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An Academic Book on Jewish Subversion of Christmas

Editor’s note: Originally posted in 2012, this article gets at the Jewish ethnic angle behind the “War on Christmas.”

A new book, Joshua Eli Plaut’s A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish, documents what we have known all along: The Jews did indeed subvert Christmas.  This book deserves a full review, but Ethan Schwartz’s summary and comment (“Twas the night after Christmas“) deserve scrutiny. First the summary:

Jews have been the vanguard of an effort to “transform Christmastime into a holiday season belonging to all Americans,” without religious exclusivity.  The most important Jewish mechanisms of secularization are comedy and parody, for laughter undermines religious awe.  Take, for example, Hanukkah Harry from “Saturday Night Live”, who heroically steps in for a bedridden Santa by delivering presents from a cart pulled by donkeys named Moishe, Hershel, and Shlomo.  Remarkably, Hanukkah Harry has emerged as a real Santa-alternative for many American Jews.  Plaut sees such things not as attempts at assimilation but as an intentional subversion of Christmas traditions.  “Through these parodies,” he writes, “Jews could envision not having to be captivated by the allure of ubiquitous Christmas symbols.”  And it isn’t just Jews: for Americans in general, Jewish parody helps ensure that Christmas “not be taken too seriously” and that the celebrations of other traditions “be accorded equal respect and opportunity.”

There seem to be two messages here. One is the message of subversion utilizing ridicule among other methods. The other is that Jews are seen as high-mindedly making Christmas  “into a holiday season belonging to all Americans.” The end result is that Christmas is not “taken too seriously” and the Christian religious aspect central to the traditional holiday is de-emphasized.

People who take their religion seriously do not allow their religion to be ridiculed. One need only think of the Muslim reactions to cartoons ridiculing Mohammed. The fact that Jews have been able to ridicule Christianity without any serious negative consequences is an important marker of Jewish power and an equally strong indication of the decline of Christian religious belief. I suspect that the organized Jewish community would react in outrage if non-Jews ridiculed religious Judaism. Indeed, any criticism of Jews as Jews is off limits in the mainstream media. (A topical short list of verboten topics: the loyalties of neocon Jews and their role in promoting the war in Iraq, the Jewish aspect of the Ivy League admissions scandal, how Jewish control of Hollywood influences media content.) Read more

Leonard Bernstein and the Jewish Cultural Ascendancy – PART 2

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Bernstein’s Mahler obsession

I have previously examined the tendency of Jewish intellectuals to use their privileged status as the self-appointed gatekeepers of Western culture to advance their group interests through the way they conceptualize the artistic and intellectual achievements of Jews and Europeans. Jews have long used their cultural dominance to construct “Jewish geniuses” to enhance ethnic pride and group cohesion (think Einstein). In this endeavor, Jewish music critics and intellectuals have transformed the image of the Jewish composer Gustav Mahler from that of a relatively minor figure in the history of classical music at mid-twentieth century, into the cultural icon of today. The tendency among Jewish intellectuals has been to overstate and ethnically-particularize Jewish achievement, thereby making it a locus for ethnic pride. Meanwhile, European achievement is downplayed, or where undeniable, universalized and thus neutralized as a potential basis for White pride and group cohesion.

Leonard Bernstein played a leading role in the development of the Mahler cult and the movement of the composer’s music to the center of the classical repertory. The proliferation of performances of Mahler’s music in the United States between 1920 and 1960 can be ascribed to the combined efforts of Bernstein and a coterie of Jewish advocates like Bruno Walter, Arnold Schoenberg, Theodor Adorno, Aaron Copland, and Serge Koussevitzky. Lionizing Mahler as the saintly Jewish victim of European injustice, the Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg “canonized Mahler as ‘this martyr, this saint’ and in a Prague lecture in March 1912 announced: ‘Rarely has anyone been so badly treated by the world; nobody, perhaps, worse.’”[1] Frankfurt School music theorist Theodor Adorno later took up this theme, affirming that:

Mahler’s tonal chords, plain and unadorned, are the explosive expressions of the pain felt by the individual subject imprisoned in an alienated society. … They are also allegories of the lower depths of the insulted and the socially injured. … Ever since the last of the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Mahler was able to convert his neurosis, or rather the genuine fears of the downtrodden Jew into a vigor of expression whose seriousness surpassed all aesthetic mimesis and all the fictions of the stile rappresentativo.”[2]

