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Religion Title: What Do Jennifer Rubin and Brett Stephens Have Against “Nativism”?–Oh, Wait… Im not an anti-Semite; I never have been; and I dont have much time for anti-Semites. Ive written a couple of million words of opinion commentary this past thirty years, all of it archived on my website, and I defy you to find any evidence of anti-Semitism in it anywhere. However, Ive turned against the word philosemite, for reasons Ive explained elsewhere. Basically, its patronizing. If pressed on the issue, I call myself an anti-anti-Semite. I cherish my Jewish friends, and I have publiclyand again, I think, more than onceexpressed gratitude in print for the positive contribution Jews have made to our civilization, way out of proportion to their numbers. That said, I know the following thing, which anyone who has observed the American political scene surely also knows: A subset of American Jewsa subset, a minoritysuffer from a kind of psychological deformation that keeps them trapped in a particular, strangely atavistic type of paranoia, of victim mentality. In this mentality, its always 1881 and were still in Russia. The Jews are cowering behind their doors in fear as the Cossacks rampage through the town, or Christian peasants with pitchforks and flaming brands march on the Jewish quarter. One side effect of this mentality: an unblinking vigilance, a hyper- sensitivity, towards the slightest tendency of the Gentile majority to drift Cossack-wards. This easily and often slops over intoand I am speaking of a subset of a subset of American Jewsinto a generalized dislike, a prejudice, against white Christians. Another side effect: the feeling that, for an oppressed minoritywere still in 1881, remember: its always 1881for an oppressed minority there is safety in courting and joining with other outsider groups for solidarity against the dangerous, dominant Goyim. The great dream of this mentality, in fact, is to get enough of a coalition of outsiders together to outnumber the Goyim, the white Christians. Thats why so many Jews are so passionately committed to mass Third World immigration. Its not hard to find evidence of this. Example: one of the Intelligence Squared debate series that took place September 13th. The motion to be debated was Blame the Elites for the Trump Phenomenon. It lasts an hour and 44 minutes. All four debaters were Bigfoot American journalists. Both sides of the debate were anti-Trump; the debate was over whose fault it was that Trump had gotten the GOP nomination. For the motion, arguing that it was the fault of the elites, were Ben Domenech and Timothy Carney, both Gentiles. Against the motion, arguing that it was not the fault of the elites, were Jennifer Rubin and Bret Stephens both Jewish. That tells you something by itself. That atavistic style of Jewish paranoia that I spoke about, when it hears the word elites, at once flies to the thought: Theyre talking about US!
and the hoofbeats of the Cossacks are heard drumming in the distance. At some mental level Rubin and Stephens read the title of the debate as: Blame the Jews for the Trump Phenomenon. Thats why theyre arguing against the motion. No, no, its not our faultits those damn peasants! This put them on edge. You can see it in the debate. Stephens actually plays the Holocaust Card at 1h22m, brandishing the print-out of an anti-Semitic tweet he got. Earlier, at 56m, the whole debate had almost veered into a straightforward Christians versus Jews joust. Dealing with Mrs. Clintons use of the word irredeemable, Jay Carney and Jennifer Rubin clashed lances thus: Clip: (Carney) I disagree with Bret Stephens and with Hillary Clinton that a quarter of the population is unredeemable. And my bias, on the table, is, Im a Christian and I think everyone is redeemable
(Rubin) We Jews just believe in good and evil. We dont think everyone is redeemable. Its been a while since I saw the atavistic paranoia of Jews, that subset of them, so starkly presented. The last time was, in fact, when I saw that Sacha Baron Cohen movie Borat, where its likewise hard to miss. If Im right about Rubin and Stephens, the result of the debate did nothing to soothe their paranoia. Part of the format for these Intelligence Squared debates is that the studio audience is polled at the beginninghow many for, how many against, how many undecided. The debate takes place, then at the end the audience is polled again, to see how many of the undecideds were persuaded which way. Result: The audience percentage favoring the motion, that our elites were to blame for the rise of Trump, shot up 26 percent, from 32 to 58. The percentage blaming the peasants went up only six percent, 27 to 33. Uh-oh, here come the Cossacks. Ill just add here that if you take exception to all that coming from me, a Gentile, perhaps youll take from Caroline Glick, a Jew. (I know Im not allowed to say Jewess because I checked once with a Jewish lady editor I was working for. Quote from her: We can say it, but you cant.) Ms. Glick covers that same debate from the point of view of an ethnocentric Jew, and her coverage comes out sounding a lot like mine. She points up the rather high level of open anti-Semitism on the political Left. Then The problem on the Republican side of the aisle
