New Article: Bret Stephens’ Trolling the Libs Racism: From White Jewish Supremacy to White Supremacy
David Shasha
Bret Stephens’ Trolling the Libs Racism: From White Jewish Supremacy to White Supremacy
I do not mention New York Times columnist and loyal Tikvah Fund Neo-Con Jew Bret Stephens very often, but he is truly never far from my mind:
https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/bret-stephens/
The Idiot Sephardim just love him!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JVdjcnEWwsUorXn7kAgQ9F1cQqGtKMkg/view?ths=true
In the halcyon days Before Trump, he was a WSJ editor who was all in with the Chickenhawk vision, trying to protect us from the “Coming Global Disorder”:
https://tikvahfund.org/library/bret-stephens-the-coming-global-disorder-2/
After Trump’s election he has found himself complementing David Brooks, Ross Douthat, and, for a short time, Bari Weiss, as the reactionaries hired by the NYT to promote “diversity”; the very thing they all reject as part of the much-despised “Wokeness”:
https://splinternews.com/who-is-the-new-york-times-woeful-opinion-section-even-f-1801998501
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/15/17113176/new-york-times-opinion-page-conservatism
Like his fellow Neo-Cons, Stephens is not much on Black Lives Matter:
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/1/15482698/new-york-times-bret-stephens
In his words:
I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look — at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that’s my job — I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.
Like Ms. Weiss, he is very much attuned to the problem of Anti-Semitism – especially at his own paper:
But judging from his infamous column on “Jewish Genius,” a true masterpiece of White Jewish Supremacy, he is far less sensitive to his own racist proclivities:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/kyX5EqjLwY8/m/4XMKDLIPBgAJ
That despicable column generated a subsequent correction, edit, and “apology” over Stephens’ use of a racist study on eugenics that claimed Ashkenazi Jews were superior to others:
It is apparent from all this that Ashkenazi Jews actually believe that they are White Christians!
With this in mind, we can better understand his column “Race and the Coming Liberal Crackup”:
Please keep in mind as you read it that it was published at the same time that we were processing the heinous police killing of Andrew Brown, Jr.:
As of this writing, the North Carolina racist police have refused to issue the body-cam footage, but they have released the dead man’s rap sheet, as the Murdoch Empire was more than happy to announce:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/andrew-brown-jr-shooting-search-warrant-north-carolina-elizabeth-city
Indeed, in Trumpworld all Black people with criminal records should be shot in the head until they are dead.
But when it comes to the Trumps, not so much:
There are different standards for different people in Republican circles.
Here is the complete Stephens article:
Americans breathed a collective sigh of relief last week after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. The crime was heinous, the verdict just, the moral neat. If you think that systemic racism is the defining fact of race relations in 21st-century America, then Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck is its defining image.
But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman who had her back against a car?
Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer, accused the Columbus police in a tweet of killing “an unarmed 15yo Black girl.” Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight.” Jarrett wants to “Demand accountability” and “Fight for justice.”
An alternative view: Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do. And maybe the balance of our sympathies should lie not with the would-be perpetrator of a violent assault but with the cop who saved a Black life — namely that of Tionna Bonner, who nearly had Bryant’s knife thrust into her.
That’s a thought that many, perhaps most, Americans share, even if they are increasingly reluctant to say it out loud. Why reluctant? Because in this era of with-us-or-against-us politics, to have misgivings about the left’s new “anti-racist” narrative is to run the risk of being denounced as a racist. Much better to nod along at your office’s diversity, equity and inclusion sessions than suggest that enforced political indoctrination should not become a staple of American workplace culture.
And yet those doubts and misgivings go to the heart of what used to be thought of as liberalism. The result will be a liberal crackup similar to the one in the late 1960s that broke liberalism as America’s dominant political force for a generation.
Morally and philosophically, liberalism believes in individual autonomy, which entails a concept of personal responsibility. The current model of anti-racism scoffs at this: It divides the world into racial identities, which in turn are governed by systems of privilege and powerlessness. Liberalism believes in process: A trial or contest is fair if standards are consistent and rules are equitable, irrespective of outcome. Anti-racism is determined to make a process achieve a desired outcome. Liberalism finds appeals to racial favoritism inherently suspect, even offensive. Anti-racism welcomes such favoritism, provided it’s in the name of righting past wrongs.