Bernstein likewise conceptualized Mahler as a cruelly persecuted and alienated Jew torn apart by dualisms: “composer/conductor, Christian/Jew, sophisticate/naïf, provincial/cosmopolitan — all of which contributed to the musical schizo-dynamics of his texture, and his ambivalent tonal attitudes.”[3] Bernstein advocated for Mahler with missionary zeal, introducing the symphonies to audiences from New York to Vienna. He considered Mahler “the twentieth century’s musical prophet, whose extremes spoke for the times, and thought his symphonies constituted ‘as sacred a bunch of notes as Brahms’s symphonies.’”[4] While all Mahler’s works were available singly on recordings, it was Bernstein who first recorded the complete set of symphonies. Read more

Leonard Bernstein and the Jewish Cultural Ascendency — PART 1

Introduction

2018 marks the centenary of the birth of Jewish-American conductor, pianist, composer and teacher Leonard Bernstein. This milestone has seen a global bonanza of 2,500 concerts, programs, exhibitions and theatrical productions. Bernstein features prominently in the pantheon of “Jewish geniuses” as designated by the West’s Jewish-dominated cultural and intellectual establishment. Bernstein’s centenary year inevitably yielded hagiography: for his Jewish biographer Allen Shawn, he was not just a “genius” but “a powerful cultural and political voice and symbol, transcending all categories.”[1] Mark Horowitz, curator of an exhibition at Philadelphia’s Jewish museum celebrating Bernstein’s “pride of tribe,” fully endorses this view, while for the Jewish music writer for the New Yorker, Alex Ross, Bernstein remains “American music’s dominant figure.”

Bernstein lived during the heyday of the recording industry, at the dawn of the television era and of video recording. He left behind what is possibly the most extensive documentation in recordings, films, and on paper of any musician in history. His archive at the Library of Congress already lists some 400,000 items.[2] During the 1950s and 1960s Bernstein was not only the best known of all American classical musicians; his fame rivalled that of Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. Attitudes to Bernstein varied dramatically during his lifetime, and many responded negatively to the fact he was so visible, so outspoken, so dramatic, and so politically active on the left.

Famous for his flamboyantly extroverted temperament, Bernstein was a “personality on such a big scale that he would naturally manage to offend many people along the way. … His self-regard and need for attention were also, to be sure, extreme.”[3] Bernstein’s brash self-confidence and monstrous ego incurred the enmity of many of those he encountered. He “loved to be the center of attention, even if it meant being obnoxious” observed a fellow student at the Curtis School of Music who noted that his “extroversion was extreme.”[4] John Rockwell, writing for the New York Times in 1986, observed that “It is quite a remarkable personality, for better and for worse, the defines every aspect of his near-manic existence. There are those who still find him inherently annoying — when he shoots off what he likes to call his ‘big Jewish mouth,’ when he prances and gyrates on the podium, when he seems to squander his compositional gifts in flashy trivia or overwrought excess.”[5] Bernstein’s own children pointed out his unsurpassed ability to become emotional on his own behalf, to “move himself.”[6]

Bernstein’s unusual, extremely emotional, visual presentation was his trademark as a conductor. He conducted with his entire body in a style that led to much criticism and derision over the years. German composer Gunther Schuller, for example, observed that Bernstein was “one of the world’s most histrionic and exhibitionistic conductors.” Schuller saw Bernstein as a musician with “very little discipline and no shame,” whose interpretation of Brahms’ First Symphony contained “too much of an ‘oy-vey’ Weltschmerz to be bearable.”[7] Read more

Whites as Witches: “We Must Be Eternally Vigilant against Racism”

As Mark Twain probably never said: “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.” Old patterns return in new forms, ancient errors and superstitions slide back into unsuspecting modern minds. It’s very unwise for liberals in 2018 to think themselves superior to the past, because in some ways they’re far inferior. If you believe in the supernatural and accept the existence of an immaterial, spiritual realm, there’s nothing irrational about also believing in miracles and witchcraft.

The irrationality of liberalism

Modern liberals reject the supernatural and embrace materialism. At the same time, they believe in miracles and witchcraft. This is highly irrational. As I described in “Dawkins’ Demon,” liberals scornfully reject the idea that a single human being, Jesus Christ, was miraculously born to a virgin about 2,000 years ago in a tiny region called Palestine. Instead, they fervently embrace the idea that billions of human beings have been miraculously born for many millennia over vast stretches of the earth’s surface.

