Freedom to anti -Semites!

In St. Petersburg there is a trial of Konstantin Dushenov. In the narrow Orthodox world of modern Russia, this is a celebrity: he on behalf of Metropolitan John of Petersburg in the 1990s, and after the death of the Metropolitan on behalf of his own, published all kinds of denunciations of the "Jews" as enemies of Orthodoxy. In favor of Dushenov, two priests from the "unofficial" Orthodox spoke in court. Now they are looking for witnesses from the Moscow Patriarchate - priests or professors of theological academies, who would say that the "real" Orthodoxy does not support the Jews.

However, embarrassment came out: the leadership of the MP decided not to send their representatives to the court. For some, this is bad news: it turns out, “Europeanism”, “culture” of the Moscow Patriarchate, all these “speeches in front of the rabbis” are just a sign. And under the sign of the former thick layer of anti -Semitism. Of course, there are not anti -Semites in the Patriarchate, but these do not want public scandals with co -religionists.

The news is bad, the behavior of "empires" is a classic soviet. Kazyna liberals carefully hide their liberalism. It is for kitchen conversations, for internal complacency, and not for external use.

However, it is useful to look at what is happening from a different angle. The preaching of anti -Semitism is a sin and stupidity (however, a sin is always stupid, although stupidity is far from always sinful, fortunately). The judicial persecution for anti -Semitism is not a sin, and not stupidity, but a violation of the fundamental democratic principle is freedom of speech.

Therefore, for example, many Western liberals condemn the laws that punish the denial of the Holocaust. And when Russian human rights activists and liberals write: “The idea of ​​the fight against extremism is good, only the execution of a stupid,” is a misunderstanding of the very essence of human rights and liberalism. This essence is the famous: "I am ready to give your life so that you can express your beliefs with which I do not agree."

The fight against anti -Semitism should not be politics - that is, the state action with the imposition of fines and stitched in prison. No need to translate to the state what should (and can!) Do a person.

The desire to plant anti -Semite, to use the club of the state for a good matter the more, the less a person is ready to personally confront anti -Semitism. In the case of Dushenov, it is obvious that most Orthodox Russia is struck by anti -Semitism to a huge extent, much more than unbelievers. Sometimes there is a feeling that anti -Semitism in the Orthodox environment is as strong as among the Chekists, although there has not yet been conducted sociological research on this topic. You are Orthodox - so start fighting this anti -Semitism in your environment, with your shepherds and archpastors. But no! How to rock the boat in which you swim! Suddenly you will be thrown away - and how then to live?

A person is cowardly - and begins to compensate for his cowardice. Against the sheep, well done, against the fellow and the sheep itself. Dushenov’s delest is simple, you convict your priest.

Weakness in front of the system is a manifestation of another vice, deeper: inability to cooperate with people, with like -minded people. "State liberals" in Russia is always one by one. They never unite. Separately Fr. Georgy Kochetkov (the liberal is very partial, but still; not anti -Semite, in any case) and its many thousands of flocks. Separately Fr. Alexander Borisov and his many thousands. Separately secular liberals - and all these hundreds of people are not united, each for himself. Liberalism remains an idea, and there is no main liberalism, liberalism as a lifestyle. But liberalism, first of all, is the ability to build cooperation not with the state, but with similar individuals. In the absence of such liberalism, it remains only to call the uncle state - even if this uncle is a hundred times more dangerous than a bully who attacked you.

What, in the end, is an anti -Semitic film made by Dushenov, worse than Shevkunov’s film about the death of Byzantium from dark forces - a film that was actively advancing state television? What is more dangerous: the cry of "Beat the Jew" or the exquisite "has shaved the need to take measures to counteract the destructive forces of unclear origin"?

The priests mentioned above have an excuse - they may want good, but they sacrifice themselves for the sake of flock. Probably, those official liberals that the new Patriarch brought with him to power as referents just as justify their silence: Alpheev, Legoyda, Shchipkov and many others. None of them expressed protest against the presence of one of the Moscow temples in the same “clip”, now the protodeacon, the anti -Semite is not hidden, but active. But these have a different excuse - they "transform the system" from the inside, educate the authorities.

Here are who has no excuses- so it is the "ordinary" Moscow Patriarchate, the thousands of young and not very young parishioners, who have a higher education, who do not seem to be anti-Semites, but partly even Jews. But these do not protest and do not require anything. However, maybe they justify themselves. Like, if you go to the conflict, they will not expel anti -Semites, but me? And where am I, poor, will I go, where will I find myself a canonical religion? So the logic of the state -owned region leads to behavioral self -discovery.