is not that the party has turned against the Jews. The problem is that a large contingent of prominent Jewish Republicans has decided to commit political suicide
Rather than
accept the will of their fellow Republicans, this year the most prominent members of the Jewish Republican elite have opted to attack Trump and his voters. That is, they have decided to commit political suicide. Twilight of American Jewry, Jerusalem Post, September 15, 2016 Thats you shes talking about, Jennifer Rubin and Bret Stephens. As I said, both sides in that Intelligence Squared debate were anti-Trump. Whether all four were actually NeverTrumpers was not clear. You can be anti- Trump without being NeverTrump, on the lesser of two evils principle. But at least one of the Jewish side was a NeverTrumper, though. How do we know this? These are opinion journalists, recall. He wrote about it. Yes, its opinion journalist Bret Stephens again. September 12th, the day before the debate, Stephens posted a Q&A column in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, where he is a Deputy Editor and opinion columnist. Both the Qs and the As were apparently written by Stephens himself, a common format in opinion journalism. Ive done columns in that format myself. The title of Stephens column: Nevertrump For Dummies. Subtitle: The nominee has more in common with Kanye West than with Steve Wynn. That subtitle threw me. Kanye West I know about at a very vague level. Hes one of those famous-for-being-famous people, right? I couldnt tell you a single darn thing hes done, but I see his name on the scandal sheets when Im in the supermarket checkout line. Whos Steve Wynn, though? I had to look him up. Hes a billionaire property developer, very much like Trump. Hes built luxury hotels and casinos. So whats he doing in that subtitle? Well, he seems a bit more Upper West Side than Trump. Hes a connoisseur of fine art, for example. I dont see much otherwise to place him at one end of an acceptability spectrum that has Donald Trump and Kanye West at the other end. Or do I? Checking a bit further, I see that Steve Wynn, like Bret Stephens, is an American-born Ashkenazi Jew, original name Weinberg. So on that acceptability spectrum, we have two Jews at one end and two Gentiles at the otherjust like in the following days debate! Kanye West is a Gentile; I checked. In fact, a couple of years ago he got himself in a spot of bother by telling a New York radio station that Black people dont have the same level of connections as Jewish people..[Kanye West wants to take back ignorant compliment about Jews , Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2013]I wouldnt be terrifically surprised to learn that it was exactly that remark that lodged itself in Bret Stephens mind, causing him to pair off West with Trump at the dark end of the spectrum. OK, getting past the subtitle, whats in the column? Well, you can read it for yourself. No, you dont need a Wall Street Journal subscriptionwho can afford those things? What you do is, put the title, NeverTrump for Dummies, into the search box at Google News. Ill just pull out one single quote. First thing I did was Ctrl-F on the word nativist. Yep, there it is. I knew it would be: Mr. Trumps nativist brand of politics is much further removed from conservatism than Mrs. Clintons mainstream liberalism, end quote. There you see the paranoia, the immigration fanaticism. For a politician to be nativistto favor the natives, the people born in his country, over foreignersis worse, much worse, than Clintonian liberalism, says Bret Stephens. For him, to be nativist is worse than anything, because if a nativist gets power, our Coalition of Others will never have numbers to swamp the Goyim. Theyll be dominant for ever, and sooner or later theyll turn on the Jews! [Hoofbeat sounds]. I know, it sounds nutty. Possibly I am being paranoid. But watching that debate, and then reading Bret Stephens print piece, it does seem to me that Bret Stephens paranoia, that atavistic fear, is in plain sight, just under the surface. What, after all, is wrong with nativism? Why is this a pejorativeeven on the political Left, never mind from the pen of a self-described conservative. For a government to favor its own people over foreigners: Theres something wrong with that? What? What, exactly? Because its hateful? What nonsense! I favor my own kids over your kids, by a mile and a half; but I dont hate your kids, so long as they dont come into my house uninvited. Good luck to them. Good luck to foreigners: Jolly good luck to them all, the long and the short and the tall. Now, will our government please attend to the fortunes and concerns of our people, our citizens, and let foreigners shift for themselves? What, thats nativist? OKthen three cheers for nativism! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread |
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