This is because liberals believe that the human brain, unlike all other parts of the material body, was miraculously shielded from evolution when human beings migrated from Africa and entered new and often very different environments in Europe, Asia and the Americas. And liberals believe in a further miracle: that when  some groups of Homo sapiens interbred with distinct human species like the Neanderthals and Denisovans, the new genes they acquired had no effects on their cognition and psychology. Liberals know this because “There is Only One Race — the Human Race.” For many thousands of years all human beings, no matter how different their environments, have kept the same average range of cognitive abilities and psychological traits.

New ways of saying “witchcraft”

In short, liberals think that we’re all the same under the skin. And if some groups do less well than others in an advanced Western democracy, there can be only one explanation. Witchcraft! Liberals don’t call it that, of course. Instead, they use terms like racism, sexism and Islamophobia. But the underlying concepts and psychology are the same as those that worked in ancient and medieval Europe. And that still work in many parts of the modern world. In Black Africa and the Black African diaspora, belief in witchcraft and magic is still widespread and powerful. Albinos and others are butchered for their magically potent body-parts in Tanzania and South Africa, sometimes while still alive. Adults and children are sacrificed to the spirits in return for material success and riches in Nigeria and Uganda.

Children are also sacrificed for those things in Western nations. In 2001, the headless torso of a young Black boy was retrieved from the river Thames in London. Named Adam by the British police, he had been poisoned and dismembered as part of a magical ritual. And the British police have spent a great deal of time and money trying to find his killers. The same police would also be eager to arrest anyone who said that migration by Black Africans into the West is a very bad idea. People who accept barbarisms like child sacrifice and child exorcism are not likely to be valuable citizens of a Western nation. And they’re not: Blacks in Britain hit the headlines for their criminality, not their contributions to science and high technology.

Whites are to blame

But they’re not to blame for this. When Blacks and other non-Whites in London fail at school, throw acid, and commit murder with guns and knives, this says nothing about non-White genetics and everything about White racism. After all, genes are material things, susceptible to scientific investigation and analysis. How could a mere chemical like DNA affect human cognition and psychology, which long ago slipped the surly bonds of matter and soared into the psychic empyrean? No, for secularist liberals it’s obvious that non-White failure and criminality must be blamed on the supernatural force of White racism.

When Blacks murder Blacks, Whites are to blame

That is certainly the only explanation on offer in an anti-racist investigation launched by the Guardian in December 2018. It carries the portentous title “Bias in Britain” and bewails such things as the way White men pass driving-tests at a higher rate than Black women. What more proof do you need that witchcraft at work? According to liberal ideology, human beings of all colours are the same under the skin, with the same cognitive abilities. Therefore non-Whites or women should succeed at exactly the same rates as Whites or men. If this doesn’t happen, then the more successful group must be guilty of racism or sexism. In the case of Black women and driving-tests, it’s both. Black women are the innocent victims of sexist racism and racist sexism. Read more

Tis The Season for Love

‘Tis the Season: A Pro-White, Pro-Natal TV Movie

Last year just before Christmas a movie caught my attention because it’s one of the rare pro-White modern Christmas movies, and, for added surprise, it is also pro-natal. Try to name any Hollywood film or any kind of TV fare that fits that bill.

The movie is called  ‘Tis the Season for Love (2015) and it comes from the Hallmark Channel.

In this day and age with the war on Christmas in full swing and at a time when births to White parents are way, way down historically, what a treat it is to have one movie straight out of the maw of our entertainment industry that shows for one woman, life in a small town with a traditional man beats out the “You Go, Girl” life of a single woman in New York City. And there is not an ounce of irony in the entire movie.

Here is Hallmark’s summary of the show:

Beth Baker is an out-of-work actress stuck in New York City without her friends at Christmas time. She decides to return home to the quaint small town she escaped 10 years before and finds a place far different than the hamlet she left. She suddenly finds performing possibilities and even romance that kind of blow her away. Will the holidays prove to be as magical for Beth as they appear, or is Christmas magic doomed to disappear as quickly as it arrived for a lady who is ready to take chances she could never have imagined a decade before? Then again, this is the kind of thing that seems to happen during the Christmas season all the time.

