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\nOn Knowing the Language\n<\/a>
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Dear Principal:
\nI thought about my interaction with the student. I don\u2019t consider myself a racist person\u2014though I have been told in this city that a white person is definitionally racist. I admit there was an element of judgment in my remark(s). I expect that a person who chooses to be in America and take advantage of the gifts we offer make an effort to learn the dominant language in America.
\nThis is the message I would relay to the parent if given the opportunity. Your are welcome to pass it along:
\nMine is not an uncommon or extraordinary expectation. If you want to best serve your daughter, you might want to advise her that she will run up against plenty of people who think like me in the world. Whether you judge that to be right or wrong, it is the reality, and it is better we hew ourselves to reality than to try to bend reality.
\nThe ability to communicate carries with it power and the pass to many of the better things in this world. It is the ability to woo, to calm, to describe, to enroll, to disarm, to gracefully distance, to alter, to move the world. The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if those around us understand what we are saying.
\nIf you want your child to have power and influence in this world, if you want her to be able to deescalate, to defend, to make others laugh, motivate or move them, to elegantly extract herself, or insinuate herself, you will call on her to be a master of our language.
\nYou will take her on a field trip to any of the tony neighborhoods not so far from Bridgeport and let her know that what separates her from this is simply her mastery of language and her desire to learn.
\nMaybe she should take from her interaction with me the message that she should take on bettering herself. Three new words a day would be more than a thousand a year. Ten a day would start closing any gap really quickly.
\nShe was in a biology class, just learning that vocabulary would bring her power, and I can\u2019t really get to that with my broken Spanish if she can\u2019t communicate in English.
\nGrok broke it down for me thus:
\nIn the US, vocabulary size for native English-speaking high school graduates (typically age 18) is most commonly estimated at around 13,000\u201315,000 word families or base words. (Word families\/lemmas group related forms like \u201crun\/running\/ran\u201d as one; full word counts are higher but less commonly used for these estimates.) This is passive\/receptive vocabulary (words recognized\/understood), not just active use in speech.
\n\u201cEducated adult (high school)\u201d is often cited at ~15,000 base words.
\nBroader adult ranges (including college-educated) are typically 20,000\u201335,000 words, with some large-scale studies reporting medians of ~42,000 lemmas by age 20 (growing to ~48,000 by age 60).
\nVocabulary correlates strongly with education level: university graduates are often estimated at ~23,000 base words.
\nDistribution follows a roughly bell-shaped (normal) curve with significant individual variation. Factors like reading habits, home environment, and school quality drive the spread. Here is an estimated bell curve for US high school graduates (mean ~15,000 base words\/word families; standard deviation ~3,000, consistent with observed spreads in vocabulary test data where 5th\u201395th percentiles span thousands of words):
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\nRoughly 68% of HS graduates fall within ~12,000\u201318,000 words (\u00b11 SD).
\nThe full range is wide: lower end ~10,000 or below; higher end 20,000+ (especially strong readers or those headed to college).
\nBridgeport, CT vs. its more affluent neighbors (e.g., Westport, Darien, Greenwich, Fairfield): There are no publicly available city-specific vocabulary size studies, but the gap is expected to be substantial (likely several thousand words on average, even among high school graduates) due to large differences in educational attainment, school quality, reading proficiency, and socioeconomic status (SES)\u2014all of which strongly predict vocabulary.
\nEducational attainment (adults 25+): Bridgeport has lower high school completion (~76\u201378%) and much lower bachelor\u2019s+ rates (~19\u201323%). Affluent neighbors like Westport (~98% HS+, ~78\u201379% bachelor\u2019s+) and Darien (~86% bachelor\u2019s+) are among the highest in the state and nation.
\nSchool performance: Bridgeport district reading proficiency is low (~21\u201323%); graduation rates ~74%. Westport\/Darien\/Staples High School area schools are top-ranked statewide with ~99% graduation, far higher proficiency, and much stronger SAT\/college readiness.
\nSES context: Bridgeport has higher poverty and lower median income than its wealthy suburbs. Early childhood \u201cword gaps\u201d by SES (low-SES children hear far fewer words and start school with smaller vocabularies) persist and widen through adolescence, especially with differences in reading exposure and school quality.
\nA typical Bridgeport HS graduate would likely fall toward the lower half of the national bell curve (e.g., closer to 10,000\u201313,000 words), while one from an affluent neighbor would trend toward the upper half or college-graduate levels (18,000+). The exact difference varies by individual, but aggregate data on reading\/education gaps suggest a meaningful disparity that affects long-term outcomes like college\/career readiness.
