On the Jews

Thoughts.

A Gab correspondent who is as friend of this blog led me to this interesting article. I note it comes from the despicable rag Instauration, but sometimes one can find a gold nugget in a flood of sewage, so one can examine the following on its own merits. Some excerpts and my comments.

The questions in this case concern the Jew, and are basically esthetic and instinctive, as, indeed, all racial questions are.

Not surprising coming from Instauration, but I see that as incomplete. Yes, “esthetic and instinctive” questions are important, but so are those that are genetic/biological as well as cultural/historical. 

It is a truism that the Jew has puzzled the non-Jew since the beginning of time, and continues to do so. The non-Jew has always known that there is something different about the Jew, but has never been able to agree on what that something is. 

Very true and I have written on this as well (see below).

This difference is not the same as the differences between non-Jews. A European in Asia or Africa or the Americas, whether among sophisticated Chinese…

Sigh.  Again, not surprising about Instauration. Nordicists always have a strong tropism for Orientals.

No non-Jewish race, culture or individual has ever been able to find a common human bond with the Jew. 

Attention Jared Taylor!  Actually, this entire essay is a critique of the slavishly pro-Jewish attitude of the “movement’s” HBD “race realists.” If Jews are really such alien non-human entities, and if such a reality is something that is, or should be, instinctively recognized by mentally healthy and honest Gentles, then what does it say about “racially aware” “activists” who willingly – and in some cases enthusiastically - associate with and promote Jews and who strongly defend that behavior from critics?

In any case, no matter how suppressed and buried the instinct is today, every non-Jew still feels the lack of a common bond with the Jew.

Again – what does that say about the HBD race realists?

It is only in modern times that the Jew has been accepted as wholly human, no different from non-Jews in any particular. But as noted, this is a comment on modern times, not on the non-humanness of the Jew.

It is also a comment on the HBDers.

My own awareness of the depths of the difference came during and after an endless flight from Russia back to the United States on an official plane with a Jew as my only traveling companion. (From boyhood I had observed Jews in every sort of setting — scholastic, social, business and governmental — and naturally realized they were different, but not just how profound that difference was.) There were engine repairs and other delays on the flight, and we ended up spending four days in each other’s unrelieved company. For the first couple of days he was simply another Jew, under his Harvard-Wall Street-Georgetown veneer, but on the third day he went a step further. His artificial vitality had drained off and he had withdrawn — into his own world, I presumed. I was just as happy to be rid of his chatter, and thought no more about it. We were on the ground at a base in Spain, but still on the plane because takeoff was supposed to be imminent. I was reading and he was staring off into space, and it suddenly came to me that I was alone. Not in the sense of being with someone who had retreated into his own world and was not talking — for such a person is still there, and I would have been conscious of another human being occupying the rather cavernous interior of the plane but totally alone, in the purest sense of the word.

I still have the notebook in which I noted my thoughts at the time, as they came in a rush. [you can read the entirety of these comments in the original essay – I’ll just note the following]:

…one Jewish great-grandparent doesn’t result in acting one-eighth Jewish all the time, but entirely Jewish one-eighth of the time, or something like that. 

That’s stupid and asinine. Heritable traits do not function in that manner.

Usually in emergencies. As when alone. Dogma: No Jew can exist alone, so they must always attach, like barnacles. But how can this be? How can there be human form, however unattractive, without a human contained therein? They are husks, but how did it happen? Sun-struck, wandering in the desert, some gene wiped out, and the lack transmitted. Or missing from the beginning. Or an evolutionary dead end…

That should be detectable from genetic analyses? It would be interesting to determine the suite of cognitive and behavioral traits that lead to the emergent Jewish behavior that is characterized as "non-human." Further, these traits could be linked to particular gene sequences. Can we identify the biological essence of "Jewishness?"

Back to the main essay:

And yet…somewhere in each non-Jew faced with a Jew there is still a faint — exceedingly faint — twitch of instinct telling him that he is dealing with a creature who is not like him. 

That is the core message of the entire essay.  It is remarkably similar to something that I (independently) wrote:

One thing that has always struck me about Jews I have interacted with is that there is always a sense of their distinctiveness, their differences, their somewhat alien nature. Whether or not a given Jew considers themselves "White" or not (and sometimes transitions back and forth on that subject based on context), they are seemingly always cognizant of their ethnoracial, cultural, and historical differences to White Gentiles. Sometimes it is explicit; they admit they are a different ethnic group, a different people, a group with a very distinct identity; sometimes, it is implicit, but even when one hears Jews mendaciously state "it's only a religion" (which I do not believe that they believe), the sense of difference is still there. And, no, I do not believe that this is a figment of my "anti-Semitic" imagination, but rather is a real phenomenon, recognized by Jew and Gentile alike (and remember that I stated that sometimes it is explicit, being openly acknowledged). Both sides of the equation sense the barrier, the distance, that exists between Jew and Gentile, and it is an underlying feature of almost every interaction.

Interesting that the writer of the Instauration article and myself, separated by decades of time and no doubt by ethnicity and ideology, have come to the same conclusions about Jews and Jewish-Gentile relations.  In the case of my post, I concentrate a bit more on how the Jews view the differences while the Instauration writer looks more from the Gentile perspective. Two sides of the same coin. Back to the essay:

He stifles it immediately, of course, but it is there. And can come out in very odd ways. Especially in marriages between Jews and non-Jews, where the non-Jews spend so much time alone with Jews that they (the non-Jews) can hardly avoid tumbling to the non-humanness of their mates. They have to redouble their efforts to deny it, but the knowledge is inevitably there.

This writer asserts that non-Whites other than Jews are human, and capable for forming bonds with Whites, but I wonder.  In that part about inter-marriage, what if we replaced Jews with, say, Chinese?

So we parted, and have not seen each other since. Like so many others, she is out there somewhere, slowly unravelling what happened to her, slowly puzzling through the colossal weight and in­solent self-assurance of the swindle. She has been tricked since childhood into going against her instincts; there is a lifetime to be undone. Of course, it is a question whether that is possible.

What about HBDers tricking people about the nature of Jews (and Asians as well)?

An anecdote: A person I knew who had a peripheral association with Der Movement was on a long plane flight sitting next to a Hasidic Jew.  At the beginning of the trip, the Jew asked the fellow - "are you Jewish?''  Getting the answer of "no" the Jew at that point completely ignored the fellow and didn't engage in any talk for the rest of the trip.  This fellow said to me about Jews - "They cannot understand that Whites have interests, even Blacks understand that Whites have legitimate interests (even if they oppose them), but Jews cannot do so." Another anecdote: A Jewess I knew characterized the literary classic Moby Dick as "there was this whale, it was really big, and some guy wanted to kill it." Well, yes, but only a soulless cipher would end the description at that. I have had already discussed a situation I was aware of it in which a Jewess responded to a Gentile stating - in response to whining about "the Holocaust" - "other people suffered too" by asking the Gentile "why do you hate Jews so much?" Nice "people" huh?