More on Ye
This post is a lightly edited version of my reply to a commenter on an earlier post.
I could defend Jews and Judaism until the cows come home. I have answers to many of the criticisms commonly leveled against us, including by Ye, but I believe they miss the point, which is this:
We're good at certain things. Both Jews and Asians (in general) are raised in households where the understanding of both hierarchies and certain kinds of quasi-mathematical relationship are implicitly taught. This is not done instrumentally, it's just part of the culture. The conceptual languages each culture speaks (which are not the same, but are related) are behind the Jewish verbal cleverness that leads to us being famous as comedians and behind Asian mathematical skill.
Again, THIS IS NOT TAUGHT INSTRUMENTALLY. We don't have conversations where we tell our kids "Your job when you get big and strong is to plot to destroy the Gentiles." It's that people who aren't raised to think about the world in these terms don't always recognize that the cultural languages people speak at home are subtly different. I discuss them a lot on this blog as "social languages." I believe in cultural exchange, which is why I teach those languages, and the concepts that underlie them.
Now. You have a group that is naturally good at understanding hierarchies, and whose entire cultural sense of humor is based on the recognition of the discrepancies between implicit and explicit social rules. That's the basis of the Jewish social language, and what differentiates it from other social languages. You've also got people in every culture who want to be socially dominant. (Social dominance isn’t an interest of mine; I've been vocal about my distaste for the dominance-oriented mindset and consistently pushed the prestige-oriented mindset of the Founders of this great country at every opportunity.) Those people see the utility of our social language. But rather than learning it, they give some of us a place at the table in exchange for our assistance and our loyalty, and they use as as scapegoats when required.
We're weapons to them. They've learned that our language can be weaponized, and so they put us in positions where we can use it effectively in ways that benefit them, and sometimes directly incentivize us to do so.
I'm a man. I'm no one's fucking weapon.
That's the big secret. It's not a conspiracy, or rather, it's not one conspiracy. It's people who see a useful tool, and they use it (us, and our language), and it plays a part in a lot of conspiracies. (Read the work of Michael Parenti if you want a better grasp of what the conspiracies actually are, and how they work. Most of them are simultaneously much more banal and much more awful than you think.)
And what you do to defend yourself is you identify the monsters. Cui bono. Who benefits? And you learn how the rules work, the implicit ones and the explicit ones, and the ways the delta between them is used against you. I teach that. You can read about some of the tactical uses of language and rules in this newsletter.
And you don't treat people like things, and you don't allow others to be treated that way.
That's what I have to say on the subject of "The Jews."
These issues seem to be complicated by the ambiguity surrounding the term "Jewish," which could be referring to culture, religion, or ethnicity, and these different meanings are often conflated and used interchangebly. Most Jews are a million miles away from the "George Soros/Rothschild/Zelensky" cabal (which may or may not exist, but its existence would explain some otherwise strange phenomena), and they will never know anyone connected to such a cabal (if it exists), but when this rumored-to-exist cabal wreaks enough havoc, the backlash gets misdirected at regular Jews who have no connection to the alleged cabal but are scapegoated for its crimes anyway. Meanwhile, the Soroses and Rothchilds (and their gentile bedfellows) find a way to profit from it all.
It's a similar dynamic to generic white people, in a way. The disproportionate whiteness of the elite class is supposedly evidence of white privilege, but the DEI "reforms" seem to negatively impact only non-elite whites, while leaving the true elites untouched, which is probably why DEI is so popular among white elites.
On a different note, so much great comedy comes out of Jewish culture, and what you say, about how Jewish language and concepts point to an awareness of the discrepancies between written and unwritten rules in a culture (also something terrifically jarring to autistic minds), is really interesting as an explanation for this source of Jewish comedic genius.
Whether we agree with him or not, we support Kanye’s right to say whatever he wants as per the rights he was born with, rights whom his ancestors were for far too long denied, without fear of reprisals from anyone.