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0 pointsunsigner9mo ago0 comments

you're not wrong about most of this, but anti-semitic? he's very openly Jewish

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I don’t claim to understand, but it’s still a theme.

Maybe it’s an elite vs mass culture anti-semitism? Lots of internalized hatred among ‘bougie’ white and black people towards their respective poor strata; why would a Jewish person interested in reactionary politics spare the normies who, on the whole, abhor it?

ceejayoz9mo ago

Pockets of self-hating minorities most certainly exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...

n4r99mo ago

His father was Jewish but his mother is said to be a Protestant. He doesn't describe himself as Jewish as far as I can see.

mikrl9mo ago

Ironically, the same is true of Karl Marx! His father converted to Lutheranism and Karl was baptized as such.

As a young man he wrote a paper on the topical question of the Jews in Prussia[0], regarded in the modern day as antisemitic, though probably tame for the era.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question

n4r99mo ago

Well, except that Karl Marx's mother was Jewish.

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mikrl9mo ago

I don’t claim to understand, but it’s still a theme.

ceejayoz9mo ago

Pockets of self-hating minorities most certainly exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...

n4r99mo ago

His father was Jewish but his mother is said to be a Protestant. He doesn't describe himself as Jewish as far as I can see.

mikrl9mo ago

Ironically, the same is true of Karl Marx! His father converted to Lutheranism and Karl was baptized as such.

As a young man he wrote a paper on the topical question of the Jews in Prussia[0], regarded in the modern day as antisemitic, though probably tame for the era.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question

n4r99mo ago

Well, except that Karl Marx's mother was Jewish.

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