Above all, liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex. Anti-racism is a great simplifier. Good and evil. Black and white.
This is where the anti-racism narrative will profoundly alienate liberal-minded America, even as it entrenches itself in schools, universities, corporations and other institutions of American life.
It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.
It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism while also objecting to the condescending assumptions and illiberal methods of the anti-racist creed. The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
Similarly, the idea that past discrimination or even present-day inequality justifies explicit racial preferences in government policy is an affront to liberal values, and will become only more so as the practices become more common. In Oakland the mayor backed an initiative that was to provide $500 a month to low-income families, but not if they were white. In Vermont, the state has given people of color priority for Covid vaccines.
Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Some liberals will go along with this. Many others will find themselves drifting rightward, much as a past generation of disaffected liberals did.
Joe Biden’s resounding victory and his progressive policies are supposed to mark the real end of the Reaganite era of American politics. Don’t be surprised if they’re a prelude to its return, just as the last era of progressive excess ushered in its beginning.
Indeed, the Ashkenazi PILPUL mindset is designed to Gaslight the reader, as we see how Stephens begins his attack on the new racial consciousness, inspired by BLM, by referring to the George Floyd case in anodyne terms:
Americans breathed a collective sigh of relief last week after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. The crime was heinous, the verdict just, the moral neat. If you think that systemic racism is the defining fact of race relations in 21st-century America, then Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck is its defining image.
We should note that Stephens’ racist Neo-Con Jewish ally Alana Newhouse could not even do that much:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/cFN_vx6JdgA
Though the Whore of Trump did find time to publish a laudatory piece on Ashkenazi Neo-Con favorite DMX; proving to us once again that Corporate Hip-Hop thuggery is quite fine with the Jewish bosses, in this case Lyor Cohen, who enjoy the loads of cash it rakes in for them:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dmx-funeral
The Tikvah Tablet article, naturally, never mentions George Floyd or BLM. That would truly be a step too far. Just keep it to the davening.
Once Stephens dispatches the Floyd matter with all due haste, he is back to his old racist ways:
It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.
As if this Archie Bunkerism were not enough, he takes it one step further:
It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism while also objecting to the condescending assumptions and illiberal methods of the anti-racist creed. The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
Then he goes full Reagan and marks Black people as wrongful recipients of Welfare, as Whites are denied government largesse:
Similarly, the idea that past discrimination or even present-day inequality justifies explicit racial preferences in government policy is an affront to liberal values, and will become only more so as the practices become more common. In Oakland the mayor backed an initiative that was to provide $500 a month to low-income families, but not if they were white. In Vermont, the state has given people of color priority for Covid vaccines.
In the March 14th Tikvah Fund notes I pointed out how the “Reverse Discrimination” trope is now being resurrected by Neo-Con Jews:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Z1rQJn812Hg/m/PRjFfXVuAQAJ
In Wendy Kaminer’s Tikvah Tablet article attacking Critical Race Theory we see the proud return of Alan Bakke:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/wendy-kaminer-race-bias-training
As she states:
Can white people suffer racial discrimination under federal law? If that seems like a simple or even stupid question, its complexities have challenged the Supreme Court in affirmative action cases from Regents of the University of California v. Bakke to Fisher v. University of Texas. In upholding race-conscious university admissions policies, so far, the court has acknowledged that while white people may be victims of reverse discrimination, their rights may be outweighed by the demands of diversity.
And in a passage worthy of Stephens, she goes after the New Racial Consciousness:
Critical race theory and trendy anti-racism trainings dispense with such complexities with a simple declaration: White people are endemically and exclusively racist, the products and beneficiaries of a country and culture shaped and served by white supremacy, whether they like it or not. White people (and I am one) can be unintentional or unknowing perpetrators of racism, but never its victims.
Anti-racism or anti-bias training aims to uncover our racism for us, forcing us to explicitly (and publicly) confess and confront it. White people, including those who fought (or thought they fought) for racial justice, may think they know themselves, but the trainers know better. Dissent, much less resistance to reeducation, is simply denial, an expression of “white fragility.” The demands of anti-racism trainers are nonnegotiable. So, as mandatory training sessions proliferate in schools, government agencies, and private workplaces, litigation is inevitable. It’s already begun.
The Neo-Con Jews have their Race story and are sticking with it!
