Let’s Import More Muslims, What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: “NYT op-ed columnist Roger Cohen argues for importing vast numbers of anti-Semites into Europe as payback for Christendom’s past anti-Semitism.”

Comments:

* How dare Hungary appoint itself the arbiter of its own policies, that job rightfully belongs to the Cohens.

* It is intellectually offensive to compare the current migrant invasion to the Holocaust. It is time to call out these charlatans who are using a tragic historical event to advance their own perverse ideological cultist view.

BTW, according to a supposedly secret document, Europe is planning to deport thousands of failed refugee claimants. Cue the “tear-jerking” saturated media coverage of how that is evil.

* Jews are often saying that the Holocaust was met with indifference.

But actually the Holocaust is one of the few genocides which was put a stop to by armed force, and those responsible put on trial and punished.

Compare that to the Holodomor, where the world truly did nothing, and Kaganovich was allowed lived to the age of 97. Or to the Armenian genocide, where most of those responsible were released without punishment and only a couple of the top perpetrators later killed by Armenian vigilantes. Or the Great Leap Forward, for which Mao never suffered.

Jews complain as if they had it especially bad, when in fact they are one of the only victims of genocide to ever have seen justice. And that justice was achieved because of the efforts and sacrifices of gentiles in fighting the Nazis. Tens of millions of whom gave their lives, with the result that Jews may live and see a measure of justice, and Cohen calls that indifference.

Maybe he is the one indifferent to gentile lives.

* In 2017, after entire regions become ungovernable, hostile colonies and the mass attacks on native Europeans in the cities begin in earnest, all abetted by a corrupt, degenerate elite:

US President Donald Trump declared that white Europeans should embark on a “mass immigration” to the US. “America is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass white immigration from Europe.”

Trump said his government was to adopt a $145 million plan “to encourage the absorption of however many white Europeans take up the offer. “To the whites of Europe and of the world I say that the United States is waiting for you with open arms.”

* This Cohen Schmuck is not an American; I think he’s still a Brit though he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children. He’s a typical Jewish lefty liberal bleeding heart who dislikes the US and the whites Americans who make his life comfortable, an ingrate like the rest of the elites. He should return to his native South Africa along with his wife and live among its vibrant citizenry with his kids. If he doesn’t want to do that, return to London and live there.

Either way, get the fuck out of here. I am sick of ingrates who are essentially the same as illegals who refuse to assimilate.

* People like Cohen are very indifferent to what happens to the Europeans, including what will happen to the European Jews. And yes, he is right – that indifference will kill. It has already killed many including a 6 year old Jewish girl in Toulouse. Liberal media and “elite” indifference to what happens to ordinary people who cannot afford to live on Martha’s Vineyard will kill those ordinary people. But Roger is indifferent and indifference kills.

* Cohen put the world on notice about his wishes. To what extent are his views shared and acted upon by his landsmen?
Now no one can say later that they didn’t see it coming. Then the world went back to sleep.

* Listen Cohen, I’ll give you all the exemptions that you want regarding Ashkenazim or British Sephardim with immigration policy. But requiring Europeans to admit the world’s detritus because in your neuroticism you equate free movement of Jews with the free movement of another 6 billion people… my god, what an a$$hole. Our countries and our people are the reason Hitler didn’t complete his mission so STFU and show some respect.

* I agree its hypocrisy for Roger Cohen, but it’s certainly not for Netanyahu or the Israeli government. Likud actively supports most European right-wing and immigration restrictionist parties. The Israeli man on the street certainly don’t want Jihadi refugees in Tel Aviv, but neither do they in Paris. They recognize that having people actively rooting for your country wiped off the map make up a significant portion of the electorate of a nuclear power and permanent Security Council member is a pretty bad thing.

