Untangling the JQ: From Culture and Identity to The Culture of Critique
The time has finally come to try and untangle the threads of the Jewish Question, or the JQ as it is commonly known, and to at least start to understand the effects that the Jews have had historically and continue to have on Western society. The issue has been creeping up on me for some time and in recent weeks has grown from a niggling suspicion to something I really cannot avoid discussing.
I’m aware of the toxicity of the subject and I must admit I’m not unconcerned about the prospect of losing yet another group of friends due to my willingness to speak about the unspeakable. However, I’ve dealt with Brexit, Trump, Islam and Race Realism and survived so in for a penny, in for a pound or in for an agora, in for a shekel, as the Jews might say.
Neither Here Nor There
Needless to say, I’ve never felt any particular sympathy or antipathy towards the Jews. When I lived in North London in the 1980s, I admit I found the Orthodox Jews there a little odd and as a nominal lefty throughout most of my life I suppose I broadly favoured the Palestinian cause over the Israeli one but the Jews’ right to a homeland after the Holocaust was always a strong counter argument so I wasn’t particularly inclined either way.
Furthermore, I have generally found the secular Jews I’ve met (when I was aware that that was what they were) to be pleasant and amenable. I suppose my main grudge against the Jewish people has always been my intense dislike for Woody Allen and his films, particularly when I heard he was making one about my hometown of Barcelona, but other than that the Jewish Question had never really impinged on my consciousness.
However, over the last couple of years as I’ve spent more time researching the Left and Globalist Elites and the connection between the two, more and more Jewish names kept cropping up. In fact, about a year ago, I asked my Israeli friend Brian of London about the connection between Judaism and Socialism and he responded along the lines that it was a coincidence and Left-wing Jews weren’t representative of the majority. I think he responded in a similar way when I asked him about George Soros.
Culture and Identity
My interest in Jews, Judaism and Israel inevitably increased back in November when Brian and I started having our weekly video discussions on the topic of Culture and Identity. The first conversations centred on Immigration and Integration and I talked about how I felt integration was a moral obligation citing my own integration into Catalan society as an example. I haven’t hung around with foreigners since the first few years after I arrived 30 years ago and complained about immigrants to both Catalonia and to the UK who live in ghettos or keep to their own religious or racial group, never learn the language and consequently, exclude themselves from the host society.
Brian agreed and talked about how important Judaism was as a unifying factor for immigrants to Israel and how despite language differences between the stable Israeli population and recent arrivals from countries such as Russia, these could easily be overcome because of the shared values of Judaism. I replied that shared values were obviously the key to successful integration and, echoing Douglas Murray’s sentiments in The Strange Death of Europe, complained that Europeans seemed incapable of standing up confidently for the values that had made once their countries great. The problem of integration would be solved as long as we could persuade immigrants to adopt the values of the host countries. I was still a civic nationalist as recently as last November.
However, wanting to understand Jews better, I watched a couple of documentaries on YouTube and one about the Jewish community in Manchester struck me in particular. The people featured were all pleasant enough. They had obviously lived in Manchester for generations and spoke and dressed like English people but the life of their community was completely insular. They shopped in each others’ shops, went to each others’ parties and chose their husbands and wives from within the community. Clearly they had every right to behave like this but this wasn’t the ideal integration I was talking about and I found the documentary both disturbing and disappointing.
Whiteness
Another thing I found odd about my conversations with Brian was his assertion that Jews were not white and so while being able to pass as white, nor was he. I found this revelation shocking. I’d heard people claim that the Jews didn’t consider themselves white but I’d always dismissed it as a mad conspiracy theory. The fact that Brian didn’t consider himself white was one of the strangest things I’d ever heard.
However, this put into perspective the attacks on whiteness and calls for extermination of the white race in order eliminate racial oppression by people like Noel Ignatiev. I had never understood how a white person could say this but if as a Jew he didn’t consider himself white, it all made sense. The fact that in one of the videos where he says this he also claims that a large number of academics agreed with him made me realise that academia must be dominated by Jews.
I started checking the biographies of other apparently white academics and media pundits who expressed anti-white views and while not all of them were Jews, the correlation was pretty strong.
