Dear Mr. Bernstein,
Wokeness represents the over-correction of Political Correctness. Political Correctness wasn’t perfect, but collectively, we agreed it was better than the alternative so we went along. In 2020, we saw the overextension of the Anti Racism Industry.
Not great for the Black Lives Matter brand in my observations.
The reaction to Kanye begs the question. What are the unintended consequences of not addressing the Anti-Semitism Industry?
Is Jew hatred old? Yes. Is it bad today? Yes. I might argue, it’s worse now than it was in Weimar Germany.
Could it happen here? It’s already happening here, it just crept slowly, and only affected white men so Jews, liberals, and conservatives alike didn’t notice.
It didn’t affect Orthodox Jewish men, and the secular Jewish Men affected were accepted as collateral damage in a morally unassailable march to utopia.
That’s the past, now we’re here.
I haven’t yet read your book, “Woke Antisemitism” but I know I’ll be reading it and recommending others do the same.
A week ago I would have had only a casual interest.
Now, I want to do whatever I can to help push your book. I can 100% guarantee we will disagree on a good number of things. I don’t make a lot of promises you can bank on this one, we will disagree.
What we can both agree on is that your book is critical, timely, and will save lives.
Woke Antisemitism is the message the world needs today even if no one reads it, the cover will suffice. You are linking Anti-Semitism to Wokeness, Please God, make this a New York Times Best Seller!
I’m sure it was easy to find Anti-Semitism in Wokeness because Antisemitism itself is “Proto-Wokeness”.
Anti-Semitism is an archetypal, pathologizing, get-out-of-criticism-free card, now available in group size, individual packages, or nation-state operations.
I’ve seen it used to silence dissent from everything from Marxism to Foreign aid. Finding a definitive list of what constitutes Anti-Semitism has proven difficult.
Based on the timeline. Anti-Semitism seems engineered into the new culture to protect “The Jews”(™). It’s failing.
It’s failing, because it’s a horrible trap and because the idea was corrupted by two Minnesota variants of Cultural Marxism.
Worse news, it’s having a horrible paradoxical effect on dialogue and real attitudes toward Jews who want nothing to do with Political Correctness.
It has become urgent for everyone to understand that Wokeness is inherently bad for Jews worldwide. It’s even bad for Israel, which I consider distinct from Jews.
Some people consider any separation of Jews from Israel to be Anti-Semitic. Others, of course, will say associating Jews with Israel is Anti-Semitic.
I spent several hours this week seeking a complete list of things I can’t say from credible sources in the Anti-Semitism Industry.
Not surprisingly some of these are ridiculous, contradictory, and combined, they send this message, “Don’t talk about The Jews (™),“ “Don’t talk about or criticize certain Jews” combined with a subtle, political, “if you know what’s good for you.”
Non-Jews hate this, especially Black ones. I’m not sure if anyone has noticed that, I’m not really allowed to talk about it.
From my observations, the Anti-Semitism Industry is acting as an engine fueling more Jew-Hatred. It functions like Black Lives Matter in that respect, except it’s much more mature and it’s much better funded.
What changed this week?
While every Jew I know was celebrating Sukkot, this week, “Anti-Semitism” was trending non-stop literal hysteria on Twitter following Kanye West’s tweet that catalyzed me to write IsmIstaphobia.
In a world where men can be women and the head of an NAACP chapter is white, the people screaming about Kanye West’s saying all Black People were Jews would make you think he’d incited a new holocaust.
The biggest eye-opener for me, watching this new Holocaust unfold, on Twitter, during Sukkot, was that Kanye’s suggestion that he couldn’t be Anti-Semitic was used as evidence of his Anti-Semitism.
Some people might call that a Kafka trap, of course, some would say the use of the term Kafka trap in this context might also be considered Anti-Semitic.
Many people try to argue, “the Woke are the real racists,” “the real sexists,” and “the real homophobes.” Your book will presumably argue that the Woke are “the real Anti-Semites.”
I expect this logic will work with the Woke as well as all of the other logic has in the past.
Anti-Semitism may however prove to be a special case. It’s arguable, this may be one of the things the Jews were chosen for, but that’s not my business.
Woke Antisemitism may break through the intersectional feminist MN variant of the woke_mind_virus from MN.
Your book sounds the alarm.
The Woke Ouroboros of Cultural Marxism has brought its hungry head around full circle.