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The Progression Of Elite-Citizenry Relations

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: The progression of elite-citizenry relations goes like this (using the history of America as a template):

Colonialism, mass egalitarianism.
The rise of an informal aristocracy of the more intelligent, ruthless, individualistic.
Elite gratitude for their blessings translates into a social and self-guided expectation of noblesse oblige.
The elite pull away from the masses in wealth and cultural practices. Complacency and ingratitude erode noblesse oblige.
The citizenry revolts (in whatever form) against the heavy-handed rule of their elite. Today, this revolt takes the form of a regression among the lower classes into FUCK YOU DAD degeneracy.
The elite are repulsed by the citizenry (and vice versa), and become increasingly disconnected from their nation, turning to rootless cosmopolitanism (and among the prole margins to wiggerdeath) as an escape and a kind of ego stroking.
Over time, elites fall out of touch with their subjects and, worse, come to hate their subjects. That is when they start thinking only of themselves and do evil things like advocate for open borders so they can turn their billions into tens of billion. The citizenry learns to return the hate.
War, (political, civil, jurisprudential, cultural).
The Happening.
The Great Reset.

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Was Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer An Islamist Foot Soldier?

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: There are some really strange coincidences surrounding the Umpqua Community College mass shooting in Oregon.

Alex Skarlatos, one of the three men who took down a jihadi shooter on a French train some months ago, was a student at Umpqua. At the time of the Oregon shooting, Skarlatos was in LA auditioning for Dancing with the Stars. Did the Umpqua shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer, think Skarlatos would be in class on the day he committed his murders?

Now, news comes out that Spencer Stone, another one of the French train heroes, was stabbed in Sacramento last night.

Spencer Stone, one of three Americans hailed as heroes for stopping a suspected terror attack on a French train in August, was stabbed Wednesday night in the Sacramento area… Officers responded to a report of a stabbing and found a man in his 20s who had been stabbed multiple times in his upper body and was in critical condition… Stone, a 23-year-old U.S. airman from Carmichael, Calif., was the first American to tackle a gunman aboard the Paris-bound train. Stone, who was with his CHILDHOOD FRIENDS Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, was awoken by the sound of a gunshot in their railway carriage….

Things that make you go hmmmm. I’m wondering, was Mercer an Islamist foot soldier, exacting revenge for the beatdown a fellow jihadist suffered on that French train at the hands of American men? Or was Mercer an unwitting patsy guided by secretive Islamist forces into an act of terror by redirecting Mercer’s autistic, omega male rage? Just a thought, but the “conservative Republican” description on Mercer’s online profile struck me as a little too on the nose, like it was made up after the fact to lead reporters astray.

Anyhow, if my speculations are within the ballpark of reality, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to think that our equalist leftoid Hivemind media propaganda machine would try to conceal these facts from a public already getting fed up with the elite’s open borders policies.

UPDATE

I was right! Chris Harper-Mercer had Islamist sympathies. He bought an ISIS flag online and left a comment at the store website.

Harper-Mercer goes by the User Name IRONCROSS and left a comment about his purchase of an ISIS flag[h] (shown at left of comment) that reads:

“Exactly what I was looking for. I really like the quality. Great product, thanks! I will continue to make purchases from this company. I am very impressed. I WILL be back against soon. A+++++++ Seller. He also answered my questions quickly and satisfactorily. Received quickly, will be back for more purchases.”

Islamic State Flag, 3′ x 5′, ISIS, ISIL, Muslim, Islam

This is why Mercer targeted Christians. He was a jihadi who hated non-Muslim infidels. Why is the media hiding this information?

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What Makes For A Quality Girl?

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: Maybe in flyover country the number of quality girls hits 25%. In Poland it is 80%. The times have changed and quality girls are no longer the norm.

So what makes a quality girl? Well, I know what *doesn’t* make a quality girl.

