Any time I read the phrase, “must repudiate it,” my BS alarm goes off.<\/p>\n
Charles Murray tweets: “This kind of thing has attached itself to Trumpism. Trump supporters need to take the lead in repudiating it.”<\/p>\n
He’s responding to these two tweets by a white nationalist:<\/p>\n
*To hell with your fictional notion of an “American creed”, old man. We are at war.<\/p>\n
* May I say it’s genuinely treasonous that you never once mention the unifying cause of all the social problems you note: Jews?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Us vs. them is the most natural thing in the world. <\/p>\n
Donald Trump is the first nationalist with a good shot at the American presidency in more than a hundred years. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading