Pickled Radish Disagrees with Kevin MacDonald

Editor’s Note: No, we are not reporting on Kevin MacDonald’s digestion. Pickled Radish (or Western Pickled Radish — Takuan Seiyo) is a person, a writer to be exact, who disagrees with Kevin MacDonald’s views. In spite of his Japanese name, Takuan Seiyo is a Jew (or half-Jew) living in Japan who, among other things, writes about how the West (Israel included) needs to preserve itself against its number one enemy: Islam.

“Critique of the Culture of Kevin MacDonald”
by Takuan Seiyo (Western Pickled Radish)
from Gates of Vienna, June 12, 2009

. . . The first time I became aware of leftist Jews was when, in 1956, I looked up from my lead soldiers’ formation on the kitchen floor and saw my Jewish father’s 2nd (and only surviving) cousin enter our assigned apartment in commie Warsaw, pushing a wicker pram.

“Do you want these?” he asked. Under the baby blanket, the deep cart was filled to the brim with the combined works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in Polish, Russian and German. Nikita Khrushchev had just made a speech denouncing Stalin and shattering the utopian castle that my “uncle” and millions like him in the European intelligentsia had built in their heads, none more so than the Jews.

Since then, born Catholic and happily acculturated in Slav society but half-Jew of the wandering kind myself, I have come to know perhaps 300 Jews in ten countries over half a century well enough to have talked life or politics. To this, I’d have to add personal observations of Jewish strangers and analysis of media content created by Jews, the analysis of media content being briefly my academic specialty and its creation becoming, eventually, my profession.

In the fourteen years I spent at three universities in the 60s/70s I acquired a store of memories that resembles Kevin MacDonald’s, if at a greater distance from the radical Jewish milieu. I too perceived the radical politics, feelings of separateness and alienation, attitude of moral and intellectual superiority, hostility to Western cultural institutions, ethnic paranoia and bunker mentality, disdain for capitalism, generic tendency to impute and then combat perceived racism and fascism, disputatiousness and intellectual sophistry, negative attitudes toward Christianity, positive attitudes toward psychoanalysis and Marxism. I too had charismatic Jewish professors with a leftist view of European and American history.

Despite my long exercise in personal ethnography among Jews, including the long period among their — in my eyes — preponderantly disgusting stratum in the American social sciences academia, I have not met a single Jew who was motivated by the ethno-biological red-of-tooth-and-claw impulses it has become Dr. MacDonald’s life mission to ascribe to the Jews as a whole. . . . Read the rest of the article