She has cheated more than three times in her life, or has cheated more than once on the same boyfriend.
She forgets to say “thank you” when you buy her a drink. Buying her a second drink confirms her ingratitude.
She dates around. Dating around — specifically, seeing more than one person concurrently — is a prerogative of men only, for reasons having to do with the greater leverage men need to arm themselves with to compete in a dating market that is fundamentally tilted in favor of women. Any girl who makes a habit of dating more than one guy at a time, especially if the parallel dating lasts longer than one month, in order to milk her options is a bad seed. In all my years of banging, one soulsaving thing I’ve learned is to walk away from any girl who I’ve discovered is also dating other men. Even if I beat the competition and win her over, it never ends well.
She tells you she has a long distance boyfriend she loves, then proceeds to bang you anyway. A few months later, you see her groping a new guy, and she’s still with her boyfriend. (That relationship is doomed.)
Her default mode is sarcasm, negativity, coarseness, and shamelessness.
She spends twice as much time getting ready for a house party than she spends getting ready for a date with you.
She can’t control her impulse to flirt with other men. Double minus points if she does this in your presence.
She doesn’t seem nervous undressing in front of you the first time.
She fucks you on a pretense of less than the sum total of an hour of conversation, and calls you the next day worried that your condomless sex might have given her something. (She’s been down this road before.)
She is proud to be on the pill and considers her dependence on it a carte blanche slut sanctioner instead of a safety net affection fortifier.
She is cavalier about casual sex.
A quality girl does the opposite of all the above. She doesn’t cheat, and if she does she has a plausible rationale. But she will still feel bad about it. She is generous when it is risky to be so. She is positive and lifts people up, not pushes them down to lift herself up. She laughs at the absurdity and beauty of the world, but never at the expense of others. She is warm, and this is something that can’t be taught. She says “I love you” early and often out of conviction, not inquisition. She understands that her heart is more important than her pride.

A high quality girl is good for standing by, sticking with, supporting always, loving fully, defending righteously, and if the timing is right, embracing for life to the exclusion of all others. She is the type of girl who can enthrall you with her words alone. She can make you smile over the phone. She can be far away but feel near. She is often discovered in the unlikeliest places, and her magic is the energy that animates her pretty face, rather than the other way around.

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The Martian

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

A friend says: I treated myself to a Hollywood movie today, about an astronaut stranded on Mars and it left me feeling uneasy about the future. Of course it depicts a multiculti state in which a black physics jock saves the day, but most troubling was this: not a single character in the film was identifiably Jewish by name, appearance, or traits. It was as if they screenwriters had decided that this would be a future without Yidden.

A scary world. A world without Jews in it. I suppose that if present demographic trends continue, it will be a world in which the only Yidden left will be the baby penis suckers, such as were depicted in those despicable videos I linked to yesterday.

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Reason Magazine Party

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

I was at Reason magazine’s West Coast headquarters tonight.

* I was so pleased that this distinguished gentleman at tonight’s party was agreeing with everything I said about illegal immigration until his libertarian son rudely told me the guy was deaf.

* I love how much our ruling class hates Donald Trump. I can’t wait for their humiliation when he is crowned king.

* The libertarians tonight told me I was creepy for dating 18yo girls. It’s a bloody mitzvah, mate!

* Friend: “You’ve been fired from every job in your life. You badmouth other races every day of your life.”
Luke: “It’s a disease.”
Friend: “Then you should be quarantined.”

* The Intifada will go on as long as Arab are in Israel. The only conclusive thing that can be done is remove Arabs and Muslims from Israel. Then Jews can really go to war with each other.

* During my 20 years plus in Judaism, I never thought of myself as belonging to a beleaguered minority, but rather to society’s ruling elite.

* This white guy just told me, “You’ve got some color!” Not easy being 1/16th Chinese and tanning easily.

* I make sure to stay social, stay busy, read, write, etc when I feel the depression coming on, reach out to others in the program… Write out a gratitude list, a things I’m good at list, and list out exactly what I am feeling… Taking action helps.

* Imagine the great things I would be accomplishing if I weren’t on Facebook so much.

* There’s a very tiny number of people that I love, and my happiness seem largely shaped by whether or not they show up to shul and want to talk to me.

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What’s the Average Credit Score of a Mass Shooter?

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

In a country that has hundreds of millions of guns lying around, it’s hard to stop a dedicated, competent individual with a long time horizon and no fear of death or prison from acquiring guns.