\nThese are averages and estimates\u2014individual vocabulary depends heavily on personal reading, conversation, and curiosity far more than zip code alone. For the most current local education data, check the US Census ACS or Connecticut EdSight reports.
\nYours Truly,
\nDavid R. Herz<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nRemembrance\n<\/a>
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Seen on Facebook:
\nI grew up thinking no one in my family died in The Holocaust – in which 60% of all European Jews were murdered.
\nI was wrong.\u2026
\nWell heck, you don’t have to remember because we’re gearing up to do it again. National Socialists, Democratic Socialists: \u201cI am not anti-Jewish, I am just anti-Israel\u201d said no anti-Semite ever. I was not a Nazi. Unfortunately \u201cNever Again!\u201d is now.
\nAnd if it’s not in your face, it’s in the queer ideology (Chairman Mao would be so proud) that has infected almost every part of our system, that seeks to undermine humanity, goodness and G-d. It’s in every \u201ccrisis\u201d used to curtail another right, it comes in through our own suicidal empathy.
\nI am sorry for your pain, but I am also sorry that it wasn’t real to you until it came this close to home.
\nFeel sorry too for every Jew that married out, that chose not to have kids to save the planet, or remain ever Peter Pan, who celebrated every form of deviance other than what the Torah requires, who waited until it was too late.
\nFeel angry at all the dumb-ass Jews who gave us every damned wrong headed idea. As Orwell warned \u201cThere are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.\u201d So often a Jew is the \u201cintelligent person.\u201d
\nIf you want to honor their memory, if you want to save what is left, then be not silent. I invite you to dedicate a song\/\u200bpresentation\/\u200bproduction\/\u200bcreation for each of the people who died on October 7, then maybe another for each killing pit, if you can count them, then each camp or detention center, and if that isn’t enough, one for each day the killing camps were open. That should probably carry you to the end of your career. If it doesn’t cry a tear for every one of the 48,844 terror attacks just since 9\/11.
\nSorry, I think I am in a little bit of a mood.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nRejoicing\n<\/a>
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Seen on Facebook:
\nIt’s January 26, 2026 and October 7, 2023 is finally over.
\nDavid Herz
\nYou are so wrong. It started again on January 1 in New York City. Hamas is still running Gaza on the other side of the yellow line. The world’s hate for us is still brimming over.
\nit’s a corpse. We brought home a corpse that would still be a living carefree Israeli if the military and security services had their eyes on the ball instead of looking at how to protect turf (and probably embarrass Bibi), if the left hadn’t gone ape-shit about basic judicial reforms, with military saying they wouldn’t show up to fight for this state).
\nWe have a terrorist running Syria, and domestic terrorists organizing against their own government.
\nOr if you are right, how about we disband CSS and have a sing-a-long with our \u201creligion of peace\u201d Muslim brothers. I guess we can stop counting terrorist attacks because there won’t be any more. https:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nOn Bondi Beach\n<\/a>
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Today’s thought to someone else I share with you:
\nthe prompt:
\nThank you, David, for all of that, as I wasn’t aware of any of that.
\nAnd my heart and soul are shaken by what happened in Australia. When will the world wake up to Islam???
\nAbout Australia, I am not surprised, but then maybe I\u2019ve seen much of this already:
\nI have a neighbor in Israel who lost his sister\u2019s family to a stabbing attack.
\nI have a teacher who lost a son to an attack at a synagogue in Israel.
\nI have a friend whose son has permanent brain damage from another attack.
\nI have another in a wheelchair, another without half a leg below the knee.
\nThere have been 48,616 deadly terror attacks since 9\/11: https:\/\/thereligionofpeace.com\/
\nI have been training myself to not see crisis in the world. Calling a circumstance a crisis is just an excuse for the imposition of interventions that are not properly thought through, only to take a little more freedom, until the next crisis.
\nI was in Israel October 7. One of my sons was a soldier in the heat of those battles. Many of the kids I saw grow up are also soldiers. Many of my neighbors spent much of the last few years in reserve duty.
\nI see people who hurt, but I don\u2019t like the narrative that \u201cthe world is on fire.\u201d No one has a big enough extinguisher for that. Rather, the world has shown its hidden face.
