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In 1941, Jewish-American businessman Theodore Kaufman wrote Germany Must Perish! This 96-page booklet advocated for “the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth of all her people” via forced sterilization. Fun fact: Between the pages of Germany Must Perish! and Mein Kampf, one can find an open call to annihilate an entire race of people only in the former.
Fast forward to 2023 and another American Jew named Kauffman (this one adds a second “f” to the name) is at work writing polemics, albeit not in the form of self-published booklets but rather in the form of petty posts on the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Jeremy Kauffman is the CEO of LBRY Inc. LBRY is described by Wikipedia as “a blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network that powers decentralized platforms, primarily social networks and video platforms.” It is also the progenitor of Odysee, a video platform with which many readers will be familiar.
While not going so far as desiring the extermination of the Germans, Jeremy Kauffman can still hold a candle to Theodore K. when it comes to brazen proclamations of Jewish superiority and sneering derision towards European peoples. My first glimpse of this came in the summer of this year, right around the time an online personality called Elijah Schaffer was conducting polls on the app now known as X. One poll asked: “Would you rather have your son be in the KKK or be in the LGBTQ?” and another offered voters a choice between “Gay US Liberal Democracy” and fascism. The poll that got Kauffman’s attention, and later mine, put the following question to Twitter users: “Do you believe Jews disproportionately control the world’s institutions, banks, & are waging war on white, western society?”
Jeremy K. responded by stating:
Jews disproportionately control the world primary [sic] because they’re disproportionately intelligent. It’s that simple. No conspiracy necessary!
It’s worth noting that Jeremy’s answer does not address the second part of Schaffer’s question. It only addresses the question of disproportionate control of institutions and banks, and it waves the question away by asserting that this control is simply the result of Jews being geniuses. Here we see another example of what Michael Anton called The Celebration Parallax. This term describes the phenomenon in which the same set of facts is either true and wonderful or a combination of outrageous, false, racist, conspiracy theory, hate speech, and so on, depending entirely on who asserts the set of facts. Anton applied The Celebration Parallax to the debate over mass immigration and the demographic replacement it causes. According to the political establishment, mainstream media, and the throngs of empty-headed back-patters who believe whatever the first two tell them to believe, demographic replacement is a racist conspiracy theory and not happening in any way except in the fevered minds of dastardly White Nationalists. Except that it is happening, but it’s a good thing, and white people deserve it as a punishment for the “sins” of their ancestors. It all depends on who is talking about the demographic shift. If someone like you or I says these demographic disfigurements are happening, we will be met with the usual insults and defamation from liberals. If liberals like Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau, or institutions beloved by liberals such as the European Union say it, then it’s simply more of that enriching diversity we keep hearing about.
Kauffman’s response to the question of Jewish control of institutions and banks is another celebration parallax. If you or I say that Jews have an obscene amount of control in media, banking, and politics disproportionate to their population size, we will be branded as anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and possibly face the wrath of organizations like the ADL. If a Jew like Kauffman says it, and says it with pride while highlighting Jews’ unrivalled smarts, then there is no problem.
Kauffman wasn’t content with declaring that “it’s real and it’s a good thing because Jews are intelligent.” According to him, when the goyim object to his claim by pointing out that Jewish nepotism, intense in-group preference, and unscrupulous practices are more responsible for Jewish control of various industries and branches of government, well, that’s just proof of the goyim’s stupidity.
Never mind that the notion of a wildly superior Jewish (specifically, Ashkenazi) IQ has been, if not debunked, at least put into doubt numerous times. Never mind that even if high IQ were the reason, it still wouldn’t be a very good explanation, because East Asians score even higher on IQ tests but don’t have anywhere near the kind of presence in European and American sociopolitics that the Ashkenazim do. No, in Kauffman’s mind, his people are just super-duper smart, and that’s why Joe Biden’s cabinet looks like this:
Ashkenazi IQ is certainly not low. But is this the sole explanation for why everywhere from Wall Street to Hollywood to Washington, DC is full of them? Not likely.
