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Douglas Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, posted a photo on Twitter celebrating the Jewish American Heritage Month.
I counted, give or take, 155 Jewish Staff Members. There are 474 White House Staff Members in total, meaning that Jews comprise 32% of all staff members. This is a radical over-representation of 1400%, or 14x what should be expected given the population of 2.2%. As everyone pictured is White, presumably this really is a photo with all the Jewish staff members who wanted to participate in the event (otherwise: why no black staffers present?). There may be some not pictured for various work-related or personal reasons, and perhaps some with Jewish spouses pictured. I had difficulty finding the figures on other demographics. According to an authoritative source, 14% of the staff are Black (this just happens to be the same number and is not a typo). I could find nothing on Asian members, but perusing the total list of White House Staff names I calculated give or take 50 with exclusively Asian names; this should be construed as a minimum because of high exogamy rates and names not always being obviously Asian. That puts Asians at 10.5%. Given that Black people sit at 14%, I would go out on a limb and say that the Latino constituents also comprise roughly their makeup in America; let’s peg it at a slightly lower 15% (if someone wants to check from the list of staffers’ names be my guest).
All of this puts the non-Jewish White percent at 28.5%, counting the Turkish and Arab names as White (and ignoring the probably ~2% Native American that Joe slipped in there). And so, among White House staffers, Whites are quite under-represented and Jews are enormously over-represented. This is problematic IMO, because the domestic founding population of a nation shouldn’t be so under-represented, and a single ethnic cluster with a strong activism network and their own influential nation state probably shouldn’t be 14x over-represented among White House staffers without anyone in established media criticizing or noticing. Alas, such topics have been posted frequently, but in previous cases the over-representation was among Cabinet Members and Supreme Court Justices and so on. This shows that even in a large sample size such as 474, the over-representation remains. If I could put my position into as few words as possible, I would steal from a random tweet on the subject: “Half of the White House staff is Jewish, but we get told that ‘White Supremacists’ run America lol.” What pains me is that while the default white Americans are so under-represented, they are the ones who face the most ruthless black propaganda against their demographic. It’s important to educate others on the problem of representation, I suppose.
I applaud your research tenacity.
In response to the Twitter replies to the tweet, and stepping back to look at a larger view, it seems plain that modern White identitarians (who are the main people making these (partly accurate) "observations" about the Jewish White House staffers, in the replies to that tweet) are making the same exact core mistake which many past White identitarians made.
The mistake is simple: they unnecessarily make enemies of Jews, instead of trying to encourage friendship and alliance. (In some situations enmity is absolutely necessary- like an imminent threat of death- but almost all enmity with Jews is quite unnecessary, because there are better options.)
(And I think there can be no mistake that most Jews reading that thread, even when they might think that all of the accusations are true and fair (and most won't think that) will become more fearful and opposed to White identitarians, not less opposed).
(This is a funny thing I have often observed- many people are more afraid and vengeful when faced with a completely true accusation, than with a false accusation. Accusing someone of something true won't protect you from their fearful lashing out!!! "The truth is an absolute defense" is only a legal doctrine, not a reliable social doctrine.)
If White identitarians really do believe that Jews are extremely powerful and ruthless (and some Jews can fairly be described this way, every group has members like this, and the powerful and ruthless Jews are perhaps particularly impressive), then those Jews are a dangerous enemy.
This is the core paradox at the heart of the anti-Semitic wing of White identitarianism (and also anti-Semitic Black Hebrews other anti-Semitic groups)- they claim that the Jews are incredibly powerful and dangerous, but then behave in a way which tends to maximize the threat from the Jews.
This creates the worst of all worlds, in which some Jews are encouraged to feel under threat (and they are a tiny minority group, so it takes less of a threat before they feel afraid enough to act on their fear), which tends to encourage their worst selfish and paranoid tendencies, which only makes the original problem worse.
(On an even broader level, this is the biggest mistake the Nazis made: making too few deep friends and allies, while also making too many enemies. And modern White identitarians seem to be sadly prone to making the same exact mistake. Not enough friends, and too many enemies.
It is possible to win while having some enemies, but you almost always need to have stronger friends than enemies. And long-term enmity from enemies tends to have a perpetually draining effect, it cannot be tolerated well long-term.)
If there is any chance whatsoever that the would-be dangerous Jews can be converted to friends instead of enemies, then that is obviously a much safer environment for the White Goys, is it not?
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So, what approaches could White identitarians conceivably attempt, to gain more benefit from Jews, and less danger and aggravation?