But a lot of these shooters don’t sound like unstoppable killing machines from the future, they sound like losers mentally buffeted about by intermittent whims of rage and criminal insanity.

With some, perhaps if they can’t go down to the store and buy some guns right now, they’ll come up with some other vile but less lethal thing to do to pass the time instead. Sure they could buy guns on the black market, but that takes more work to make contacts and it takes some personal face time. And a lot of the mass shooters don’t seem to be career criminal types with lots of contacts with dealers in the illegal firearms trade, they seem more like middle class problem children who don’t get out that much.

What if we had a giant bureaucracy that ceaselessly tried to measure how stable, reliable, trustworthy, and future-oriented practically every individual in the country was?

Maybe that’s a good idea, or maybe that’s a bad idea. But it also sounds expensive to create one just to slow down a few mass shooters per year.

Except … we already have not just one, but three giant bureaucracies that are constantly measuring individuals’ stability: the credit score bureaus.

Here’s an idea worth researching: what were the credit scores of each of the last 50 mass shooters who bought their guns at the time they bought them?

My guess would be that a lot of the shooters either didn’t have an individual credit score or had a quite low one.

I don’t know that’s true, but it’s something that could be measured.

It wouldn’t hurt to check into the credit scores of people who shoot 7-11 clerks or their loved ones, too.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Gary Shteyngart’s near-future dystopian novel Super Sad True Love Story (2010) incorporates this notion. Credit Poles (I think they’re called) display the credit scores of everyone within a certain radius.

The book is a very good read. And it’s of course eerie to note how much of it is already coming to pass in the parallel universe we inhabit.

REPORT:

The scary concerns China’s credit scores are raising

By now, you surely know that your credit score is a key to your your financial well being, influencing factors like the interest rate you’ll be charged for a home mortgage, a cell phone plan, insurance or car loan.

But now there are new, unsettling reports about how China is using consumers’ credit scores to also determine their political trustworthiness and social status.

The new credit-rating system was launched in China this past summer and is run by the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) and the Chinese holding company Tencent, according to China Daily Asia. The publication also noted the new system uses a variety of data to determine credit scores, including “a person’s hobbies, interaction with friends, shopping habits and lifestyle.”

However, as Rick Falkvinge recently blogged at privateinternetaccess.com, the Chinese credit score isn’t affected by only what you purchase.

“If you’re buying things that the regime appreciates, like dishwashers and baby supplies,” he wrote, “your credit score increases. If you’re buying video games, your score takes a negative hit.”

Other factors that can drive down a credit score on the Chinese system are no-no’s such as posting political opinions online without permission or describing controversial current events — such as the recent Chinese stock market collapse — in ways that differ from the official government version.

“But the kicker is that if any of your friends do this — publish opinions without prior permission, or report accurate but embarrassing news — your score will also deteriorate,” Falkvinge continued. “And this will have a direct impact on your quality of life.”

Calls and emails to Alibaba’s U.S. offices for comment on that report were not returned.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is looking at the Chinese credit system and wondering if it might become a blueprint for future uses of the credit score system in America. After all, new research from the U.S. Federal Reserve, for example, has found that credit scores can help predict a person’s ability to commit to a stable, long-term relationship like marriage.

However, the chances of an abusive, Chinese-style credit score/surveillance system in the U.S. in the near future are nil, according to ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley.

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The War On Noticing

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

I assume that people of great holiness don’t pay much attention to sports and to the news. TV and the practice of religion, for example, are antithetical. The more you do of one, the less you’ll do of the other.

For those who soil themselves with popular culture, you may have heard that Dallas Cowboy defensive end Greg Hardy likes to play in front of hot wives and presumably humiliate their husbands with his hyper-masculinity.

Sports are essentially a contest over who is more of a man. They are a polite substitute for war.

Many people think that those who commit domestic violence should not play professional football. I think they are the perfect people to play professional football.

Domestic violence is rarely a case of good vs evil but invariably it is a case of two knuckleheads mixing it up with the weaker one losing.

Hardy’s comments seem to me like the ones I’d want from my defensive end before a big game.

