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Category Archives: Brexit
Decoding The TV Show Industry
In the world of Industry, the Pierpoint trading floor serves as a laboratory for the shifting, precarious bonds that define Alliance Theory. At its core, the show treats every relationship as a strategic alignment built to secure status or capital. … Continue reading
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Would You Give Your Life For The European Union?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * For centuries, thousands have given their lives for England, as have thousands for France, Poland, and Germany. I wonder if you could even fill a conference room in Brussels for those who would die for … Continue reading
Jewish Tears Over Brexit
About half of British Jews voted to leave the EU, but most Jewish elites, like gentile elites, wanted Britain to remain in the European Union. I wonder if those Jews who wanted Britain to remain would want Israel to be … Continue reading
Brexit and the global democracy deficit
UCLA professor David Myers writes in the Jewish Journal: The results of the vote shocked to the core. Londoners, who voted 60-40 in favor of staying, were despondent and bewildered. All of the employees at the hotel where I stayed, … Continue reading
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Spikes in racist abuse reported after Brexit
I believe the anecdotes. The English are developing their in-group identity by choosing to leave Europe. When you develop your in-group identity, you are more likely to have negative views of out-groups. This is basic social identity theory. The stronger … Continue reading
JJ: On Brexit, a view from an American rabbi in London
Rabbi Jason S. Rosner writes: “How did this happen? The tropes should sound very familiar in the United States. Xenophobia, racism, protectionism, a failing rural economy with high levels of wealth inequality. Generational divides in wealth and success here in … Continue reading
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Brexit: It’s a wonderful day for Britain – and its Jews
From the Jewish Chronicle of London: By Stephen Pollard, June 24, 2016 As editor of the JC, I kept my views on the EU referendum off its pages. In so important a vote, I didn’t think it appropriate for the … Continue reading
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Blame Trump For Brexit?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Left Wingers on social media and discussion boards are already blaming Donald Trump for The U.K leaving The European Union. Haters gonna hate. * They may have a point. Trump gave Brexit credibility, and now … Continue reading
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Opinion: On Brexit and the Jews
by David Patrikarakos | 06.16.16 11:40 am There is an argument to be made that Brexit would be good for the Jews because it would distance them from an increasingly anti-Semitic continent. This argument would be wrong. It will undoubtedly … Continue reading
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Ryan Landry: ‘Is there a single Jewish pundit applauding #Leave?’
Ryan Landry posts: The Brits came through, and if the exit polls are any indication, the old Brits came through and “Leave” won. How much pain and anguish was there last night? Pundits were throwing out “dark days like 1914” … Continue reading
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