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Actually, if any of them are paying attention, I've always kind of wondered this.
Does the antipathy comes from the fact that they openly play racial ingroup politics? Or is it just sour grapes that they managed it?
I've never been able to get a clear answer between the two. Usually when someone darkly hints at the things I should be Noticing and they're not talking about percentages of certain races and percentages of crime, my response is usually, yes, and? It's genuinely weird to me, especially given the noise often comes from the same crowds that think an ethnostate isn't a bad idea.
Maybe this point of view is so alien to me because these things make logical sense from my point of view. Well, maybe not so much if the talent pool of your close and distant relatives and family friends is genuinely shit and they torpedo the industry you're working on to the ground, but that hasn't seemed to be the case for many of the industries dominated by the Jew Conspiracy. They make a lot of money, and money has power in politics. Everywhere is crawling with Mossad, and they work closely with and frequently trade in intel with other governments - is that not expected for a country beset on all sides with enemies and with powerful, distant allies? There doesn't need to be a "conspiracy" if these things are just what you'd expect from a group that naturally prioritizes its own and has gained entrenched advantages.
(I'm actually more concerned about the massive takeover of Indians in tech, but at least that has a generally conventional explanation I can tie to greed and cheaper labor, and I would consider their ingroup preference for exploiting their own people not so much a conspiracy as it's something they advertise.)
Yeah I'm broadly the same. Jews have outsized success in the modern economy/culture, but I'd also much rather have them than Indians since I think my incentives are better aligned with Jews and Indians are more palpable 'KPI optimizers' who I feel are far more open to downright grift and don't throw up the same level of actual scientific, cultural and technological contributions that I actually benefit from. Also end of the day there's far less Jews than Indians (even if assuming it'll mostly only benefit upper castes) so that also puts a natural cap on how egregious things can get.
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