Jews are white but light skinned Hispanics who look white are not. Asians are people of color but they’re not.
Being even an eighth ethnic is ethnic just like when there were octaroons but we’re not being like those people.
Black people are highly racially diverse but they’re not.
We should help the neediest people but let’s mostly implement policies to boost certain ethnic middle class upper middle class and even rich.
The only way to help people is to move them to posts they don’t deserve.
The white underclass and black underclass and Hispanic underclass and Native American underclass who are the worst off don’t exist. But know that they’re all oppressed there’s not even the slightest possibility culture and choices enter the equation at all and the white underclass are not in this collective. They exist for our mockery.
Ethnic minorities and immigrants with no connection to slavery in America or oppression that somehow overwhelms the oppression of other ethnic groups in early America are still oppressed
Women are also oppressed and should be elevated to posts they didnt earn but white women are sus unless they write books on their own fragility and hit the lecture circuit charging
astronomical self flagellation fees.
I like ethnic jokes. Sometimes people recite them with nasty intentions which is never comical but ethnic humor as humor can lighten the mood and societal tension. Poor whites you can still ridicule and it’s not even a micro aggression. And Israel is a good punching bag. I will never forget what Don lemon did on a newscast referring to poor whites. I cannot imagine what would’ve went down had a newscaster done this routine with poor blacks. It wasn’t even funny. It was just mean spirited. To paraphrase triumph the insult dog it was ethnic jokes without the everything. He had a long horrid record of really serious offenses (like sending a threatening email) but it took him calling older women washed up to get sacked. My favorite part was when said google it. If you put the question to AI which has been programmed to be inoffensive to a point of silliness he would’ve gotten the correct answer.
I like the article but I do think you err in your premise. I do think elite white leftists are often bashing themselves and their contemporaries. Some genuinely mean it. Others are just conforming. And others are fearful. There was a bone chilling article in the wsj by a professor who’s very old so he had the luxury of speaking his mind. It’s sad he felt the need to list his anti racism bona fides but this is the world now. Here’s the comedy. His team wanted to elevate someone to a short list for being black. That was ok. Mentioning race to elevate someone was ok. The professor said politely he liked the candidate but that he didn’t meet the level of others and shouldn’t be elevated for being black even though it’s good to try to diversify. Kafkaesque tribunals followed and it’s worth finding the article to read because the reason the elites can be bashed is they’re not elite unless you define elite as high earning. Many of our elites produce little but toxic ideas. And the ones who are productive don’t seem to value the environment that allowed for that productivity. Yay socialism! I was just discussing with my spouse today and it was beyond shocking- the Soviet Union didn’t have wheelchairs despite the enormous number of vets. Go look up what was used. Russia built nukes but couldn’t manage wheelchairs. Americans need to understand the distortions that happen when society isn’t free. But ours in an age where money grows on trees and everyone is entitled to everything and if that doesn’t happen it’s because of the greedy. I do think that elites to some extent want to inoculate themselves against beheadings by talking the talk of wealth gaps and devil corporations. That they’re more often than not talking about themselves is lost on them. I’m rambling horribly but let’s just sum it up that there’s no coherence to DEI and white privilege and related ideologies. And I won’t ever sanction racism no matter how it’s packaged. People forget it’s always packaged they just like this packaging and they think they’re above it that they of the past were entirely benighted not human like them.
"I like the article but I do think you err in your premise. I do think elite white leftists are often bashing themselves and their contemporaries. Some genuinely mean it. Others are just conforming. And others are fearful. " Upon reflection I think you're right. But there's a lot of "right" to go around. I get the author's point as well that some are only leveling the muskets at poor whites, which is absurd.
I've said for years, it's all about class, not race. But hell, society didn't listen to me. So, I agree with a lot of what you say. I will add this though: if things are bad for one group or another, whatever the reason, where is the leadership within those communities? Especially if this has been going on for 40 years or so. C'mon. Get your acts together; support each other. And having said that, we recently paid visits to Lucid and Mercedes car dealerships; aside from us all potential customers were black. So there has been progress. I for one do not feel guilty for being white, Jewish, or educated. I've had some advantages, for sure. More than many, not as much as sum. It's about what you do with what you've got. No?
