How to Prove You Don’t Control Everything
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[1]In 2019 the Hollywood Reporter gathered together seven Hollywood executives regarded as being among the most powerful in the business for a roundtable discussion, which is pictured here (click to enlarge). From the left, they are Scott Stuber, head of original films for Netflix; then-Disney Co-Chair Alan Horn; Tom Rothman, “Chairperson” of Sony Pictures; Donna Langley, Chairwoman of Universal; the moderator; then-Warner Bros. Chairman Toby Emmerich; then-Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos; and Amazon Studio Chief Jennifer Salke. All of the executives are Jews except for Langley, although she attends events at the Simon Wiesenthal Center [2]; and Gianopulos, who is Greek Orthodox, although he has been “honored” by the Center [3]. Horn, Emmerich, and Gianopulos have since all been replaced by other Jews.
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In 1996, while hosting the “Weekend Update” segment on Saturday Night Live, Norm Macdonald [4] made the following comment [5]:
“Earlier this week, actor Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live — among them, that ‘Hollywood is run by Jews.’ The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again.”
Macdonald later explained that this was one of his all-time favorite “jokes” because all he did was report exactly what happened. What actually happened was funny enough without the need for any extra setup or embellished punchline.
In 2002, a satirical article [6] I wrote about Adolf Hitler being ordered to undergo anger-management therapy by a judge in Portland, Oregon contained the following passage. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever written:
Adolf Hitler became a Portland resident about ten years ago after a more than forty-year stint in Argentina following WWII, a war that Hitler now wistfully calls “The One That Got Away.” After moving here, he attracted immediate local attention when a Willamette Week reporter quoted him as saying, “The Jews run everything.” The city’s Jewish mayor, the Jewish head of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Jewish police chief all demanded that Mr. Hitler retract his statement.
It’s essentially the same joke that Norm Macdonald told — and that reality keeps telling again and again — with the only exception being that my account was purely fictional.
In 2010, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez [7] called comedian Jon Stewart — whose birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz — a “bigot” while mocking the idea that Jews are an “oppressed minority”:
Very powerless people . . . [snickers] He’s such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically] . . . Please, what, are you kidding? . . . I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically]
After having worked at CNN for six years, Sanchez was promptly fired. Oppressed minorities apparently have more power than anyone previously imagined.
Only someone who is either a liar or completely innumerate would deny that Jewish dominance of America’s major institutions such as media, finance, academia, and government is absurdly disproportionate to their paltry quotient of the population. It’s a statistical fact. The only matter that seems open for debate is exactly why this is a statistical fact.
The Jew Defenders among us would argue that it’s simply a reflection of Jews’ disproportionately high IQs. But these seem to be exactly the same people who deny that whites outperform blacks due to their higher intelligence. It’s only when a group outperforms whites on IQ tests that IQ suddenly becomes real to these types.
The Jew Accusers among us would likely not deny Jewish intelligence, but they’d argue that extremely pathological inbred nepotism and ragingly hypocritical guilt-projection is what sets Jews apart from other groups with similarly high intelligence, such as Indians and the Chinese. When one compares average IQs between Jews and Caucasians, the latter’s overwhelming numerical superiority means there are far more Caucasian geniuses in America than Jewish ones, so IQ can’t possibly be the only explanation.
Jewish dominance of American media wasn’t always such a taboo topic. In 2008, the LA Times ran a piece by a self-admitted Jew named Joel Klein called “Who runs Hollywood? C’mon [8].” Klein claimed to be “upset” by a recent poll that showed a mere 22% of Americans agreed with the sentiment “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” a number which had plummeted from nearly 50% in 1964. He said that Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League didn’t deny disproportionate Jewish ownership of Hollywood, but merely blanched at the idea that they “control” it:
“That’s a very dangerous phrase, ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood,” [Foxman] said. Instead of “control,” Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry “happen to be Jewish,” as in “all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish.”
To my knowledge, that was the only article in a mainstream publication over the past generation to admit that Jews are statistically overrepresented in media ownership. Since this is a mathematical fact, one would assume that so-called objective reporters would have no problems with reporting it. Perhaps because he’s Jewish, Klein was not fired for his article. Amazingly, it’s still up on the LA Times website.
The latest and the most high-profile person to receive the “Don’t you dare allege that we’re powerful, or we’ll do everything in our power to destroy your life” treatment was the no-filter former billionaire musician Kanye West, who has tossed the following comments at the world like handfuls of multicolored anti-Semitic confetti over the past couple weeks:
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
“Jewish people have owned the black voice.”
