Steve Sailer: From Counterpunch:
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Trump, Anti-Globalism and the Anti-Semitism Slur
by JONATHAN TAYLORThere are few tactics in contemporary politics more effective than labeling your opponent as an anti-Semite. So, as Donald Trump’s campaign continues to ramp up its radical populism, Trump’s attacks on global elites are increasingly being characterized as anti-Semitism. It’s as if every time Trump excoriates a Washington insider or international corporate power broker he really wants to say “Jew.” At least, that’s the charge by numerous members of the media, many of whom are Jewish themselves.
Just listen to Louise Mensch, ostensibly a conservative blogger for Heat St, whom Wikileaks just outed as a Hillary campaign helper: “Globalists is a racist code word for Jew because there are none. free trade between sovereign nations is not a wish to abolish the former.” By Mensch’s convoluted logic, since globalists don’t want to completely destroy national sovereignty, they aren’t really globalists. Therefore when people say globalists, they must mean Jews.
Or let’s hear from the Republican campaign strategist and “Never Trump-er” Rick Wilson: “Globalist”…why don’t you just say “Jew” and get it over with?”
Then there’s Bret Stephens from the Wall Street Journal, who demanded conservative columnist Laura Ingraham be fired for using the term “globalist cabal.” “Globalist cabal” is an anti-Semitic dog whistle of the first order. Fox News should act,” Stephens insisted.
And Louise Mensch again: “”Globalists” is, like “zionists” or “zios” the new antisemitic code word for Jews”. Distressing news no doubt to anti-Zionist Jews and critics of Israel, who are used to being spuriously accused of anti-Semitism.
I’m not sure that Louise Bagshawe LoCicero Mensch, a Catholic Englishwoman whose Yiddish last name is courtesy of her latest husband, Metallica’s manager Peter Mensch, is really the world’s leading expert on anti-Semitism or, for that matter, Semitism.
When she announced she was banning from her Twitter feed as anti-Semitic anybody who uses the word “Zionist,” a troll asked her if she would ban Theodore Herzl as anti-Semitic:
And Wikileaks has Louise’s email to a Clinton campaign insider proposing a killer TV spot for Hillary:
OUR TIME
A succession of mostly young women, a few old women, one with a baby daughter, multiracial and multi-occupation, to include a nurse and a woman in uniform of some kind where permitted…
one after the other, smiling and looking to camera and saying
‘It’s our time.’
and the last woman says, ‘It’s our time. I’m with her.’
fade to banner credit ‘Hillary 2016′
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That would be inspirational, aspirational, and the kind of riff you really need on ‘Yes we can’.
Best,
Louise
Would Rupert Murdoch have thought Louise was smart enough to be put in charge of his new website HeatStreet if she hadn’t gotten hold of a Jewish surname in mid-career? What do Jewish women journalists think of shiksa journalists who latch onto both their men and their names?
Back to the lefty Counterpunch:
Then there’s neocon blowhard Jamie Kirchick’s response to an incoherent tweet by Paul Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen, about Ryan’s staffer Dan Senor “With globalist advisers like @DanSenor it’s no wonder @PRyan is to the left of @HillaryClinton on #TPP. “ To which Kirchick responded “Why don’t you just say “Jew?”” Senor is indeed Jewish, and is rumored to be the person who leaked the infamous Trump- Billy Bush “pussy” tape to the press. …
In his speech of October 13, 2016, Donald Trump used the term globalist repeatedly, triggering accusations of anti-Semitism from media outlets such as Mother Jones and Raw Story. The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted his concern, mildly stated compared to the rampant Twitter hysteria, that “Trump should avoid rhetoric&tropes” that suggest anti-Jewish themes. But despite the media pile-on, Trump has been discussing globalism in his speeches for months. As Jill Stein and to a lesser extent Bernie Sanders represent the long-standing anti-globalization movement of the left, Trump represents the anti-globalization movement of the right. And there is significant overlap between the two, as opposition to the TPP demonstrates or to provocative militarism towards Russia demonstrates. …
Trump, whose daughter Ivanka is a Jewish convert married to an Orthodox Jewish husband who is a top Trump campaign advisor, seems an unlikely Jew hater, but the mainstream Hillary-loving press has been insisting he is Hitler throughout the campaign (odd since they also accusing him of being controlled by Russia. A new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?) As the election looms the media are busy cranking up Jewish paranoia to 11. As the unflappably cool Matthew Iglesias surmises. “My guess is that in a Trump administration angry mobs will beat and murder Jews and people of color with impunity.”