It is hard to forecast in advance which approaches will work, so I feel it's important to first identify every single option with even the slightest chance of success.
These would be some of the options I would suggest to the White identitarians, to minimize the danger from the Jews and maximize the positive benefits.
-Stop treating Jews like a monolith. Hell, a lot of the Jews which cause White people the most grief, also cause the most grief to other Jews.
Quite a lot of the Jews which are the most damaging to "White" societies, are also highly damaging to Jewish communities, with their-
.financial exploitation and greed (on the ruthless capitalist side, like Bernie Madoff at the worst, scamming Holocaust survivors out of their nest eggs)
.promoting communism and socialism (draining the hard-working and rich Jews of their wealth)
.promoting pornography (some Jews hate that stuff)
.promotion of anti-racism & affirmative action, undermining Jewish group cohesion
.promoting pro-crime DAs
.promotion of affirmative action, which Jews have not been able to entirely escape even with all of their academic donations and high test scores
.some of the most effective anti-Israel people are Jewish, ironically
.media products with moral values many Jews disagree with
.Jews bringing embarrassment (e.g. Jeffrey Epstein), or starting wars and fights which bring danger to the broader Jewish community
... and so on
(This is an overall basis for why many Jews are actually more allied already with subsets of the White community, than with their fellow Jews. Like, many socially conservative Jews have more in common with socially conservative Whites, than they have with the peak secular Jews.)
Some of the best critiquers of Jews that I have ever known, were Jews themselves! Many of the most admirable Jews in history have spent centuries bearing the danger and burdens galvanized by their worst cousins. (Much like some of the most brave and beautiful Germans in history were raped and killed because of the greed and hatred and stupidity of key Nazis.)
-White identitarians should do more to appreciate and put front and center the Jews that are substantially on their side. A huge percentage of the most effective anti-Woke and pro-HBD communicators and political donors are Jewish.
It is hard to win friends and allies, if you fail to fully appreciate the friendship and alliance of the friends you already have. Don't make this mistake!
Off the top of my head, the following Jews are examples of those at least partially allied to you already (just to show it's possible): Chaya Raichik (libs of tiktok), Ben Shapiro, Mickey Kaus (immigration), Bill Maher has had some nice anti-Woke rants, Ron Unz, and so on.
Trump's biggest political donor, by FAR, was a Jew, Sheldon Adelson.
-Encourage as many Jews as possible to truly identify as White (in addition to identifying as Jewish, or even in place of identifying as Jewish, if they would prefer that, as some often have in the past).
With the incredibly high inter-marriage rates Jews have, most of their children and grandchildren will be even more European and less Jewish in their ancestry than they already are. They are already doing the work for you! Embrace it!
-I know that some White identitarians are opposed to "interracial" marriages, but if a White identitarian believes that Jews are the biggest enemy, and also believes that interracial marriages weaken the powerful, then perhaps the best way to weaken the powerful enemy Jews is to marry with them?
-Many White identitarians seem to glorify the conquests and kingdoms of the past, while failing to study them in any meaningful way and see just how many hard sacrifices and "marriages solely for alliance", even, which it took to build those kingdoms.
They simply need to study their history, and learn its lessons, to get some great ideas for the present.
-As many White identitarians as possible should make it clear that they have a group identity with Jews as a subset of White people, or at least "close enough".
We know that almost all of the founding mothers of the Ashkenazi Jews were genetically indigenous European Goys, for example. https://archive.is/kd9F0
When an ancestry test shows someone as "100% Ashkenazi Jewish", that just means they have the genetic markers of a particular ancestral population. It doesn't mean that 100% of their ancestors for all of time were Jewish, that wouldn't even be possible.
Ashkenazi Jews are almost all less than 60% Jewish in their ancestry, and due to later intermarriage, most are even less genetically "Jewish" than that.
And Sephardic Jews are genetically more closely related to European Goys, than nearly any other population on the planet. They are distant cousins on the human family tree.
-Recognize that because of the history of the Jewish Diaspora, there simply is no path to getting rid of all of the Jews. They live and thrive in too many places, to be completely killed off, even if there were a way to attempt it (which there isn't, realistically speaking).
-Make it clear that Jews are safer by identifying and acting as White, in addition to Jewish.
(This is the one positive possibility of suspicion of the Jews, like in that Twitter thread- if Jews feel fear of White identitarians, but no hope of safety, then they will lash out.