JQ and IQ
I was ill for most of December and by the time we were back making shows in January, I had become aware of the Alt-Right’s views on Race Realism as a result of the Kraut and Tea controversy. I now knew that there were IQ differences between the races and that Ashkenazi Jews had an average IQ of 115 compared to the White European average of 100.
I dismissed the Alt-Right’s views on the Jews as toxic as I mention in the introduction. They just struck me as unpleasant and prejudiced and in a conversation, Brian and I had about the IQ, it was easy to argue that given their high IQ and verbal ability, it wasn’t surprising that Jews were over-represented in academia and the media and had been responsible for some of the most important intellectual trends of the 20th century in art, literature and science as well as in left-wing politics.
As I’d done before, I started checking the biographies of writers and thinkers in part to disprove the idea that Jews were responsible for many of the most damaging ideas of the last century. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.
Most of the Bolsheviks were Jews as was Franz Boas and his school of Anthropologists, Freud and the Psychoanalysts, the majority of the Frankfurt School as well as many leading Postmodernists. Even most major pornographers were Jewish.
Initiation
What really woke me up to the JQ, though, was when Brian and I discussed the proposed illegalisation of male circumcision in Iceland. Brian sent me a video made by Sargon of Akkad on his second channel The Thinkery. I watched it and I suggested that the subject might be a little sensitive but as Brian seemed keen to go ahead, I assumed that his position would be lukewarm on the subject.
He wasn’t. To my surprise he saw circumcision as central to Judaism and any attempt to illegalise it was a direct attack on Jews. I must admit after all the talk about values, the idea that it was impossible to practice your religion without being allowed to mutilate a boy’s penis just seemed bizarre to me and then the penny dropped.
During the course of our conversation, I realised that despite its harmful physical and psychological effects on the child, male circumcision is an initiation ceremony into the Judaic cult, which is completed by the rite of passage at the Bar Mitzvah, when the boy reaches the age of 13. I don’t particularly like the idea of this but it’s not my position to complain about it in Israel. However, in Western European democracies this is a completely different matter and allowing parents to damage a child’s bodily integrity and scar them for life because of their beliefs is quite simply not acceptable.
Once we were off air, I actually said “You’re red-pilling me, Brian” because as a result of our conversations, I had become increasingly aware of the problems a highly-intelligent highly motivated people with very strong in-group preferences might present to host societies, especially if they were able to occupy positions of power and influence. If this was accompanied by a combination of God’s chosen people and victim narrative, which explained and justified all the ills that had befallen the Jewish diaspora throughout history, then it wasn’t surprising that they didn’t always hold positive attitudes to White Europeans.
I had been putting it off for the reasons stated in the introduction but I finally decided to listen to the audiobook of The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, which is considered the definitive analysis of the Jewish Question from a modern perspective by people on the Alt-Right.
Culture of Critique
The Culture of Critique analyses the main 20th century intellectual movements that have been dominated by Jews. These include Bolshevism, Boasian Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism, and Postmodernism, all of which have had corrosive effects on traditional Western culture. This is a gross oversimplification but MacDonald’s basic argument is that by promoting socialism, denigrating racial differences and encouraging multiculturalism, attacking the traditional family through psychoanañysis, feminism and pornography and weakening the West by criticising its history, literature and art, Jews gain an advantage over the host cultures and are less likely to be persecuted themselves.
I know this sounds like a wild accusation but the book is very well documented and as a Psychology graduate and former leftist, I’m very familiar with a great deal of the literature and the analysis rings true. I just hadn’t joined the dots and realised that the vast majority of the writers and thinkers in these movements were Jews, allbeit often lapsed or secular ones. Now I’ve finally come out and started discussing the JQ, I’ll do my own research into each of the movements and write separate articles analysing their influence. For now, though, I will state that I accept 90% of MacDonald’s thesis.
One of the ideas I wasn’t familiar with was that the NeoCons, who influenced US politics and foreign policy from the Ronald Reagan era to the George W. Bush presidency, was a group comprised almost entirely of Jews, most of whom were former Trotskyists, who moved to the right in order to occupy positions in government. For 30 years, they lobbied in Israel’s favour and pushed for regime change in the Middle East. Much of the current malaise in the West due to immigration is the result of these policies as is the fact that the Left can blame current Islamic insurgency on US foreign policy rather than on the ideology inherent in Islam.
