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Biden and His Disproportionately Jewish Helpers Craft a Bold and Completely Necessary “National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism”
American Jews are deeply endangered. Just ask them — they’ll tell you.
For every million times that you hear about white supremacy and white privilege and how whites control the media and the culture and the economy, you won’t hear once that Jewish median household income is much higher than that of whites — hell, it’s probably even higher than “much higher.”
Joe Biden is not Jewish, but c’mon, man — he might as well be. Apparently his Jewish Chief of Staff, Jewish Secretary of the Treasury, Jewish Secretary of State, Jewish Secretary of Homeland Security, and Jewish Attorney General have been feeling unsafe lately.
On Thursday, for the second time in two weeks, our cadaverous Chief Executive raised the overhyped and shamelessly misrepresented specter of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia six summers ago. Grandpappy Joe wanted to remind you that the very thought that Jews are looking to replace white males is heretical, despite the fact that Jews outnumber white males in his cabinet, and you’re a dad-blamed anti-Semite if you dare to notice.
Slurring and slogging his way through a two-and-a-half-minute recorded video that the illiterate equity hires at The White House titled “President Biden Unveils Historic U.S. Government-Lead [sic] Plan to Combat Antisemitism,” he mentioned all those “nayo-Nazis” at Charlottesville and how, just like the Holocaust, he’s never going to let it happen on his watch, nosirree:
Hate will not prevail. The venom and violence of antisemitism will not be the story of our time.
Call me crazy, but I suspect that there’s a much lower likelihood of it becoming “the story of our time” if you were able to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes.
Biden’s halting and bewildering speech was part of a livestreamed event also attended by the United States’ first-ever “Second Gentleman,” Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris. According to an article on Bloomberg — which is owned by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who just happens to be Jewish — “Emhoff has been the public face of White House efforts on antisemitism.” As luck would have it, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff also happens to be Jewish, which I have no doubt is entirely a coincidence.
According to The New York Times — whose publisher, according to Wikipedia, is “of German ancestry” — Thursday’s livestreamed event was part of Biden’s “National Plan to Fight an Ancient Hatred.” The Times cited statistics from something called the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is run by some guy named Jonathan Greenblatt, claiming that last year saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents, including “111 assaults.”
According to the latest FBI Uniform Crime Reports Expanded Homicide Data Table I could find, in 2019 blacks killed — not assaulted, but KILLED — 566 whites, but the Times made no mention of that, probably because it definitely doesn’t stack up to last year’s 111 assaults on the perennial victims of the World’s Most Ancient Hatred.
Concurrent with Biden’s livestreamed event, the White House released a 60-page PDF titled “The U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.” It starts off with a personal letter from President Biden, which I’m sure he wrote, seeing as how it’s personally signed from him at the bottom. Like his “live” speech — and I use the term “live” in the spirit of generosity — it starts right off with Charlottesville. Here are some sample nuggets from Biden’s letter to us all:
Six years ago, Neo-Nazis marched from the shadows through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” With torches in hand, they spewed the same antisemitic bile and hate that were heard across Europe in the 1930s. . . . The very soul of our Nation [sic] was hanging in the balance. It still is today.
Repeated episodes of hate — including numerous attacks on Jewish Americans — have since followed Charlottesville, shaking our moral conscience as Americans and challenging the values for which we stand as a Nation [sic]. . . . We must stand united — regardless of our backgrounds and beliefs — to affirm that an attack on any one group of us is an attack on us all and that hate can have no safe harbor in America.
Together, we must acknowledge and confront the reality that antisemitism is rising, both at home and abroad. Loud voices are normalizing this venom, but we must never allow it to become normal. Antisemitism threatens not only the Jewish community, but all Americans. People who peddle these antisemitic conspiracy theories and fuel racial, ethnic, and religious hatred against Jews also target other communities — including Black [sic] and brown Americans; Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; LGBTQI+ individuals; Muslim Americans; women and girls; and so many others. Our intelligence agencies have determined that domestic terrorism rooted in white supremacy — including antisemitism — is the greatest terrorist threat to our Homeland today. . . .
Okay, so I think I understand. Semites, blacks, browns, yellows, reds, pineapple-heads, queers, sand mites, and cunts are our friends. And since you mentioned that “women and girls” are under attack, that only leaves white males as our biggest threat. But aren’t you a white male, Joe-Bob?