The Jew Joel Stein doing a little anti-Semitism.
Jeremy Kauffman’s justification for Jewish omnipresence in the upper echelons of Western society demonstrates yet another celebration parallax. Let’s assume it’s true: Ashkenazi Jews really are just extremely clever, and that’s why they run Hollywood, the news media, and American politics. IQ is understood to be mostly an inherited trait. It can go up and it can go down, but those fluctuations mainly result from the intermixing of peoples with disparate levels of IQ. Those who study IQ and have been brave enough to speak honestly about it do not suggest that IQ can be increased by attending a very good school, for example. And why is bravery required to speak honestly about IQ? When a Gentile says that there are differences in IQ and these differences are heritable and go as deep as our very genetic makeup, he is attacked as a “racist.” Just ask James Watson.
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist has been defamed, disowned, mocked, and abused by the twenty-first century’s Inquisitors. His sin? Connecting intelligence to race. It’s the very same thing that Jeremy Kauffman does, but apparently when Jeremy makes the connection, he is not breaking any taboo. The celebration parallax: IQ is an inherent, biological, racially determined characteristic so long as it explains why Jews are so smart, and which therefore explains why Jews run the world. IQ is real and it’s a good thing. Say that IQ differences are real, heritable, and vary by race as an explanation for why European people are able to create societies that compare much better to those created by sub-Saharan Africans — prepare yourself for a public execution, or at the very least, to be universally shunned. Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, has faced similar attacks. The Southern Poverty Law Center cites Murray as one of America’s “extremists,” accuses him of using “racist pseudoscience,” and includes him as an enemy in the Center’s fight against “hate.”
Jeremy Kauffman believes that Jews are successful and occupy positions of power because of their inherited IQ, and he also believes that non-Jews are just “too dumb” to compete. So is Kauffman a “racist”? If Jews run the world because of their disproportionate intelligence, it follows that Third World peoples live in poverty because of their disproportionate lack of intelligence. Kauffman clearly has no qualms suggesting that white people don’t have the same type of dominance Jews do because whites “can’t do math.”
He also frequently implies that the “Nazis” and so-called Right-wing whites today are just jealous of the Jews and want to “tear down” Jewish people “due to their success.” This is nonsense. All throughout the incredibly long history of acrimonious European and Jewish relations, European displeasure with the Jewish people living in their societies had little or nothing to do with the fact that Jews were wealthy or successful. During many periods in history, Jews were actually not that successful or powerful at all — certainly not compared to the nobility and the monarchy. In fact, part of the victimhood narrative Jewish people love telling stems from the lowly to middling status they were forced to occupy during many centuries in various European countries. Jews were wanderers and merchants and, in the grand scheme of things, it’s only very recently that merchants have come to occupy such a high place in the social strata. No, the animosity Europeans felt towards Jews was a reaction to Jewish behavior.
Let us look once more to East Asians as a counterpoint. They tend to score high on IQ tests similar to Ashkenazi and Europeans, and they do very well for themselves in white countries like the United States. Are “right-wing” Americans seething with envy of East Asian success? Not to my knowledge. Do “Right-wing” Americans bear any ill will towards the successful East Asians who live amongst them? No, because apart from the somewhat recent problem of Chinese spies infiltrating American institutions, the East Asians in the United States don’t engage in the kind of anti-Gentile subversion that many Ashkenazi Jews do, nor do they have as much influence as the Ashkenazim. East Asians don’t tend to go around making fun of white Americans’ religious beliefs the way that, say, Sarah Silverman does. Compared to Jews, East Asians have absolutely zero sway on American foreign and domestic policy.
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Evidently, Kauffman isn’t much of a believer in the dogma of the day: we are all created equal, we all possess the same capabilities, and any discrepancy in the outcomes of various peoples is the fault of “socioeconomic factors.” Kauffman has launched numerous broadsides against the liberal notion of equality. Good for him! If only European people could enjoy being as openly anti-equalitarian and justifiably chauvinistic as Jews like Jeremy Kauffman. As ever, there isn’t so much a double standard as there is an anti-white standard.