But if they are afraid, but also see a glide path to mutual happiness and success, most of them will be inclined to take it. But there MUST be a genuinely positive option for Jews to take, in order for this dangerous strategy to work.)
My assessment is that White identitarians and Jewish identitarians have done a fair amount to make the other side afraid, but not nearly enough to offer constructive alternatives and reasons to hope.
-Do more as White identitarians, specifically, to pointedly appreciate and admire any Jews which you can find admirable. People feel safer when they are appreciated and admired, and certainly more inclined towards friendship.
-White identitarians should do more to learn about the overall Jewish community, Jewish history, and Jewish culture. Jews appreciate that.
White identitarians should do this even simply as a way to "know the enemy" better, if they are convinced that Jews are indeed an enemy (or might become an enemy).
And if it turns out that White identitarians who study Jewish history and culture realize that some of their hatred isn't justified, that would save them immense amounts of energy and avoid them creating unnecessary danger for themselves.
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-White identitarians should copy more of what works so well for the Jews. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", and it is wise to copy things which are already proven to work.
If Jews are so rich and powerful and good at working in their own ethnic interests, then surely White identitarians would be wise to learn from them?
-One strategy which is proven to work: buy off politicians. It is still quite cheap to buy politicians; AIPAC and other rich Jews do it all the time, with very little money compared to the size of the American economy. (One key part of the strategy is to buy off politicians in BOTH parties.)
The total amount of money spent on political donations at the federal level in the USA in 2020 was $14 billion.
If 4% of Americans are White identitarians willing to spend less than $1000 per year to get everything they want, they could blow all other political donations out of the water with more than $15 billion in donations each election.
Of course, you don't need to outdonate literally all other donors in order to buy politicians. White identitarians could spend wayyyyyy less than that and still gain as much in benefits as AIPAC and friends get for their donations.
I know some White identitarians are willing to die to get what they want. But are they smart enough and pragmatic enough to simply spend $100 per year to bribe politicians in both parties to work for the interests of a majority of Americans???
-Quite frankly, if the most pro-Jewish group on the planet were the White identitarians, do you think that the danger from the Jews would be high? No.
Many Jews do in fact reward those who are kind to them. Focus on them.
-Do more to brag about all you have done for Jews in the past, but frame it like you are their friend.
Instead of framing it like "Look at how much money we give to our enemies", frame it as "Can't you see that we are your friends, after all we have given to you?".
In other words, behave no worse than a Jewish mother using guilt to encourage better behavior.
And what have White Goys given to Jews?:
.massive amounts of foreign aid
.military aid
.promises of protection in the event of a war
.fighting wars partly on the behalf of Israel, at the behest of the neocons and the like
.votes on their behalf in the UN etc.
.intelligence
.letting Jews immigrate to countries we controlled, and even generously letting them control many of our powerful institutions
.liberating concentration camps (Yes, some goys killed Jews. But even the Nazis knew that they had to mostly hide what they were doing, because most White people would not support it, even in an era of intense anti-Semitism.)
.paying reparations and making amends https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/27/slavery-reparations-holocaust-restitution-negotiations-229881/
.White-created educational institutions, laws, colonies, and social norms were the launching pad for much of Jewish wealth and success
.it is possible that some of the genetic basis for Ashkenazi success came from those European mothers, perhaps even more than the Jewish fathers
.just as White technologies saved the lives of most of the people on the planet, they helped to save the lives of many Jewish people
In general, it frustrates me to no end that so many White people are so amazingly generous to others, and then do such a terrible job of taking credit for it or getting friendship or concrete value in exchange.
And then many White identitarians make the situation even worse, somehow turning the past White generosity into a basis for hatred and enmity, instead of converting the historical generosity into a basis for friendship.
-Do more to appreciate Jewish contributions to White people, including massive life-saving technologies like the Haber nitrogen process.
Jews have made major contributions in every category listed above, as well as:
.academic contributions
.humanitarian contributions
.paying high taxes which subsidized welfare for White people and others
.political contributions (great statesmen)
.mathematical contributions
.scientific contributions
.cultural contributions
.legal contributions
.weapons (Nuclear weapons were basically a Jewish science project which were given to White Goys to control. Talk about trust!)
.genetic contributions (many mostly-White geniuses are part Jewish)
-Get better at identifying areas of mutual interest, where there is natural pragmatic alliance to be had, or friendship to be had by mutual enjoyment.
-Get better at identifying things which can be negotiated to mutual advantage.
