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I've never liked the term "white genocide." The word genocide itself is just a word that gets to be claimed by the victor, as the definition is broad enough to be applied to nearly every conflict...
Destroying a group "in whole or part" is just up to the interpretation of the victor. So if you have no power, like white nationalists, claiming you are being genocided is just going to be dismissed and valid complaints about i.e. demographic replacement are discredited.
In the past I've described antisemitism as anti-fragile. So let's say Jews are going to respond to antisemitism. What are they going to do that isn't going to further and visibly validate the arguments made by antisemites? Pushing for greater authoritarianism in the public discourse is their only strategy, and it's becoming less effective quite rapidly.
On the other hand, I think this rhetoric is going to have a real deterrent effect on Jews. You are going to be less likely to see people like Jon Stewart say things like "Jews and blacks should gang up on whitey." Even the ADL is relatively mum recently despite Musk now overtly endorsing DR rhetoric, likely due to the negative PR campaign started by Keith Woods.
Genocide might be overplaying their hand... for now. But anti-white pogroms are a hill I will, and have, died on.
Still, it's impossible to overlook the work of the Jewish academic class in the role of pushing anti-white blood libel in their privilege discourse. And I say blood libel, because the sorts of anti-white rhetoric that gets pushed, often by Jewish intellectuals, would land anyone on the ADL's hate list if the same were said about jews. This despite the things they claim about whites often being objectively and measurably more true of jews than of whites. Like the disproportionate educational outcomes, wealth outcomes, and over representation in positions of power.
It's impossible to overlook the Jewish entertainer class that does the rounds accusing all immigration restrictionist of being Nazis, since they get to monopolize integrating Nazi imagery into their routines much the same way Blacks get to monopolize the n-word in theirs.
It's impossible to overlook how the Jewish political class, most notably the ADL, attacks anyone who doesn't want to flood this country with immigrants who hate America. I mean christ, there were very brown rallies in every major city in the US and Europe calling for the death of all Jews, and they tweeted about fucking white supremacist. They never miss a chance to blood libel my people.
I can't possibly be made to care anymore. Jews are being attacked on college campuses? So? That's been the status quo for my people for going on 15 years now. Where was their great concern for white conservatives every time there were paroxysms of violence at a cancelled speaking event? Shit, where was their great concern over even recent violent riots over, only because it's top of mind, someone like Riley Gaines speaking on a campus?
None of them have recanted even slightly that white people aren't getting what they deserve. They just don't believe it should be visited on them.
I understand not caring about Israel either way, but expecting all Jews (since obviously individually conservative and reactionary Jews are hardly uncommon and indeed even grossly overrepresented among prominent figures on the dissident right) to renounce progressive ideas when they’re also shared by tens of millions of PMC and elite gentiles whom you don’t also denounce is strange. Like SS, you’re demanding Jews en masse be more reactionary than most gentile Americans of their class.
I don't think so. I think at a bare minimum I'm asking the Jews actively asking for my political support to stop marginalizing me politically.
The context is a massive rise in hostility towards Jews on campus. It's being performed using the exact same apparatus that Jews were accomplices in against my people. They are asking for my help, while still not even admitting the use of that apparatus against me is wrong.
No.
Are these fashionable luxury beliefs held by a wide brown coalition and "good whites"? Sure. And when the "good whites" come begging for help, or whichever group gets targeted next, I'll say the same to them. Well, rhetorically. I don't think it matters one bit what I say, or how I feel, beyond venting my spleen on an internet forum.
But all that is still hypothetical. In this context, at this time, the hypocrisy of academic Jews, or Jews pulling their donations from colleges, and acting all surprised and horrified that anything like this could possibly be happening, despite it happening to my people for going on 10 years, is rich. It's really fucking rich. Especially when they aren't even willing to dismantle the apparatus that targeted me first, and then them. They merely want it to go back to focusing on me.
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