Thread by @OGRolandRat

In this thread we will be considering an extraordinarily candid paper by Stephen Steinlight. Throughout I will refrain from commentary and simply reproduce quotations. I will quote tweet some of these for telegram viewers.

1. Here is go. On page 1 Steinlight calls on the Jewish community to cast aside political correctness to discuss immigration. But why? The quiet part is out loud.

2. Steinlight appeals to the self-interest of his fellow in-group to maintain their “present privilege, success, and power.”

3. He now turns to recognise demographic replacement as an issue and says that despite the official position of organised Jewish groups, privately many Jews are “terrified” of this prospect, but why? We will read on.

4. Before making his argument he stresses that white anti-immigration groups “must not be permitted to play a prominent role” in the debate.

5. Now we get to the only question that matters to this author, and why his readers should care about mass immigration from Mexico.

6. Steinlight worries that the newcomers won’t be as accommodating of his group as legacy Americans are, that Vatican II teachings haven’t reached Latino communities, that they lack familiarity with the Holocaust.

7. Muslims are a particular problem area for Steinlight, more on this later.

8. Now he identifies constitutional democracy and “pluralism” under threat from these new immigrants, as “the chief bulwark protecting America’s Jews.”

9. In an astonishing passage, Steinlight admits that, in 2001, American Jews were at the “high noon” of their political power. He sees Western decline as inevitable after this which is a systematic feature of their thinking: that the fate of the west is tied to their fate.

10. After lamenting the “identity politics” of other groups on page 1, here on page 6 Steinlight laments the decline of a Jewish identity among young Jews and “cheaply exploitative cinematic treatments of the Holocaust.”

11. In another passage of breathtaking candidness, Steinlight says that Jews hold “disproportionate political power” afforded by “great material wealth”.

12. What does that money and influence buy? “Candidates sympathetic to Israel, high church/state separation, and social liberalism combined with selective conservatism”.

13. He worries about the tightly cohesive Jewish vote being overwhelmed by Latinos, but in the short term the principle of the organised minority should hold firm against the disorganised mass of immigrants (elite theory in practice)

14. In surely one of the most jaw-droppingly mask-off and nakedly Machiavellian passages ever written, Steinlight says in the short term the organised Jewish community can “play divide and conquer” with immigrant groups and enter into “selective coalitions”.

15. Steinlight laments the fact that “astoundingly disproportionate” Jewish legislative representation and that 80 percent of the foreign aid budget might not go to Israel.

16. Here Steinlight gives an insight into his own upbringing, which includes being taught “Jewish superiority” to Gentile outsiders.

17. Steinlight confesses to a divided loyalty which was openly encouraged in his upbringing.

18. And now he just comes right out and says it.

19. Did you know an Israeli teenage was permitted, quite literally, to get away with murdering a Latino girl in Maryland? No, me neither.

20. Muslim immigration is especially a problem for Steinlight because of their anti-Zionism.

21. Steinlight laments the fact that Islam hasn’t had its version of Vatican II or “liberal Protestant churches”

22. Now he proposes a “five-fold” Jewish strategy on the Muslim issue. It strikes me that much of this was actually done in the 2000s.

23. Finally, at the end of one of the most jaw-dropping articles I’ve ever read, he backs his friends at MTV to win over the Muslim youth from the mullahs.

24. All I will say is that, aside from all the other remarkable things in that article, is the utter disregard for white Americans whose sole role is to be docile “good” Christians post-Vatican II / from liberal baptist churches. He talks a lot about self-awareness ironically.