They didn’t vote for him because of policy. They voted for him because, in their ideology, “that’s what good people do.” Voting is no longer about competence and credentials; it’s cartoon politics.
That’s a very cogent and focussed article, thank you, and it really does expose another modern myth - that cretinous:
“Be Nice”
And everything in the world will be OK.
It utterly ignores not just the savages of Hamas, but benefits their equivalents in Sudan, in Nigeria - and, God help us, in Birmingham UK (not to mention Manchester & London.
Ha! Rabbi Meir Kahane, confronting the black panthers threatening Jews at synagogues, began calling the Jews who criticized him: “Nice Irvings…”. The media were treating this crap as hands off because, gee, they were black. Then Kahane showed up with Jews holding lead pipes and ball bats, his version of a Beit din I think, and suddenly it was news.
Thank you for memorializing what I have felt but not articulated. I am a loud, proud Zionist Jew who is increasingly terrified by the abandonment of young Jews from their history, culture, and future safety. Glad I'm old.
as I just wrote Roberta, Jewish antaganoism towards Jewishness , I grew up surrounded by this and then at college.....not my home....but others and on FB I see one childhood friend grew up to be a raving anti Zionist maniac.
Power. Hypocrisy. You nailed it Joshua. How many folks like Joshua's sister who buy into and preach that whiteness is uncultured ( really saying evil) that their stereotyping means mommy and daddy and gramps and all their ancestors were racist pieces of shit ( and had no culture). Because that would logically be an inescapable conclusion. Once you paint with the broad brush of stereotyping there is no " but my Nana was not like that. " But what i love best is how many folks like Joshua's sister never ask to be cut out of a will or trust fund or declare no interest in an inheritance. As for the boyfriend I loved the change in accent. Just like old Hillary said or new AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Great performers. Shallow thinkers with an unquenchable thirst for ..power.
You reflect a very sad reality.. Very well written. Almost same thing happened with my sister. She was offended when I told her the facts of Mamdani & his parents' support of terrorism. Demanded my "sources", as if what I said was heresy. When I provided several well documented factual based references in an email, without reading any of themn she wrote back that to preserve family relations we should never again talk politics. Hmmm. That reflects the very negative powerful influence of the intersectionality oppressor/oppressed narrative that the Red/Green alliance has successfully used to poison a generation. Its seductive.
Reminiscent of “the Kamala Harris phenomenon,” where Biden announced unapologetically that he was going to choose a black woman to run as vice president. How very morally virtuous of him!😉
This article is by far one of the most outstanding of all that I read daily…ISLAMISM, DIVERSITY-MULTICULTURALISM, RACISM, has begun to flourish at a break-neck pace…all those whom I have encountered along the way, by getting involved have continuously told me: “ I AM JUST NOT POLITICAL!” Well living in a “closet” do to speak by not is helping promote terrifying behaviors. I urge everyone to open their eyes and ears to the extent they do become political, even in the smallest ways…do not wait for similar incidents as this wonderful writer has demonstrated to claim your family members & friends🙏🏻
Thank you for boldly exposing the violent undercurrent of the Mamdani puppets -the threats they pose whether to “boycott”-ostracize and shun are all backed up by violence -anyone who has not understood this yet will soon be faced with a harsh reality
I’m sorry about the wall that has been erected between you. It is happening to so many now. My son revealed his antisemitism to me over Oct 7. We used to be so close. Now we are distant. It just is what it is. You can’t change people. Deception strikes again!
You just keep gulping the blood libels and spewing them about, polluting the world. History will record all of you useful ignorant idiots as it has all of the Jew haters who’ve come before you. Shame on you and your ilk.
Please, friends, ignore this crazy person. They are clearly here to attack, having engaged with zero of the author's ideas. Love to all of us NOT showing up only to insult our brothers and sisters.
Very important article. Joshua has a gift for defining every term by its core , and for expressing it in his deft, succinct writing.