So if Jews really do control so many institutions and run so much of the world, and if that really is due to their innate intelligence, at what point then do Jews have to accept responsibility for the state of things? A question I’d like to see put to Jeremy Kauffman: Have the Jews put their intelligence and all of their power and influence to good use for the rest of the societies they live in? Again, we’re assuming it’s true that Jews do “control the world,” but that it’s control they’ve earned by being very intelligent and competitive. All right then, so when there’s an economic crisis caused by nefarious practices on Wall Street, who should be held accountable? I’m under the impression that it would be an “anti-Semitic” trope to lay blame at the feet of “the Jews,” but Kauffman is starting to change my mind.
Do you object to America’s and her allies’ wars? Don’t look at me. Take it up with Jeremy Kauffman’s genius friends in the State Department.
Perhaps you have a problem with the smut, subversion, and generally sleazy behavior typical of Hollywood. What can I say? That’s just what the bright minds who run the place are like.
The bitter irony is that Jews do indeed see themselves as the world’s do-gooders, blameless at all times, selflessly giving the benighted nations moral guidance. To our infinite misfortune, a huge number of Gentiles actually believe this, too. I look at the various problems facing the world, the various threats to the things I hold dear, and the history of how they all coalesce, and I’m not convinced.
In fact, one could say the opposite is true. Rather than heroically giving of themselves, and rather than using their unique intelligence and the influence it has helped them earn to bring prosperity, joy, and enlightenment to the world, Jews are laser-focused on doing whatever is best for their people. Whether it’s profiteering from slave trades and then strapping all the blame for the practice of slavery on the backs of Europeans, or clipping coins, or causing wars for financial supremacy, or starting murderous revolutions, Kauffman’s kin and kith haven’t got a history of using their control of the world — which Kauffman quite frankly admits they have — for the purposes of good. At least it’s not good for anyone who isn’t a part of the “elite” Jew crew.
With great power comes great responsibility. It’s a concept that goes back to the most ancient of times, but the line itself was coined by Jewish comic-book writer Stan Lee. Well, Kauffman, you’ve got the power. Now take the responsibility. It’s all fun and games to sneer at the goyim, but are they wrong to take umbrage with the way your brainy co-ethnics have been running things?
The Babylonian Talmud recounts a meeting between Alexander the Great and the rabbis of the Negev. In his thirst for wisdom, Alexander asked these “sages” a series of questions. This meeting likely never occurred, and was probably just an excuse to jot down some rabbinical aphorisms, but Jews like Kauffman would do well to brush up on the tale. One question and its answer stand out in particular.
“Who is the wise man?” Alexander asked.
“He who foresees the consequences of his actions,” came the reply.
Jeremy Kauffman proudly proclaims that Jews are firmly seated at the controls. For him, it’s no conspiracy theory. Jews really do pull the strings. A wise man might contemplate, then, on the consequences of their actions.
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Fantastic article Pox! I’m sending it to a friend right now.
If I were Jewish, then I’d be mortified by embarrassment to be related to that putz.
Anyway, their sense of exceptionalism and their refusal to believe that they ever do anything wrong is a major hindrance to normalizing relations with everyone else. Psychologically, this is classic Axis II Cluster B behavior writ large.
If you were Jewish, you wouldn’t be able to feel embarrassment.
The Jewish People are held to be a blessing to mankind — a Rose among Thorns according to the Zohar. Yet it is true that occasionally some few of them fail to display the highest ethical standards. In rabbinic lore this apparent paradox is easily dispatched. Those scoundrels and renegades are not truly Jewish in a spiritual sense, for their souls stem from the Mixed Multitude — the rabble of Egyptian hangers-on, outcasts and runaway slaves who followed after the Children of Israel in their Exodus. These persons it was who instigated the incident of the Golden Calf, and it is said that their souls return every generation to trouble and bring shame upon Israel. This is a lofty spiritual matter to be rectified when the Messiah comes: until then it is best that we refrain from imputing malfeasance to Jewish persons, no matter how clear-cut matters may appear to our mundane perception.
