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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023

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I mostly base my opinions from what Jews publish.

It's not all of them, it's the ones that reach certain spheres where they get to publish their opinions to my eyeballs.

For every Stephen Miller or even Glenn Greenwald, there seems to be 10 Ben Shapiro "I don't give a good damn about the so-called "browning of America."

I'm not dedicated enough to quantify that, or even be able to quote people that obsessively do it, but I can't ever recall a 'normal Jew' saying 'you know what, what they did to Kanye / Andrew Anglin / Nick Fuentes, that's disgusting, they should have a right to criticize powerful people!'.

It seems to me that the ratio of visible Jews that oppose vs support tolerate any kind of traditional, right-wing, European-centered culture/politics is large.

Even on here, a website with hundreds if thousands of users, there seems to be a disproportionate amount of Jews (perhaps 10% or more), and I've already been attacked several times by them.

Not once have I seen on themotte.org a self-identified Jew say 'you know what this guy is right, maybe powerful Jews are behaving like bullies somewhat'. I have seen one somewhat admit to similar ideas but ended up reverting to some kind of 'not all Jews' defense.

Maybe I don't see or understand the more nuanced positions by Jews here, and it's something else that makes them disagree.

'it's not enough to be not racist, we have to be anti-racist'

When you see an individual Jew attack white people, white institutions, white culture, Christianity, don't let them run their mouth unopposed.

Be the 'good' Jew that undoes jewish supremacy (the only accepted form of white racism).