I had neither the time nor the stomach to read through the entire 60-page “National Strategy,” but according to the aforementioned article in Bloomberg, the action plan’s definition of Jew-hatred hews quite closely to that of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which includes “certain forms of anti-Zionism.” The plan directs the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center to issue an annual report about “antisemitic drivers of transnational extremism” and to share that report with tech companies. It will make it easier for people to report “hate incidents” to the feds. It will encourage online platforms to issue Terms of Service that “explicitly cover antisemitism and adopt zero-tolerance policies for hate speech.” It also directs the Department of Education to “establish an antisemitic awareness campaign directed at K-12 and college students.”
When someone tells me a thousand times not to hate them, I start to wonder. When they club me over the head a million times threatening me not to hate them, I continue to wonder.
Class-Conscious Writers: It’s Bad that Women Have Won the War Between the Sexes and White Working-Class Men Have Been Betrayed
Ethnic and cultural identity will always be a huge part of politics. Some will say it’s the entire sum, and that the term “identity politics” is a redundancy.
But as someone who only became acutely aware of class disparities after I moved out into the big bad world from the brick cocoon of my all-white working-class neighborhood, I’ve noticed that over the past generation, class-based politics has been forcibly moved to the back of the bus, overwhelmed and suffocated and drowned out amid an across-the-board obsessive focus on race, gender, and sexuality.
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Unsurprisingly, this seems to have coincided with a painfully shrinking menu of upwardly mobile opportunities for vast swaths of the economic underclass regardless of your continental ancestry, your genitals, or what you decide to do with the genitals that nature or your surgeon gave to you.
The culture wars were inevitable — that’s what happens when you mix cultures, especially when it occurs rapidly and maliciously against the host culture’s will — but I’ve often suspected that the culture wars were amplified, exacerbated, egged on, and myopically focused on as a cover for the economic war that global elites have waged on everyone beneath them. I also find it hard to think that our economic betters really care as much about culture as they pretend to care.
For the longest time, class-conscious self-identified Leftists seemed to have been brainwashed into the idea that the only way to level the economic playing field was, paradoxically, not through economics but through shameless public displays of racial, gender-based, and sexuality-obsessed tokenism disguised as “equity.” As far as I could tell, the rich didn’t get any less rich — far from it — but they got a little more colorful and estrogen-laden. Beans were still being counted, but according to their color and hormone levels rather than their per-capita income.
As someone who is congenitally inclined to go against the grain not to be a dick but because I sincerely feel that the “grain” — or rather, the left-side grain and the right-side grain — are hopelessly reductive and custom-designed for us as a distraction tactic, I find it refreshing to see that there are a few class-conscious writers who are starting to realize that the culture wars have only served to induce cultural disharmony and widespread anomie rather the droolingly happy rainbow-tinted financially equitable utopia that its salesmen promised us.
Author Joel Kotkin is a Jew, and for the time being at least, I hope you won’t hold that against him. According to his Wikipedia bio, his 2014 book, The New Class Conflict, argued that class
can no longer be understood in terms of traditional political divisions between left and right or conservative and liberal. For Kotkin, the new class order of the twenty-first century is marked by the rise of a high-techoligarchy, a culturally dominant academic and media (both journalism and entertainment) elite, an expansive government bureaucracy, and a declining middle class.
In an essay published last Sunday in the National Post with the unnecessarily self-referential title “Joel Kotkin: Women have won the ‘war between the sexes,’ but at what cost?”, he writes:
The war between the sexes has ended, and rather than a co-operative future that could benefit all, it has turned out to be more like a lopsided win for the female side. . . . The crux of the problem lies in the fact that as women rise, men seem to be falling. This limits opportunities to establish stable families or even find decent partners. . . . In the United States, women now collect nearly 60 per cent of bachelor’s degrees. . . . The biggest divide may be found among the working class. Many workers, especially those with jobs tied to physical labour, have faced extreme pressures from both foreign competition and regulatory restraints. Today, according to demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, employment rates among men are at “Depression-era” levels. . . .
Over time, these shifts also will likely accelerate an already dramatic decline in birthrates. . . .
Ultimately, this suggests a very dystopian future, in which only the elderly population grows, while children and families become rarer and more stressed. This portends not a feminist paradise, but a dysfunctional society, where men and women are increasingly indifferent towards, or at odds with, each other. The very magic that has driven society, albeit often in flawed ways, essentials such as romantic love, companionship and family, are being lost, which is not good for society, or both sexes.
Kotkin, whose bailiwick is class, seems to have realized that all this focus on gender equity has been disastrous for the culture. He pays scant attention to class in his analysis, only to note that while women have ascended in economic power while men have declined, it’s been bad for everyone involved.
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish author perhaps best known for his 1993 novel Trainspotting, which zeroed in on heroin addiction and its relation to anomie among the lower orders in the public-housing ghettos of Edinburgh.