What started out as a semi-clever rhetorical gambit against Anti-Communists and Jew-Haters, seems to have morphed out of control and is now actively inciting people against Jews and treating them in public as if they were privileged white men.
I’d predict Wokism is worse for Jews than anything you’re predicting, but not for reasons you might think. One is the reaction to ASS Branding.
ASS Branding
For nearly 100 years, ASS Branding (Anti-Semite Stigma) leveraged images of the Holocaust as a simple, but highly coercive social power tool.
I’d guess 5% of any human population with a personality disorder would abuse that rhetorical power. Maybe more.
Long before Emmett Till and the eloquent words spoken at the March on Washington inspired millions to avoid being smeared as racist, the Anti-Semitism Industry spread the fear of being smeared as Anti-Semitic, red-baiting, or McCarthyism.
Whether these Promulgators Of Wokeness were Jewish, or they were Communists, or they were Jewish Communists, both Marx and the members of the Frankfurt School created iterations of wokeness.
Nothing like the Intersectional Feminist version that came from the Minnesota Lutherans and Catholics.
This modern version has purple hair instead of armbands and manages to be ridiculous while at the same time bringing us to the brink of Nuclear Armageddon. (See: #WokeWarIII)
The burning and riots in the streets in 2020, seem to have abated for the moment, which is good since nothing has changed.
As the Ourobouros begins to bite the tail that shat on straight white men for the last 70 years and begins to eat itself, Jews, Asians, and Alleged White Supremacists (JAWAS) are going to get monsterized by wokeness.
Your book will help.
Like Kanye’s tweet, it’s going to make way for people to speak freely and publicly be wrong in ways they’d have dared not before.
Everyone needs to be able to tell the Truth and that is going to be shocking and unsettling for many people, for a while. But it’s about to settle. In order to do that, one needs permission to be wrong, openly.
Kanye and your book are going to make a good number of people finally realize there’s a problem with both self-censorship and Jew-Hatred.
Perhaps you’ve considered Weaponized Antisemitism Accusation exists and that it generates resentment.
Here’s a personal example.
Despite this being a story with nationwide implications several prominent organizations tell me mentioning its sole funder is Anti-Semitic.
Personally, I kind of resent being the most knowledgeable person on a topic with information from source materials vital to the republic only to be treated as if I am an ASS.
So, if I must be an ASS to tell the Truth about Yes! Mpls’ sole funder, then, I’ll choose to be treated like an ASS because I think it’s important that people know who funded the Defund the Police non-profit in my city.
If I mention a verifiable truth, people find it politically distasteful, and noses curl as if I’d just quoted Mein Kampf.
- A person doesn’t have to be an ASS to know that Marx was just as Jewish as everyone tweeting over Sukkot.
- A person doesn’t need to be an ASS to know the Frankfurt School were Jewish escapees of what is basically wokeness.
- A person doesn’t need to be an ASS to know that some Jews created the division we’re experiencing now, but that doesn’t mean that all Jews created it.
- A person doesn’t need to be an ASS to point out the “Any Criticism of Israel is the Holocaust” Game the Right plays.
Not all Jews are Karl Marx, nor is every Jew the Frankfurt School, Saul Alinsky, or George Soros. Nor is every Jewish person in the State of Israel. Reasonable people know this, but we do not live in a world of reasonable people and Wokeism (left and right) makes us less reasonable on topics of critical importance, by design.
Everyone should understand that Karl Marx, The Frankfurt School, Saul Alinsky, and George Soros were well-meaning, but destructive people.
They should also understand that Wokeness is Bad News for Jews.
I’ve been very aware of MN Nice as a type of mind-numbing, obtuse, self-satisfied, passive-aggressive, post-modern, undermining, yet very polite, political correctness.
Yeah, those are my people. The infection is from Minnesota, you’ve got them everywhere, they are woke, they are taking over and they are making demands.
They’ve been very good for the left as they’re driven to be politically active. In 2016, Donald Trump woke up the right’s woke and they walked right into the QAnon hoax.
Wokeness is at war with humanity. You got to look into its eyes in Minneapolis on Memorial Day 2020. It shook a bunch of hysterical sympathetics into worldwide action.
In 2020, the majority of people encountered “MN Nice” for the first time. Let me use it in two sentences for you.
- Derek Chauvin was MN Nice to George Floyd.
