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OK, so what's your solution to Jews being overrepresented in these institutions, assuming you think it's a problem? Actually, why do you think it's a problem? I would make this comment more high-effort by guessing answers to those questions but I don't think I have a good enough mental model to be using it for that yet.
First, it's a difficult question and I don't have complete answers. In essence I want relations to be normalized between Jews and Gentiles. This may be confusing because surely Jews would consider their status, power, and immunities they've enjoyed in the past 70 years in America to be what "normalized relations" is supposed to look like.
I'm not even bothered by overrepresentation per se, it's the ethnic hostility from the Jewish elite in our cultural, financial, and academic institutions that I discern and oppose. What does solving that look like? White racial consciousness is a fundamental requirement. White people need to accept their own identity and particularities (including their positive particularities) to at least some fraction of the degree of Jewish self-regard. They need the right to assert their identity and their ethnic interests. They also need the right to call out and name ethnic hostility towards themselves, rather than be expected to bow down to it or be completely destroyed if they try to oppose it.
The main problem is that the Greenblatts of the world are utterly convinced that Jews are existentially threatened by white racial consciousness or white racial advocacy, and they are increasingly using hard power to make sure that it never rears its head. I know a lot of Jews do not feel this way, but the fact remains. It is extremely difficult to foster any positive feeling of White identity when the levers of control in mass media, academic, finance, and culture are all massively influenced by a hostile opposition.
And yes, I expect that the greatest part of is the responsibility is placed on Gentiles. I don't expect or demand that Jews drop their own identities, ethnic nationalism, or self-regard. Only that they exist on more equal terms with non-Jewish white people. They can critique, especially constructively criticize, Gentile culture from the perpsective of their Jewish identities. Then, Gentiles must also have the ability to critique, or constructively criticize, Jewish power from the perspective of their own identity. Jews can assert their positive particularities and organize on behalf of their ethnic interests. White Gentiles must be able to do the same.
I am far more concerned about a change in consciousness than I am about political solutions, because consciousness will go a long way in creating checks and balances and incentivizing healthier relations on more equal terms. But that consciousness is downstream from culture and culture creators. I think the DR, despite its shortcomings, is an important sub-culture because it's carrying this torch (and the ADL knows it).
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There is a problem here, and it's that you defaulted to assuming over representation is a problem, instead of what it is, an obvious fact which is verboten in public discourse (which is an actual problem). Perhaps you can answer it the other way - why isn't it a problem? When we have spent the last ten years setting up idiotic quotas in every corporation and government department for a percentage of staff to be a particular ethnicity or gender, why is Jewish over representation in some of the most prestigious industries in existence not a problem?
Here's a solution - nobody has to pay for mentioning this obvious fact with their jobs any longer, or their reputation, or millions of dollars. Nobody gets forced to call a deer a horse. I know, it doesn't seem like it would really solve anything to me either, but then I have to ask why the fuck Jewish advocates are so hell bent on carrying it out?
I think the quotas are dumb. We shouldn’t have make work job for underperforming minorities and/or women. We shouldn’t promote on such criteria either.
The same arguments for why those are problems (and many people are against affirmative action for articulated reasons) supports the argument it is fine Jews are rich.
Yeah, that's the joke, those policies are a result of the same racial politics they propagate. I don't care if Jews are rich and successful, they should get it if they can. And a culture of valuing intelligence often has that effect.
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