There is something wrong about this article. I would ascribe its error to the assumption that society can be analyzed through the lens of left and right, and furthermore to the assumption that we live in a class stratified society for which racism acts as an ideological smokescreen. Hence the author's equivalence of Democratic educated elites' racism as a dismissal of poor whites that blames them for their situation with Republicans dismissal of poor blacks that does the same. Neither claim is right. In actual fact, poor people in a modern society like the United States are as mobile as anybody else. Which puts the lie to the idea that there is a white underclass every bit as much as there is a black one. In a modern society people wind up where they are for a whole variety of reasons, many of which are not amenable to change by government policy. To lump people together into an underclass marked by skin colour to boot is a way of denying them responsibility for their situation and justifying useless government intervention by elites who accuse their critics of racism. The sociologist Thomas Sowell has correctly identified this practice as the white racism of Democratic Party leftist elites to keep blacks in America from ever taking responsibility for their socio-economic well-being. The BLM movement is a perfect reflection of this practice, profiting black elites to the detriment of the community they claimed to serve while using the canard to preach for the collapse of the United States. And Israel, I might add.
The bandying about of racism in today's society, In America as elsewhere in the West, is more a way of promoting identity politics. It has been fostered by academics who have used race and gender and other markers to promote the Marxist idea of class in order to keep alive the idea that modern society is still one marked by oppression, by division between the powerful and the powerless, and that all the claims of western society's achievement to enhance individual freedom and well-being are a sham. Because the author's article, however much it seemed to offer evidence of the educated elites' use of racism as a form of virtue-signalling, nonetheless came down on the validity of social class as the key marker to understanding it, I thought I would check his substack page to see how he analyzed other issues. I came across one called The Fire Next Time written this past November on the war in Gaza. In it he cited reports of Israeli atrocities in the Northern Gaza Strip from sources which he admits cannot be verified, but nonetheless went on to say this:
"But we also know that, whatever its details, Israel’s retaliation against Hamas has reached a scale of human destruction unprecedented in this century — even worse than the Syrian civil war. According to the United Nations Secretary General, 60,000 people were displaced in the last few weeks alone. The New York Times reported last week that the IDF struck a town in Gaza for the third time in just over a week, killing dozens of people in a residential building, including as many as 25 children. Even the U.S. State Department conceded that the attack was “horrifying,” but such strikes have become routine in this war, and barely register as news anymore.
It’s clear what’s happening in Gaza, and it’s been clear for over a year. In a campaign of vengeance for the October 7 slaughter of hundreds of Israeli civilians, the IDF is making Gaza uninhabitable for Palestinians. At this moment, with the invasion still ongoing, we’re largely focused on the body count from direct military casualties. We have yet to comprehend the scale of death from famine, malnutrition and disease as a result of the annihilation of civilian infrastructure, let alone the mass homelessness and decades of acute population-level poverty that will arise from the leveling of neighborhoods and the total destruction of the economy. The consequences of this violence will last for generations."
Mr. Woodhouse's understanding of what has gone on in Gaza is as faulty as his understanding of how the discourse of racism plays out in the United States. None of his claims about Israel are true. The destruction in Gaza is nothing compared to that which ensued from the Syrian Civil War. His accusations of Israeli atrocities are not only wrong; his understanding of what is at stake is also completely off the mark. At the end of the article he accuses the United States of being complicit in Israeli war crimes for which there will be blowback in terms of justified terrorist attacks on America for its hubris in interfering in other countries as "the most belligerent tribe of them all." That the Biden Administration has hamstrung Israel at every opportunity never crosses his mind, nor does its pandering to the antisemitism unleashed in the United States under the guise of anti-Zionism. His analysis of the Middle East and the US role therein is as much off the mark as it is for the domestic conflicts of the United States. But the is what you get from a Marxist analysis steeped in class and power that wades into the muddy waters of contemporary reality.
I have a rule of thumb when people use authors as authorities to buttress their claims about an issue about which they think they are right. I check to see what their take is on Israel; and if they are wrong on Israel I dismiss whatever they may have to say on other topics. Mr. Woodhouse is not someone whose writing should have appeared in The Future of Jewish.
'For some white liberals, anti-racism is a smokescreen for class prejudice....' which in turn is a smoke-screen for unadmitted RACISM itself. We note the shrill tones of their Cognitive Dissonance, which turns into the Vicious Anti-Semitism of some Liberals (of each of the Ethnicities) as their ACTUAL deeply-held racism finds a Sublimated and Projectible target of the 'Out Group' which is Jewish People. Further Note: Is it now acceptable to Hate Jews? And is not the common factor here Hatred, used once again by the unscrupulous Far Right, who when the killing starts, lets us know that this was their Dark-Objective all along. Thus the Liberals becomes the 'Useful Idiots' of The Nazi Party, the Re-formation of which is being monitored here in London by us since 2012. Who. Whom. The Nazis targeting Jews, once again. And the Anti-Fascist response must be the same today as it always was. No Pasaran!
