How the Jews are becoming white

At The Occidental Observer, Edmund Connelly writes on the emerging trend of young Jews making light of Jewish stereotypes:

One hardly knows what to make, then, of recent examples where young Jews really push the envelope on exposing their own power or even crimes, all done with cutting humor. For instance, the whole question of Jewish power in Hollywood and in TV is a touchy one. In his excellent study The Jews of Prime Time, David Zurawik asks, “What is ‘too Jewish’ yet not Jewish enough?”  Answer: “the strange history of Jewish characters on prime-time network television.” The incongruence to which he refers comes from the fact that nearly all the top TV executives and producers were Jewish, yet they were ambivalent about portraying their own high status or that of Jews in other important areas of American life. To illustrate, he begins with an interview with Jewish comedian Al Franken (now a Senator from Minnesota). Zurawik’s direct access to Franken and TV mogul Brandon Tartikoff provides an inside view of Jewish thinking on the “too Jewish” issue.

Why, then, did the heavily Jewish Saturday Night Live crew ever create — let alone run — a skit that makes fun of the prominent role Jews played in the financial meltdown? The skit spoofs Jews such as Herbert and Marion Sandler, Congressman Barney Frank, and even George Soros. Here’s the unadulterated original version.

More pointedly, however, I think the Jews behind the skit [a recent Onion video - ed.] (again, I have to assume this because I can’t imagine non-Jews ever daring to create images such as these) are getting a thrill out of scaring and offending older Jews. It’s a very adolescent thing — to scandalize your parents. For a young Jew in America today, where physical safety has also been guaranteed and financial or job prospects never a true worry, what can beat the frisson of excitement associated with tweaking the noses of the goyim with some secrets about the tribe and in the process really upsetting mom, dad and uncle Bernie down at the country club in Miami?

In response to Observer editor Kevin MacDonald’s request for suggestions as to why the Jewish Borg Hive Mind would allow this to occur, my dear frenemy Matt Parrott gave his take:

I agree with Connelly that it’s generational, but I think it has less to do with teasing the parents than it does with failing to take antisemitism as seriously as their forebears. I believe Joel Stein’s notorious article naming Who runs Hollywood illustrates the “generation gap” that Connelly was getting at. The comfortable and sarcastic younger Jew doing a piece on how Jews really do run Hollywood contrasted against Foxman acknowledging the obvious and telling him to shut up about it.

These integrated cosmopolitan atheist Jews don’t realize the magnitude of the forces at play. They think that the goyim (perceived by them through only the thin slice of philo-semitic White elites they’re exposed to) are completely harmless, that the tiger is completely housebroken and safe to poke, prod, and tease.

This is right and wrong. Parrott is correct that young Jews don’t perceive anti-Semitism to be a threat, but his implication that they’re joking about Jewish power to rub it in the faces of the “completely housebroken” goyim is typical white nationalist paranoia. It’s not all about YOU, sweetheart.

The reason young American Jews are so cavalier about anti-Semitic stereotypes is because they are almost completely disconnected from their Judaism. As far as they’re concerned, their Jewishness is nothing more than a prop to be used in asserting their individuality. Only someone who has zero respect for their heritage and culture would dare make jokes about the worst aspects of their tribe. I covered this back in June when I wrote that young American Jews are increasingly indifferent to Israel, a major break with their parents’ generation.

The fact is that all white Americans of my generation are like this – little knowledge and no respect for their tribal cultures, beyond what they can use to brag to their friends. When I was in college and high school, one of the standard topics for making small talk when you met someone else was your ethnic heritages. The more heritages you had and the more exotic, the better. “So Ferd, what’s your heritage?” “French-Canadian, Anglo-Canadian, Italian, Polish and a bit of Algonquin Indian.” You get the idea. Me and my friends typically fling ethnic insults at each other – the Irish are micks, the Italians are greaseballs, and I’m a frog – and it’s all in good fun. None of us would dare do it to our parents or grandparents, because they’d understandably take offense – if I ever cracked a joke about “wops” to my Italian grandfather, he wouldn’t hesitate to haul off and punch me in the face.

And none of us know jack about our tribal cultures. We don’t speak the languages, we’ve never visited the homeland, and half of us probably would have trouble pointing it out on a map. If you’re Italian, you know that Italy is somewhere in the Mediterranean and that they eat pasta. If you’re Irish, you know that you get to eat corned beef and cabbage and drink green beer until you puke on March 17th each year. That’s it. The only thing I ever learned from any of my cultural backgrounds is my mom’s recipe for tasty, gristle-free Italian meatballs. My generation is a tribeless generation, with no culture beyond mindless consumerism. And why should we care? Our ancestors crossed the Atlantic eons ago, and time and distance have severed our bonds.

Our Jewish brethren are part and parcel of the same generation. Liberalism may have gotten to them a bit late, but it’s destroying them all the same. Their lack of loyalty to the tribe is even more shocking considering their parents’ fruitless attempts to get them to give a crap about their culture. All the Hebrew schooling, Taglit-Birthright trips and Hillel sleepovers aren’t doing a damn thing. Most of the Jews my age might as well be gentiles for all the respect they give to their forerunners’ traditions. They don’t go to synagogue, they eat pork, and they casually point out the influence Jews have in American society because they think it’s all a big joke. The Jews of today feel free to profane what is sacred because they don’t consider it sacred and never have.

But of course, you may not be interested in tribalism, but tribalism is sure interested in you. Just because young Jews don’t care for Judaism doesn’t mean that non-Jews will see it the same way. I’ll quote Matt again:

They might be right. They might not. I’m with Foxman on this, and believe they’re pulling a Siegfried and Roy stunt with their failure to maintain the taboo against drawing attention to Jewish power. These anti-Semitic patterns of thought are serious business. The Saxon may yet begin to hate. Jews might be, as mindweapon put it: ”sharpening the knives and cackling triumphantly all too soon.”

I echo his concern, but for different reasons. The Jews of yesteryear should be scared shitless at how their children are behaving, not because they’re drawing attention to the mythical man behind the curtain, but because they’re burning everything that they should be holding dear in the liberal bonfire. If this isn’t cultural suicide, I don’t know what is.

Tagged as: Edmund Connelly, Judaism, Matt Parrott