I don't pay much attention to these people, so it would be no surprise if this problem is worse than I think. (I did pay attention to Carlson for a brief period when he was doing good work...but I've already discussed that). Maybe I need to get back on Twixxer just to see what's up with this--I'm told it's pretty bad on there.
After a decade of DEI and very public/prominent anti-white racism and the "valorization" (a paleo-PC term I can't stand...but I can't think of a better term here) of blacks, even in the face of irrefutable data about violent crime...there's just going to be a kind of backlash on that front. The anti-white racism and favortism toward blacks in prominent court cases like the Trayvon Martin and Daniel Penny cases is not going to just fade from memory immediately. BLM has turned out to be nothing more than a grift...but it's just blatantly ignored by the MSM. If it hadn't been a left-favored organization, there'd have been 100 times more stories about it. The left has made our bed for us... The key is to try to blunt the edge of anger, in part by making it clear that the data will drive the discussion on the right (and, I hope, the center) now.
As for antisemitism...that monster of a problem...well...that's something I've feared all my life--the resurrection of that thing. Note: I'm not even a little bit Jewish, in case you're wondering.
As with the other problem, there's some truth in what the Carlson/Fuentes crowd seem to be saying. Israel is, IMO, too influential in American politics...despite the fact that I'm extremely pro-Israel and believe that there are solid reasons--moral and geopolitical--for the U.S. to have a strong alliance with Israel. But...the degree of influence Israel exerts on us does seem excessive.
Another problem, according to the right, is the prominence of Jews in the leftist intelligentsia. This isn't something I worry about much. For one thing, Jews are just prominent in the intelligentsia generally. There are, for example, lots of Jewish libertarians. So this particular problem doesn't really grab me. Is it worth doing a survey to discover whether Jews are more prominent on the intellectual left than they are on the intellectual right? I mean...that seems a bit much to me...but maybe that's just because I'm nervous about what the conclusion would be...
I do wonder whether Jews might have some tendency to be more theoretical. They have higher-than-average IQs, and a strong scholarly/educational tradition. Just the kinds of things that seem to land people in more theoretical disciplines like philosophy. And, according to me, part of the problem with the left (political and intellectual) is that it's overly-theoretical. Very bad theory, to boot...but just injecting theory into politics is bad enough, IMO... If I'm right about that, and if Jews are predisposed to be more theoretically-minded, then there's your answer... Though I'm not sure that answer will satisfy either side of this disagreement.
By going utterly insane for a decade, the left has set us up for disaster. And I really don't see the right being level-headed enough to resist the allure of a backlash...
As I keep saying, it's probably just a matter of time before the pendulum of crazy swings far enough back to the right that the right again becomes a bigger problem than the left...
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