Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Just Attach Itself To Nationalism, It’s A Feature, Not A Bug

Any time I read the phrase, “must repudiate it,” my BS alarm goes off.

Charles Murray tweets: “This kind of thing has attached itself to Trumpism. Trump supporters need to take the lead in repudiating it.”

He’s responding to these two tweets by a white nationalist:

*To hell with your fictional notion of an “American creed”, old man. We are at war.

* May I say it’s genuinely treasonous that you never once mention the unifying cause of all the social problems you note: Jews?

All gentile nationalisms are likely to exclude Jews and to usually include varying degrees of anti-Semitism, just as all forms of Jewish nationalism contain anti-gentile sentiment.

Us vs. them is the most natural thing in the world.

Donald Trump is the first nationalist with a good shot at the American presidency in more than a hundred years.

Anti-Semitism, most of the time, does not mean mass killing of Jews, just as Jewish anti-Gentile sentiments usually do not mean mass killings of gentiles, but there are plenty of directions in both directions (the Nazis are an obvious example of anti-Semitism, and Stalin’s willing executioners may well be an example of genocidal hatred by certain Jews against gentiles).

About Luke Ford

I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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