Let’s just ignore the word, anti-racism. Means nothing, just a smokescreen for elitism. Really? In my view, people are capable of different, even contradictory, opinions and values. One side of these contradictions can be encouraged to be expressed or suppressed at any time. A politician rose to power in the 1930s by urging Jew hatred to be felt and expressed. We have our own Hitler. His scapegoats are trans folk and undocumented immigrants. Jews probably come fourth, after Muslims. They may get to us, say, if the Proud Boys and their ilk are developed as armed militias. Some people bring out the best, some the worst, in us. Let’s not forget that Hitler was elected. I feel like I live in Hiltler’s Germany. I just feel lucky—for the time being—that I’m not in groups that are the primary scapegoats.
I am Jewish and live in the New York metropolitan area. I don't feel particularly threatened by right-wing extremists. They are, of course, repugnant, but the people attacking and ostracizing Jews are members of the red-green alliance. If you feel that Trump is "just like Hitler," you almost certainly have not read a history book since you were in high school and get your news from sources with a very limited perspective. Jews represent the vast majority of victims of violent hate crimes in the US and Europe ever though we consist of less than 2% of the population in the US and an even smaller proportion in Europe. The vast majority of these hate crimes are being committed by leftists and Islamic extremists.
Jew hatred from the Right has always been from a (now very small, disorganized and powerless) faction of that side of politics and was reviled by the rest of society, including the rest of conservative America. On the left, the Jew hatred is mainstream, institutionalized, systemic and valued by that side of the spectrum, in a way that its adherents earn status points as social-justice warriors by performative postings and acts. Deplatform a Jew and you're a hero. Disinvite a Jew and you're standing up for what's right.
The left is in trouble. They villify Daniel Penny and glorify Mario Mangione. They have lost their moral compass in a sea of woke ideals and luxury beliefs.
Please keep falsely likening Donald Trump to Hitler, and his supporters to Nazis. You will only lose more elections.
Race is entirely a social construct but it isn’t.
Gender doesn’t exist but I want to switch mine.
Jews are white but light skinned Hispanics who look white are not. Asians are people of color but they’re not.
Being even an eighth ethnic is ethnic just like when there were octaroons but we’re not being like those people.
Black people are highly racially diverse but they’re not.
We should help the neediest people but let’s mostly implement policies to boost certain ethnic middle class upper middle class and even rich.
The only way to help people is to move them to posts they don’t deserve.
The white underclass and black underclass and Hispanic underclass and Native American underclass who are the worst off don’t exist. But know that they’re all oppressed there’s not even the slightest possibility culture and choices enter the equation at all and the white underclass are not in this collective. They exist for our mockery.
Ethnic minorities and immigrants with no connection to slavery in America or oppression that somehow overwhelms the oppression of other ethnic groups in early America are still oppressed
Women are also oppressed and should be elevated to posts they didnt earn but white women are sus unless they write books on their own fragility and hit the lecture circuit charging
astronomical self flagellation fees.
I like ethnic jokes. Sometimes people recite them with nasty intentions which is never comical but ethnic humor as humor can lighten the mood and societal tension. Poor whites you can still ridicule and it’s not even a micro aggression. And Israel is a good punching bag. I will never forget what Don lemon did on a newscast referring to poor whites. I cannot imagine what would’ve went down had a newscaster done this routine with poor blacks. It wasn’t even funny. It was just mean spirited. To paraphrase triumph the insult dog it was ethnic jokes without the everything. He had a long horrid record of really serious offenses (like sending a threatening email) but it took him calling older women washed up to get sacked. My favorite part was when said google it. If you put the question to AI which has been programmed to be inoffensive to a point of silliness he would’ve gotten the correct answer.
