{"id":70151,"date":"2015-06-29T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70151"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:33:20","slug":"jewish-loathing-of-southern-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70151","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Loathing Of Southern Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes<\/a>: Since the Charleston shootings, GOP officials have been scrambling to comply<\/a> with Leftist demands<\/a> that Southern Whites be stripped of visible signs of their Confederate heritage. The GOP has actually been downplaying the Confederacy <\/a>for years\u2014Jeb Bush<\/a> conspicuously removed Confederate banners and insignias from the Florida statehouse back in 2001. [Jeb Bush Ordered The Confederate Flag Removed From Florida Capitol 14 Years Ago<\/a><\/em>, By Scott Conroy,Huffingtonpost.Com, June 19, 2015] (But the GOP\u2019s efforts<\/a> to dump the Mississippi state flag i<\/a>ncluding the Southern Cross were frustrated <\/a>when a majority of the population,<\/a> including almost a quarter of the black population, voted to retain it).<\/p>\n

Party operatives are stupid enough to believe that black votes are there for the taking if they run down the Confederacy ferociously enough; and that white Southerners <\/a>will remain Republican no matter what. Plus of course the GOP\u2019s whorish Big Business backers have capitulated<\/a>, as when they withdrew support from the Boy Scouts of America for not accepting openly homosexual scoutmasters. But it is not so much blacks who seem offended by the Battle Flag<\/a> (in South Carolina as much as 40%<\/a> of the black inhabitants are content to leave it at the Capitol<\/a>) as it is the national Main Stream Media\u2014and above all the neoconservatives.<\/p>\n

Neoconservatives <\/a>have long stood out from other Republicans and members of Conservatism Inc. by virtue of the intensity of their loathing for the white South. And, as I demonstrate in my books <\/a>on the American Conservative Movement,<\/a> they have an almost total lock on the Conservative Establishment. The funding<\/a>, media access, and all the leading publications of the movement are now controlled by neoconservatives. Other branches of conservatism survive, but they are either marginalized, like paleoconservatism, or merely tolerated dissent, like the Catholic Straussians <\/a>and the socially leftist Libertarians\u2014especially the ones, like the Randians, who vociferously support Israel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although neoconservative anti-Christian broadsides continued through the 1980s, with such Commentary<\/em> contributors as Ruth Wisse<\/a> and Hyam Maccoby<\/a>, the Christian enemy took a back seat to other b\u00eates noires <\/em>after the neoconservatives began to cultivate the Religious Right as part of a pro-Israel alliance.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the neoconservatives were still in the forefront of South-bashing for decades, from their organized defamation of Mel Bradford,<\/a> the conservative Southern candidate for the directorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1981, through the crusade<\/a> to remove Mississippian Senate Majority leader Trent Lott in 2002<\/a> after he had too fulsomely praised (former segregationist, former Democrat) South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond<\/a> on his hundredth birthday,<\/a> to the bile they are now pouring on the already-isolated defenders of the Southern cause.<\/a><\/p>\n

None of this need surprise us. The persistent neoconservative prejudice against the South sprang from the ethnically parochial culture <\/a>in which the older generation of neoconservatives grew up. In my youth, I was struck by the malice with which New York Jewish visitors to Florida described their road trips through the land of \u201crural bigots.\u201d Next to the Germans, whom they assured me\u2014the child of Austrian Jewish immigrants\u2014were all Nazis, these Southern \u201canti-Semites\u201d were the most unpalatable humans they were forced to share the planet with.<\/p>\n

Neoconservative beneficiary National Review<\/em> Editor Rich Lowry<\/a> referred in a recent column to \u201cinstitutionally racist backwater<\/a>\u201d that was the white South before both government reconstruction efforts and the influx of Northern suburbanites redeemed it. That is a polite way of expressing the anti-Southern bigotry<\/a> that I heard from New York Jews in the 1950s,<\/a> before the South ceased to be the South.<\/p>\n

In what looks like a staggering effort to outdo the media Left, the quintessentially neoconservative New York Post<\/em> ran a column by Lou Lumenick (email him<\/a>) on June 25, demanding that we retire \u201cthis much-loved but undeniably racist artifact,\u201d the movie Gone with the Wind<\/em>, from TV and movie theaters. [\u2018Gone with the Wind\u2019 should go the way of the Confederate flag<\/em><\/a>]. Although Lumenick and his patrons do not find this film classic to be as much in need of censorship as other more offensively<\/a> pro-Confederate movies like Birth Of A Nation<\/a><\/em>, what makes Gone with the Wind<\/a><\/em> particularly \u201cinsidious\u201d is its \u201csubtle racism\u201d\u2014disguised by the fact that its black co-star received an Academy Award.<\/a><\/p>\n

