Nevertheless, an explicit white identity movement is unlikely to be tolerated. It’s not so much that blacks, Asians, and Hispanics don’t want this to happen. None of these groups are really all that powerful. Blacks tend to be colorful but not too competent; East Asians competent but colorless; Latinos culturally lethargic and unenterprising.
No, the much more serious roadblock to the emergence of white identity politics: more Jews don’t want it to happen than do want it to happen.
Many Jews have strong reasons for their aversion to white identity politics, either irrational (the Cossacks are coming!) or rational (what’s in it for me?).
Perhaps Taylor can persuade enough Jews to get onboard to make white identity respectable in the MSM and thus with the media’s consumers, the public. He’s striven manfully and graciously over the years to make Jews feel welcome in his movement and many Jews have written for American Renaissance.
Recall that neoconservatism emerged in the late 1960s, largely due to Jewish shopkeepers’ fear of black crime and Jewish civil servants’ fear of being fired by black politicians. Brilliant Jewish intellectuals like Nathan Glazer and Norman Podhoretz took their relatives’ complaints seriously.
Still, over time, Jews mostly figured out it was simply easier to move away from blacks and get better jobs where they didn’t have to deal with many blacks. Let other whites deal with them.
Thus Commentary lost interest in complaining about quotas, and neoconservatism morphed into mostly being an Israel Fan Club.
The fundamental question for 21st Century white identity politics is the same as for Armenians, just two or three orders of magnitude greater in media influence: What’s in it for Jews?
Taylor has worked out strong justifications for why a white identity movement would be good for average, and particularly good for below-average, whites. But not many Jews are below the white average.
Jews are generally praised in the press for engaging in Jewish identity politics. So why would they instead want to engage in disreputable white identity politics? What’s in it for them?
Monday, May 16, 2011
Jews and white identity
Steve Sailer reviews Jared Taylor's new book:
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"No, the much more serious roadblock to the emergence of white identity politics: more Jews don’t want it to happen than do want it to happen.
Many Jews have strong reasons for their aversion to white identity politics, either irrational (the Cossacks are coming!) or rational (what’s in it for me?)."
To even mention jews takes some gumption, but PC still makes Sailer (and Taylor) stupid. Sailer glosses over the history of how we got here. He gives jews a pass and neglects to mention the roles played by Franz Boas, the ADL, the NAACP, the Frankfurt school - all of which predate Germany's attempt to free itself from jewish rule. Never mind the role jews have played postwar, in the 60s revolution or today. It is jewish influence that makes White identity so unacceptable in today's law, media, politics, finance, and academia. It is the same reason why jewish identity, and non-White identity in general, is acceptable.
More jews regard White identity as an alien threat than don't.
To even mention jews takes some gumption, but PC still makes Sailer (and Taylor) stupid
I'm not sure about Taylor but I think one of the reasons for Sailer's PC attitude regarding the Jews is that he is hoping that he may someday get hired as a columnist at a mainstream media publication.
Not entirely correct. I'm Jewish and identify completely with the white identity movement. This is an issue among Jews now bubbling just below the surface - many Jews are in sympathy but are simply scared to speak out - although I'm not entirely sure why. I suspect this will change as they realize their lot is cast with all whites battling anti-white forces. I am very vocal about my beliefs. The direction and identity of Jews in America is shifting - there is a 50%+ inter-marriage rate adding to the confusion. I see the MSM more as liberal elites than Jews - nevertheless, like some liberal Christian churches - in the end they come off as race traitors. I suppose my point is that alliances are always shifting. I have no answer and only contempt for the minority of powerful Jews who dismiss white identity at their own peril.
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