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I recall some past cultural war posts from this year discussing Joe Rogan. In that vein, I came across a video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZFApIBGQAg), via Keith Woods, discussing Jewish overrepresentation among his political guests. By his estimation (and he's provided an accompanying excel sheet with the data) at least 42% of all political guests since the inception of the podcast have been Jewish.
Now, I'm not sure this means much of anything, but I thought an interesting question was posed: should we be concerned that one particular ethnic group is exercising this much influence over one of the most watched political podcasts in the world?
I'm not entirely convinced by his argument, but it feels like a question worth asking.
It’s worth noting this over-representation simply to defend the large population of basic white people who do not have the same privileges but are continually smeared in newspapers as being privileged and over-represented. That’s really the most important bit for me and why I care about it. It is the easiest and most efficient argumentative tool for deconstructing affirmative action / privilege discourse. I do not think that I would actually want any form of affirmative action that reduces Jewish percentage in institutions, except perhaps national security positions related to the Middle East.
But yeah, the absence of noting has damaged some conversations. Weinstein and Epstein and Maxwell were not just basic white people, they had strange relationships with well-connected AIPAC lobbyists and Israeli politicians and at least one victim testified to anti-gentile comments. But no one noted this. Basic white people are under-represented at Ivy leagues and have been for a while, but no one notes this (except for on themotte, by like, me and two others), and this is important to note when discussions on Ivy League representation is had. It’s actually important; not edgy, to note this in certain discussions.
Agreed. Progressives like to get very granular with much of their idpol classifications but not THIS granular. Just as the HBD folk like to say that evolution does not end at the neck, racial classification does not end at White People.
One way of undermining the woke stack is to deny any of it matters, perhaps ala official colorblind civic nationalism, and deliberately obfuscating. Another way of undermining it is to say that every kind of ethnicity or racial classification matters, massively muddying their methodological waters.
You can sound kind of moronic and simple if you take the former tack. But if you actually appreciate what the civic nationalists aim for, might maintain a sophisticated credibility by going far beyond what the progressives do. Hopefully exploding their paradigm, provoking exhaustion, and falling back on civic nationalism by default.
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