The main principle of negotiation seems to be to find things you would easily part with which are of great value to others, while identifying things which others would easily part with which are of great value to YOU.
Some Jews are amazingly good at negotiation (of either the win/win variety, or the win/lose variety), and are great training partners in pragmatism.
-At every turn, employ "White" persuasion techniques, like the Dale Carnegie technique of defining a high standard for others to live up to. Keep referring to Jews as our friends, not our enemies. Defining someone as an enemy tends to make them one!
On the assumption they'd be used to destroy Nazi Germany. And the funding for implementation came from Europeans, without which Jewish physics expertise is useless.
And what have Jews given in return? Just what are these cultural contributions we're talking about? We got multiculturalism, mass immigration, MindGeek and Tinder. We get Blackrock promoting ESG, we get the NYT and media broadly stoking anti-white hatred (with their wildly diverging treatment of white-on-black vs black-on-white killings), we have Disney pushing everything but white men. We have the ADL shamelessly promoting Jewish nationalism and denigrating white nationalism.
Outside the hard sciences, where they provided a lot of useful work - polio vaccines for instance, Jews have had profoundly negative effects on the West. They comprehensively work to transform the Western World to fit their preferences of an open, cosmopolitan society and snaffle up most of the elite positions in said society, while playing a divide-and-conquer game with newly imported minorities and the old majority. This is not advantageous to Europeans, who lose the benefits of homogenous, high trust communities and a good chunk of elite positions. Consider how many people weren't born due to ideas like feminism which was heavily promoted by Jews or 'overpopulation' circulated by people like Ehrlich.
From Sontag:
Or Barbara Spectre in Sweden:
Noel Ignatiev writes that he merely wants to abolish the category of whiteness, yet I doubt he'd be so enthusiastic if we wanted to eradicate Jewishness (merely as a category though, never mind about the weakness it induces in the group of individuals after having their identity dissolved.) Obviously having your identity is beneficial to the group, why else would identities even exist?
A large chunk of the Jewish cultural intelligentsia has a deep-seated hatred of whites and don't even bother to hide it. Treating people who openly hate you as friends is ridiculously silly. That's what we've been doing for decades and it isn't working out well. Consider the WW2 veterans who are inconceivably bitter about the society they fought for (there's a whole book of letters, The Unknown Warriors, from UK veterans where they mostly despair at the transformation their country has undergone, how the values they were raised under have been demolished).
Of course, I'll give the standard 'not all Jews are working to undermine to remain the remnants of Western Civilization'. But consider that not all whites participated in pogroms, Crusades or Nazism. Sweden isn't going to be spared its 'inevitable cultural transformation', despite hardly ever doing anything to anger Jews. These large-scale conflicts are totalizing, they do not suffer nuance. Consider what happened to the whites who were sympathetic to Dessalines and remained in Haiti after he won the war.
If anyone wants links to back up my points, then I can provide them with sources.
Well, Mr Al Goldstein normalized hardcore pornography in the US. Reuben Sturman was the 'Walt Disney of Porn'. Tinder's two founders were Jewish and half-Jewish respectively. Stephen Hirsch runs Vivid Entertainment, which dominates the video production side of US pornography today. Jews have made an enormous and grossly disproportionate contribution to sexual liberalization. This is not up for dispute. Do you want me to list off a huge number of Jewish feminists? I can but usually I get accused of gish-gallopping whenever I provide large amounts of evidence to support a case.
Plus, a quote from Al Goldstein: "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism."
And who was it working intensely for a greatly liberalized immigration policy in the UK, in the late 1990s where immigration increased massively, despite never being part of a democratic party program? Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration Barbara Roche. There's also an enormous swathe of Jewish lobby groups clamouring for increased migration to the UK. It's the same story in the US - Jewish billionaires predominently lean the same way in their enormous political donations. They support either Israel or sexual liberalization and mass immigration: https://www.themotte.org/post/421/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/79580?context=8#context
Well, David Marmorstein Tassilo helped found the company and is COO.