\nThis too is the hand of G-d. Maybe he is giving us a gift, a path to prevent the next \u201cNever Again.\u201d
\nAnd I get that heart and soul can shake from this. Thank you for the thought. And let us hope that the gift is a little more clarity and motivation moving forward.
\nAll my Best,
\nDavid R. Herz<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nPress Release: Bridgeport 136th\n<\/a>
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Local Republicans Curiously Free of Allegations of Vote Stealing and Impersonation of Public Officials
\nIn a shocking development, research uncovers no allegations of voter manipulation, fraud, or impersonation of public officials amongst Republican challengers for local office in Bridgeport.
\n\u201cI know these people, the Republican contenders,\u201d says candidate David Herz, who is up against Alfredo Castillo in the 136th. Herz says \u201cWe just don\u2019t think it adds \u2018street cred\u2019 to get arrested or make ourselves the targets of criminal investigations.\u201d
\nHe adds that blue cities just don\u2019t equate with prosperity. It\u2019s as clear to him as two plus two not equaling five (suggesting he\u2019s read Orwell and learned a lesson or two), and XY genotypes not being girls (he also claims a science background).
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t become a cultural center by trying to become a cultural center,\u201d Herz maintains, alluding to the various attempts of our local politicians to put lipstick on a pig: murals on empty buildings, art shows of the \u2018World on Fire.\u2019 \u201cThese fires were set by our blue politicians and they have been fanning the flames for sixty odd years.\u201d
\n\u201cCulture follows industry and wealth creation. Our job is to make of ourselves a hub of industry, it is to educate our children at the highest levels, which can only be done if we encourage and embrace the traditional family structures that have always been the backbones of thriving communities.\u201d
\n\u201cStop stealing. Stop blaming. Stop begging for handouts from the state and federal governments.\u201d Herz maintains that people will pick themselves up and make a better world for themselves if that is what is incentivized.
\nHe urges the people Bridgeport to give his colleagues and him a chance.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nMeine lieben deutschen Cousins:\n<\/a>
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Liebe deutsche Cousins,
\nDas j\u00fcdische Wort f\u00fcr Bu\u00dfe ist Teschuwa. Es ist nur eine vollst\u00e4ndige Teschuwa, wenn wir erneut mit derselben Situation konfrontiert werden und uns entscheiden, anders zu handeln. Stellen Sie sich einen Fluss vor, der bereits einmal \u00fcber die Ufer getreten ist und die umliegenden Felder verw\u00fcstet hat. Wahre Bu\u00dfe besteht nicht nur darin, den Schaden zu bedauern oder eine vor\u00fcbergehende Barriere zu errichten; sie bedeutet, die Anzeichen steigenden Wassers beim n\u00e4chsten Mal zu erkennen und den Fluss mit Weisheit und Entschlossenheit umzuleiten. Deutschland, meine Cousins, steht heute an einer solchen Zusammenflussstelle. Die Schatten der Vergangenheit \u2014 wirtschaftliche Verzweiflung, ideologische Verf\u00fchrung und ungez\u00fcgelter Extremismus \u2014 lauern erneut, in neuen Gew\u00e4ndern getarnt. Teschuwa erfordert keine L\u00e4hmung durch Schuld, sondern eine mutige Umleitung hin zu einer Zukunft, die in unseren angeborenen St\u00e4rken verwurzelt ist.
\nDas Judentum verbietet auch, zu stark zu trauern. Man darf sich nicht schneiden oder ritzen als Zeichen der Trauer, eine Glatze machen oder sich die Haare ausrei\u00dfen. Die Trauer folgt einem Zyklus des Weinens (drei Tage), der Trauerreden (sieben Tage) und Einschr\u00e4nkungen bei verschiedenen anderen Praktiken (einen Monat) sowie Feiern (ein Jahr). Diese alte Weisheit erkennt das menschliche Bed\u00fcrfnis an, den Verlust zu ehren, doch sie z\u00fcgelt die Selbstzerst\u00f6rung. Deutschland hat sein dunkelstes Kapitel \u2014 den Holocaust und die NS-Zeit \u2014 \u00fcber Generationen hinweg betrauert, und das zu Recht. Seine Verbrechen sind ein Fleck, den es nicht entfernen kann. Aber \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfige Trauer ist zu einer kulturellen Narbe geworden, einer selbst zugef\u00fcgten Wunde, die die Vitalit\u00e4t raubt.
