Resentment/Oppression and Jews
Hello Lisa,
I tried to respond as you were talking, but I was muted.
My thesis is that the Jews everyone craps on circled the wagons, hunkered down and went to work building enormous wealth.
In their idiotic leftism (which correlates highly with the big five trait of openness), they supported all sorts of programs to help the other oppressed. But those oppressed didn’t thrive. Their lives got worse. If they couldn’t make it in spite of the gifts they were given, this might lead naturally to a thought that maybe the game is rigged.
Our nation’s blacks made tremendous strides in the hundred years after the civil war, exactly when they were oppressed, red-lined, lynched, Jim-crowed, rather than helped, when they had to take care of their own.
Then came Moynihan’s 1965 report on the Negro Family, along with Johnson’s Great Society—and the unfortunate fact that every government program has unintended consequences, but no measure for when to pull the plug—and Robert Moses tore down neighborhoods to build projects, and we incentivized single motherhood, and let Ginsberg, Derrida and Marcuse (all with Jewish ancestry) inform the academy’s plunge into deconstructing our society to try to identify the oppressor and give the oppressed carte-blanche to take any action that undermines the oppressor. I suggested to you “The Queering of the American Child.” It’s a really good primer on the place we find ourselves.
And this is the formula today, this being Professor Peterson’s formulation on the Victim/Oppressor Narrative
Identify an area of human activity
Note the distribution of success
Identify the winners and losers
Claim the losers are losing because oppressed by winners
Claim allegiance of losers
Feel secure in your comprehensive explanation of the world
Target your resentment toward your newly discovered enemies.
Repeat, forever, everywhere
And we’ve fallen for it, and you host Mr. Winston every week, and allow conversations of structural racism, micro-aggressions, white fragility, etc.
I have been informed on the streets of Bridgeport that I am definitionally racist, and that a black person isn’t.
So my suggestion if we don’t want to foster resentment and upheaval is actually to celebrate the individual’s capacity to overcome his circumstances, in which case he must be left to face them, instead of feeling that the state must manipulate aid and housing and childcare to level the playing field.
If you want to be able to manage childcare, maybe the best strategy is a two parent, or even better, multigenerational home, deeply embedded in a local religious community.
Who cares if most people rent? The rate of homeownership in Europe runs from the low 40s to the mid 60s in most of Europe.
Anyway, I ran across this as I was looking for a source on the Peterson formulation above: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog/jordan-peterson-my-message-to-the-jews.
If you want to discuss any of this—and especially the gender-ideology thing, or the patriotic education thing—I am running in the 136th in Bridgeport, so you have an excuse to bring me on.