I love football. I love its violence. I would never play it myself. Way too dangerous. I love to watch boxing as well though in my life, I have always avoided fist fights.

I take it for granted that many people who play a violent game will be violent, at times, in their personal lives. When they commit a crime, they should be prosecuted. If it is consensual violence, they should not be prosecuted.

Women are more fragile physically and men are more fragile in many psychological ways. Men tend to be physically stronger than women and women tend to be better at deception and fighting dirty than men.

For a smart take on domestic violence and female masochism, read this essay by F. Roger Devlin.

REPORT: Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy, back from a four-game suspension to start the 2015 NFL season because of domestic violence issues, met the media on Tuesday and was asked if he will speak out against domestic violence or get involved with a local shelter. Hardy responded by saying that he’s looking forward, not back, and is focused only on football. He also commented about the wife of Tom Brady, the quarterback for the New England Patriots, whom the Cowboys face on Sunday.

“I love seeing Tom Brady, he’s cool as crap. Have you seen his wife? I hope she comes to the game.” Hardy said. “I hope her sister comes to the game, all her friends come to the game. One of my favorite games of the year, guys.”

A reporter mentioned that he was sure the wife of Jacksonville quarterback Blake Bortles was attractive as well.

“Is she?” Hardy asked. “This kind of information is important. That’s how I select my Pro Bowls.”

To say Hardy’s comments didn’t go over well would be an understatement.

Here’s a sampling of local and national reaction to Hardy’s comments:

USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan: Greg Hardy is a young man who has been known to tackle a quarterback or two, as well as his one-time girlfriend. For the former, he has received the usual accolades. For the latter, he was kicked out of the NFL. Now he’s back, and he’s talking. Unlike Ray Rice, though, he isn’t apologizing for his acts of domestic violence. No, he’s telling jokes that he thinks are funny. He’s talking about Tom Brady’s wife. And other wives. If there’s one man in professional sports who should be contrite, it’s Hardy. Clearly, he doesn’t have it in him. This unrepentant and immature behavior by Hardy in his debut with the Dallas media reflects terribly not only on him, but also on the Cowboys, the NFLPA, the NFL and everyone else who is supposed to be monitoring and guiding Hardy. Is there no one who is counseling him? Little over a year since the Rice elevator video, what kind of leadership is this?

The Dallas Morning News’ Sharon Grigsby: Question for Jerry Jones and Jason Garrett: How do you like that Greg Hardy now? Sounds like the player you so magnanimously gave a second chance to is living down to his reputation. Some commentators are saying that the exchange proves Hardy’s just not the sharpest knife in the drawer. That’s not my take: Sounds like a guy who thinks it’s really cute that he got away with shoving his then-girlfriend against a wall, applying enough pressure to her neck to leave visible marks and throwing her on a futon covered with at least four semi-automatic rifles. Not only was he not willing to reflect on the recent sorry episode in his life involving, at the least, anger issues, he decided to talk about the relative “hotness” of the wives of quarterbacks he will be facing going forward. Sadly, nothing learned here. Just the status quo when it comes to the culture of the NFL and women.

SBNation.com: After sitting more than year because of a domestic violence scandal, Hardy celebrated his return with remarks that were flippant, sexist and, most notably, tone deaf to the seriousness of the allegations that were levied against him.

National.suntimes.com: Instead of simply admitting some sort of guilt for his alleged assault where he threw Nicole Holder on to a pile of assault rifles, choked and threatened to kill her, “The Kraken” chose to focus on football and use the worst possible metaphor ever: “I hope I come out guns blazing.”