Further, this movie got some serious numbers—2.3 million viewers at its debut three years ago. As far as I can tell, there has been no backlash against the movie, its actors, or its creators, and this year Hallmark again ran it. My own motive for highlighting this movie is to give TOO readers a small Christmas present as we head into the thick of the Christmas season. To be honest, so much of my own cultural criticism has been negative and pessimistic — if only because circumstances and honesty dictate it. So I’d like to offer something positive at this wonderful time of year. Read more

Will Genetic Engineering Save the White Race?

Globalists have used social engineering to procure power and profits in the Western world. Social engineering can be described as psychological persuasion with rewards and repercussions. It’s a form of manipulation that’s based on deception, and gift wrapped as propaganda. Propaganda always has a target audience. For the globalists, it’s primarily White people.
Oddly enough, these self-identified haters of hate, who love White-shaming, proudly march under their inclusive banner of tolerance. For them, progress means a world with White people at the back of the line. And for some, including the UMass professor, it even means a world without White people.

If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world! They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites! At least a White woman are having sex with Black men and making mulatto babies. But White men don’t seem attracted to Black women. They’re good for nothing.

Unlike their nonsensical memes, a world with fewer White people isn’t just an anti-White’s fantasy. It’s an observable phenomenon. The percentage of the world’s White population will reach single digits by 2060, down from almost 30% in 1950:

As a percentage of world inhabitants, the white population will plummet to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of 27.98% in 1950.

But as the globalist’s attempt to socially engineer White Genocide, scientists are busy perfecting genetic engineering, which could ironically reverse the rapid decline of the world’s White population:

Humanity was reluctantly dragged into a new era this week.

In a video posted on YouTube, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced to the world that he successfully used the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to modify the DNA of two embryos before birth, essentially creating the world’s first genetically modified humans.
The news, delivered on the eve of a high-profile scientific meeting in Hong Kong on human gene editing, left the science community in shock. “I see it as one of those moments that happens once every few decades,” said William Hurlbut, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University Medical Center’s Department of Neurobiology. “Where someone does something that so dramatically changes the landscape that the world will never be the same again.”

Gene-editing via technology like CRISPR is going to alter humanity as we know it. Just as evolution dethroned creation, biotechnology will ultimately supplant evolution. And we aren’t just talking about the elimination of cancer, or immunity to the flu. This technology will not only change how we view race, but how we view the human race. At some point there will likely be a GMO race of humans that will be superior in many ways to non-GMO humans.

If the non-White world is able to affordably choose the genetics of their children, how many would opt for White features? (Regardless of what People magazine says, blond hair, blue eyes and pale skin is the gold standard of beauty.) And even though virtue-signaling actors/actresses would probably still adopt Africans to pose with on the cover of magazines, many people, including the wealthy and powerful, would opt for genetically modified children who look White.

It’s possible to foresee a genesis generation of elite designer GMO babies. They’ll have some variance of White features, disease immunity, excellent athletic ability, chiseled physical attributes, charming personalities, high IQs and lifelong 20/20 vision (unless myopia is an inevitable genetic by-product of high IQ).

Of course, such individuals would not really be White. If one were to include them in a population genetic study, they would inevitably group with their racial/ethnic group that their parents came from because the vast majority of their autosomes would not be manipulated and would remain typical of other members of their parents genetic background. It would be an illusory version of Whiteness.

Consider this: Because of the inevitable role of traits like IQ, conscientiousness, and good looks in upward mobility, these children will be prone to attaining and remaining among the elite. How will this generation of GMO elites influence the world? Well, it depends on how they are programmed.

What if, besides traits like IQ and conscientiousness, these people were programmed for sociopathy — a trait that makes people more likely to exploit others and certainly has a genetic basis? Lots of sociopaths are quite successful—Bill and Hillary Clinton come to mind. Sociopaths who are impulsive and stupid are prone to getting caught. But a high-IQ, conscientious sociopath could be a future president of the United States. Such a combination of traits would make the person unscrupulous in pursuing fame and fortune, without a trace of guilt. And he or she would have the intelligence and work ethic to succeed at it, so that such a person would be likely to become a card-carrying member of our hostile elite. We would essentially be creating a master-race of power-hungry, unscrupulous  individuals intent on world dominion.

