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Then why are you so shocked that antisemitism is growing among Whites as they become aware of the cultural mechanisms that have vilified White identity and engaged in strong activism against it? You are once again just angry that I am posturing towards Jewish identity in the same way the Jews posture against White identity.
Only after decades of Whites trying to make a "greatest ally" of Jews, considering them beyond reproach in all regards, while simultaneously accepting that whites themselves cease existing. We already tried the "make the Jews Allies" and that is why we are here today. They can't be allies. If individual Jews want to let go of their Jewish identities they can be Allies. If they identify with that tribe they are not allies, and the underlying cause for that is the Jewish tribalism you acknowledge. Yes, maybe my position would intensify Jewish tribalism. And that will in turn increase Antisemitism. That is what is happening today, this feedback loop is in motion as we speak. I am advocating to continue that feedback loop of White criticism of Jews and Jewish response with more overt tribalism. That's the answer. If Jews want to be on our side they have to be on our side and no longer identify as Jews, otherwise by definition they are not on our side.
Jews did not relinquish their tribalism at the height of White acceptance of Jews (they did everything that ye olde antisemites accused them of doing for hundreds of years). They used it to advance their own cultural and geopolitical objectives at our own enormous expense, and they took advantage of our goodwill.
In America, aren't whites the least anti-semitic racial group, at least if you don't count Jews themselves?
There isn't actually a great awakening here. Statistically, as I understand it, blacks and Middle Easterners are the most anti-semitic racial groups in the US, and Asians mostly just don't care.
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I'm not shocked or angry. Again, why do y'all project so much?
Very simply, I think you are factually wrong and your views are both ahistorical and malign, leading to conflict and animosity that is the desired goal of certain types of people, but not better for humanity as a whole. Which I do not limit to "white people" because I also think tribal zero-sum conflict is bad.
We've been living in conflict and animosity towards us our entire lives. The conflict and animosity has always been here dude! It's just been a one-sided conflict until now.
You know that your problem is still that every time you are asked for specific examples, all you have is a cherry-picked list of incidents across centuries or millennia, most of which on examination are innocuous.
If you repeat it often enough, it will not thereby become true.
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We have been living in conflict and animosity for all of human history, but violence, and specifically inter-tribal conflict, is actually at a historical low, particularly in the West. To the degree that it goes up, it is owing more to people like you, who fan your personal resentments and animosities and try to exhort others to join in violent conflict against your outgroup, than Jews. Jews did not start the wars, Jews did not create culture war, and Jews are participants, like you and me, and not puppet-masters.
I would like to reduce conflict, and you want to exacerbate it.
Yes I agree it's an "always has been" problem. The literal bible was inspired by culture war. Jews vs Civilization, over and over. That doesn't really help your argument though. You can't just walk away from the conflict and not participate, that doesn't stop others from participating or taking advantage of your submissiveness. Inter-tribal conflict is at an all-time high owing to massive demographic change in the US and Europe and us being politically and culturally disarmed from resisting.
You are just advocating for unilateral disarmament, the same strategy we've practiced for the past 50 years.
In your mind Open-Borders advocacy is the absence of tribal conflict, and opposing it is the presence of tribal conflict. They both are.
All religious texts are.
Hindus vs. civilization. Confucianists vs. civilization. Christians vs. civilization. Muslims vs. civilization. Over and over. Every religion frames itself as being "against" the world, which is in need of cleansing/refinement. In all your ranting about Jews, over and over, you have never, ever pointed at anything unique to Jews.
See, this is an example of how hard you fail at Turing-modeling your opponents. I am absolutely not an open borders advocate.
If you are just gesturing at open borders as an example of "Jew things," I'd like to see a poll that shows the majority of Jews are in favor of open borders, because I doubt it.
The New Testament is much harsher to the Pharisees than it is to Roman Authority- "render undo Caesar" and all that. Christianity is associated with the management of more than a few Empires, including Rome itself, and Jews are always happy to name all the empires their cult has outlasted. Hinduism is an institution of Civilizational Order and racial hierarchy.
My point was that you see the sensibilities of -current day- as the absence of tribal conflict rather than the product of ongoing tribal conflict. Whites don't have the racial consciousness they did 100 years ago, tribalism is decreasing! No it isn't, Whites have just been losing the Culture War.
So when whites were winning the culture war, that was decreased tribalism? It seems like you just define "tribalism" in relation to whether or not your tribe is "winning." If you want to say "I am pro-tribalism, I am a zero-sum conflict theorist and I want my tribe to crush other tribes," that would be honest. But you still haven't described anything unique to Jews to justify blaming them for culture war and tribalism.
No? Tribalism and Culture War are the natural state of human interaction. The aim should be to manage it. To participate even if only in self-defense. That doesn't mean always escalate any sort of cultural conflict but it also means not being duped to believing "things are better now because we aren't so tribalistic." Maybe you aren't tribalistic but your outgroup is and they are taking advantage of you. And your outgroup was central in convincing you to drop your tribalism while they retain theirs.
I'm not even asking Jews to drop their tribalism because I know that's not realistic. And if I tried to convince them to drop their tribalism while I simultaneously spent huge political and cultural effort to foster White tribalism, wouldn't you consider that to be extremely hostile to my outgroup?
"Jews it's moral for your to drop your tribal identity while you pay unlimited deference to my tribal identity." That would be kind of an asshole thing to demand right?
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