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The Sandra Bernhard monstrosity
Kevin MacDonald
September
24, 2008
I
suppose we could just write off Sandra Bernhard as a nut case and leave it at
that. But the thing is that her rant against
Christianity
and her threatened
gang-rape
of Sarah Palin occurred at Theater
J—J
as in Jewish.
Theater
J is a project of the Jewish
Community Center of Washington. At the bottom of the homepage there is the stamp
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington DC. You can click on tabs for
Jewish Living which direct you to material on classes and retreats.
Another
tab brings you to information on programs for infants, toddlers and school-age
children. About what you would expect at a Jewish community center.
But
then there’s the video
(posted at the Jewish Community Center website) of Bernhard saying about Sarah
Palin, “Don’t you fucking reference the Old Testament, bitch. You stay with your
goyish, crappy, shiksa-funky [or is it "shiksa-fucking"?] bullshit. Don’t you
touch my Old Testament, you bitch. Because we have left it open to
interpretation. It is no longer taken literally. You whore …”
So the
moral high ground comes from having the correct interpretation of the Bible? I
thought that was the sort of thing that people like Palin are accused of. How
very quaint coming from this super edgy and ultra-chic Jewish-lesbian
radical.
This
sort of invective
ruins careers if one substitutes, say, anti-black invective for Bernhard's
anti-goy rant. Heard from Michael
Richards lately? Bernhard can refer to the New Testament as
“goyish, crappy, shiksa-funky bullshit” and it’s a great career move. She gets
rave
reviews
in the mainstream media, including the Washington
Post.
The
audience can be heard laughing and clapping appreciatively in the background
while she says it, and Ari
Roth, the artistic director,
informs us that there are standing ovations after every performance.
Roth’s
defense of the indefensible is a masterpiece of double-think: “There is a
message of hope and ecumenical tolerance at the heart of what we’re trying to
achieve here. Even in Sandra’s show. It’s complicated. It isn’t hate ful [sic]. There’s hope for all of us.”
Yeah,
it’s complicated. Love is hate. Up is down. Black is white. Orwell would love
it. You can just see the ecumenical tolerance and love in her face in this
photo taken during her performance.
The
first take-home message, then, is that Jews don't have to play by the same rules
as the rest of us. In an era when talking disparagingly about other groups is a
sure way to career oblivion, it’s still possible for a Jewish performer to
denigrate the goyim and the Christian religion and to advocate physical
violence and sexual degradation against someone merely because they believe what
most white people believe. And she can do it at a Jewish community
center.
Whites should think about what this really implies about America of the future when whites are a minority and Jews remain as a hostile elite. As I noted elsewhere in commenting on a previous situation where a hostile Jewish elite ruled over a society that they loathed — that is, the Jewish Communists who acted as mass murderers of Christians during a period when Jews were a hostile elite in the Soviet Union:
The
situation prompts reflection on what might have happened in the United States
had American Communists and their sympathizers assumed power. The “red diaper
babies” came from Jewish families which “around the breakfast table, day after
day, in Scarsdale, Newton, Great Neck, and Beverly Hills have discussed what an
awful, corrupt, immoral, undemocratic, racist society the United States
is.”
Indeed, hatred toward the peoples and cultures of non-Jews ... has been the
Jewish norm throughout history—much commented on, from Tacitus to the
present.
It
is easy to imagine which sectors of American society would have been deemed
overly backward and religious and therefore worthy of mass murder by the
American counterparts of the Jewish elite in the Soviet Union.... These [white
Christians] now loom large among the “red state” voters who have been so
important in recent national elections.
Jewish
animosity toward the Christian culture that is so deeply ingrained in much of
America is legendary. As Joel Kotkin points out, “for generations, [American]
Jews have viewed religious conservatives with a combination of fear and
disdain.”
... In the end, the dark view of traditional Slavs and their culture [held by
the Jewish elite in the USSR] is not very
different from the views of contemporary American Jews about a majority of their
fellow countrymen.
Sandra
Bernhard is Exhibit A for this type of contemporary American Jew. And the target
of her wrath is Sarah Palin, the personification of red-state America.
One can imagine the horror that would greet someone who made analogous comments about Judaism or the Holocaust. We doubt that people like Ari Roth would attempt to find nuances and subtleties in such art. There would be no talk of artistic license. No attempts to find deep meanings of tolerance and hope despite the surface message of hatred and the facial expressions of seething rage and sneering contempt.
The
second take-home message is that this sort of hostility to whites and to
Christianity is a mainstream Jewish phenomenon. Whatever else one might say
about Bernhard, she is part of a very large and vibrant Jewish subculture in
America and throughout the West. In this case, it is performed by a Jewish
comedienne at a Jewish community center, with an appreciative audience, many of
whom are doubtless Jewish. And this is no insular culture far removed from the
American mainstream. Rather, her work is reviewed respectfully and even
enthusiastically in the prestigious media.
The hostility of the mainstream Jewish community, and especially the organized Jewish community, to white Europeans and the culture of the West can be seen across the entire Jewish political spectrum, from leftists like Sandra Bernhard to the neoconservative right.
The neocons do not express their contempt with the apoplectic rage of Sandra Bernhard — at least in public. But it's there nonetheless. As Jacob Heilbrunn notes, the neocons had "a lifelong antipathy toward the patrician class." The result, as Norman Podhoretz phrased it, was to proclaim a war against the “WASP patriciate.”
And, like Sandra Bernhard, the neocons aren't very fond of Middle America either. But of course, they aren't in competition with Middle America in their crusade to dominate American foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.
This anti-white hostility
affects a wide range of phenomena, from Jewish involvement in the media—as exemplified by Bernhard, to Jewish involvement in immigration policy.But
it goes even beyond that. Bernhard is quite frank about being a lesbian and
typically draws a large number of the Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender
crowd to her performances. The audience laughing about “big black brothers”
gang-raping a female Republican vice-presidential candidate and trashing the New
Testament is part and parcel of the culture of the left. It is the sort of humor
that would work well among professors at elite universities or op-ed writers at
the New York Times.
This culture of the left therefore includes a lot of non-Jews. Destroying this culture is an enormously uphill battle. It is a culture that is now decades old and entrenched in all the elite power centers of society. The task will not be easy. But, considering what happened in the Soviet Union when a hostile Jewish elite obtained political power and was unleashed on the people and culture they hated, there is an obvious moral imperative in doing so.
