Chabon’s a good writer but why would anyone look to him for guidance on politics?
If you read the Torah, you’ll see that bitter humor containing massive over-statement and kvetching goes back a long way in Jewish history.
In reaction to the rise of the Nazis, Jews boycotted Germany in the 1930s. Jews declared war on Germany in the 1930s. How did that work out? By contrast, Jews in Palestine worked with the Nazis to get Jews out of Europe and into the future country of Israel.
Supposedly Steve Bannon’s “far-right views” clashed with Ivanka and Jared’s “Jewish faith.” This is nonsense. The sacred texts of Judaism were composed many centuries before there was any left-right political division. Judaism doesn’t have much to say about left-right politics or about how gentiles should organize their countries.
* As an op-edster he’s kind of embarrassingly on the nose. He’s not a particularly sophisticated intellectual. But his punditry is pretty revealing of how an awful lot of important people feel because, as a gifted novelist, he’s in touch with feelings.
* So, basically, Mr Chabon thinks Donald Trump is going to “get” Jews, which I can only assume means some kind of genocide, and what he himself decides to do is to, basically, kvetch at people and try to guilt-trip people into quitting their jobs.
Not flee the country. Not go into hiding. Not even attempt to just keep a low profile instead of making a huge, public spectacle of himself. Just to kvetch.
I don’t understand these people. Is it one of those things where Jewish people all kind of realize that these statements are full of shit, but it’s just part of their culture to talk that way? If so, how does it work? Don’t they annoy each other when they do that?
* Search and replace “Jew” for “White,” “anti-Semite” for “anti-White,” etc. mutatis mutandis and this ‘open letter’ would be banned on every major social media platform in the country and held up in every organ of the MSM oligarchy as an example of the most vile racism imaginable.
* Virtually all ‘open letters’ are silly things-just stunts by their writers.
In this case the majority of Jews won’t read it and the majority of those who read it aren’t Jews.
* When Chabon first emerged as a writer, he was treated like the greatest thing since sliced bread, and he’s been given ridiculous levels of praise ever since. This annoyed me, but only mildly, because every time I start to get up a head of steam about him, I remember he married Ayelet Waldman. Holy Moses, was that ever a masochistic thing to do.
Waldman has the personality of Courtney Love and the appearence of the Wicked Witch of the West. She’s turning into a sharp-nosed crone these days. She’s written books about how she can’t stand children or raising them (she has 4), written a book about how she’s been treating her menopause with daily LSD, and made remarks about how her darling hubbie gave her venereal disease and cancerous lesions, etc., etc. I have no idea how he can keep from being driven crazy by her.
There have been remarks that Chabon married her as a beard, because back in the 1980s when he first emerged, if you were a gay writer or wrote gay characters, you ended up in the gay lit ghetto, and you wouldn’t sell well enough to support an opulant lifestyle, and Chabon wanted that lifestyle. As a ‘straight’ writer with an occasional gay character, he was safely mainstream and could be bought by the masses. Hence, he needed a beard.
Deep down, I suspect the female Jewish side of Chabon really wanted to be married to a neurotic, cranky, fussy, whiny, dictatorial, hovering, always-obsessed-with-his-spouse Jewish old man, and the closest thing he could find was Ayelet Waldman.
* Is this supposed to be like the Jewish boycott of Germany, pre WWII?
How many people will listen to this guy, and what will the effect be? This is a serious question.
* Well isn’t this ironic. Congress is about to make it illegal to boycott Israel, but Jews make it mandatory to boycott Trump. Hopefully this will prompt a few JQ-averse normies to take a second look at things. The cycle of Jewish overreach is again playing out before our very eyes.
* I will give Benjamin Netanyahu and his son credit for not totally jumping on the Charlottesville outrage bandwagon. Hawkish Zionists with any brains realize that ostentatiously slamming White Nationalism means that Jewish Nationalism—the raison d’être of Israel itself—has no defense.
P.S., Ayelet Waldman guest posting on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s erstwhile blog in 2010: “Last spring the US Census Bureau released figures estimating that the state of Maine is 95.3 percent white. It is, in fact, the whitest state in the country, just edging out Vermont and West Virginia for that dubious distinction.”
* What if Jews were to resign en masse from policy-making positions in the government?! What a tragedy.
* Do you ever wonder if a lot of Jews have some weird case of group PTSD that they can’t deal with and it makes them act, as a group, way off the deep end?
* There seems to be real willful ignorance around this “Jews will not replace us” meme. It’s clear that no one thinks Jewish numbers are large enough to replace anyone. Rather, the argument goes, that Jews are the instigators of policies–unfettered immigration among others–that tend to displace the native-born population.
I assume that this meme is not accurately reported on because to do so would be to raise uncomfortable questions.
* I would pay $99.95 to watch a live hour-long pay-per-view intimate ‘dinner date’ between Silverman and Richard Spencer. No gimmicks, no costumes, just “real talk” and possibly some mirth and humor.
* LSD micro-dosing is a big thing among a lot of people these days. It’s chief attraction is that it lets you brag about being high status enough that you can talk openly about doing drugs every day without fear of being arrested or losing your job.
* @Steve, why don’t you point out that 95% of the comments on Chabon’s article (including mine) are from Jews telling him to pound sand, that he does not represent us, Jews in general, or anybody but NPR?
This is my problem with you on Jews-you notice Jews doing/saying bad things, and not all those Jews (the majority) who disagree with them, privately or publicly. When the Left applies the same treatment to whites, you are justifiably outraged-it’s dishonest.
* Jews have peaked in terms of power and influence and what we are seeing now is the beginning of a process similar to what the WASPs went through two generations ago and there is nothing they will be able to do to stop it. They should be a little more charitable now because as the old proverb says, “be careful who you step on on your way up the ladder of success. You might see them on the way back down.”
Much of the freak out over Bannon is a realization that whites are beginning to in-group and that Jews and other identity groups will have to figure which side they are on in the political realignment that is taking place. Not only is everyone forced to take sides but they now have to do it openly. Bannon has been a stalking horse, particularly for Jews, because he is the face of the new media which threatened the television monopoly. The internet is amorphous and he is the closest person or thing to lash out at so all they can do is try and destroy him. That is one thing television is still good for.
Jews might have a disproportionate amount of money but as we see with political campaigns, all it can do ultimately is buy television commercials. And if those don’t work like with the attacks on Donald Trump, you are up a creek.