Why don't you have a look at the US government and get back to me on that:
Blinken (Secretary of State)
Sherman (Deputy Secretary of State)
Yellen (Treasury Secretary)
Garland (Attorney General)
Cohen (Deputy CIA Director)
Haines (Director of Natl Intelligence)
Klain (Chief of Staff)
Lander (Science & Tech Director)
Levine (Deputy Health Secretary)
Mayorkas (Director of Homeland Security)
Neuberger (NSA Cybersecurity Director)
In contrast, Whites have Energy, Transport, Health, Commerce, Agriculture and Veteran's affairs. An enormous chunk of the most important parts of the US government are run by Jews. We often talk about sectarianism in academic analysis of history. For instance, we understand that the Syrian Ba'ath party is dominated by Alawites, in alliance with some minorities like Christians and Shia, working against the Sunni majority. I've studied the topic. The officer corps of the Syrian army was filled with Alawites. Non-Alawite officers often got Alawite second-in-commands to keep them in line, to ensure they wouldn't make the wrong choices. That situation is paralleled in the US government to a certain extent.
My point is that Jews are enormously overrepresented in establishing and developing these sectors. The direction in which they take things tends to be more radical and transgressive. It stands to reason that if there weren't any Jews, then there would be much less in the way of pornography and casual sex generally. The most sex-oriented big dating apps are tinder and grindr, both founded by Jews. More lovey-dovey, long-term relationship apps like OKCupid and Bumble were founded by Europeans.
Not all horrendous ideas in the world are from Jews: Gentler for instance proudly sent orphans in Germany off to live with pedophiles and got dozens of men acquitted of molestation, Foucault campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent, presumably so he could have sex with children. There was a postwar vibe that was excessively libertine, where barriers that should not have been touched were broken. The Frankfurt school had a lot to do with this attitude of course.
Immigration and refugee resettlement in the US stems significantly from Jews. The 1965 Immigration Law was introduced by Emmanuel Celler. Sure, it was passed by many non-Jews too. But consider Proposition 187 which sought to stem illegal immigration in California, which was approved democratically but then blocked by Mariana Pfaelzer.
This is what we call shifting the goalposts.
You made a lot of claims about Jews essentially being responsible for modern hardcore pornography, and when that was knocked down, now it's "Well, they're enormously overrepresented."
How exactly do you quantify "enormously," anyway? More overrepresented than they are in the media generally?
My question for you is the same I have for all the Joo-posters: you play this game of trying to get everyone to Notice things, but never spell out what you think the significance is. Are Jews just natural degenerates with a biological compulsion to subvert and corrupt? Is there something in Judaism that you think is a causal link to pornography? If we agree that yeah, lots of Jews are involved in porn - okay, so what? Lots of Asian women and black men are too, but we can probably come up with some obvious hypotheses about that which do not involve Asian women or black men being inherently degenerate.
You clearly want us to draw conclusions, but you Darkly Hint at them without being willing to spell out what you think the causal link is.
There are a whole lot of racialized theories that are based solely on "Those People make up X% of the population but Y% of this group," but it's only when Y is greater than X for your favorite outgroups where, rather than consider obvious historical and cultural pressures and even happenstance, we're supposed to attribute it to something sinister and inherent about Those People.
And I'm open to HBD explanations, to the degree that I think that IQ has a lot of explanatory power for many things. But I have yet to see a HBD explanation for Jew-Noticing that doesn't boil down to something about as scientific as Hitler's racial theories.
No, this does not stand to reason. Wow, dude, above when it's pointed out that Jews are responsible for some major scientific breakthroughs, you said "Well, someone else would have discovered that if a Jew hadn't." Yet online porn and casual sex, apparently, is something so uniquely Jewish that without Jews, no one else would have ever invented PornHub and OnlyFans and Tinder?
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So true.
This is why there was no pornography in ancient world before it was influenced by Jews.
This is why pornography was unknown in Christian countries of old where only handful of Jews lived, for example 18th century France and Britain.
This is why there is no pornography today in countries where never were any Jews, countries that strongly rejected Jewish ideas like monotheism and communism, for example Japan.
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Or possibly "it would've been the next-best, next-luckiest" people to try to expand that market? If we compare the inventions of synthetic fertilizer, quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons, and vaccination to the invention of "if you offer women money some of them will do dirty stuff on camera", how on Earth do you conclude that the former insights were just ripe for the plucking while the latter was an improbable course that alt-history would have naturally avoided? People have been trying to figure out how to grow more food, make better weapons, and survive smallpox for millennia, with grossly more limited results, whereas all a pornographer has to figure out is how to combine "we have cameras now" with the World's Oldest Profession. I made fun of the "Deutsche physik" movement the other day, but at least they had "modern physics is really hard" as an excuse for failure. It's funny to even try to imagine how non-Jewish would-be pornographers could have failed. "We tried offering them turnips, we tried offering them badgers; nothing worked!"
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