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A Promising New Blog
My favorite blog is Hunter Wallace’s Occidental Dissent: Western Racial and Cultural Preservation. Wallace now has a new blog: Antisemitica: Reasoned Analysis of the Jewish Question. Judging from early posts like the following, the analysis is not merely reasoned, but also refreshingly frank and courageous.
“Why Anti-Semitism?”
Antisemitica, December 12, 2009
Why label yourself an anti-Semite? Isn’t that adopting the discursive terms of the enemy? Why not use terms like “Jew-wise,” “Jew-aware,” or “Judeophobe” instead? This is a common strategic objection made by White Nationalists.
My answer:
1) The charge is true. An anti-Semite is a person “who discriminates against or who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews.” I advocate discrimination against Jews. Therefore, I am an anti-Semite.
2) Appearing disingenuous. I don’t want to appear disingenuous. I believe in calling a spade a spade. It is better to be honest and upfront about my views.
3) The charge can’t be successfully dodged. Jew criticism will always be labeled “anti-Semitism.” Since I am advocating the expulsion of Jews from North America, the charge of “anti-Semitism” is highly likely to stick.
4) The term hasn’t always had negative connotations. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, anti-Semitism was popular in respectable circles. Critics of Jews openly labeled themselves anti-Semites. I wish to recapture this sense of the term.
5) Discourse poisoning. The charge of being “anti-Soviet” is laughed at today, but was once taken quite seriously in the USSR. Sometimes the best response to smears is ridicule and defiance. “Anti-Semitism” is a verbal bomb that can’t be avoided. It has to be defused.
6) Morality. Dodging the charge of “anti-Semitism” suggests there is something immoral about discimination against Jews. I believe this policy is both ethical and rationally justifiable.
7) PC. I don’t want to see liberal political correctness replaced by a racialist version. I use the term “anti-Semite” for the same reason I avoid using “European-American.”
Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is the Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd. He can be reached at editor@counter-currents.com.
Thanks for the kind words.
The focus should always be on the conduct of the Jews and on the moral cowardice of whites who pretend not to notice it.
We don’t need to be more conservative, we need to be more clever. Walt and Mearsheimer and to a lesser extent Kevin MacDonald have created a new evidence based anti-Semitism that doesn’t need to be wrapped up in hateful early 20th century language to be effective.
I would beg to differ on the question of embracing the term “anti-Semite.” In its place I would suggest “anti-Jewish.”
First, it is important to utterly reject Jewish terminology. Jewish terms, such as “anti-Semitism,” and German words bastardized with Hebrew, such as “chutzpah,” reflect a “Jewish” perspective on the world. While “unmitigated gall” and “chutzpah” appear to be synonyms, the European perspective castigates someone acting with “unmitigated gall,” but the Jewish perspective admires a Jew showing “chutzpah.”
The Jewish term “anti-Semite” is a completely amorphous term that conflates objecting to ever-increasing aid to Israel and the systematic murder of millions of Jews as being merely degrees of the same underlying metaphysical evil. Perhaps, embracing that conception of “anti-Semitism” isn’t so bad, but the amorphous term, also, carries negative connotations regarding the intelligence, character, motives and good will of the “anti-Semite.” Is it really rational to accept the characterization of oneself as a “stupid, ignorant, envy-driven hater?”
Being “anti-Jewish” is not the promotion of “prejudice” against Jews. It is the promotion of the rational condemnation of Jewishness after all the relevant facts and circumstances have been analyzed. Only when we have rationally concluded from all the available data that Jewish culture has no real respect for the Truth, and promotes lying as an effective tactic for controlling “gentiles” will we conclude that any particular remark by any particular Jew is rationally suspect.
The term “anti-Jewish” accurately reflects that our objection is to their religion, their culture, their chauvanism, their racism, their nepotism, and their low character, and not merely to their race. “Anti-Semitism” connotes an irrational hatred of the Jewish race, “anti-Jewish” will connote a rational objection to their culture.
The term “anti-Jewish” is no way an evasion. We are agreeing with the honest parts of their objection to “anti-Semitsm,” namely, that we are vehemently against them, while denying the dishonest parts of their criticism, namely that we are ignorant, irrational haters.
Finally, I would strongly caution against hating Jews. A slave hates his master, while the master can only muster contempt for his slaves. Hating Jews is accepting the degraded position of our being their slaves–objective reality I suppose–while showing a healthy contempt for them is liberating.
I agree that hate is a sort of resignation, a giving-in. The better view is pure advocacy for truth and the long-term future of your people. Being a real, uncowed, authentic person who sees clearly — instead of a careless propaganda-fueled robot. The same feelings and motives that make me love truth, morality, and character also make me automatically against the intense Jewish pattern which destroy those things. It is not hate at all, it is the height of morality.
I would oppose anything that would make us fall from the higher path that Europeans naturally follow. Mixing with other races would do that to us, so I oppose it. Some otherwise white people do things that seem Jewish, or destructive things, or criminal things — I would oppose them equally. We have a right, a duty even, to follow that universal higher path and not let anything stop us — Jewish or otherwise.
We should focus on the path, and define ourselves as on an upward path of truth and the best interests of our people — all else follows from that. Having said that, I really cannot muster any real personal chagrin at being labeled an “anti-semite.” That just means I value truth to me. To the outside world as it is now though, it is mostly a pejorative term and has bad connotations. It has become a term of attack, of political witch hunts — just like calling someone “Christian” used to allow them to be fed to lions. However, later Christian became a good and even protective term. Here’s hoping.