The most shocking element for me is their incapacity to hear anything but their own opinions, and the emotional upheaval they display when even appearing to be contradicted. They are the definition of intolerant. It's why they can tolerate the intolerance of Islam.
No democracy survives with these people. Democracy demands dialogue and an informed, educated electorate. Totalitarianism is coming, says the canary in the mine.
As for " white culture",
oh my. All performers must be white in a white culture event? I remember their stunning Art Nuveau concert hall in Denver. There is theatre also in the city - with " mixed race" actors- , ballet, but...... what is " white culture to her"?
The inanity of the pretext to degrade white people - "white people ruin culture"- shows what a long way has already been traveled in the poisoning and hollowing of their minds. Other major items must have been demoted and perverted about whites already. Many unprintable blips in their rhetoric would qualify.
Deep down, we ,the whites, have been guilty of " suicidal empathy" for too long . We weaponised their ego, entitlement, our guilt, our " love your neighbour" own ancestral indoctrination, where we put " the other" first, we filled all visual media, entertainment, advertising , with a majority of black or brown or yellow images, to be sensitive and inclusive, wishfully thinking and presenting a reality where the majority people in the USA are black, or latino, or Asian.
We made mayor changes in our societies to cater to those minorities. We acted as fearful Jews and domesticated Westerners.
Ceding, fawning, deviating,promoting,
rejecting better candidates , yet unsuitable as white, in fact, we have facilitated monsters with their prejudices magnified, just ready to pounce at the appropriate time. Mamdani is the voice of the movement.
And they, the non-white, have preserved and continue to keep maximising their sacred victimhood, casting it in a most racist manner, whilst projecting all the supremacy ambition that inspire them to degrade whites, their superiority complexes born from an earlier sense of " lesser-hood" for their blackness, credible long ago, not anymore, but with one raging power deficit - for which they have shouted vociferously and forced indoctrination in schools, advancing cross-culturally to become a pretext to " lessen" our presence and participation, us, the "oppressor white Jews".
Yet there's minimal "oppression of white Jews" amongst Jews in reality, even as we Jews have been arguing and splitting in factions since Sinai, and Jews are multi-color.
The realities of the State of Israel should teach her. About "white peoples"' - and all "colour peoples"-cultures, Jew cultures, the abundance of everything and every type, the total dislike for " race" matters, the true default line being the Ultra Orthodox who refuse to serve- , and maybe a " deprogramming" will make an indentation in their ignorant emotional way of life.
What your sister and her boyfriend are doing is simply (and blindly) following the incentives and etiquette necessary to maintain a place in our progressive aristocracy, which now that luxury goods are cheap and ubiquitous means our modern aristocrats don't signal their superiority through conspicuous consumption but through conspicuous compassion.
And this is usually done first by attending some upscale educational institution and learning what is required to be considered an upper crust Good Person™, which is imbibing Social Justice ideology and pledging your heart and soul to it. SJ ideology is rooted in white guilt and white saviorism and it means essentially the sacralization of historically marginalized race, gender and sexual minorities.
And the SJ faith and its priesthood and acolytes operate like a cult with cult dynamics: they have a special gnostic "critical consciousness" that makes them separate and superior to lesser mortals, they see everything and everyone in pure black and white (shades of gray are excuses for oppression), they encourage you to cut off friends and family if they try to talk you out of the cult (which seems to have happened here), they refuse to debate or defend dogma and resort quickly to denunciation and ad hominem, they even have special language of alchemical jargon that can turn up into down and true into false and Jews into wicked white oppressors.
But you have to forgive these young people (eventually) as they really have no idea how brainwashed they are and would deny it unto death. The SJ faith is held by everyone they know and everyone they aspire to know, by every institution and leader they belong to, and they really don't know anyone who believes differently, as both their outside worlds and their curated newsfeeds present the SJ narrative in every way every day. They have been conditioned through repetition and reward (and through observing the punishments reserved for enemies and apostates) and through intense threats based on punitive moralism and potential ostracism.