However, most of these "educated" are not at all ashamed of what they drank from a source poisoned by anti-Semitism, they are babbling about the fact that "he still has a missionary talent, he speaks brightly." And Goebbels did not have a missionary talent?

In America, Dushenov would certainly not be imprisoned, they would not even begin to judge. And in the same way in America, Dushenov would certainly not stay in the press secretaries of the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church. Yes, and Metropolitan John himself, if he lived in the USA, would quickly remain without flock if he spoke in an anti -Semitic spirit. Without trial and investigation - the environment and flocks would have made him everything that they think, and if he had not reacted, they would leave without hesitation and not preoccupy with “canonism” (especially since “observing the canons” is an ideal excellent, but absolutely unattainable).

Public boycott does not mean that the boycotted phenomenon will disappear. America is full of smelly "sinuses", including the Orthodox, where anti -Semites with Christian slogans are collected. But this is precisely the sinuses, in which no one is narrowing and who, due to the boycott, have no social significance.

You can refer to the fact that in America the initially free people, who act freely, and in Russia slavery and you need to act stealthily. Yes, only the story indicates that in America there was initially no liberalism, the Puritans were fanatics cleaner than Dushenov (by the way, in the sense of anti -Semitism). Another thing is that initially there was no hope of the state. In the end, take an example from anti -Semites - they do not hope for the state, unite, pogroms are ready to arrange without high patrons, and sometimes contrary to their will.

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At the same time in Moscow, an attack on various charitable centers continues. They are thrown out of the premises. The crisis - and officials intend to convert into money all square meters, which will reach.

Several times people were addressed by people with a request to betray publicity on the Radio "Freedom" ugly facts of the rotation of disabled people, children, etc. Each time I agreed - and each time I broke. People call and ask for apologies: the leaders of persecuted funds and organizations are afraid of "freedom". “This is a policy,” they say. Here is the plot on the television channel, in the state newspaper, on the state radio - this is not politics, it is allowed. And everyone knows very clearly what television channels, newspapers, radio stations are state -owned, although super -large and super -shaped paper on paper.

So: the fight against anti -Semitism is not politics, not a state affair, but charity is a policy, it is a state affair.

In every person, the power of resistance, self -defense smolders. This is not a trouble and often not even a sin if a person uses power in order to prevent the same anti -Semitism or any other racism in his (his!) Soul. The trouble, when the state - this gigantic lens is used to strengthen force. The forest fire turns into a forest fire. No, we must carefully dig a bonfire - that is, make sure that the struggle for freedom of speech was conducted by words, and not officials.

If the hands are itching to use the state, then direct this lens to the power of help. In Catholics, this is called "subsidiary": when you gave a subsidy, the other gave a subsidy, but there is still not enough funds, then and only then you can and should be addressed to the third, fourth, the governor, to the president ... for good, not evil! For an operation to a poor or a child poor. To the apartment to the homeless. Hungry bread. And even in this noble business, you need an eye and an eye, because the state is such a silver that it can be sutured to the death of the one who has taken up to help.

This "eye and eye" is politics - in the present, not the Bolshevik sense of the word. After all, the Bolsheviks and their successors “Politics” were a swearing word - this is when someone dares to speak from below, protest or ask not alone, but by a group. Absolutely true: this is a policy. But when the Politburo, or the presidential administration, or the mayor, or the governor begin to uncontrollably dispose of the fate of millions of people - this is not a politician, but a dictatorship.

People who want to use the state to give a shorter anti -Semites can be understood. Freedom of speech is a crane in the sky, and he is an anti -Semite here, now he croaks. People who do not want to use pressure levers to the state in order to defend their rights and the rights of disadvantaged can also be understood. If you ask humiliatingly, if you “pretend to be a rag and not to shut up”, then there is a chance that the master will have mercy and throw another piece from his table. Or maybe this one will leave.

All can be understood! But you need to understand those who discovered freedom of speech, who discovered that politics is not the worst, but the best way to protect the unfortunate. You can understand myopic people, but you need to understand the farsighted ones. Today, anti -Semite will be imprisoned - the day after tomorrow they will put the Zionist. It seems unlikely, but it is inevitable. Today we will make a deal with the official so as not to eat for dinner of our details - the day after tomorrow he will eat both children and grandfathers. So the freedom of dope is anti-Semitic, the tough framework of the state-nomenclature!