RE: A Better Word for Anti-Semitism

Larry Auster and his sycophants are pondering over finding a better word for anti-Semites than “anti-Semites”. “Anti-Semite” feels too much like a “shut up” word, kind of like “racist”.

In Larry’s words…

My aim here is not to be nice to the anti-Jews. My aim is to take away their ability to obscure and deny what they are, by taking away their opportunity to keep endlessly whining that their critics are “name-calling” them. “Stop name-calling us,” the anti-Jews cry, “and deal with the facts, the facts of Jewish evil that we are trying to bring forth.” So let’s deal with the facts, including the facts of what the anti-Jews actually believe. Facts are better than name-calling.

I believe I’ll take a crack at it…

The first thing that has to be understood is that “anti-Semite” is too general. Some people for whom that word is commonly used aren’t even truly anti-Jewish. Take for comparison my own feeling about Japs. I admire a lot of their culture, history, and creative expressions. I’m certainly not anti-Jap. However, I would never pretend that Japs are White Americans. They’re not part of my ethnic nation and I don’t believe they should be allowed to immigrate here or be granted American citizenship. They’re a good people, but they’re not “my people”.

Just as I’m not anti-Jap, I’m not really anti-Jewish. They’re a gifted people with a rich history, but they’re not “my people”. They’re obviously a completely separate ethnicity from White Americans. They have a different history. They have a different future. They’re endogamous. When they think “my people”, they’re not thinking about me…and vice-versa.

This is probably why Auster warned John McNeil against using the term “ethnonationalism“…

The latter [ethnonationalism] perhaps has the same off-putting edge to it (including an implied anti-Semitism) as the term “white nationalism.” I would suggest that the thing to do is to defend the white race and its civilization from the forces that threaten them, without turning that belief into a formal ideology. Ethnonationalism sounds like an ideology.

Auster would prefer to keep Americans thinking only racially, as the case for Jews being White is arguable while the case for Jews being the same ethnic nation as us is incoherent. Is our particular nation the one nation in their famously long and mobile history that they’ll share a future with? Would you be willing to bet the farm on that?

As for style, I’m pretty sure that inviting people to think of themselves as belonging to an ethnic extended family goes over better than inviting people to “defend the [W]hite race”.

Defenders of the White Race

It’s easy enough to tell us Judeophobes apart from anti-Jews. For example, I don’t really care about Palestine beyond the extent that my country is forced to engage the issue by the Israel Lobby. You’ll never catch me calling Israel an “apartheid state”. I wouldn’t propose that we would be better with a nation of Mexicans than a nation run by neocons. I wouldn’t develop a fondness for Islamic jihadists out of a queer camaraderie with fellow anti-Jews.

At its core, the distinction is between behavior and identity. For the anti-Jew, their problem with Jews ultimately comes down to Jewish behavior. They allege (perhaps dishonestly) that their problem with Jews could be remedied by some sort of cessation of evildoing on the part of Jew. For the Judeophobe, the Jew can no more redeem himself than the Jap can. It’s a matter of national identity and it’s a matter of self-determination for the nation, the White American nation, that I identify with.