I like the article but I do think you err in your premise. I do think elite white leftists are often bashing themselves and their contemporaries. Some genuinely mean it. Others are just conforming. And others are fearful. There was a bone chilling article in the wsj by a professor who’s very old so he had the luxury of speaking his mind. It’s sad he felt the need to list his anti racism bona fides but this is the world now. Here’s the comedy. His team wanted to elevate someone to a short list for being black. That was ok. Mentioning race to elevate someone was ok. The professor said politely he liked the candidate but that he didn’t meet the level of others and shouldn’t be elevated for being black even though it’s good to try to diversify. Kafkaesque tribunals followed and it’s worth finding the article to read because the reason the elites can be bashed is they’re not elite unless you define elite as high earning. Many of our elites produce little but toxic ideas. And the ones who are productive don’t seem to value the environment that allowed for that productivity. Yay socialism! I was just discussing with my spouse today and it was beyond shocking- the Soviet Union didn’t have wheelchairs despite the enormous number of vets. Go look up what was used. Russia built nukes but couldn’t manage wheelchairs. Americans need to understand the distortions that happen when society isn’t free. But ours in an age where money grows on trees and everyone is entitled to everything and if that doesn’t happen it’s because of the greedy. I do think that elites to some extent want to inoculate themselves against beheadings by talking the talk of wealth gaps and devil corporations. That they’re more often than not talking about themselves is lost on them. I’m rambling horribly but let’s just sum it up that there’s no coherence to DEI and white privilege and related ideologies. And I won’t ever sanction racism no matter how it’s packaged. People forget it’s always packaged they just like this packaging and they think they’re above it that they of the past were entirely benighted not human like them.
Brilliant.
"I like the article but I do think you err in your premise. I do think elite white leftists are often bashing themselves and their contemporaries. Some genuinely mean it. Others are just conforming. And others are fearful. " Upon reflection I think you're right. But there's a lot of "right" to go around. I get the author's point as well that some are only leveling the muskets at poor whites, which is absurd.
I've said for years, it's all about class, not race. But hell, society didn't listen to me. So, I agree with a lot of what you say. I will add this though: if things are bad for one group or another, whatever the reason, where is the leadership within those communities? Especially if this has been going on for 40 years or so. C'mon. Get your acts together; support each other. And having said that, we recently paid visits to Lucid and Mercedes car dealerships; aside from us all potential customers were black. So there has been progress. I for one do not feel guilty for being white, Jewish, or educated. I've had some advantages, for sure. More than many, not as much as sum. It's about what you do with what you've got. No?
There is something wrong about this article. I would ascribe its error to the assumption that society can be analyzed through the lens of left and right, and furthermore to the assumption that we live in a class stratified society for which racism acts as an ideological smokescreen. Hence the author's equivalence of Democratic educated elites' racism as a dismissal of poor whites that blames them for their situation with Republicans dismissal of poor blacks that does the same. Neither claim is right. In actual fact, poor people in a modern society like the United States are as mobile as anybody else. Which puts the lie to the idea that there is a white underclass every bit as much as there is a black one. In a modern society people wind up where they are for a whole variety of reasons, many of which are not amenable to change by government policy. To lump people together into an underclass marked by skin colour to boot is a way of denying them responsibility for their situation and justifying useless government intervention by elites who accuse their critics of racism. The sociologist Thomas Sowell has correctly identified this practice as the white racism of Democratic Party leftist elites to keep blacks in America from ever taking responsibility for their socio-economic well-being. The BLM movement is a perfect reflection of this practice, profiting black elites to the detriment of the community they claimed to serve while using the canard to preach for the collapse of the United States. And Israel, I might add.
The bandying about of racism in today's society, In America as elsewhere in the West, is more a way of promoting identity politics. It has been fostered by academics who have used race and gender and other markers to promote the Marxist idea of class in order to keep alive the idea that modern society is still one marked by oppression, by division between the powerful and the powerless, and that all the claims of western society's achievement to enhance individual freedom and well-being are a sham. Because the author's article, however much it seemed to offer evidence of the educated elites' use of racism as a form of virtue-signalling, nonetheless came down on the validity of social class as the key marker to understanding it, I thought I would check his substack page to see how he analyzed other issues. I came across one called The Fire Next Time written this past November on the war in Gaza. In it he cited reports of Israeli atrocities in the Northern Gaza Strip from sources which he admits cannot be verified, but nonetheless went on to say this:
"But we also know that, whatever its details, Israel’s retaliation against Hamas has reached a scale of human destruction unprecedented in this century — even worse than the Syrian civil war. According to the United Nations Secretary General, 60,000 people were displaced in the last few weeks alone. The New York Times reported last week that the IDF struck a town in Gaza for the third time in just over a week, killing dozens of people in a residential building, including as many as 25 children. Even the U.S. State Department conceded that the attack was “horrifying,” but such strikes have become routine in this war, and barely register as news anymore.
It’s clear what’s happening in Gaza, and it’s been clear for over a year. In a campaign of vengeance for the October 7 slaughter of hundreds of Israeli civilians, the IDF is making Gaza uninhabitable for Palestinians. At this moment, with the invasion still ongoing, we’re largely focused on the body count from direct military casualties. We have yet to comprehend the scale of death from famine, malnutrition and disease as a result of the annihilation of civilian infrastructure, let alone the mass homelessness and decades of acute population-level poverty that will arise from the leveling of neighborhoods and the total destruction of the economy. The consequences of this violence will last for generations."
