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I'll accept Patrick Buchanan, though I don't know what he really thinks of Jews personally, and my understanding is he mostly thinks they're going to go to hell for not being Christian. I don't know of any prominent "antisemite but doesn't actually hate Jewish people" public figures, partly because they are usually like you: they'll deny hating anyone but talk very vaguely about why Jews deserve to be hated. I made my best attempt at describing a hypothetical antisemite who doesn't "hate" Jews, and if you don't think the George Wallace comparison fits, I don't know what example you are looking for.
If you want an example of someone who is "critical of Jews but not a Jew hater" then tell me why they are "critical of Jews." That's what I'm asking you for. As I understand it, you think Jews are antiwhite parasites or something. Does this stem from their religion? Their culture? Their biology?
You complain that antisemitism is just a slur to destroy people who know "the truth" but you won't explain what this great truth is. "Jews bad" is the best I can get, and yet I am not supposed to conclude 'Okay, so you hate Jews."
They are critical of Jews because those criticisms of Jews are true, important, and necessary.
I've lived my entire life surrounded by criticism of White culture, identity, and religion, only I never called those people "White-Haters" I called them Professor and I watched their movies and read their books. Jews engage in constant, sharp criticism of White culture, religion, and identity. Some of it is true, a lot of it is false. Maybe it's because I grew up surrounded by it that I'm not inclined to prosecute someone as a "White-hater" for engaging in a criticism of White people, I'm happy to engage the argument rather than litigate emotionally-loaded labels.
But growing up has also made me aware of the state of affairs in which Jews, through all political and cultural institutions they exercise influence, incessantly engage in cultural criticism of White culture and identity while screaming "Jew hater!" to any White person who reciprocates criticism of Jewish culture and identity.
I think I've demonstrated the point, you were unable to identify anyone who engages in criticism of Jewish culture and identity to the extent that thousands of renowned Jews have engaged in criticism of White culture and identity throughout all our cultural institutions- without the baggage of being accused of Jew Hater by the Jewish NGOs that make this sort of determination. Your label does reduce to- anyone who engages in criticism of Jews, but you reserve no label for Jews who engage in criticism of white identity, history, and culture.
No, you've just gone in circles.
"People hate Jews because of their behavior." "What behavior?" "Jewish behavior." "What is Jewish behavior?" "The ADL, AIPAC, Israel, etc." "Okay, but that's like hating white people because of some white guys you don't like." "See, I can't even identify and criticize Jews without you saying I hate Jews."
This post is the closest you've gotten to specifically identifying "Jewish behavior" and you're still talking about NGOs and leftist college professors. Even if I agree that this "behavior" is more common among Jews, it's definitely not just a Jewish thing, and does not address my question of why you should apply this animosity to Joel Finkelstein the grocer.
I've met a few blue collar Jews. How is this a tension in my criticism of hating random Jews? Blue collar or white collar, why should I believe that every individual Jew is part of some anti-Goy hive mind, conspiring against us? And how is their economic success an indictment against them? Because they could only be successful by "cheating" and collaborating against their neighbors? That's just what every culture in history has resentfully said about visibly successful minority groups.
Knowing a thing or two about some Asian cultures, I question the assertion that Jews are the most race conscious people on the planet. But let's say it's true. "Coin clipping" aside, why should we want to kill them? (And can we be honest here, since you're being so "race-conscious"? When you say "secure a future for white children" and pose Jews as an existential threat, the quiet part SS won't say out loud is that you feel like something must be done about Jews, and "be more race conscious" isn't it.)
Jews didn't take power through direct suppression of White culture, religion, and identity (only recently direct political suppression through censorship, and it's an act of desperation and not an act of strength). They did it by creating myths like the Holocaust and essentially building a civic religion that elevated themselves and ruthlessly criticized everything associated with White culture, religion, and identity. And they did it while making it entirely taboo to engage in any sort of reverse criticism of their own identity, religion, and culture.
The solution is not some political pogrom it's to essentially do the same thing to their own identity and religion and mythological canon.
I and everyone grew up with ruthless Jewish critique of White culture, identity, and religion and I sort of respond with ruthless critique of Jewish culture, identity, and religion. @Amadan really hates that, he calls it an obsession by a hater but of course all the Jewish critique of white culture and identity throughout the decades is not an obsession by haters. It's just their religion!
I don't think aspiring for any sort of violent solution is the answer at all, the answer is to be subversive and ruthlessly analytical and peel back the curtains. It becomes much harder for them to operate when everyone is aware of what they are doing. It's much harder for them to churn out this endless esotericism that frames themselves as the heroes of history and Whites as the villain when the audience knows exactly what they are doing and why. This is happening in real time, the cat is out of the bag. The train has left the station.
This problem is also downstream of a lack of White identity. You can blame the Jews for some of that, but ultimately it was the WASPs who folded like a cheap suit to the Jews. All the Jews disappearing tomorrow doesn't solve the underlying problem of whites lacking a similar religion that validates their identity in the same way Judaism validates Jewish identity.
I don't see the mission as removing all of them but freeing them (and us) from the counter-civilizational Yahweh cult that has inspired all this animosity and conflict throughout the millennia.
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Deportation to the "Jewish homeland of Israel" seems particularly ironic when most antisemites nowadays say Jews have no right to be there either. So I appreciate your honesty, but I think your zero-sum view of the world would result only in endless race war. I do not think this is the best outcome for my people or white children, quite aside from the moral issues.
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