But what's even more disturbing than our entire Western ruling classes giving themselves an ideological lobotomy and refusing to think anymore, is that the SJ faith has now placed the Palestinians in the top spot in their hierarchy of sacred victims, meaning Jews and Israelis have to be treated as Satanic enemies. It's difficult if not impossible for most young people to resist this constant totalized pressure, esp if they're ambitious and want good careers, and it seems to be more difficult both for women and Jews, many of whom are naturally conciliatory. Social Justice now means opposing Israel and "Zionism" and we'll all have to face and grapple with this in our own ways.
Thank you for writing this piece. It is this belief system/behavior exemplified by your sister (and so many “progressive” Jews that the groypers focus on—as if progressive Jews are the only guilty party—in their hatred and demonization of all Jews. I think there really is truth that so many people in the West support Hamas because they see Hamas/Palestinians as “people of color” and therefore righteous. No questions asked or allowed. No critical thinking, just desire for feeling virtuous. I’m so glad you called out your sister’s racism.
👏👏👏 A most astute, focused and sharped-eyed article, Joshua! I’m sorry about the problems with your sister but she made her own choice. You’re also 100% right that many folks who voted for Mamdani did so because he’s an Asian Muslim not because of his policies. His identity is all that matters. To be a good person, you must vote for the person with the appropriate skin tone. Her and the her boyfriend not wanting to live in Denver “because of too many white people!” is utterly ridiculous and racist. White people are no worse or no better than any other group of people. Her boyfriend putting on a faux Nigerian accent and code-switching out of nowhere was hilarious!
By the way, code-switching is dumb and people who do that need to stop doing it. Just talk with your normal voice! By the way, while people do have culture-lots of culture! The term white is just an umbrella for a variety of different peoples like the English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Russian, and Hungarian and of course, Ashkenazi Jews who are white-passing. European-Americans have given much to this country. Is your sister familiar with iconic companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Disney, Warner Brothers, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Hershey’s, Wrigley’s, Baskin-Robbins, Kodak, Wal-Mart, and Ford? All started by white Americans. Has she ever eaten a hamburger, hot dog, ice cream cone, chocolate chip cookie, or a pizza? All invented by white people. Ever read a Marvel or DC comic book or watched a Star Wars or Indiana Jones movie? All created by white people!
Is she familiar with the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the classics, the Enlightenment, or the very concepts of liberal democracy, capitalism or human rights? All came from white people. Ever heard of Southern BBQ or New England Clam Chowder? Ever hear of Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Jimmy Cagney, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Sir Laurence Olivier, or Gene Kelly? Ever been to England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, or Belgium? Does she know who Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, or Brahms were?
While people have a TON of culture and diversity amongst ourselves. By the way young lady, your ancestors gave the world Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, King David, King Solomon, Jesus of Nazareth, St. Paul, Moses Mendelssohn, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Sandy Koufax, Stan Lee, Milton Friedman, Norman Mailer, Kirk Douglas, Hank Greenberg, Sigmund Livingston, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Jonas Salk, David Ben-Gurion, Yizhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Levi Strauss, and the brave Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis in World War II among many others. You should be very proud of that and feel connected to the land of Eretz-Israel as a Jew! That is where your people sprang from!
Good article. Hope your sister eventually realizes she’s been had. White culture: Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Dickens, Austen, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, one can list thousands of them!
To be fair, the other two candidates in the race were objectively awful human beings. Even if Mamdani turns out to be as awful as you apparently think (which I’m not 100% convinced is true), I have a hard time envisioning an NYC under Cuomo or Sliwa that would be any better. Matter of fact, feels like those two in charge could be considerably worse. (….and may I not eat those words later, <ward away evil eye>)
That’s a very cogent and focussed article, thank you, and it really does expose another modern myth - that cretinous:
“Be Nice”
And everything in the world will be OK.
It utterly ignores not just the savages of Hamas, but benefits their equivalents in Sudan, in Nigeria - and, God help us, in Birmingham UK (not to mention Manchester & London.
