“1) The Jews killed Christ.
2) Jews took over banking. Dishonorable mention - banks are bad.
3) Jews are greedy capitalists.
4) Jews are dangerous leftists, to include communists.”
The tropes that send folks like the Anti-Defamation League into hysterics these days are not those four.
They are these two:
1) Wealthy Jewish people have an outsized influence on American politics (left and right) due to their wealth, political activism and effective organizations.
2) Wealthy Jewish people do not share traditional Western values of fair play and free speech—but instead will try to silence their opponents with censorship (public and private), defamation (name calling), doxxing (including seeking to financially bankrupt those who oppose them) and other sneaky and nasty tactics.
Thanks. I ask, perhaps rhetorically, are these accusations testable? Perhaps testable is too strong a term. For starters, are they observable?
I saw a Charlie Kirk video in which he debated a young lady who had a machine-gun like series of charges that reminded me of the late Christopher Hitchens. I loved watching Hitchens go after Islam. I didn’t care for it so much when he went after religion generally. Hitchens was not nice or fair. Neither was the young lady.
I watched a few Charlie Kirk videos. He was always both nice and fair. He was strong and effective enough that he would interrupt a tirade and force others to listen as he addressed something that had been said.
He was a little reminiscent of New Gingrich. Gingrich was surrounded by a dozen liberal Democrat reporters peppering him with harsh questions at once. He would interrupt them and insist on one rule: one question at a time. This effectively turned 12 against 1 into 1 against 1, twelve times. After that, he never had a problem.
Ethnically, Hitchens was Jewish, but I don’t think his unfair and nasty debate practices are limited to (nor especially common among) Jews.
Is Ben Shapiro (Jewish) unfair or overly harsh in his criticism of Carlson? That’s a lightning rod question at Free Republic.
To capture his style, on stage with Megyn Kelly:
‘Kelly replied: “Tucker’s made the point — I’m not gonna try to be Tucker’s defender — but he’s made the point that Maduro is cultural conservative.”
“Who gives a sh*t!?” fired back Shapiro incredulously. “The guy’s a communist dictator!”’
To me, Shapiro’s intensity is off-putting. Trying to silence (cancel?) Carlson is wrong. However, I’m not convinced that such behavior can be ascribed to Shapiro being Jewish.
I’ve seen Stephen Miller speak a few times. Loved it. I certainly agree on his arguments. Is he unfair? I don’t think so.