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For a scholarly discussion of the Jewish question in European and American sociology, I'm reading Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique".

He has much to say about the holiness of Holocaust, and the trained kneejerk responses that slap the label of 'anti-semite' on anyone who dare mention the possibility of ethnic cohesion of the Cohens.

If Jews want to stick together and raise smart kids and take over the reins of government, that's not a bad thing. Somebody's got to. Why not smart people with skills in the business of government business?

So they bought Obama? Was it a good purchase? The left is so purist and fragmented it can't function. Why shouldn't some group get together and say "we can do it better".

Perhaps the question is who was running the country when the Savings and Loan bubble burst, and who repealed Glass-Steagall, and who turned a blind eye to derivatives so complex they couldn't be understood?

It was a huge con job, but I tend to look for stupidity before I assume evil. I don't think anyone running the financial system wanted it to fail. I think the tragedy of the commons will suffice.

I'd dismiss the Angry Left and substitute the ideological left.

by ormondotvos (ormond.otvosnospamgmialcon) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 03:04:25 AM EST
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ormondotvos:
trained kneejerk responses that slap the label of 'anti-semite' on anyone who dare mention the possibility of ethnic cohesion of the Cohens.

What bothers me is the antisemitic label slapped on anyone who criticizes Israel.

But "ethnic cohesion" and "Jews want to stick together and raise smart kids and take over the reins of government" are something else again.

Kevin Macdonald (a considerable presence on white America site VDARE), says of the book you reference:

The Culture of Critique series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

People often say after reading the first book that they think I really admire Jews, but they are unlikely to say that about the last two and especially about CofC.

I wonder what kind of "people" Macdonald talks to?

Anyway, I'll give him and his books a miss.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 04:27:02 AM EST
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"If Jews want to stick together and raise smart kids and take over the reins of government, that's not a bad thing." Who could see anything anti-semitic in that?
by rootless2 on Fri Dec 18th, 2009 at 03:53:14 PM EST
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Oh, maybe someone who wonders why we have to be told there's a "Jewish question".

Again?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Dec 18th, 2009 at 04:31:59 PM EST
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indeed. Good thing that anti-semitism is just a relic of the past and only appears now as a way of discrediting people who criticize Israel. /sarcasm
by rootless2 on Fri Dec 18th, 2009 at 05:06:07 PM EST
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I mean, who is really the antisemite? The one who criticise evil banksters or the one who automatically connect evil bankster with Jews?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Sat Dec 19th, 2009 at 06:28:01 PM EST
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It's kind of telling that you can ask this question under a post based on a VDARE author http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE I'd say the real anti-semite is the one who associates with holocaust denying, racist, uh, anti-semites. What we call someone who wants to pretend all that unpleasantness is now a mere relic of the past except when used as a PR stunt, I'm not sure.
by rootless2 on Sun Dec 20th, 2009 at 05:32:18 AM EST
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How the Hell am I supposed to know who or what VDARE is? And what in the world does the holocaust have to do with this or anything?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Sun Dec 20th, 2009 at 11:11:49 PM EST
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