Thank you again.
Ha! Rabbi Meir Kahane, confronting the black panthers threatening Jews at synagogues, began calling the Jews who criticized him: “Nice Irvings…”. The media were treating this crap as hands off because, gee, they were black. Then Kahane showed up with Jews holding lead pipes and ball bats, his version of a Beit din I think, and suddenly it was news.
Thank you for memorializing what I have felt but not articulated. I am a loud, proud Zionist Jew who is increasingly terrified by the abandonment of young Jews from their history, culture, and future safety. Glad I'm old.
as I just wrote Roberta, Jewish antaganoism towards Jewishness , I grew up surrounded by this and then at college.....not my home....but others and on FB I see one childhood friend grew up to be a raving anti Zionist maniac.
Power. Hypocrisy. You nailed it Joshua. How many folks like Joshua's sister who buy into and preach that whiteness is uncultured ( really saying evil) that their stereotyping means mommy and daddy and gramps and all their ancestors were racist pieces of shit ( and had no culture). Because that would logically be an inescapable conclusion. Once you paint with the broad brush of stereotyping there is no " but my Nana was not like that. " But what i love best is how many folks like Joshua's sister never ask to be cut out of a will or trust fund or declare no interest in an inheritance. As for the boyfriend I loved the change in accent. Just like old Hillary said or new AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Great performers. Shallow thinkers with an unquenchable thirst for ..power.
So true. AOC and Hillary Clinton would suddenly adopt accents.
But Trump is always Trump. And he always talks like Trump. And that's one of his strengths.
You reflect a very sad reality.. Very well written. Almost same thing happened with my sister. She was offended when I told her the facts of Mamdani & his parents' support of terrorism. Demanded my "sources", as if what I said was heresy. When I provided several well documented factual based references in an email, without reading any of themn she wrote back that to preserve family relations we should never again talk politics. Hmmm. That reflects the very negative powerful influence of the intersectionality oppressor/oppressed narrative that the Red/Green alliance has successfully used to poison a generation. Its seductive.
Its spreading rapidly.
We're in trouble.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Reminiscent of “the Kamala Harris phenomenon,” where Biden announced unapologetically that he was going to choose a black woman to run as vice president. How very morally virtuous of him!😉
This article is by far one of the most outstanding of all that I read daily…ISLAMISM, DIVERSITY-MULTICULTURALISM, RACISM, has begun to flourish at a break-neck pace…all those whom I have encountered along the way, by getting involved have continuously told me: “ I AM JUST NOT POLITICAL!” Well living in a “closet” do to speak by not is helping promote terrifying behaviors. I urge everyone to open their eyes and ears to the extent they do become political, even in the smallest ways…do not wait for similar incidents as this wonderful writer has demonstrated to claim your family members & friends🙏🏻
Thank you for boldly exposing the violent undercurrent of the Mamdani puppets -the threats they pose whether to “boycott”-ostracize and shun are all backed up by violence -anyone who has not understood this yet will soon be faced with a harsh reality
I’m sorry about the wall that has been erected between you. It is happening to so many now. My son revealed his antisemitism to me over Oct 7. We used to be so close. Now we are distant. It just is what it is. You can’t change people. Deception strikes again!
Yes, I got asked to take the Israeli flag down (flying alongside Old Glory) after Oct 7, as the farmers around might be upset. About what, I asked.
Get over yourself and your antiZionist/antisemitic beliefs. I know what God has said. Turning you off now.
You just keep gulping the blood libels and spewing them about, polluting the world. History will record all of you useful ignorant idiots as it has all of the Jew haters who’ve come before you. Shame on you and your ilk.
Please, friends, ignore this crazy person. They are clearly here to attack, having engaged with zero of the author's ideas. Love to all of us NOT showing up only to insult our brothers and sisters.
It is good to know family dinners follow the same script everywhere.
lol…I immediately recognized sitting at his table…
Very important article. Joshua has a gift for defining every term by its core , and for expressing it in his deft, succinct writing.