Interesting, that. I’ve observed that most garden-variety Jews that one will meet in daily life are pretty unobjectionable. At the stratospheric levels of power, money, and influence, it’s different. Those ones are quite often horrid, unfortunately giving their brethren a bad name.
So then, I wonder if they have a theological explanation of how the badly-behaving “Mixed Multitude” rabble end up reincarnated into their elites: the banksters, the Harvey Weinsteins, the Jeffrey Epsteins, the Robert Maxwells, the Bernie Madoffs, and all that. (Do these guys really believe in reincarnation?) In Hinduism, it’s different – if you suck, you get reincarnated into an undesirable caste.
It is foolish to generalise but one might imagine that that the celebration of chutzpah in Jewish thought precludes a sense of hubris, which is punishment for arrogance in this life, let alone karma, which causes suffering in subsequent ones. This is a point that Our Sages at Counter-Currents may be well-equipped to dilate upon.
I have observed the same. To me, an elite is an aristocratic man who, while powerful, exercises his power by performing his duties to his nation, his folk and his aristocratic orders. Only then does he get the rewards by earning his station. Amongst those rewards is that he can be regarded as elite. So, I would use the word powerful in place of elite. I think all people who are powerful but not elite are horrid and dangerous. However, we know even from Europe when foreign monarchs would reign over a foreign people, they were sometimes horrid to the local folk. I think that is the crux of the matter. I doubt that most people are anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic per se.
The issue is, if you have powerful amongst you and not only are they not of you, but they have now and will forever see themselves as separate from you while strongly preferring their own kind over you, how can they be elite? It is further clouded if that group believes themselves to be chosen by God to rule over the nations and whose Sorelian Myth is that the end times mean they will have dominion over all of the nations of the earth – for infinity.
Is that a healthy and sane arrangement for any society? I think that is the question, and until the last 100 years, it was discussed with seriousness and sobriety. That a society where the majority has submitted to not having those discussions with respect and candor is a major head scratcher. I think in Israel they have those discussions and they conclude that their country is of, by and for them. In our country, the most powerful institutions that preclude such discussions use means that violate our society’s most sacred tenets, yet they are strident advocates of Israel’s stance and ability to have those discussions and enforce those conclusions.
This is not an anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic question. It is as fair to ask it of any other group that holds itself as separate and maintains a separate identity from the larger society to which it openly professes its primary loyalty. The French had this issue with the Huguenots even though their identity was less separate and distinct for example. There are many other historical examples. I think there are many Jews who are open to that conversation. I think this is especially true since they have their own homeland. But the ones who seem to have most of the power don’t. That naturally leads one to the question, why?
Kauffman states his determination, using the inclusive We, to outcompete non-Jews in perpetuity. He states it with anger and an air of supremacy. He probably doesn’t even realize it, but it evokes that sentiment, and doubles down or maybe even betrays an inner narrative of competing tribes rather than cooperative shared peoplehood. So much for a high IQ that can see a statement and its line of thought through to the end.
In the end, it is a shame that we can’t have sane conversations with people like Kauffman. He is intelligent and he does put his money where his mouth is in supporting our core tenet of freedom of speech. He has even taken a fall to support it. That is no small thing, and it is even admirable. But, in the interests of seeing how that kind of rational discourse can take place, a person asks why. Is it because maintaining a separate identity is more important than anything else? And if so, why?
If one is so smart, so superior, why wouldn’t you go and build your homeland up even stronger? Why can’t your homeland provide you with the opportunity to build the nation that rules over all nations? Moreover, if that is the goal, then why must ours, the one in which you maintain your hyper competitive separateness, provide it for you?
I had a look and LBRY was shut down due to securities fraud. It looks like classic lawfare, and it was likely done because he is a free speech absolutist. I don’t know if his tirades are because he got shut down. They spun Odysee off when LBRY was hit with its legal troubles for permitting free speech.
