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Victor Davis Hanson: The Damage of the ‘White Privilege’ Smear
American Greatness ^ | 13 Nov, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/13/2023 5:25:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

One of the many satanic paradoxes of the Third Reich’s architecture of the Final Solution was the requirement—mandated after the 1939 outbreak of the war—that Jews anywhere under German rule or occupation had to wear a yellow badge or armband with the Star or David.

Yet was not all this elaborate bureaucratic need for identification embarrassing to the Nazi apparat?

After all, if Nazi doctrine about supposedly manifest Aryan “racial” superiority—Nordic looks and build, superior intelligence, stable disposition—were so persuasive, then why the need for Jews to identify themselves?

In contrast, the Star-of David IDs were prima facie proof that the entire bankrupt Nazi project was based on the unspoken fear that millions of Jews were indistinguishable in all respects from other Europeans.

In other words, on the fascist right, anti-Semitism was predicated on the pseudo-science that Jews were not European and thus somehow racially inferior. Yet currently, the entire industry of anti-Semitic hatred has flipped, from Jews as toxic non-whites to Jews as toxic whites. The two common denominators of racial obsession and hating Jews remain the same.

One of the key reasons leftwing anti-Semites have been so effective at galvanizing campus hatred of Israel, and by association of Jews in general, is their careful effort to brand themselves DEI victims why tarring Jews with the empty white supremacy slur.

Accordingly, Jews and Israel now supposedly enjoy toxic white privilege. They are libeled as veritable white supremacists illegitimately in the Middle East to colonize “Palestine,” and as European imperialists picking up the mantle of the earlier 19th century British and French—as if a prior 400 years of Ottoman imperialism in the Middle East never occurred.

As now-privileged white victimizers, contemporary Jews are not seen as victims of the Holocaust, explaining the comfortable alliance between Islamist Holocaust deniers and the...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: israel; vdh; victordavishanson; waronterror
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1 posted on 11/13/2023 5:25:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH Ping


2 posted on 11/13/2023 5:26:18 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Victor is a real Californian such as I am. Not like these fake commie intruders slithering around.


3 posted on 11/13/2023 5:36:54 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MtnClimber

Biden
Newsom
Hochul
Whitmer
Murphy
Pritzker

White privilege is alive and well.

Joe Biden is the prime example.


4 posted on 11/13/2023 5:40:10 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

As I drive around my rural Alabama roads and see how people live, I laugh out loud at the idea of white privilege.

My neighbor who owns the cattle farm across the highway up on the hill from me is a rich man but earned it the hard way.

My neighbor a half mile down the highway has a nice doublewide, paid for, but lives on social security and having to do odd jobs with his antique pickup truck and box of old tools.

The idiots throwing this term around live in a very special world where rich lawyers, doctors, investors and bankers congregate and send their kids to the finest schools to get indoctrinated that whites have it made and they should be horribly guilty. I suppose if I was black from the ghetto and saw only those types of whites, I might be a little salty, but guess what?

There are more whites in poverty or close to it (working class less than $40K) than the totality of blacks in this country.


5 posted on 11/13/2023 5:44:03 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: MtnClimber

“In other words, on the fascist right, anti-Semitism was predicated on the pseudo-science that Jews were not European and..”

So disappointing to see VDH make this mistake.

L


6 posted on 11/13/2023 5:46:07 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: MtnClimber

Unequal’s are unprivileged except by force


7 posted on 11/13/2023 5:46:51 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MtnClimber

oh victor

really?

the fascist right?

i expected better


8 posted on 11/13/2023 5:47:56 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

The only two state solution that would make the intersectional leftists happy would be the destruction of Israel and one state governed by Hamas and one state governed by Fatah.


9 posted on 11/13/2023 5:49:12 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: Alas Babylon!
It is just another way for them to "justify" taking power and imposing cultural Marxism.

They do not care about reason, or facts, or anything other than destroying existing society.

They think they will somehow end up in charge if they do that.

10 posted on 11/13/2023 5:52:57 AM PST by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

“In other words, on the fascist right,”

Cue Inigo Montoya:


11 posted on 11/13/2023 5:57:36 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

I find that the people who condemn white privilege the most are also the people who benefited from it the most aka Gen Z white kids.


12 posted on 11/13/2023 5:57:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Brian Griffin

Anyone with a functioning brain knows what “white privilege” means in Wokeazi speak: those of us with Judeo-Christian foundational values. Where Truth is of divine Biblical origin, not subject to the whims of globalist pagan culture. Those of us who resist our demotion from citizens to serfs.


13 posted on 11/13/2023 5:59:59 AM PST by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I did the math, but the search engines sure try to hide it!

Population by race from Statisa and the US Census, 2022:

White: 196.8 million
Hispanic/Latino: 62.6 million
Black: 42 million
Asian: 8 million
Native: 3 million

Whites in poverty: 17.2 million
White working class (less than $40K): 71.2 million


14 posted on 11/13/2023 6:03:08 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: MtnClimber

This time Victor is too smart for me. I can’t keep up.


15 posted on 11/13/2023 6:11:03 AM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: Lurker

What mistake did VDH make?


16 posted on 11/13/2023 6:11:50 AM PST by Blennos
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To: Blennos

VDH doesn’t make mistakes. He is just misinterpreted


17 posted on 11/13/2023 6:13:28 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MtnClimber
...white is as sloppy a term as Hispanic...a white male from rural America working as a welder in the Ozarks or a logger in the Sierra Nevada has zero solidarity with a white Bay Area techie at Google or an Ivy League legacy preppie screaming “from the river to the sea” in Harvard Yard...“white” ignores the multiplicities of European ethnic and religious fault lines, the vast differences in “white” class, income, and politics...

Americans of European ancestry are culturally, religiously, economically and politically highly diverse. Yet be they ethnically Irish, Polish, Italian, Finnish, Greek and so on, or "regular Americans" with no ethnic identity, they are all considered "white" and "privileged" by our woke educational and political establishment.

18 posted on 11/13/2023 6:16:46 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Blennos

“What mistake did VDH make?”

Calling fascism. “Right wing”.

L


19 posted on 11/13/2023 6:19:20 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker
Calling fascism. “Right wing”.

I see. Thanks for the response.

To be fair though, the usage of political "right" versus "left" has changed since the time of the 1930s and 40s. We now recognize there is a lot in common philosophically between the nazis and the communists. Back then, nazism and communism were bitter political rivals. Now we view them as two aspects of the same left-wing totalitarian aagenda.

20 posted on 11/13/2023 6:29:35 AM PST by Blennos
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