About this episode
Sometimes I criticize the ADL, AIPAC, or the State of Israel. Usually this provokes a few people to call me a Jew-hating antisemite as they unsubscribe from my blog or block me on Notes. Out of curiosity, I sometimes pull up my past interactions with the aggrieved party, and whenever I do, I notice an interesting pattern: these are almost always the same people who enthusiastically liked and shared and commented on my posts criticizing BLM and black identity politics. Just about every time. They love slogans like, “Facts don’t care about your feelings!,” but only when the object of ridicule is someone else’s ethnic-grievance cartel.Of course, this is a pattern of behavior that helped red-pill Candace Owens on the JQ:You can shit on the white goyim; you can shit on the black goyim; but don’t you dare criticize anything even remotely Jewish! It does not matter how carefully you articulate the distinction between (1) Jewish groups like the ADL and AIPAC and (2) individual persons of Jewish ancestry and/or religious belief, they will flip out on you regardless, in the exactly the same way that black ideologues would flip out on you in 2020 if you made even the most milquetoast and nuanced criticism of Black Lives Matter. “What?! You’re saying Black lives don’t matter?! You RACIST!!!” Of course, back when the blacks were doing it in 2020, some of these same Jews and Philosemites were quick to condemn it. They can see the problem with this kind of identity politicking — but only when it’s the other tribe doing it.This is Narcissistic Personality Disorder operating on the group level. “I’m special! Don’t you dare criticize me! Standards are for you to follow, and for me to enforce against you! Don’t get it twisted, goy! Give me what I want and let me do whatever I want, or I will destroy you and get everyone to hate you and ostracize you. Why are you making me do this to you? Why am I always being victimized?” You can be Jewish and not embrace that as your identity, just like you can be black and not embrace BLM’s gay race communism as your identity. And if you condemn BLM but think criticism of the ADL should be condemned a priori as “hate speech,” you are either delusional or dishonest or both.White Americans and Europeans have had our national heroes and founding myths endlessly deconstructed and critiqued, and although this has often been done in bad faith as a power play, some of the criticisms have been legitimate. Our heroes were not perfect angels always acting with the purest of mot
