There is a big problem with the term 'antisemitism', which is that the term is so over-user that it has become meaningless. When someone who says "Christ is King" and someone who says "The Jews should be tossed into ovens" are both called antisemites, what exactly is the significance of the word?
The term needs a clear definition. E Michael Jones has focused on this issue for decades and argues the legitimate definition of anti-semitism is tied to biological determinism. Bad DNA. A true anti-semite believes Jewish DNA makes people bad. Christians can't be anti-semitic when their religion is based upon people with Jewish DNA.
The weaponized version of anti-semitism seeks to apply the term to any criticism of behavior, for example of Jewish groups like the ADL, AIPAC, and the state of Israel. Or defines anti-semitism as anything a person like Jonathan Greenblatt doesn't like. As long as the definition is vague, it will be wielded as a weapon to shut down dissent.
on the topic of those vile jew-hatred accounts on X, etc, how many of those do we think are bots deployed to disgust and repel normies away from the genuine discussion being held about israeli influence in the US government, ww2, etc? i’ve clicked on quite a few of them and they have like 2 followers and no posts. torba said he blocked indian and israeli IP’s from gab and that kind of shit dropped off precipitously.
Love your work Darryl but I’ll have to disagree with you on this one slightly.
I completely understand the notion of not giving into blind hatred. The results of that we see in the treatment of Palestinians in Israel today. It’s how historical disasters, ethnic cleansing, and pogroms come to fruition.
But in regard to the Zionist takeover of America I’m afraid that you’re not nearly as angry as you should be.
Billions of dollars have been diverted out of the United States and into Israel, more than a million innocent Muslims have been murdered and many millions more displaced, tens of thousands of American soldiers have died and been maimed, and Americans have been deceived and lied to in order to facilitate all of this in the most devious ways.
The situation in Palestine has made it abundantly clear that deception, lies, and misdirection are the primary means of achieving these goals and I’m afraid that staging something like 9/11 in order to achieve these goals is not at all too far fetched for radical Zionists, or any other zealot for that matter.
So yes, we are well advised to not give into blind hatred. It would be a terrible mistake to lump together all Jewish people. But let’s be clear: America has been deeply compromised by Zionists in order to do terrible things around the world that no conscionable American would ever agree to.
So I would say: if you don’t have any strong feelings about this one, you’re doing it wrong. No need to give into blind hatred but have moral clarity about what is happening
Man I kinda needed to read this, it is like a fever that slowly comes on. I personally only know one Jewish guy and I really like him, but since I got on Substack I am seeing them behind every thing I look at.
Your series on the American Labor Movement is in my humble opinion the most important thing Americans need to hear right now. Thank you for all your work.
As someone who came up in the Portland Oregon mid-late 90’s punk scene, I’ve spent a fair bit of time around real neo-Nazis (skin shows were the best).I realized quickly that even if they were 100% correct, I’d rather die than live a life consumed by hatred. I converted to Christianity a decade later, and I thank God that those bastards never got their hooks into me when I was disaffected, stoned, and generally stupid.
So good. To your point about Grandma being shocked by things we take as normal…I shared your Duncan Trussel podcast with my Mom and Dad because I thought it was awesome. We are all Christians and I could have listened to you guys go for another 2 hours. My Dad starts it and says “how can you listen to this?! Every other word is “f*ck” (mostly from DT). I just laugh it off, then I read this Substack post and the Grandma bit seemed so relevant. My parents probably won’t listen. I tried.
Good message you have here though. X is a hot bed for getting stirred up and it’s hard to step back and let go of the feelings of hate. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole and need to throttle back. I miss the days of just being happily ignorant to all of it. The corruption is so intriguing, but like you guys discussed in the podcast, I’m only 1 dude and it’s not on me to change the world (an excellent point). I’m going to try and treat everyone I meet with a little more dignity and respect than I did yesterday. I want to grow and be a good Christian. Thank you for being a good leader and example, DC. Cheers.
Darryl - I’m so glad you almost never swear. It’s so much classier and more respectful when people don’t resort to that. It’s the province of the crass and inarticulate. Thank you. 💗
Well said. Right no more than any culture in world history we have a constant flow of information overwhelming us at every turn. Rather it be disinformation, genuine information, or biased confirmation it’s getting hard to even tell what’s real now a days.
Ok that's nice and all, but how does that solve any problems whatsoever? We have tried to be nice. We have tried all the forms of goodness in the world. Yet we are the bad ones when we don't wish to tolerate what makes us who we are being undermined; we are told we are full of "hatred" for trying to undo those things which are driving our people to degrade themselves in the worst of ways.
And you wish to group us reasonable yet not cowed people in with those who have understandably decided to stop being polite after seeing every go-around at every level be repeated as if on loop? Pardon me if it is not reasonable to conclude all of this, including any niceness we are told to have towards this situation, is all obfuscation to cover up a fight for sovereignty between groups with irreconcilable differences. How could it not be another excuse to make the same cowardly mistakes as have been made before?