“We just get used to getting screwed by the Jewish media. And I’m saying, y’all’ve poked the bear too fucking long.”
As someone who’s not especially known for coherence or logical consistence, West muddied the waters by saying that blacks are actually the real Jews — which, I suppose, would make it less of a crime if Jews (blacks) “owned the black voice”:
“The funny thing is I actually can’t be anti-Semitic because black people are actually Jew also.”
“When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race black really are. This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief.”
In an exchange that was edited out of his interview with Tucker Carlson, West also said that Margaret Sanger, “a known eugenics [sic],” created Planned Parenthood with the help of the Ku Klux Klan “to control the Jew population,” which to West — who apparently ascribes to Black Hebrew Israelite [9] orthodoxy — is identical to the black population.
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A week ago, West’s net worth was estimated to be around $1.5 billion. After being disavowed by all of his major corporate sponsors [12] — who made it clear that it was his comments about Jews that caused them to distance themselves from West — his current estimated net worth has plummeted to about $400 million.
Before he lost all those contracts, West seemed to feel invincible, stating on a radio show that “[t]he thing about it being Adidas — I can say anti-Semitic things and Adidas can’t drop me.”
But Adidas dropped him, too, taking an estimated $250 million loss for their first Kanye-free year since 2012.
Some continue to insist that Jews had nothing to do with West’s defenestration and that it’s actually his ongoing support for Donald Trump that caused corporations to pull the plug. If that was even remotely true, this would have happened back in 2016 [13], when West loudly proclaimed his support for Trump and never stopped proclaiming it. West also famously alleged in 2018 that “slavery was a choice [14]” for black people, and his career proceeded unhindered.
With all the ominous murmurs about tech companies [15] and even the government [16] gearing up to punish people for spreading “disinformation,” it appears that one can get in far more trouble for speaking the truth than for lying.
Astonishingly, I haven’t heard one major media star from the industry that Jews supposedly don’t control come out and support West’s statements. He was roundly and piously condemned. Samples of the aggressive virtue-signaling against West include:
“Kanye threatened the Jews yesterday on twitter and it’s not even trending. Why do mostly only Jews speak up against Jewish hate? The silence is so loud.” — Comedienne Sarah Silverman
“’Kanye West’s threat to Jews is as ever based on a myth of Jewish power, a myth believed across the political spectrum.” — British comedian David Baddiel
“Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric toward them to come to an immediate end.” — Kim Kardashian, West’s ex-wife
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has never hesitated to say bad things about white people [17], hastily condemned West:
There is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism. It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye’s words are — not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large.
The American Jewish Committee released a statement:
Kanye West has had a streak of rants this week that is remarkable even by his standards. Ye needs to see that words matter, especially a vicious antisemitic comment that recently surfaced on social media. . . . If he wants to have any credibility as a commentator on social issues, let alone as a musician, he should start by figuring out how to make a point without fomenting hatred of Jews.
Now, hold on just a cotton-pickin’ moment: How does saying that Jews have a lot of power automatically cause “hatred” against them? Considering their small numbers, one might react with admiration and awe at such accomplishments. But there is a savage genius in such brutally dishonest deflection. One can reframe any legitimate criticism of Jews, women, or homosexuals as anti-Semitism, misogyny, or homophobia. That way, one doesn’t even have to address the accusation’s veracity.
Regarding “hate,” it’s always framed as irrational and unprovoked. But is it possible that people start justifiably hating any group that has lied to, gaslit, and cheered for their downfall their entire lives?
This highly public shedding of crocodile tears about Kanye West’s comments might seem more genuine if the same people weren’t sadistically cheering what the media, government, and academia say about white people every day.
If whites were actually privileged — a notion which is not treated as a nutty conspiracy theory but is enshrined as Gospel truth in all modern American institutions — the idea of “white privilege” would be privileged information rather than what passes for reality these days. If “white privilege” were even remotely true, you wouldn’t be allowed to criticize whites without being socially destroyed for life.
Freedom from criticism is the biggest privilege of all. Whites clearly don’t enjoy that privilege. Jews clearly do. Actually, everyone except straight white males enjoys that privilege these days. But the fact that Kanye West was set up for ritual destruction only after criticizing Jews — and not after alleging that blacks chose to be enslaved — suggests that Jews enjoy this privilege more than any other group.
I suspect that most people realize this, but very few are brave enough to say it. And that’s why nothing changes.
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