Subsequently, the New York Post <\/em>uncovered more insidious evidence of pro-Confederate pollution, this time in the Big Apple. It seems that the German Jewish press magnate Adolf S. Ochs,<\/a> who moved his operations to New York from Chattanooga, Tennessee, had \u201cstrong ties to the Confederacy.\u201d His mother Bertha Levy Ochs was a charter member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and<\/a> Bertha\u2019s son, who set up the New York Times,<\/em> brought her illiberalism to the neocons\u2019 home base on the Hudson. Ochs even managed to have a mosaic with a design allegedly resembling the Battle Flag inserted in a wall in the subway station at Times Square. (See above)[Confederate flags adorn this Times Square subway station,<\/em><\/a> By Georgett Roberts and Amanda Lozada, June 25, 2015]<\/p>\n

(This is an interesting inadvertent reminder that there were Confederate Jews<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most colossal display of anti-Southern bigotry was produced by the Wall Street Journal-Weekly Standard<\/em> luminary Max Boot<\/a>. Writing in Commentary<\/em>, Boot expressed impatience that the war against Southern symbols has stalled at halfway measures. According to Boot, we should not at this very late date just be getting rid of Confederate flags. Years ago, enlightened Americans should have followed \u201cconservatives\u201d like him in calling for the renaming of every landmark or street located in the former Confederacy that bears the name of a Confederate leader:<\/p>\n

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Remembrance does not require public displays of the Confederate flag, nor streets with names such as Jefferson Davis Highway \u2014 a road that always rankles me to drive down in Northern Virginia. Such gestures are designed to honor leaders of the Confederacy, who were responsible for the costliest war in American history \u2014 men who were traitors to this country, inveterate racists, and champions of slavery.<\/p>\n

[Rightfully Reversing Decades of Secessionist Rehabilitation<\/em><\/a>, June 24, 2015]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Boot implicitly compares the slaveholding South to Nazi Germany<\/a>. And while he thinks we cannot prevent the descendants of German or Confederate soldiers from honoring the memories of fallen ancestors, he believes no public space can be conceded to those who revere what he considers to be a \u201cvile cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I read this call for further humiliating the Southern whites, who have been the cannon fodder in so many neoconservative-incited wars, I thought about the strange situation that has made Boot, a Russian Jewish immigrant, a towering figure in American \u201cconservatism.\u201d He has ascended so high in our weird society that he is now dictating the unconditional surrender of Southern white goyim to the Cultural Marxist<\/a> Zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

This grotesque act begs for comparisons. It might be like a Palestinian activist who is mysteriously acclaimed as a spokesman for the Israeli conscience and then orders Israelis to take down all monuments to their Jewish past.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Israelis would never oblige such an impudent poseur\u2014unlike our Southern white Republicans.<\/p>\n

Still, to their credit, neoconservatives do not bleed all over the floor confessing their own past racist insensitivities. They simply speak as the conscience of the world. Whether we have Charles Krauthammer<\/a> reproaching Trent Lott for his \u201chistorical blindness\u201d<\/a> in not vibrating to the greatest moral event in American history, the successful Civil Rights movement personified by MLK, or the entire neocon press coming down on the hapless Professor Bradford in 1981<\/a> for not appreciating the achievement of Lincoln<\/a> in making us all more equal, or the stragglers in the crusade against Southern symbols, neoconservatives specialize in imposing their selective morality.<\/p>\n

Thus Southern whites are excoriated for their past sins of racism\u2014but Jews living in New York City are allowed to complain about blacks and even describe them with belittling epithets when they misbehave in Jewish neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

For example, neoconservative progenitor Norman Podhoretz in<\/a> February 1963 published in Commentary <\/em>a thoughtful essay My Negro Problem\u2014and Ours<\/em><\/a> in which he expressed very frank feelings about blacks, miscegenation, \u201cNegro anti-Semitism\u201d and Negro \u201cparanoid touchiness.\u201d No-one did a Mel Bradford<\/a> or Trent Lott on him. But in era when even Hilary Clinton is questioned <\/a>because her husband\u2019s campaign used Confederate symbols<\/a>, perhaps they will now.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quote:<\/p>\n

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The hatred I still feel for Negroes is the hardest of all the old feelings to face or admit, and it is the most hidden and the most overlarded by the conscious attitudes into which I have succeeded in willing myself. It no longer has, as for me it once did, any cause or justification (except, perhaps, that I am constantly being denied my right to an honest expression of the things I earned the right as a child to feel). How, then, do I know that this hatred has never entirely disappeared? I know it from the insane rage that can stir in me at the thought of Negro anti-Semitism; I know it from the disgusting prurience that can stir in me at the sight of a mixed couple; and I know it from the violence that can stir in me whenever I encounter that special brand of paranoid touchiness to which many Negroes are prone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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