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've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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