This doesn't mention the phenomenon where these groups themselves amplify or create the worst and most absurd kinds of anti-semitism because they know it discredits the well-formed cases which are plenty damning by themselves. One of Hitler's first recorded essays is a call for a more rational anti-semitism. This same thing was an issue back then. There's a lot of good in what you're saying, and the answer to the contradictions in it has already been given. It is possible to be hard on the people who are wronging us without allowing the despair from the crime having happened to ruin you entirely. The thief on the cross who was forgiven still died for his crime.
In most cases, what drives an anti-Semite mad isn't hatred, it's the despondency they see in the world towards the obvious. You yourself bring up Epstein: you say you see these things as wrong, yet you keep yourself from accepting just what kind of action is necessary should anyone be serious about seeing justice which would work to prevent these things from continuing to happen with the tacit consent of our state. You hope there to be some fantastical solution that will bring no pain to anyone. I'm sorry, but that is how it looks to someone who has broken themselves from the liberal stupor.
I do on some level understand what you are trying to do here and appreciate it, whether it is clouded by some delusion that this isn't a conflict to the death between irreconcilable entities whether we want it to be one or not. I view any framing of this as "hate" as an attempt to paint the reality of the situation itself as morally wrong, disarming before a merciless enemy any who accept that frame.
I’ll always support your work. The best out there. And you inspire me to read more. I wasn’t much of a reader until I heard you on jockos podcast 5 years ago now. Gave your backstory and it motivated me to become a reader. Thanks for all your work!
I’ll give the devil his due, the left actually has a good meme about this. There’s a lot of “dark humor” fans who get very, very upset if white people are the butt of any joke.
DO NOT LOOK UP “GOATSE”
Goatse is art. You really need to look at it for a while to truly appreciate it's beauty.
Of course I immediately sent a text to a friend — just that single word. Seemed like an obligation.
There is a big problem with the term 'antisemitism', which is that the term is so over-user that it has become meaningless. When someone who says "Christ is King" and someone who says "The Jews should be tossed into ovens" are both called antisemites, what exactly is the significance of the word?
The term needs a clear definition. E Michael Jones has focused on this issue for decades and argues the legitimate definition of anti-semitism is tied to biological determinism. Bad DNA. A true anti-semite believes Jewish DNA makes people bad. Christians can't be anti-semitic when their religion is based upon people with Jewish DNA.
The weaponized version of anti-semitism seeks to apply the term to any criticism of behavior, for example of Jewish groups like the ADL, AIPAC, and the state of Israel. Or defines anti-semitism as anything a person like Jonathan Greenblatt doesn't like. As long as the definition is vague, it will be wielded as a weapon to shut down dissent.
on the topic of those vile jew-hatred accounts on X, etc, how many of those do we think are bots deployed to disgust and repel normies away from the genuine discussion being held about israeli influence in the US government, ww2, etc? i’ve clicked on quite a few of them and they have like 2 followers and no posts. torba said he blocked indian and israeli IP’s from gab and that kind of shit dropped off precipitously.
Interesting. People are mimetic creatures, though, and we’ll take our cues from bots as easily as humans
Ill give you this, a lot of them are sub continental
yikes - an even darker implementation or some sick blowback.
Lots of wisdom in these words sir. Thanks.
Darryl I just want the revisionist, “Hitler was misunderstood” stuff.
Oh, it's coming.
I love you
Love your work Darryl but I’ll have to disagree with you on this one slightly.
I completely understand the notion of not giving into blind hatred. The results of that we see in the treatment of Palestinians in Israel today. It’s how historical disasters, ethnic cleansing, and pogroms come to fruition.
But in regard to the Zionist takeover of America I’m afraid that you’re not nearly as angry as you should be.
Billions of dollars have been diverted out of the United States and into Israel, more than a million innocent Muslims have been murdered and many millions more displaced, tens of thousands of American soldiers have died and been maimed, and Americans have been deceived and lied to in order to facilitate all of this in the most devious ways.
The situation in Palestine has made it abundantly clear that deception, lies, and misdirection are the primary means of achieving these goals and I’m afraid that staging something like 9/11 in order to achieve these goals is not at all too far fetched for radical Zionists, or any other zealot for that matter.
So yes, we are well advised to not give into blind hatred. It would be a terrible mistake to lump together all Jewish people. But let’s be clear: America has been deeply compromised by Zionists in order to do terrible things around the world that no conscionable American would ever agree to.
So I would say: if you don’t have any strong feelings about this one, you’re doing it wrong. No need to give into blind hatred but have moral clarity about what is happening
We don’t really disagree. Don’t give in to blind hatred was the main point, everything else was just there to make it an essay instead of a tweet.
My thoughts exactly
Man I kinda needed to read this, it is like a fever that slowly comes on. I personally only know one Jewish guy and I really like him, but since I got on Substack I am seeing them behind every thing I look at.