- Keith Ellison was MN Nice to Derek Chauvin.
I’ve covered MN Nice along with race, gender, and policing issues since 2017. MN has some due process issues you’ve no doubt heard about on the news. It also has an active political correctness problem. Political Correctness keeps us from finding solutions to otherwise solvable problems.
I’m very glad you’re releasing a book “Woke Semitism.” It will do well. I anticipate it will save many lives in your lifetime. That’s not flattery or hyperbole.
Wokeness is topical. Anti-Semitism is an Industry. The title is top-notch, and I’m sure the writing will be great. I’ll be recommending it for no reason other than that it exists.
Anti-Semite-Action
Anti-Semite Stigma Stamping (ASS Stamping) has been a similar array of shake-down techniques for about 100 years.
If you believe no such industry exists or can’t imagine scenarios where this speech code enforcement might be abused, I could easily imagine where a declared presidential candidate saying he is going to go “Deathcon 3 on The Jews,” might have come as a surprise to you.
I’ve watched this ASS Stamping with great interest and have tracked it to some Minneapolis gangsters, activists, and politicians with international impact: Roy Wilkins, Hubert H. Humphrey, Kate Millett, Ellen Pence, Katharine Ann McKinnon, and Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan was not an activist or a politician, he is art. The rest were all basically Woke Marxists, but saying that of course, is Red-Baiting.
These Minnesotans have had a huge impact on the national dialogue, and more importantly, they’ve had an impact on the national silence, which people began to notice following George Floyd.
Wilkins wrote NAACP’s Emmett Till Press Release (Racism), Millett’s Sexual Politics, and McKinnon and Pence (Sexism, Trans, and Ms. Magazine.) each of these used precisely the same derogation technique associated with labeling someone an ASS.
This version of the Wokeness Monster is cultural marxism that empathized with biology, moral suasion, and of course, Anti-white racism which until this week was also not a topic worthy of public discussion.
Hitler told the kindergarten teachers what they wanted to hear.
The woke are doing the same thing and their machine is going to greater and greater lengths to keep up their intersectional feminist fantasy world.
Forcing people to tell lies, overlook transgressions or even disallowing them to be wrong under threat of being treated like an ASS breeds resentment.
Smollett’s Grandmother
Molly Smollett asking the media to “Do Better” at investigative reporting in her grandson’s case while comparing her grandson, Jussie Smollett to Holocaust survivors.
Argument: My grandson didn’t lie and you should be ashamed of yourself, because of the Holocaust.
This happened in front of the whole world and I didn’t hear anyone bat an eyelid. Maybe they did, but I didn’t hear a peep.
Believe it or not, people notice this silence and silencing. Many conclude that “The Jews” (™) use ASS Branding the same way BLM uses “Racist” as a cavalier smear to get what they want.
I’d love to tell you this hasn’t been my experience with Jews over the last 50 years. Every Jew I know can point out when an Anti-Semitism accusation was incorrect, but I’ve yet to hear anyone publicly call these out as abusive.
Why I’m Optimistic About Your Book
Whether or not you intend to, your book has a much better shot at breaking wokeness than Woke Marxism, Woke Racism, Woke Free Church, and Counterwokeness.
Each one let’s one cast a medical diagnosis (Racist, Islamophobe, Homophobe, Fat Phobe, Transphobe, Antisemite) used to derogate opinion.
Proto-Wokeness makes Anti-Semitism a possible vector for breaking the MN Intersectional Feminist version of Wokeness that Orthodox Jews are experiencing in New York.
The cheap silencing of criticism with a cavalier accusation that can ruin somebody’s life combined with the Anti Semitism Industry no one can talk about is an engine for Jew Hate.
Not all Jews, of course, use ASS branding and believe that collective punishment is wrong. However, the time for silence on ASS Branding and The Anti-Semitism Industry may be passed.
I think your book is important, if for no other reason, in that it links Anti Semitism to Wokeness. What others perceive as some kind of mystical, magical, cabal, is really a cheap rhetorical trick that happens to be reinforced by the Anti-Semitism Industry’s mere couple hundred million dollars per year.
Kanye’s bank closing his account and getting kicked off social media has been noticed by legitimate Jew Haters.
Perhaps it’s time to recognize that the rhetorical iron dome of Anti-Semitism is creating a Streisand Effect.