Kauf(f)man does have that going for him. He is a free speech absolutist. That is to be admired. As for the rest, it sounds like some deep upset and a serious superiority complex. How wonderful it must be to get to say such things and not be called a supremacist. As you point out PoxPopuli, you want the power, you have to responsibility for what you do with it. You want the credit, you get the blame. I think it was Wilmot Robertson that pointed out that this group has zero track record of running a civilization with any success. They have claimed the 20th century as theirs. Perhaps they have done extremely well for themselves, but things aren’t looking so good from a, shall we say with a twist of irony, more diverse and inclusive perspective.
There’s a little strawman here when you compare Watson’s treatment to that of Kauffman saying Jewish intelligence is a biological, inheritable trait. He does not say that in the tweet – for all we know Kauffman may think it is due to cultural factors.
“The bitter irony is that Jews do indeed see themselves as the world’s do-gooders, blameless at all times, selflessly giving the benighted nations moral guidance. To our infinite misfortune, a huge number of Gentiles actually believe this, too.”
Might this be why so many Jews regard so many Gentiles as stupid? Gentiles that believe critiques (and critics) of Jewish power and influence are “anti-Semitic” are also huge in numbers unfortunately. I find this type of Gentile to be utterly clueless and even despicable. Completely devoid of instinct and lacking any depth. Gullible and hollow. They believe what they are told to believe. Gentiles who have the nerve to break through social conditioning and say something daring and original are the best among us. It is mindless to think of them as “anti-Semites.” Kissing up to the Jewish elite is craven.
Good article. I believe that Ashkenazi Jews really are smarter, on average, but it’s no explanation for their overbearing prominence in so many institutions. Their proportion of the US population is small enough that whites still greatly outnumber them in virtually every part of the IQ curve.
They’re not as smart as they think they are. Contemporary studies of their intelligence are pretty limited; just a few of them with some rather small sample numbers. They do have plenty of talented individuals, though their average IQ is plausibly 101. All told it’s doubtful that it exceeds that of the Chinese. So it’s not bad, but not quite what they believe it is.
Mr. Albrecht, if Jewish IQ is not exceptional, then their behaviors must be, given their extraordinary success. And then it would follow, I believe, that their behaviors are imitable, no?
They’re very ethnocentric, and they also drive hard bargains. (It’s not so unique. The Chinese diaspora is known for that in parts of Asia.) I would recommend that we make sure to avoid imitating paranoia and neurosis, which severely cloud their judgment and often turn out to be counterproductive.
Excellent article. Thank you for introducing me to the concept of the celebration parallax. I had not really considered the matter from that perspective, yet it is so strongly indicative of the subtle, insidious Jewish power that throttles us. Pox Populi is correct – it’s not (merely) a double standard, it is an anti-white standard.
I think Jews practice nepotism, or are perceived to, because they have to. When they choose another Jew, they know they are getting quality, whereas with a nonjew it is a crap shoot. Similar to they way you wouldn’t want a black pilot or surgeon simply based on statistics. With other Jews, they know what they are getting. Sure, they may be wrong in (.01)(0.1)=0.001 percent of cases, but more often than not they find the rule to work.
The same thing applies to Whites. But Jews can get away with ethnic nepotism. It is legally forbidden for Whites to do so. It is considered “discrimination” only when Whites choose another White. Jews (and other groups) get a pass. They can freely discriminate as they please.
It’s all subsumed under the one principle of Jews/Leftists: Who/Whom.
It’s all very much like the Problem of Evil that the Jews saddled us with along with their God. If Jews are all-powerful, all-wise and all-benevolent, why are their policies (eg. Great Replacement) destroying the White race? Either they are not all-powerful, or all-wise, or all-benevolent. Or perhaps evil is an illusion (“It’s a conspiracy theory, goyim!”)
This makes sense, because as Laurent Guyenot and others have argued, by claiming to be the Chosen Race, the Jew actually admits the “God” he worships is really himself.
