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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022

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This is the first time a rabbinic group has called outright for Greenblatt to step down. "It is regrettable but necessary," averred CJV Midwestern Regional VP Rabbi Ze'ev Smason.

"First of all, Carlson was calling out racism, the furthest thing from being racist, proven by the fact that had each mention of 'black' and 'white' people been reversed throughout the video, everyone, including the ADL, would endorse his remarks as crucial for reconciliation and unity. But this egregious inversion is almost beside the point: the ADL's core mission is supposed to be fighting antisemitism, yet Greenblatt is so preoccupied with Carlson that the organization completely overlooked the Holocaust minimization in the statement it trumpeted out on Twitter. Any organization sensitive to antisemitic bias would have chosen a different source for the same video, had it wished to discuss it. An ADL insensitive to antisemitic bias has lost its reason to exist, and is merely obstructing real efforts to combat antisemitism, the world's oldest and most enduring form of hatred."

Now this is going to be interesting. 2000 Rabbis going hardcore DRRR to defend Tucker Carlson's defence of white people. The natural response to which is usually scoffing and rolled eyes and accusations of missing the point. Except they haven't missed the point at all - progressivism does not share the crown - and thanks to the one-upmanship of social media, we are probably in for a steadily increasing stream of progressive anti semitism as people go too far in opposing all this, further demonstrating their point. Or to put it more succinctly, it looks like these Rabbis have started Noticing.

It looks like a lot of Orthodox Jews would rather have a mildly white nationalist society which intentionally keeps them separate from the broader population, you mean. I doubt relations between, say, blacks and whites, or the percentage of the population that is of Hispanic ancestry, is at all relevant to these rabbis for any reason, regardless of, say, Hispanic overrepresentation in child sex abuse, or the black murder rate, or anything IQ related. Being separate from broader society is something that ultra-Orthodox rabbis desire for their communities and white nationalists are probably the most plausible(that does not mean actually plausible) group to deliver it for them politically in modern America.

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