… Tactically speaking, the primary purpose of an accusation of anti-Semitism is to end debate. So if someone says “globalist is a code word for Jews”, or “blaming international banks for economic problems is anti-Semitic”, the function of this is to ensure that globalists and international banks cannot be blamed. It’s as if someone responded to the Occupy movement that “the 1%” is a codeword for Jews, so we should stop talking about wealth disparity.” The ramifications are obvious – leave the global elites out of this campaign or you’re a Jew-hating bigot and by the way here comes the ADL.
COMMENTS:
If you vote Trump you are the scum of the earth, a colluder in racism and 'deplorable' is too good for you. This means everyone.
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 14, 2016
* all jews i have spoken to either support trump or are ambivalent to trump. none think he is anti jewish, his daughter is orthodox . she is shomer shabbat , that makes her more jewish than 75% of american jews nowadays and they know it.
* Louise Mensch is a hilarious character. Her interactions with the alt-right on Twitter are something to behold. I hope she sticks around to provide more laughs.
* Seemed to me Mensch skipped town a few steps ahead of the electoral pitchforks, having made a colossal fool of herself as a transparently over-promoted airhead bimbo in the British media, where as an attractive female globalist she was constantly given more than enough airtime to fully display her empty-headedness and rarely properly skewered for her many, many foot in mouth moments.
Whatever the reasons might have been for putting her “in charge” of a media operation, they certainly didn’t include smarts.
* She was a loud Brexiteer, so a Murdochist rather than a Sorosite.
She was/is a chick-lit writer and was parachuted into a constituency up north. The prospect of spending her weekends in Corby (where the trouser-presses don’t come from) didn’t appeal.
* Even a lot of Jews don’t like Jewish bankers because they believe they screw the little guy. The hippie Burning Man loving Portlandia White liberals who were part of Occupy Wall Street were disproportionately made up of Jews, especially since their headquarters were in New York City.
* Louise has a pretty ritzy upper-class gentry background, her grandfather did this, his grandfather was noted for that.
Her sister Tilly Bagshawe also seems to have married a Jew, Robin Nydes, a former investment banker and current semi-retired hedge fund manager.
It took me a while to Jew-detect Mr. Nydes. It is a very rare last name, either Danish or Polish from what I can tell. The only other man I could find who has that surname was a fairly famous American psychologist named Jule Nydes who died in 1973 and was married a English-American gentile hippie who had a very long retirement dabbling in touch theory and Indian mysticism in Santa Fe.
Tilly got pregnant at age 17 and named her daughter Persephone (hope you recognize that name from Greek mythology), went to Cambridge as a single mother, and is a best-selling novelist, starting from her first one. She married Nydes when she was 28 and has had two boys with him, with the more normal names of Zac and Theo, rather than perhaps her initial inclination of Hades and Minotaur.
* That stupid Mensch woman was a MP for the Conservatives in Britain…probably tells you all you need to know about Cameron’s “modernization” of the party. Depressing that someone dumb/uneducated enough to have never heard of Theodore Herzl can get a well-paid career in politics and journalism.
* I tried to tell Louise Mensch on Twitter not to conflate globalism and Judaism but apparently she didn’t listen. It really is idiotic to make such an assumption. Pop globalism, internationalism and world federalism has been pumped out at us from the metropole since the days of H.G. Wells. After WW2, it went from the margins to the mainstream and popped up in forms as varied as Coca-Cola ads, rides at Disneyland and episodes of the original Star Trek. It’s been celebrated and advocated by almost any big corporation you can name. In short, it’s not a Jewish thing, even if they have a particular affinity for it.
Trump is right that globalism has had its day, that its done enormous damage and that those continuing to advocate it are using the media to combat his reform agenda. This is how it works when one governing consensus is challenged by another. No need to reference the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on this.
* Listen, if Jewish people are unable to allow others to apply political labels to groups and policies, then maybe they should retire from the hurley-burly of civic life and leave it to the more thick-skinned? If the rest of us can’t use terms like “globalist” or “international banker” then how are we supposed to engage in self-government? Maybe we should do away with democratic debate in order to calm the nerves of our Jewish communities, who have been through so much in the last few thousand years?
* It’s as if someone responded to the Occupy movement that “the 1%” is a codeword for Jews.
This already happened. The Wall Street Journal featured the following letter from billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins in its issue of Jan. 24, 2014.
Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?
I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.”
Regarding your editorial “Censors on Campus” (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.”
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a “snob” despite the millions she has spent on our city’s homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?
Tom Perkins, San Francisco
Mr. Perkins is a founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
* Herein lies the problem with sacred cows of all sorts. When criticism of Jews is taboo, then an argument can be made that criticism of any group in which Jews are overrepresented is just an end run around the taboo and thus should be taboo, too. In my time, I have seen the following alleged to be anti-semitic codewords: globalists, elites, media, Zionists, Israel, leftists, liberals, cultural Marxists, Frankfurt School, neocons, bankers, Wall Street, Hollywood, and, most recently, “George Soros and Sidney Blumenthal.” In some people’s warped minds, you can’t just hate Hollywood pedophiles, you must hate Jews. Well, if that’s the price of admission, then maybe it’s worth it. Ditto the neocons.