In an essay titled “The betrayal of white working-class men,” Welsh comes right out of the gate disclaiming that merely by defending white men, he doesn’t want you to get any weird ideas about his political motivations:
I’m a rampant opponent of white, bourgeois, male privilege. Events such as the Coronation, or another Biden-Trump stand-off, pull this lunacy into sharp focus. Yes, these ludicrous and deranged media-driven circuses may have little to do with women, black, Asian, gay or trans people. But let’s get this straight: they have absolutely fuck all to do with white working-class men either.
White working-class males are now recast as the establishment’s salivating attack dogs; the overseers of imperialism, enforcing the bidding of their wealthier masters. Their role in securing most of our human rights — through workplace struggle in the trade unions, strikes, demonstrations, wars and riots — is to be erased from our collective consciousness. . . .
So, what excludes white working-class men from this LGBT intersectional paradigm? It can’t be race, as white women are permitted. It can’t be class, as working-class women and black men are allowed in. It can’t even be sex/gender, as gay or bisexual white working-class men and women are included. But perversely, white proletarian men are lumped in with their bourgeois “brethren”; outsiders in this rainbow-coloured festival of the oppressed.
There’s something about the bourgeois psyche that produces a visceral reaction to that deadly combination of working-class, white and straight — irrespective of the actual views and life experiences of someone in that grouping. . . .
The decline of class politics and its replacement by the schisms of identity is an integral part of the neoliberal order.
I’ve never interacted with Joel Kotkin, but I once spoke on the phone with Irvine Welsh about a decade ago when he was touring America, and he seemed sympathetic to some of the points I’d made in my book The Redneck Manifesto.
But even though I’m a dour and generally pessimistic soul, and even if I’m mentally retarded and brain-damaged beyond repair, I’d like to think that if guys such as Joel Kotkin and Irvine Welsh might be open to the idea that there’s something more to politics than class, some of “our guys” might benefit from spending, say, five minutes a week reacquainting themselves with the idea that economics might have played a part in how we all found ourselves mired in this current shambolic excuse for a world.
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27 comments
So that’s what the false (Nazi) flag incident at the White House and the Patriot Front were all about. I had been wondering.
“According to The New York Times — whose publisher,
according to Wikipedia, is ‘of German ancestry'”
Wikpedia category “Jewish-American families” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sulzberger_family
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwo5ItcagAAZYbz?format=jpg
I was making fun of Wikipedia, sir.
This was all laid out back in those oh so turbulent 60s. Dr. Herbert Marcuse, the eminence grise of the campus radicals, and whodathunkit, a Jew, laid out a new proletariat, since in his eyes, the old-fashioned working class formerly extolled by Marcuse and his comrades, has seriously fallen down on their revolutionary duties. The white working class had shown little interest to overthrow the old order and was more interested in enjoying the fruits of the post-war economic boom.
Marcuse promoted a new and improved proletariat, composed of blacks, students, women, and (of course) Jews who together would overthrow the old order and install what he called “Repressive tolerance”. No joke, that’s exactly what he termed it in dead seriousness. Instead of storming the Winter palace they would snake their way through the corridors of the universities and well, just look around you. Looks like they succeeded beyond their wettest dreams.
No point in getting depressed about it. Just recognize that the guy who you thought was your drinking buddy was the one who roofed your drink and rolled you while you were passed out in the alley. Even if your wallet is missing keep your wits and your rage about you. Time to “git ‘er done”!
Welsh sounds like a real barrel of laughs to be around since he has to announce his victim caste before he’ll say anything that is in defense of whitey.
I think what Kotkin and Welsh are missing is that the project is about replacing the nation states. It is bent and ruthless in this aim. It is so ruthless that it figured out that it is white men who hold the ties to the nation state. In part, because to get us to go fight them over there so they could established beacheads and send up the call to prayer over here, they had to appeal to white men. They needed us to rally to their cause. They got what they wanted out of that. Now, the nation state must go. Us pesky white men of all classes, not just the working class, who value our heritage, our roots and see that our past is also our future are standing in the way. Since we won’t let the nation state go, well, the law of viscious, psychopathic ruthlessness says that we must go.
I wonder how long before Kotkin and Welsh realize that we white men are in the keep, the only thing standing between a borderless, rootless, cultureless post-civilization of consuming nowhere women and psuedo-men.
Surely Kotkin must know. He may be the one designated to lower the drawbridge.