And if such people were also prone to be ethnocentric (also genetically influenced), we would have created people who would be willing to direct their sociopathy at exploiting and dominating outgroups while favoring their ingroup. Indeed, this is a remarkably accurate portray of many members of our current hostile elite—the Jewish billionaires who dominate the political donor class and favor candidates willing to promote the dispossession of White America while also supporting their ethnostate in the Middle East. It is certainly not far-fetched to suppose that selection for particular traits within the Jewish community over hundreds of years has in fact produced people with exactly these traits: high IQ, conscientiousness, ethnocentrism, and willingness to exploit and dominate outgroups.

Let’s return to our White-looking GMO with an autosomal base from some other racial/ethnic group. Then let’s imagine a scientist willing and able to include genes that would effectively promote White ethnocentrism. There is research showing that the beginnings of ethnocentrism occur when babies experience the family members around them — the people who are most likely to look like them (here, pp. 37-38).. Such genes would make people prone to help people and identify with people who look like themselves. Since people from the traditional European homelands of the White race would look our putative genetic creation, they would grow up to be ethnocentric White people bent on helping others with a European genetic background. And if they were sociopathic, they would be willing to do so even at the expense of non-White outgroups. This would essentially create people who are quite analogous to many members of our current hostile elite, except that they would favor White people.

Unfortunately, the most likely scenario is that such a master race would be created by the Chinese rather than Europeans. The Chinese, freed from the post-World War II taboos on eugenics that dominate the West, are the world leaders in genome research. The Chinese government spent a record $254 billion on research and development in 2017. That amount, and their fertile ground for research, has lured the world’s leading scientists to come (or return) to China. Read more

Biocentric Political Thought in the Third Reich: A Review of Johann Chapoutot’s The Law of Blood

The Law of Blood
Johann Chapoutot
La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi
Paris: Gallimard, 2014
(English translation by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018, in press)

“I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” — Walter Sobchak

In today’s culture, any nationalist activist, or really anyone who is politically incorrect, is liable to be labeled a “Nazi” and compared to Adolf Hitler. This is so even when the comparison is patently absurd and the person in question is obviously not a “Nazi”: whether the conservative French patriot Jean-Marie Le Pen, the anti-Zionist mixed-race Franco-Cameroonian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, or indeed the populist civic nationalist Donald Trump. Comparisons to fascism are also de rigueur whenever the Western politico-media Establishment wishes to demonize a foreign leader who refuses to kneel, such as Slobodan Milošević or Vladimir Putin.

The reason such individuals are called “Nazis” and compared to Hitler is typically not because of any formal ideological similarities — none of those above have ever championed a totalitarian dictatorship or any kind of systematic racial or anti-Semitic politics — but for more emotional, civil-religious reasons.[1] In the current culture, “Nazi” or “Hitler” is simply the meanest name one can call someone (hence the phenomenon of Godwin’s law) — the designated term for anyone violating the orthodoxies of political correctness. Political correctness, in turn, has steadily shifted leftwards and radicalized over the years. This means that, today, if people adopt the opinions of prominent anti-Nazis like Charles de Gaulle or Winston Churchill (who were both racialist proud of their White identity and moderately Judeo-critical), they will, however absurdly, be sure to be called “Nazis.”

However, eventually a reaction sets in. Nationalists and free-thinkers will tend to become curious: what did Hitler and the National Socialists actually think? Am I, the so-called Nazi heretic, really like them? Were they — the designated worst evil of human history —  really that bad? These questions — as writers such as Irmin Vinson and Greg Johnson have noted —  are irrelevant to the legitimacy of ethnic Europeans’ right to live and prosper in their own homelands.[2] Furthermore, and quite obviously for anyone who examines the topic, the fact is that there are innumerable differences between historical German National Socialism and contemporary European nationalisms and White advocacy.

Nonetheless, National Socialism remains a historically and politically important subject, the genesis and downfall of which remains crucial to understanding the development of Western civilization in the twenty-first century. We can then salute the French historian Johann Chapoutot who in his La loi du sang: Penser et agir en nazi has provided a formidable intellectual history of official thought in the Third Reich.[3] Chapoutot, who had previously written a somewhat less fair-minded but still useful book on National Socialist Germany’s infatuation with Greco-Roman civilization,[4] can be credited for showing why and how so many Germans found National Socialism to be both intellectually and emotionally compelling. Read more