Mr. Woodhouse's understanding of what has gone on in Gaza is as faulty as his understanding of how the discourse of racism plays out in the United States. None of his claims about Israel are true. The destruction in Gaza is nothing compared to that which ensued from the Syrian Civil War. His accusations of Israeli atrocities are not only wrong; his understanding of what is at stake is also completely off the mark. At the end of the article he accuses the United States of being complicit in Israeli war crimes for which there will be blowback in terms of justified terrorist attacks on America for its hubris in interfering in other countries as "the most belligerent tribe of them all." That the Biden Administration has hamstrung Israel at every opportunity never crosses his mind, nor does its pandering to the antisemitism unleashed in the United States under the guise of anti-Zionism. His analysis of the Middle East and the US role therein is as much off the mark as it is for the domestic conflicts of the United States. But the is what you get from a Marxist analysis steeped in class and power that wades into the muddy waters of contemporary reality.
I have a rule of thumb when people use authors as authorities to buttress their claims about an issue about which they think they are right. I check to see what their take is on Israel; and if they are wrong on Israel I dismiss whatever they may have to say on other topics. Mr. Woodhouse is not someone whose writing should have appeared in The Future of Jewish.
check out Batya Ungar-Sargon's book "Second Class" for an in depth look...
very good analysis
https://www.akronjewishnews.com/news/nation_world/in-2023-number-of-far-left-and-far-right-antisemitic-incidents-nearly-identical/article_1a4f20d6-8fbf-5a53-8d39-12b513636322.html
This is so true, thank you!
'For some white liberals, anti-racism is a smokescreen for class prejudice....' which in turn is a smoke-screen for unadmitted RACISM itself. We note the shrill tones of their Cognitive Dissonance, which turns into the Vicious Anti-Semitism of some Liberals (of each of the Ethnicities) as their ACTUAL deeply-held racism finds a Sublimated and Projectible target of the 'Out Group' which is Jewish People. Further Note: Is it now acceptable to Hate Jews? And is not the common factor here Hatred, used once again by the unscrupulous Far Right, who when the killing starts, lets us know that this was their Dark-Objective all along. Thus the Liberals becomes the 'Useful Idiots' of The Nazi Party, the Re-formation of which is being monitored here in London by us since 2012. Who. Whom. The Nazis targeting Jews, once again. And the Anti-Fascist response must be the same today as it always was. No Pasaran!
Let’s just ignore the word, anti-racism. Means nothing, just a smokescreen for elitism. Really? In my view, people are capable of different, even contradictory, opinions and values. One side of these contradictions can be encouraged to be expressed or suppressed at any time. A politician rose to power in the 1930s by urging Jew hatred to be felt and expressed. We have our own Hitler. His scapegoats are trans folk and undocumented immigrants. Jews probably come fourth, after Muslims. They may get to us, say, if the Proud Boys and their ilk are developed as armed militias. Some people bring out the best, some the worst, in us. Let’s not forget that Hitler was elected. I feel like I live in Hiltler’s Germany. I just feel lucky—for the time being—that I’m not in groups that are the primary scapegoats.
I am Jewish and live in the New York metropolitan area. I don't feel particularly threatened by right-wing extremists. They are, of course, repugnant, but the people attacking and ostracizing Jews are members of the red-green alliance. If you feel that Trump is "just like Hitler," you almost certainly have not read a history book since you were in high school and get your news from sources with a very limited perspective. Jews represent the vast majority of victims of violent hate crimes in the US and Europe ever though we consist of less than 2% of the population in the US and an even smaller proportion in Europe. The vast majority of these hate crimes are being committed by leftists and Islamic extremists.
Jew hatred from the Right has always been from a (now very small, disorganized and powerless) faction of that side of politics and was reviled by the rest of society, including the rest of conservative America. On the left, the Jew hatred is mainstream, institutionalized, systemic and valued by that side of the spectrum, in a way that its adherents earn status points as social-justice warriors by performative postings and acts. Deplatform a Jew and you're a hero. Disinvite a Jew and you're standing up for what's right.
The left is in trouble. They villify Daniel Penny and glorify Mario Mangione. They have lost their moral compass in a sea of woke ideals and luxury beliefs.
Please keep falsely likening Donald Trump to Hitler, and his supporters to Nazis. You will only lose more elections.
Outstanding! Thank you Robert