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@ProfDBernstein
Nov 3 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
There's a noticeable dearth of commentary on the left about Carlson-Fuentes-gate. Shouldn't this be their big moment in the sun? They have been claiming for decades that if you scratch the surface of American right, you will fight racists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis. 1/
Why aren't they screaming "we were right" from the rooftops? And I'm afraid the answer is, at best, that they are enjoying watching the American conservative movement implode. And at worst, they are happy the antisemites are coming out of woodwork because they think that 2/
it will hurt Israel, and that is their current obsession, and they aren't going to let their "principles" about racism, sexism, nativism, and so on, or even their specific hatred of Naziism, get in the way. /end

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Oct 31
Well, Ron should have rethought the last sentence, but there is an important point here: Christianity has historically defined Judaism by its rejection of Jesus. But Jews don't define themselves that way at all. Jesus just isn't part of Judaism, period. 1/
I've met well-meaning Christians who have asked me, "but Jews think that Jesus was a great rabbi, he just wasn't the messiah or Son of God, right?" Nope. Jesus just isn't part of Judaism. He isn't in our holy books, he isn't part of our rabbinical literature, he is just the 2/
leader of a separate religion--a religion, by the way, that Judaism is generally fine with, except for occasional theological debate over the years over whether certain forms of Catholic iconography cross the line into idol worship. 3/
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Oct 31
Again: The rise of identity politics on the right was an entirely predictable reaction to the Great Awokening and its identity politics, including demonizing white people as a class.
That doesn't in any way exonerate the dipsticks who are promoting racism, antisemitism, nativism, and so on. 1/
But again, it was entirely predictable, which I can say because I (among others) predicted it, but any attempts to warn the identitarian left about it were met with one of two objections. 2/
On the more moderate left, we were told not to worry about it because, essentially, "it can't happen here." 3/
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Oct 28
It's important to reiterate that Nazi antisemitism is not only not the only form of antisemitism, it's aberrational in that it thought every Jew an enemy warranting extermination. More standard political antisemitism tends to have a conspiratorial tone blaming Jews for everything, 1/
BUT, it exempts the "right kind" of Jews. The right kind may be Jews who convert to Christianity, Jews who adopt the right political ideology, Jews who join antisemites in attacking other Jews, etc. Antisemite @MearsheimerJ exempts "righteous Jews," for example. 2/
So, to be direct about it: the fact that Mamdani has a reasonably large group of Jewish leftists around him doesn't mean he's not an antisemite. It does mean he's not overly prejudiced against individual Jews, and is willing to accept or even embrace them if they agree with his /3
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Oct 26
In all seriousness, part of the Mamdani phenomenon, and the related growth of "socialism" in the circles of young, highly educated Democrats is that the traditional jobs you'd get as a humanities major from fancy liberal arts colleges--publishing, media, paralegal--have disappeared. 1/
You are an under-30 graduate in English, Art History, etc from the likes of Vassar, Smith, Oberlin, and move to NYC to make your fortune like prior generations. You aren't likely to get a job at the Times, or Harper & Collins, or Sullivan & Cromwell. 2/
So you find yourself working retail or waiting tables, and you are seething with resentment. You did everything you were supposed to. You were a star high school student, you checked every box to get into an elite college, you won the social justice essay competition in your freshman writing seminar. 3/
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Oct 25
If you are philanthropist and want spread ideas you care about, eg pro Israel or pro free market, instead of reinventing the wheel why not look for individuals or institutions that are already doing a good job and ask them if incremental additional resources will help, and how. 1/
You are likely to get a much bigger bang for your buck this way. Imagine for example you find someone who already has a book forthcoming on the topic you care about. That person has already invested a huge amount of time and resources in the book. 2/
But will anyone read it? Maybe 15 or $20,000 will pay for a decent PR campaign to get the author on podcast and on the pages. The author, especially if here she is an academic, may have invested the equivalent of 100 K or more in the project already. 3/
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Oct 22
The essential problem with far leftists and Jews is that not that they harshly criticize Israel and so forth, but that they refuse to apply the analytical frameworks they apply to every other minority group to Jews. 1/
If it weren't Jews and Israel, imagine going to your average leftist and saying, "here's a group that was (literally!) demonized by the Christian majority for centuries, and that were treated as perfidious inferiors by Muslim majorities. 2/
They now have a country of their own, which is also literally being demonized and treated as innately perfidious in the Christian and Muslim worlds. Plus this group was also targeted by extremist right-wingers on secular grounds and subjected to a mass genocide within living memory. 3/
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