Likewise, when blacks are a sacred cow, then all of a sudden it’s Not Okay to complain of criminals, felons, thugs, rapists, misbehaving athletes, rowdy students, and even DMV ladies.
It’s as if the speech police agreed that stereotypes are true, but differed on how they should be applied.
* Jews who care about actual Judaism are solidly pro-Trump. At the Orthodox shul I go to most Saturday mornings, opinions range from passionately pro-Trump to “I would have preferred Cruz, but Trump is what we got.” Nobody wants Hillary.
Of course, Reform “Judaism,” led by the irrascible traitor Rick “Jihad” Jacobs is a whole other story.
* I recently read that not a single Fortune 500 CEO has donated to Trump.
* This woman gets invited on Fox News, but genteel Jared Taylor is beyond the pale.
* About 90% of what’s wrong with the West is stupid old men like Murdoch putting bimbo airheads like Mensch in charge of things. She’s a woman. OF COURSE she’s the White Man’s enemy. She’s a woman — and like most women views men with the prism of Alpha or Not; particularly being independent financially and not having a “sunk cost” of early marriage and kids to some beta male dude.
And that’s the elites in a nutshell. The elites are a DISASTER. They all have to go. All of them. Even the “sensible” ones want Hillary’s coming war with Russia, because President Huma is mad at Assad. And its Huma Abedin running things after Hillary’s fifth aneurism. Someone like a Murdoch, a Saban, a Slim, they all have a lot to lose in a War and are too stupid to understand the risks.
And that’s the thing. Murdoch inherited his money and got lucky. Saban just go lucky at the right time in the 1980s; absent the Power Rangers he’d be a seedy, down on his luck “manager” to fading starlets desperate for anything. Carlos Slim got lucky and corrupt getting his billions; how smart he is remains to be seen. Hillary is not anyone’s idea of even borderline competent, and no one in the Democratic or Republican party has either brains or ability from what I’ve seen. Tim Kaine? Marilyn Moseby? Kamala Harris? Romney? McCain?
* Why has nobody in the mainstream media reported that Fortune 500 CEOs all support Crooked Hildabeast over Donald Trump? Is it because it would hurt that bitch’s image as the candidate of the blue collar class?
* They don’t want to sever Judaism from globalism (except in Israel). It’s too useful. If you can unite them in the public’s mind then every anti-globalist is Literal Hitler. All calls for borders and trade restrictions is a call for gas chambers.
* She seems to have developed a habit of putting on a trans-Atlantic accent when talking to Americans.
Compare here on France24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFVsXs9LDs&feature=youtu.be&t=146 and on Bill Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJvj2bth8t0&feature=youtu.be&t=71 Just weird. It reminds me of a former England football (ie soccer) coach who went to Holland and then affected a “Dutch” accent (in English) because the idiot thought it would help him communicate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90* >Louise Mensch is reliably dim, if nothing else. Check out her several online debates with Vox Day on anti-semitism, marital rape, and feminism. Day goes pretty easy on her, for some reason, but even so, Mensch is manifestly incapable of rising above the level of hackneyed neocon talking points. There really does seem to be more than a hint of Dunning-Kruger about her.
* Murdoch seems to collect feisty, but intellectually limited acolytes.
There is the notoriously dim Kay Burley, who has been with Sky News from day 1. She was the subject of this dialogue from the political comedy The Thick of It:
“Being interviewed by Kay is, as we all know, like being interviewed by a backward child. That’s obviously great most of the time. But occasionally she will throw you a curveball like a child might – “Why is there war?” “What is Europe?” – and if you can’t answer it’s you who ends up looking like the thick-as-pigcrap chancer.”
* I love that she thinks Galileo was burned at the stake.
* A textbook example of how the double advantages of being attractive and benefiting from active positive discrimination can result in meteoric rises for a politically useful woman in our modern society.
* The trouble with taking the easy pleasure of watching the likes of Mensch shout down vacant lefties is that in the end you are left with someone like Mensch in an over-promoted position of power and influence. A globalist to her fingertips (as demonstrated incontrovertibly by her easy transatlantic shift – the very definition of a “rootless cosmopolitan”), who has none of the loyalty to her country or to tradition and nativism that defines positive conservatism, as opposed to the pseudo-conservatism of the neocons, which is basically just sucking up to the present power elites.
The likes of Mensch should really not be indulged. That way lies, in the short run, the end of free speech beneath a flood of “hate speech” laws and taboos, and in the longer run, the end of the nation state.