Your series on the American Labor Movement is in my humble opinion the most important thing Americans need to hear right now. Thank you for all your work.
As happy I am that the WW2 series is coming out I was really looking forward to the Haymarket and American Communist Party vs The Mob installments
Can you send me that link, please?
As someone who came up in the Portland Oregon mid-late 90’s punk scene, I’ve spent a fair bit of time around real neo-Nazis (skin shows were the best).I realized quickly that even if they were 100% correct, I’d rather die than live a life consumed by hatred. I converted to Christianity a decade later, and I thank God that those bastards never got their hooks into me when I was disaffected, stoned, and generally stupid.
So good. To your point about Grandma being shocked by things we take as normal…I shared your Duncan Trussel podcast with my Mom and Dad because I thought it was awesome. We are all Christians and I could have listened to you guys go for another 2 hours. My Dad starts it and says “how can you listen to this?! Every other word is “f*ck” (mostly from DT). I just laugh it off, then I read this Substack post and the Grandma bit seemed so relevant. My parents probably won’t listen. I tried.
Good message you have here though. X is a hot bed for getting stirred up and it’s hard to step back and let go of the feelings of hate. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole and need to throttle back. I miss the days of just being happily ignorant to all of it. The corruption is so intriguing, but like you guys discussed in the podcast, I’m only 1 dude and it’s not on me to change the world (an excellent point). I’m going to try and treat everyone I meet with a little more dignity and respect than I did yesterday. I want to grow and be a good Christian. Thank you for being a good leader and example, DC. Cheers.
Darryl - I’m so glad you almost never swear. It’s so much classier and more respectful when people don’t resort to that. It’s the province of the crass and inarticulate. Thank you. 💗
My general rule of thumb is that there is a difference between Noticing and Obsessing.
Good rule
Well said. Right no more than any culture in world history we have a constant flow of information overwhelming us at every turn. Rather it be disinformation, genuine information, or biased confirmation it’s getting hard to even tell what’s real now a days.
Man those old OG boards were a special place.
Imagine me finding out back then that my daughter was in some of those chat rooms.
There were no girls on the internet.
It was a Chat Room that was "iffy" for a 9th grade girl.
I don't follow. Are you being sarcastic?
Ok that's nice and all, but how does that solve any problems whatsoever? We have tried to be nice. We have tried all the forms of goodness in the world. Yet we are the bad ones when we don't wish to tolerate what makes us who we are being undermined; we are told we are full of "hatred" for trying to undo those things which are driving our people to degrade themselves in the worst of ways.
And you wish to group us reasonable yet not cowed people in with those who have understandably decided to stop being polite after seeing every go-around at every level be repeated as if on loop? Pardon me if it is not reasonable to conclude all of this, including any niceness we are told to have towards this situation, is all obfuscation to cover up a fight for sovereignty between groups with irreconcilable differences. How could it not be another excuse to make the same cowardly mistakes as have been made before?
This doesn't mention the phenomenon where these groups themselves amplify or create the worst and most absurd kinds of anti-semitism because they know it discredits the well-formed cases which are plenty damning by themselves. One of Hitler's first recorded essays is a call for a more rational anti-semitism. This same thing was an issue back then. There's a lot of good in what you're saying, and the answer to the contradictions in it has already been given. It is possible to be hard on the people who are wronging us without allowing the despair from the crime having happened to ruin you entirely. The thief on the cross who was forgiven still died for his crime.
In most cases, what drives an anti-Semite mad isn't hatred, it's the despondency they see in the world towards the obvious. You yourself bring up Epstein: you say you see these things as wrong, yet you keep yourself from accepting just what kind of action is necessary should anyone be serious about seeing justice which would work to prevent these things from continuing to happen with the tacit consent of our state. You hope there to be some fantastical solution that will bring no pain to anyone. I'm sorry, but that is how it looks to someone who has broken themselves from the liberal stupor.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
I do on some level understand what you are trying to do here and appreciate it, whether it is clouded by some delusion that this isn't a conflict to the death between irreconcilable entities whether we want it to be one or not. I view any framing of this as "hate" as an attempt to paint the reality of the situation itself as morally wrong, disarming before a merciless enemy any who accept that frame.
I’ll always support your work. The best out there. And you inspire me to read more. I wasn’t much of a reader until I heard you on jockos podcast 5 years ago now. Gave your backstory and it motivated me to become a reader. Thanks for all your work!
Who's going to tell Douglas Murray and James Lindsay that you didn't give them the answer here they thought (and to be honest) hoped you would give?
I couldn't care less what they think.
But they both just lost the millions they could have made denouncing you if you had just been the bigot they wanted you to be...
I’ll give the devil his due, the left actually has a good meme about this. There’s a lot of “dark humor” fans who get very, very upset if white people are the butt of any joke.