I'm going to try to avoid an in depth opener here but I am going to leave this stickied for us to discuss this. I've long been frustrated with the large number of people that reduce all civilizational and racial problems to Jewish plots. Some around here agree with me. Others just think I must be a Jew because I disagree with simplistic conspiracy theories.
Let's lay out some basics of what is legitimate and what is bullshit.
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Jewish media power - Jews are overrepresented in the US media yet still comprise a minority. And when people say Jews 'own' 'the media' this is the substance of it. They haven't the foggiest idea who owns the media in Germany or Switzerland.
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Jews control the world - bullshit with no real evidence.
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Rothschilds own most or all central banks - a kook theory derived from fringe sources.
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Jews ran the Soviet Union - overstated at best.
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Israel controls the United States - bullshit though the Zionist lobby has considerable power.
In my mind the most substantive criticism is that American Jews are mostly liberal and give Democrats upwards of 50% of their campaign funds in many cases.
What does this all amount to? Well, American Jews have a huge outmarriage rate. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%. Over the long run this will tend to dilute Jewish identity in the US and have them relate more to Gentiles. Some Jews will also start to self-deport as the alt-right gets stronger. Jews moving to Israel should generally be seen as desirable.
Notice I haven't said that pogroms are desirable though. But the gas oven set are apt to thinking my position is a 'Jewish' one. Few Jews would agree.
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HarlandKornfeld14 ago
Well, look at who is behind the Frankfurt School, also referred to as Cultural Marxism.
(((Theodore Adorno))), (((Max Horkheimer))), (((Walter Benjamin))), (((Herbert Marcuse))), (((Erich Fromm)) — all major formulators of this ideology are Jews.
Joe_McCarthy ago
And how important is the Frankfurt School? Not very.
HarlandKornfeld14 ago
It certainly works to crank out a lot of Red Guards in our university system.
Joe_McCarthy ago
Does it necessarily? Marcuse was influential on campus in the 60s but nothing like that now. What tends to predominate now is a more virulent strain of ideology centered around things that Horkheimer was drawn on for inspiration but was not himself involved in. Just darkening demographics should not be discounted as a source for student radicalism either.
HarlandKornfeld14 ago
My interpretation of Cultural Marxism is a critical cultural deconstructivism, attacking traditional cultural structures that allow a society to remain cohesive. A lot of Cultural Marxist literally is as boring as sandpaper and tediously verbose.
Joe_McCarthy ago
Well, yeah, that is the critical theory component. Horkheimer. It tends to deconstruct authority by questioning its legitimacy and by doing so undermining traditional institutions. But what we see on campus now is not reducible to that and that is a forerunner of the virulent movement to deconstruct whiteness in the effort to fight 'white supremacy'.
So the Frankfurt School isn't irrelevant but it is mostly one of them, the founder, that is relevant, and he has been used in much the same way Alain Locke used a more innocuous figure, William James, to craft multiculturalism.
HarlandKornfeld14 ago
Well, I always thought Cultural Marxism was mostly from Adorno. So the stuff about Horkheimer is at least something I didn't know before. So it still serves to deconstruct Whiteness and traditionalism.
Joe_McCarthy ago
Adorno was responsible for that American Jewish Committee publication 'The Authoritarian Personality' which basically equated conservative attitudes with Fascism. But it is not merely enough to say something is a toxic product. It is necessary to demonstrate its influence in actually doing harm.
HarlandKornfeld14 ago
Well, this meme is everywhere on the Left and it is entrenched pretty deeply.
Joe_McCarthy ago
More or less, yes. But mostly in the last few years. A general tendency on the left to call opponents fascists was absent even as recently as the Bush years. Can we say this all came out of 'The Authoritarian Personality'? Why should we? Why couldn't left-wingers come up with such a smear independently of a somewhat nondescript Jewish intellectual?