FoxSports.com: Hardy is hardly the first person to remark on Gisele’s looks, and perhaps he’s just trying to tweak Brady, but it would have been wiser of him to steer clear of that type of commentary, especially in light of the events that got him suspended.

nydailynews.com: Greg Hardy, who allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend last year and threatened to kill her, is showing no signs of remorse for his actions and instead is choosing to crack jokes — about women.

nbcsports.com: Ah, “guns blazin.'” A charming choice of words for a guy who had to surrender nine assault-type rifles and shotguns to police following the domestic violence arrest which included charges of threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and throwing her into a futon full of said guns. That led him to spend all but one game of last season on the commissioner’s exempt list, followed by a 10-game suspension this year which was reduced to four. The criminal charges were thrown out when the accuser didn’t show for court, following a civil settlement. And if he has any remorse for his actions, it only pertains to not being able to play as much football or make as much money as he could have.

uproxx.com: Yes, Hardy, he of the egregious domestic violence charges, is focusing upon Brady’s wife … and her sister. Oh, sure, Hardy delivered the usual over-confident, football-related trash talk, but the fact he’s already commenting — unprompted — on women after returning from a suspension stemming from how he physically abused one seems most unwise. Then again, anyone who identifies himself as “Kraken from Hogwarts” probably isn’t thinking with the best intentions anyway.

Yahoo!Sports: It doesn’t appear that Greg Hardy spent the four weeks he was suspended by the NFL in media savvy training. Hardy, who had a 10-game suspension reduced down to four for a domestic violence incident last year involving his ex-girlfriend in 2014, returns to the field for the first time in more than a year on Sunday for the Dallas Cowboys against the New England Patriots. He spoke with the media on Tuesday and made some poor word choices. Very poor.

rantsports.com: Hardy’s incredibly lucky to be employed by any team in the league, but it seems he doesn’t acknowledge it to be the case, and will continue to play the role of antagonist despite being given a second chance he didn’t deserve.

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No Regrets

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’ve had no regret about converting to Orthodox Judaism, even as I have grown to understand the depth of my brokenness that led to the drama I created (in myself and around me) as I undertook all sorts of contradictory actions. I converted to Judaism in part to try to heal myself but my primary motivation was following divine truth and so even though my conversion did not heal my brokenness as I had intended, I’ve remained fascinated by Jews and Judaism, no matter what I’ve learned. I can’t imagine learning anything that would then make me bored with Torah and the Jews.

Of course someone driven to publicly proclaim that they have no regrets is giving himself away.

My happiness (in Judaism and almost everything else) correlates almost 100% with the quality of my connections. I struggle with feeling disconnected from others and this always puts me on the precipice of depression. Luckily I have Facebook and short wave radio.

For those who are Orthodox Jews from birth (FFB) (as well as for full fledged converts and BTs), I have a question: If you were born a goy, do you think you would want to convert to Judaism (having the Jewish knowledge that you possess now)?

Chaim Amalek: “Luke, if back when you first considered becoming a Jew you had known everything about the Jews that you know today, would you still have converted? I can imagine a future for you in which you convert to something else as a result of your newfound identity as a White Man. I do not see you as a Jew for Jesus ever, but I can see you teaching Roman Catholic theology as a Roman Catholic.”

Miriam Lilian D Or: I have seen a lot of people proudly proclaim “I’m here to convert” and the celebration red carpet is rolled at their feet by their close friends. The reality is that the red carpet is more like a ripped up old carpet in an alley behind the shul and pathetically mean comments from FFB people. And the things some rabbis wrote about converts are just as nice. I think the majority of people considering conversions these days should be made aware, rather than go in with the enamoured idea that they are more beloved and special. Rather than dealing with the harsh reality after and go off the derech from the rejection as many have.

Chaim Amalek: “I think most people who convert to a new religion have something wrong with them, or are trying to get beyond an unhappy childhood.”

Luke: “Rabbis know this. That’s why they turn away most prospective converts. They seem mentally ill.”

Miriam Lilian D Or: “Or criminals trying to find forgiveness from their crimes through a deity. I do have respect for anyone who can convert to Zoroastrian, that’s impossible to get into.”

Cole Tepper: “Convert reporting…I’d have done it much differently had I listened to the wisdom of peers also going through giyur. They ended up more established because they hung around established crowds, while I hung with the party folks in Chabad and fell into the allure of it all. It took time to see that the allure covers much darker things, and that really a lot of theological beliefs unique to Chabad have no relevance in my life. Really, I’d have been better off nutting up and flying here(Israel) sooner. I could’ve done army giyur…or..machon meir. Both would’ve turned out, I think, possibly better.”