The most shocking element for me is their incapacity to hear anything but their own opinions, and the emotional upheaval they display when even appearing to be contradicted. They are the definition of intolerant. It's why they can tolerate the intolerance of Islam.
No democracy survives with these people. Democracy demands dialogue and an informed, educated electorate. Totalitarianism is coming, says the canary in the mine.
As for " white culture",
oh my. All performers must be white in a white culture event? I remember their stunning Art Nuveau concert hall in Denver. There is theatre also in the city - with " mixed race" actors- , ballet, but...... what is " white culture to her"?
The inanity of the pretext to degrade white people - "white people ruin culture"- shows what a long way has already been traveled in the poisoning and hollowing of their minds. Other major items must have been demoted and perverted about whites already. Many unprintable blips in their rhetoric would qualify.
Deep down, we ,the whites, have been guilty of " suicidal empathy" for too long . We weaponised their ego, entitlement, our guilt, our " love your neighbour" own ancestral indoctrination, where we put " the other" first, we filled all visual media, entertainment, advertising , with a majority of black or brown or yellow images, to be sensitive and inclusive, wishfully thinking and presenting a reality where the majority people in the USA are black, or latino, or Asian.
We made mayor changes in our societies to cater to those minorities. We acted as fearful Jews and domesticated Westerners.
Ceding, fawning, deviating,promoting,
rejecting better candidates , yet unsuitable as white, in fact, we have facilitated monsters with their prejudices magnified, just ready to pounce at the appropriate time. Mamdani is the voice of the movement.
And they, the non-white, have preserved and continue to keep maximising their sacred victimhood, casting it in a most racist manner, whilst projecting all the supremacy ambition that inspire them to degrade whites, their superiority complexes born from an earlier sense of " lesser-hood" for their blackness, credible long ago, not anymore, but with one raging power deficit - for which they have shouted vociferously and forced indoctrination in schools, advancing cross-culturally to become a pretext to " lessen" our presence and participation, us, the "oppressor white Jews".
Yet there's minimal "oppression of white Jews" amongst Jews in reality, even as we Jews have been arguing and splitting in factions since Sinai, and Jews are multi-color.
The realities of the State of Israel should teach her. About "white peoples"' - and all "colour peoples"-cultures, Jew cultures, the abundance of everything and every type, the total dislike for " race" matters, the true default line being the Ultra Orthodox who refuse to serve- , and maybe a " deprogramming" will make an indentation in their ignorant emotional way of life.
Of course Denver in 2025 has a lot going on.....and the Chicano influence and presence in the city was very evident fifty years ago.
It was emotional propaganda, not using critical thinking, moral clarity
What your sister and her boyfriend are doing is simply (and blindly) following the incentives and etiquette necessary to maintain a place in our progressive aristocracy, which now that luxury goods are cheap and ubiquitous means our modern aristocrats don't signal their superiority through conspicuous consumption but through conspicuous compassion.
And this is usually done first by attending some upscale educational institution and learning what is required to be considered an upper crust Good Person™, which is imbibing Social Justice ideology and pledging your heart and soul to it. SJ ideology is rooted in white guilt and white saviorism and it means essentially the sacralization of historically marginalized race, gender and sexual minorities.
And the SJ faith and its priesthood and acolytes operate like a cult with cult dynamics: they have a special gnostic "critical consciousness" that makes them separate and superior to lesser mortals, they see everything and everyone in pure black and white (shades of gray are excuses for oppression), they encourage you to cut off friends and family if they try to talk you out of the cult (which seems to have happened here), they refuse to debate or defend dogma and resort quickly to denunciation and ad hominem, they even have special language of alchemical jargon that can turn up into down and true into false and Jews into wicked white oppressors.