Dead Black people will not get in their way:
As he discusses the current police shootings of Black people, Stephens neglects to present evidence of White suspects who are given the royal treatment by the cops:
As Civil Rights attorney Ben Crump states:
"Why are Black lives as disposable by police in case after case? It's shocking to me that when suspects are white, even shooters who took multiple lives like Kyle Rittenhouse and Nikolas Cruz, police manage to take them into custody alive," Crump said. "But when a suspect is a person of color, there is no attempt to de-escalate the situation. Police shoot first and ask questions later, time after time, because Black lives are afforded less value. We will seek answers and justice for Anthony's family."
Indeed, there was the White Gloves treatment of Charleston AME Church mass murderer Dylann Roof, who managed to get some soft drinks and chips after not being shot by police.
And after complaining that he was still hungry, managed to score a very happy meal at Burger King!
The king of all White Gloves police treatment was the Hate America Alt-Right mass murderer Timothy McVeigh:
https://www.oklahoman.com/article/3290630/lawman-who-caught-timothy-mcveigh-speaks-of-arrest
Here is the arresting officer’s description of the peaceful apprehension:
Hanger stopped McVeigh on Interstate 35 for driving without a car tag. Hanger said he stayed behind the door of his patrol car until McVeigh got out of the Mercury Marquis. He said that is how he was trained.
In that case, police “training” seems to have been followed to the letter.
Perhaps because McVeigh was a White man.
The most egregious – and the most complex – form of this police accommodation to White criminals was, of course, the Lysol Insurrection; which showed us how such racial preference works in very real – and very lethal – time:
https://www.vox.com/22224765/capitol-riot-dc-police-officers
It was at the Trump Sedition fest that we saw how police see White people as different from Black people:
Many of the rioters had a lot in common with the officials in charge of doing threat assessments in the days and weeks ahead of the riot, he explained: “They probably were very similar in race, probably very similar in income, probably very similar religious beliefs.” That includes a number of rioters who are law enforcement themselves. Departments around the country have suspended officers for their involvement in the riot.
This sense of racial disparity is what fuels the disproportionate police use of lethal force against Black people and other racial minorities. And this is what BLM is all about; trying to address and redress this racist system and its violent detritus.
But don’t tell that to Stephens, whose view of Race is less charitable when it comes to Black people, as he recounts the police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant who, like Roof, McVeigh, Cruz, and Rittenhouse, also had a weapon:
An alternative view: Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do. And maybe the balance of our sympathies should lie not with the would-be perpetrator of a violent assault but with the cop who saved a Black life — namely that of Tionna Bonner, who nearly had Bryant’s knife thrust into her.
“Real” Americans like Stephens are very proudly, and very defiantly, not PC:
That’s a thought that many, perhaps most, Americans share, even if they are increasingly reluctant to say it out loud. Why reluctant? Because in this era of with-us-or-against-us politics, to have misgivings about the left’s new “anti-racist” narrative is to run the risk of being denounced as a racist. Much better to nod along at your office’s diversity, equity and inclusion sessions than suggest that enforced political indoctrination should not become a staple of American workplace culture.
Stephens then ends the column with a triumphant Reaganite flourish in true Archie Bunker style:
Joe Biden’s resounding victory and his progressive policies are supposed to mark the real end of the Reaganite era of American politics. Don’t be surprised if they’re a prelude to its return, just as the last era of progressive excess ushered in its beginning.
We will of course recall how Reagan acolyte Donald Trump told police officers not to be “nice”:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-police-nice-suspects/story?id=48914504
I suppose that it was always tacitly understood that not being “nice” really meant not being “nice” to Black people:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/donald-trump-black-lives-matter-confederate-race/index.html
It does seem that Stephens has this in common with Trump:
The President, who has resisted calls to condemn white nationalists, went on to call the words "Black Lives Matter" a "symbol of hate" and suggested that police officers could block the work: "Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won't let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York's greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!"
It is all about the White Grievance Industry that has become intrinsic to the Republican Party:
We must hand it to Stephens: He is nowhere near as pretentious and anxious as David Brooks; nowhere near as confused about who he is as Ross Douthat; and nowhere near as obnoxious as Bari Weiss.
No, Stephens is an extremely clever operator who coats his Neo-Con reactionary views with a veneer of cool and very calm pseudo-sophistication; ultimately designed to throw the reader off the scent of his truly despicable racism and his elitist view of his own Ashkenazi Jewish identity.
David Shasha