Casey: “The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.” -Hafiz

It’s kinda the opposite question: if you were born a Jew, would you want to convert to Christianity? The answer is apparently universally, “uh, no.”

A friend says: A friend says: Dear Luke,

The question worth asking yourself, is not knowing what you know now would you convert to Judaism, but in your case had you been anywhere but the United States (and let’s face it, that means for someone born in Australia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain with the possibility of South Africa pre ANC governance) would you have converted to Judaism.

I believe you needed a sufficiently multicultural environment to feel comfortable converting to Orthodox Judaism. If this is true, it is ironic since only by living in the type of society you deplore would you have considered conversion.

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Diversity As A Threat To Confidence

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian in Australia and Northern California, it never occurred to me in my first 18 years that there might be a religion more true than mine. I had no doubt that Anglo Protestants produced the finest civilization in the world.

I did not know any Catholics, Jews, or Muslims, and therefore I never considered that their ways might be superior to my own.

In my first year of junior college, I met my friend’s mom who said that UCLA was hard for her because there was so many smart Jews. I didn’t quite know what to do with that idea, but it must have troubled my self-confidence because I’ve never forgotten her remark. At the time, I did not know I knew any Jews.

After age 18, I began welcoming some points of view that challenged my own. I was looking to move on from the way I was raised. When I went to UCLA at age 22, I was thrilled by the diversity. I became fascinated by my first experiences with Jews and that led to my conversion to Orthodox Judaism, but if I had never met Jews, it would never have occurred to me to convert to Judaism, or to consider that there was any religion more true than mine.

I suspect that if you grow up in Orthodox Judaism and you have no friends who aren’t Orthodox Jews, it would never occur to you that another way of life might be superior to your own. That seems to be the way the world works from what I have seen. My friends who grew up in this way found college a mind-blowing experience when they met non-Jews who were every bit as smart and in many ways more moral than their own kind. This has led some of my FFB (Frum aka Orthodox Jews from birth) to bouts of self-admitted anti-Semitism. They see that they were propagandized to believe that Jews were superior and it turned out not to be true in many ways, but they feel stuck in their traditional Jewish marriages and communities and can’t leave.

Most Jews I know don’t understand why anyone would convert to Judaism. They feel stuck being Jewish. Most Orthodox Jews I know don’t seem particularly happy about being Orthodox Jews.

Extrapolating from my life experience, I think I understand one motivation for why countries have expelled Jews and other minorities. Who wants that challenge? Who wants that diversity? It is much more comfortable when everyone around you shares your race and religion.

In the Australia that I know, the white Australia of Christian origin, there’s an instinct that everyone who’s not an Aussie is a loser. This strong in-group identity promotes camaraderie among white Australians and hostility to outsiders.

What if one were black and was only friends with blacks and you were near the top of your class in your black school, and then you have to compete with non-blacks at college? That would be dispiriting.

Or imagine you are an Arab living in a Palestine that is 80% Arab (as Palestine was circa 1920) and suddenly your land is taken over by high-IQ Jews. How would you feel when you are expelled from your land? How would you feel when you see that your fellow Arabs have an average IQ of about 85 while Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ above 105? That must produce rage and a willingness to die rather than to live with such humiliation.

I think I understand now why Muslim lands had so many restrictions on Jews. If Jews are granted freedom and equal rights, they will rise to the top and dominate due to their superior intelligence, diligence, drive and group cohesion. How humiliating that must be for non-Jews.

For decades, 90% of Australian immigration has been non-white. As a result, Asians are increasingly the managerial class in Australia. This hurts the confidence and cohesion of white Australians.

Up until the 1960s, America was dominated by Protestants, but increasingly over the past century, Jews have become America’s elite. Jews dominate the media, academia and cultural institutions. How dispiriting and divisive this must be for non-Jews.

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