But you have to forgive these young people (eventually) as they really have no idea how brainwashed they are and would deny it unto death. The SJ faith is held by everyone they know and everyone they aspire to know, by every institution and leader they belong to, and they really don't know anyone who believes differently, as both their outside worlds and their curated newsfeeds present the SJ narrative in every way every day. They have been conditioned through repetition and reward (and through observing the punishments reserved for enemies and apostates) and through intense threats based on punitive moralism and potential ostracism.
But what's even more disturbing than our entire Western ruling classes giving themselves an ideological lobotomy and refusing to think anymore, is that the SJ faith has now placed the Palestinians in the top spot in their hierarchy of sacred victims, meaning Jews and Israelis have to be treated as Satanic enemies. It's difficult if not impossible for most young people to resist this constant totalized pressure, esp if they're ambitious and want good careers, and it seems to be more difficult both for women and Jews, many of whom are naturally conciliatory. Social Justice now means opposing Israel and "Zionism" and we'll all have to face and grapple with this in our own ways.
Thank you for writing this piece. It is this belief system/behavior exemplified by your sister (and so many “progressive” Jews that the groypers focus on—as if progressive Jews are the only guilty party—in their hatred and demonization of all Jews. I think there really is truth that so many people in the West support Hamas because they see Hamas/Palestinians as “people of color” and therefore righteous. No questions asked or allowed. No critical thinking, just desire for feeling virtuous. I’m so glad you called out your sister’s racism.
👏👏👏 A most astute, focused and sharped-eyed article, Joshua! I’m sorry about the problems with your sister but she made her own choice. You’re also 100% right that many folks who voted for Mamdani did so because he’s an Asian Muslim not because of his policies. His identity is all that matters. To be a good person, you must vote for the person with the appropriate skin tone. Her and the her boyfriend not wanting to live in Denver “because of too many white people!” is utterly ridiculous and racist. White people are no worse or no better than any other group of people. Her boyfriend putting on a faux Nigerian accent and code-switching out of nowhere was hilarious!
By the way, code-switching is dumb and people who do that need to stop doing it. Just talk with your normal voice! By the way, while people do have culture-lots of culture! The term white is just an umbrella for a variety of different peoples like the English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Russian, and Hungarian and of course, Ashkenazi Jews who are white-passing. European-Americans have given much to this country. Is your sister familiar with iconic companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Disney, Warner Brothers, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Hershey’s, Wrigley’s, Baskin-Robbins, Kodak, Wal-Mart, and Ford? All started by white Americans. Has she ever eaten a hamburger, hot dog, ice cream cone, chocolate chip cookie, or a pizza? All invented by white people. Ever read a Marvel or DC comic book or watched a Star Wars or Indiana Jones movie? All created by white people!
Is she familiar with the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the classics, the Enlightenment, or the very concepts of liberal democracy, capitalism or human rights? All came from white people. Ever heard of Southern BBQ or New England Clam Chowder? Ever hear of Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Jimmy Cagney, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Sir Laurence Olivier, or Gene Kelly? Ever been to England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, or Belgium? Does she know who Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, or Brahms were?
While people have a TON of culture and diversity amongst ourselves. By the way young lady, your ancestors gave the world Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, King David, King Solomon, Jesus of Nazareth, St. Paul, Moses Mendelssohn, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Sandy Koufax, Stan Lee, Milton Friedman, Norman Mailer, Kirk Douglas, Hank Greenberg, Sigmund Livingston, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Jonas Salk, David Ben-Gurion, Yizhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Levi Strauss, and the brave Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis in World War II among many others. You should be very proud of that and feel connected to the land of Eretz-Israel as a Jew! That is where your people sprang from!
Good article. Hope your sister eventually realizes she’s been had. White culture: Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Dickens, Austen, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, one can list thousands of them!
To be fair, the other two candidates in the race were objectively awful human beings. Even if Mamdani turns out to be as awful as you apparently think (which I’m not 100% convinced is true), I have a hard time envisioning an NYC under Cuomo or Sliwa that would be any better. Matter of fact, feels like those two in charge could be considerably worse. (….and may I not eat those words later, <ward away evil eye>)