Nietzsche described the class struggle as being essentially a racial struggle. I don’t recall him clarifying the point himself but he alluded perhaps to the separate social and sexual worlds inhabited by multiple strata. Over generations, or when a society is conquered by a foreign elite, gradation occurs which makes the upper and lower classes genetically distinct.
Recently, I visited a long-time friend in Culver City, a suburb of Los Angeles, south of Hollywood, and my friend, who happens to be a real-estate tax accountant, and I drove south to see an antique shop, near Venice and La Brea. After shopping, my friend drove us through the side-streets to get to Pico. I remarked on the lovely old and a bit decrepit houses from the 30’s and 40’s we were passing by. Just offhand, my friend answered that Jews were buying these houses and planning on putting in apartment complexes. I was amazed that my friend said the word ‘Jews’ given she is a raving Democrat, and you can guess that I am most definitely not. But I would never dream of saying anything about Jews ever in L.A., for fear of a lecture at the very least. But I can tell you that I am sorry to see these houses go into the gold penny-banks of those we must never mention.
The problem with raving Democrats is their screwiness. They might blunder and accidently speak a racial truth, but if you agree with their realist comment, they will turn on you and give you a lecture. Smart move not to engage the comment.
I used to believe that ‘honesty is the best policy’, but as I live and learn I catch on to the reality that not everyone is honest in return. Should we be honest with dishonest people? In dealing with raving Democrats, cunning, caution, and evasiveness is the best policy. They’re not worthy of your honesty, being scheming weasels themselves.
“I was amazed that my friend said the word ‘Jews’ ”
On that word . . . Before the 2016 presidential election, a bemused, white, liberal TV reporter was interviewing Trump fans to learn what made them tick. One rancher said that he was sick and tired of being told what words he could use by callow students. “Are we not supposed to say ‘Jew’ anymore and instead always use ‘Jewish’ ?” he asked. That made me laugh as I’d been wondering the same thing.
Presumably, ‘Jewess’ is definitely off limits; though – to be fair – it does have a medieval ring, putting me in mind of Rebecca, the endangered maiden in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
“Joe Biden is not Jewish, but c’mon, man — he might as well be.”
Look at this pix of Joe’s mum, and try to tell me she ain’t a jewess.
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a33793001/joe-biden-mother-catherine-jean-biden/
She doesn’t look Jewish at all.
She’s as Irish as the day is long. By the way, do you know the difference between an Irishman and a Jew? A Jew will buy you a cup of coffee. (An old NYC construction site joke).
What is the coffee for — to help you have extra strength to work harder for them to make more profit? Oh, gosh, did I really say that! And I didn’t mean to badmouth ‘profit’ since I have money in my IRA throwing off interest payments right along. Best thing ever!
In normal country he would be euthanized long ago.
In my Massachusetts hometown I heard an upsetting story recently. A 16 year old bi-racial girl committed suicide back in January 2020. She was relentlessly bullied by a coterie of other students, starting her freshman year of high school. Having experienced a troubled life, she was different from other girls and they could sense it. A website was set up solely to mock her. She was told she was ‘not black enough’ to wear braids. She was assaulted in school in September 2019, kicked in the head repeatedly and suffered a concussion, with videos of the incident posted on social media. I denounce the vicious black-hearted scum that tormented this girl, and pronounce her tormenters all honorary niggers of both the European and African decended persuasion, as well as everything in between and various other sundry types. The younger generation is growing up in Joseph Biden’s racial jungle, and they sure pay the price. They may be useless sack of shit smartphone addicts, but they’re living in an apocalyptic time, their parents collectively failed to protect them. Just my two cents.
If theres one thing white liberals hate more than anything else, its poor white people. White liberals might even be poor themselves, but at least they like indian food and vote correctly. They see themselves as cosmopolitan citizens of the world, ahead of their time, like the yankees during the civil war. Their favorite pasttime is to constantly remind themselves that poor whites are all homer simpson, al bundy, roseanne, archie bunker, jerry springer’s guests, and beavis and butthead. They get excited when a violent crime was actually committed by a white person because its their opportunity to punch down and up simultaneously at the privileged, poor mentally ill white man.
Wow just what we need, a new “antisemitic awareness campaign directed at K-12 and college students” as if the 109 in place aren’t enough. I remember discarding Schindler’s List as a transparent guilt trip by the Allied victors when they showed it to us in middle school.
I took an Intro to Secondary Education class in college in 1995. We were assigned to watch and write reviews of several films, Schindler’s List being among them. One day toward the end of the semester, we were shown holocaust footage for no apparent reason. I did get an A in Guilt Trip 101. That was also the last Sec Ed class I ever took.
