States. Everything Chesterton says there about \u201cthe Jews\u201d is precisely what white American culture has been teaching for centuries about \u201cthe blacks.\u201d Them<\/em>. Perpetual foreigners whose citizenship is always, and will always be,\u00a0suspect. Parasites<\/em>. Self-evidently other<\/em>. \u201cPeople naturally mistrust\u201d them because they\u2019re a separate category \u2014 not a part of the category of \u201cpeople.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd then, in our more generously liberal moments, a passing acknowledgement that all of these accusations may not be entirely true in every case, but that they still need to be addressed by the accused who are \u201ccompelled to consider themselves permanently on trial.\u201d The existence of the prejudice is thereby acknowledged, but only in order to claim that its existence somehow is self-justifying. Where there\u2019s smoke there must be fire. Guilty unless proven somewhat less guilty. We couldn\u2019t possibly\u00a0be treating them this way if they didn\u2019t somehow deserve it.<\/p>\n\u201cForeigners, only foreigners that were not called foreigners.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nChesterton\u2019s crooked construct of what he insisted on calling \u201cthe Jewish problem\u201d can help us better understand the crooked lies embedded in white American culture that insist on imagining white America has a \u201cBlack Problem.\u201d They are the same lies \u2014 the same deliberate deceptions and delusions. This is the infernal mechanism, the cognitive machinery of hate. This is how bigotry works, and how\u00a0it persists.<\/p>\n
A grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, is preparing to announce whether or not charges will be filed against a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Watch the way this is discussed and the way this discussion is framed.\u00a0It will be, as it has been, discussed in corrosive, corrupt terms that echo Chesterton\u2019s vile anti-Semitism. The other is identified, classified as a perpetual foreigner, and defined as a \u201cproblem\u201d that must somehow be dealt with. We will be given\u00a0\u201cboth sides\u201d of this debate \u2014 the side that argues that it is sad and regrettable when lethal police violence is administered lawlessly in response to the Black Problem, and the side that argues that such extra-legal lethal violence may sometimes be\u00a0appropriate and necessary as a response to the Black Problem.<\/p>\n
Both sides will lament that it has come to this, and they will shake their heads sadly that, after so many generations, the Black Problem remains intractable.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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