Nah, I don’t know about that last point. One thing that you learn from reading the Old Testament straight through is that God spends a LOT of time pissed off at the Jews. His wrath is always “kindled”, and he’s continuously recorded as referring to these “thick necked people” with great frustration. (I’ve always wondered why, if someone were simply making all that up, they would admit to these continuous failings. The Old Testament is a very detailed record of Jews not measuring up to this standard that they created.)
Good point. The scriptures were written or compiled by the Elite, the Top Jews who returned from Babylon (after tricking Cyrus into thinking they worshiped the same One God as the Persians, rather than their tribal god). They pushed into Judea, took over, and created a ruthless dictatorship over the natives (sound familiar?) who had remained behind and continued to practice the original, Canaanite Hebrew religion. This is portrayed in the scriptures as the people of the land (am haaretz) always “backsliding” and needing to be disciplined by YHVH (i.e., the Top Jews). The primal myth, the template, is Exodus, with the Golden Calf, the wandering in the desert, etc.
Well, I’m CURRENTLY reading the OT, yet you seem to have a much better grasp of the timeline of the Jews travels.
One thing that truly disturbed me on reading Esther was to realize that she didn’t simply ask for Haman’s conspiracy against the Jews to be stopped, but for the Jews to be able to commit a free-for-all of murderous revenge in its place. And that’s the basis for Purim? An act of murderous revenge? Great, just great.
Earlier this year I showed a querent the whimsical treatment that TIME magazine gave Germany Must Perish! in 1941 (posted on my scratchblog). The satire is light and scalpel-like. In its heyday, crisp, clean, concise was TIME!
With regards to the Kaffman’s question
It’s easy to notice why the Jews are so successful: they are the only ethnic group that have an above average level of intelligence… among those who are immune to being disgusted that is (other such ethnic groups are those which constitute the native population of Africa or South Asia).
Said immunity extends not just to the physical things but also to the spiritual ones: not only they can’t find anything wrong with eating shit off the sidewalk for $100, they also can find no problem with accusing any witness of lies and discrimination… unless somebody offers them $200 to confess! And then the entire cycle continues: not only the fact that they ate shit off the sidewalk for $100 was a vicious antisemitic lie, but the fact that somebody offered them $200 to confess is also a lie, and the confession itself was a fabrication, a forgery, an antisemitic canard!
Knowing this also sheds light on why “legalization” of homosexuality is so vitally important for some: it will give them a socioeconomic edge, usurping any advantage females might have had in the field of prostitution (which are usually so disgusting you have to be gay to enjoy their company). Same deal with drugs and pornography, as drugs and pornography can make people temporarily immune to disgust and, as such, easier target to “persuade” with centuries-long experience.
Evola may have looked down on his Northern neighbors for being biological racists (as opposed to spiritual racists, the Fascist ideal), but after years of pondering I will admit that Truth lies in the middle and only the LORD can make the crooked straight.
Edit: fix your website or else note how to insert line breaks in comments; it’s pathetic
The celebration paradox could be used against the Jews themselves. One could say that a certain event during WWII did not actually happen because the lore mysteriously grows every year. But if it did indeed happen it could be considered justified based on the pathogenic behavior of an insular, invasive species upon the body politic. If any other group behaved like this against Zionism, the same strategy would be used by Zionists themselves. The European Council of rabbis (or whatever they are calling this) condemned a leader of Armenia recently as antisemitic for comparing the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust. It doesn’t get any more ridiculous and particularist than this. Jews really do believe only they are chosen to be recognized uniquely as victims, even when something worse happens to somebody else.
On the subject of ‘who deserves to be in charge, based on IQ’, I suggest we dispose of the matter once and for all as follows: ordinary population data tells that, for any intellectual stratum one might choose, goyim outnumber Jews by factors of 50 or 100 to one. Roughly the same can be said for any specialized talent category. Were there no Jews, the upper echelons of our society would be at least as ably filled as they are now.
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