I would be interested in knowing the racial makeup of all these 111 alleged hate attackers on this Jewish grouping? How does an average street criminal recognize who is Jewish? Seems pretty far fetched. And why does such a minuscule number of alleged attacks warrant the power of the federal government to address? Are the feds saying local law enforcement is incapable of dealing with such a small number of attacks nationwide? And likely clustered in nyc or la? I assume the street criminals think they are attacking and stealing from whites. As if the feds don’t have other things to focus on than the non existent threat to Jewish people in this country. What a colossal waste of time and words.
If we fail to engage women in this task, the problem will be self-correcting. They will breed to minority status and be replaced by patriarchal immigrants. Do you know any border crossing families with a feminist, matriarchal bent? They’re coming for your job, Gertrude Stein… A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…is a Mexican Agave.
White people kvetching about Jews seems to be life force upon which the ADL nourishes itself. Perhaps it is time to embrace diversity. The Left is all about certain groups being ‘underrepresented’. But if there are ‘underrepresented’ groups, by definition, there must also be ‘over-represented’ groups. It would be nice to see the ‘overrepresentation’ numbers shared broadly, including those for white people. Yep, include us all together, no tiki torches or chanting. There are always a few numbskulls with sociology degrees who are going to claim math is racist (and the Chinese feel ‘four’ is unlucky) but I’m confident that Asian, Jewish and Indian/east-Asian groups know a bit about numbers and they can bask in the over-representation glow. Once the other groups notice the heat, they may start getting cold feet while peaceably awaiting their icy cold fries.
I like Irvine Welsh, but he’s always had that “please don’t call me a racist” defensiveness about him. I remember in his Trainspotting novel, there’s a part where he’s talking about H.P. Lovecraft, and what a great author he is, but of course he has to immediately denounce him by calling him a “Nazi cunt.”
Oh, I get it. But I also fear that we can purity-spiral ourselves to death. Even if there’s a Nazi-disavowing socialist noticing that white men of any economic class are being unfairly defamed, I think that’s a net gain. Even a crack in the wall is good.
Oh, I totally agree, I wasn’t trying to dismiss him. I’m a casual fan of his. It’s just so dang frustrating when white dudes still feel the need to add all those caveats to anything remotely controversial. I would hope that a countercultural writer like Welsh would be a wee bit chancier than that, but I guess it’s a Scottish thing: always gotta differentiate yourself from those xenophobic, bourgeois, imperialist Brexit voters in England; socialism and diversity ought to piss those buggers off.
Whatever.
At this point I’m completely numb to my idols disappointing me with their politics, so I can savor the silver linings when they appear. And this was certainly a silver lining.
Think about this: Renton (the character you refer to) in Trainspotting was also a big literature fan, in the longer version of the book Welsh originally wrote (the odds and sods cut out by the publisher were released as Skagboys in 2012 as a cash grab). So him saying that about Lovecraft is a literary criticism as well as a personality one. And he’s also still reading the book, not allowing criticism of the author in real life to detract from his enjoyment of the work, a sensible move. He is being his own man. This is very Scottish working class, trust me.
This country has become nothing more than a corporation whose prime purpose is to ensure the existence of israel to include the destruction of anything that might threaten it. In 1948 vile democrat politicians created that country out of thin air! On the ground the peoples that had lived there for God knows how many centuries suddenly decided they should just leave and free up the place??? Have you ever heard how nuttinyahoo says “terraw-reest”
I was thinking that in my almost 3 score plus 10 I have no family ( extended) nor friend that is married to a jew. Yet presidents Clinton, Trump and biden all have children married to jews! Coincidence?
The white people of this country respond to “an eye for an eye” with “turning the other cheek” although if pressed I’m sure most would bend over and spread the cheeks.
That Irvine Welsh (who ceased to be relevant decades ago) article, more unfocused rant than sociological and racial diagnosis, was hilarious in parts. To wit(less):
“While young people are being stripped of their right to be completely irresponsible — i.e. young — those of us who spent a whole chunk of our change in the last century are often unprepared to let go of our unruly youth, still investing in bad behaviour and the institutions believed to encourage it; the pub, the gig, the nightclub, the rave, the football ground and the traditional workplace. I personally thank the higher powers for those declining bastions.”
That’s pure ironic comedy: a 63-year-old man waxing lyrical about the joys of raving (which he still does), the pub, and the ‘traditional workplace,’ which he has not been near in decades. And it’s such a great place to be for the poor put-upon white working class male proles! For pity’s sake. A multi-millionaire sexagenarian pining for the good old days of minimum wage exploitation, and pretending to be working class. He’s down with the oppressed, man! What a sick joke.
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