Should Jews Engage With The Alt-Right?

Rabbi Mayer Schiller said in 1999: “The State of Israel poses a problem for Jews living in the diaspora. A Jew living in America, France or England but yet somehow says I am an Israeli or a Zionist, that creates a tremendous amount of tension. Herzl envisioned Zionism as Jews leaving Gentile nations and going to live in Israel, not staying in France and England and saying I am a Zionist. Jews living in America, England, France, etc, have three moral possibilities: They can be loyal citizens, they can be Zionists which means to leave [for Israel] or they can adopt the Neterui Karta position of non-involvement in the affairs of the nations.”

Rabbi Schiller seems to have studied the works of Kevin MacDonald and thought through their troubling implications.

I know about a dozen Jewish intellectuals (including Orthodox rabbis) who read Kevin MacDonald and believe he is worthy of engagement. They can’t say so publicly for fear of the consequences. There’s no contradiction between loving being Jewish, leading a traditional Jewish life, and accepting truth from any source.

I have a small following among some intellectuals and journalists in Los Angeles Judaism and they know that I respect some intellectuals on the dissident right such as Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, Gregory Hood, Greg Johnson, Tom Sunic and Roger Devlin, and I advocate engaging with them and their ideas (restricting our arguments to facts and logic and dispensing with slurs). I had a public dialogue one Sunday afternoon at a Chabad shul with Tom Sunic.

I have had many conversations about these topics in and out of shul and around the Shabbos table.

If the Alt-Right is socially stigmatized, then only weirdos like me will hang out with the Alt-Right!

If people are arbitrarily divided into teams, they will quickly identify with their team and develop a filter that makes their team superior.

Every people view themselves as specially chosen, the center of the universe, etc.

The more free the country, the more likely that Jews will prosper.

I GET COMMENTS:

* As Tom Sunic has pointed out, the biggest problem with the alt right is narcissism and low-level sociopathy. Lawrence Auster himself was guilty of this in the way he constantly rubbed people up the wrong way, even when they were 80 percent in agreement with him.

* It seems like you [a Jew] either go Reform/Conservative, and swallow all this left-wing SJW crap, or Orthodox, and have to go live in one of 3 areas of the country that are really expensive and follow a bunch of rules useful for desert nomads 2000 years ago. The neocons actually had a nice ‘secular right-wing’ option, but then they went and started a war with Iraq for the benefit of Israel.

I’d say, to any pro-white Jew reading this, you have 2 options. If you live near NYC, you can find a right-wing Jew who agrees with you and agree to disagree on immigration. If you don’t, just find a suitable denomination and convert, or you can be the weird right-wing guy in your temple. If you really want to get involved in activism, find a group like AmRen that tolerates your ancestry. Hey, it’s better than being conservative and black.

* 1. The MSM constantly attack white people on the basis that disparate impact is proof of racism.

2. The MSM is overwhelmingly Jewish.

so either

1) they got there by merit in which case using disparate impact as proof of racism to attack others makes them dishonest hypocrites

or

2) they got there through ethnic nepotism which makes them dishonest hypocrites

so all this bloviating over anti-semitism is a joke.

If semitism = dishonest hypocrisy then anti-semitism is a good thing.

* If something keeps happening over and over, chances are there IS a reason why it is happening. Even if the reason doesn’t comport with what Spock would call “logic”, it must be following its own internal logic somehow.

A good rule of thumb is that people usually act in what they perceive to be their self-interest, so if they behave in a way that appears self-defeating to you, chances are that they see their self-interest in a way that is different than you do. Often it is the difference between long term and short term interest – most people have a very short time horizon. So if you tell a meth addict that in the long term the drug will destroy them, they will take it anyway because in the short term it feels good. Maybe that is the case here – the short term reinforcement that goodwhites get from making themselves feel superior to badwhites is more important to them than the long term consequences of undermining the country. Or maybe, as I said before, the evolutionary logic really is in favor of them undermining other white competitors – if you can get your (regressed to the mean) kids into the Ivies as a “legacy”, they will still end up at the top of the class if everyone sitting around them is an affirmative action admit.

* The Nazis believed (and in this they were probably not wrong) that Jews would rise to the top of any organization that does not take active measures to bar them. This makes sense given the gap in IQ, especially verbal IQ.

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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