\nEinerseits ist es, als ob die Nation in einer ewigen Schiwa gefangen w\u00e4re, der sieben-t\u00e4gigen Trauerzeit, unf\u00e4hig, aufzustehen und ihren Platz unter den Lebenden wieder einzunehmen. Anekdoten gibt es zuhauf von Nachkriegsdeutschen, die in ihrem Eifer zur S\u00fchne den nationalen Stolz so sehr unterdr\u00fcckten, dass es zu kulturellem Ged\u00e4chtnisverlust kam, zum Beispiel der junge Berliner in den 1960er Jahren, der Familienportr\u00e4ts seines Gro\u00dfvaters, eines blo\u00dfen Soldaten, abriss, aus Angst vor jeglicher Verbindung zum Regime, nur um sp\u00e4ter zu bedauern, dass er das vollere Gewebe seines Erbes ausgel\u00f6scht hatte \u2014 Ingenieure, Dichter und Philosophen, die Kathedralen bauten, nicht nur Waffen und Konzentrationslager. Es ist Zeit, den Zyklus zu vollenden: Trauern, ja, aber dann eine neue Welt auf den Schultern derer schaffen, die wir verloren haben.
\nAndererseits gibt es eine Generation, die es resentimentvoll empfindet, an diese Vergangenheit erinnert zu werden, die sie nicht verstehen kann und mit der sie sich nicht identifizieren will, die gelernt hat, dass es keinen G-tt gibt, und die erneut bereit ist, die Juden f\u00fcr den aktuellen Zustand der Welt verantwortlich zu machen.
\nEuropa, Amerika und das meiste, was gro\u00df in der Welt ist, stammt aus unserer gemeinsamen j\u00fcdisch-christlichen Tradition. Es ist eine Tradition der Zusammenarbeit, eines gewissen Opfers heute f\u00fcr ein gr\u00f6\u00dferes Morgen. Es ist eine Tradition der flei\u00dfigen Anwendung der besten Teile von sich selbst zur Weiterentwicklung der Welt. Es ist eine Tradition, die das Besondere an jedem Menschen ehrt, w\u00e4hrend sie ihn auch zur \u00dcbernahme von Verantwortung f\u00fcr seine Gemeinschaft aufruft.
\nDiese Tradition ist ein gro\u00dfes Orchester, die Streicher weben Melodien der Freiheit und Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit, die Blechbl\u00e4ser verk\u00fcnden die Macht der Industrie und Innovation, die Holzbl\u00e4ser hauchen den Geist der Inspiration und des Glaubens ein, und die Schlaginstrumente unterstreichen mit rhythmischen Ausbr\u00fcchen der Kreativit\u00e4t und Kunst \u2014 alles harmonierend unter einem g\u00f6ttlichen Dirigenten. Deutschland war ein Virtuose in diesem Ensemble, seine christlichen Wurzeln reichen tief von der reformatorischen protestantischen Leidenschaft im Norden bis zu den katholischen Kernl\u00e4ndern Bayerns, und f\u00f6rderten eine historische Toleranz, die in ihren besten Zeiten Protestanten, Katholiken und Juden gleicherma\u00dfen umfasste. Dieser Geist des Zusammenlebens, verk\u00f6rpert in Figuren wie Martin Luther, der kirchliche Korruption herausforderte, und Moses Mendelssohn, der aufkl\u00e4rerisches Denken mit j\u00fcdischer Tradition in Berlin verband, trieb eine Nation voran, in der vielf\u00e4ltige Glaubensrichtungen zu einem kulturellen und intellektuellen Aufbl\u00fchen beitrugen.
\nDeutschland gab uns Bach, dessen Fugen Komplexit\u00e4t in g\u00f6ttliche Ordnung webten, und Beethoven, der taub und trotzig Symphonien komponierte, die den Triumph des menschlichen Geistes \u00fcber Widrigkeiten widerspiegelten. Das sind keine blo\u00dfen historischen Fu\u00dfnoten; sie verk\u00f6rpern die deutschen Eigenschaften von Pr\u00e4zision, Ausdauer und tiefer Tiefe \u2014 Eigenschaften, die Innovationen vorantrieben, von der katholischen Gutenberg-Presse bis zur Relativit\u00e4tstheorie des Juden Einstein.
\nUnsere Kultur sch\u00e4tzt Industrie, Effizienz und Innovation, wie den unersch\u00fctterlichen Fluss der Autobahn und die Autos, die Sie darauf setzen, sowie eine Liebe zur Natur, die in den romantischen Wanderungen Goethes durch den Schwarzwald evident ist, auf der Suche nach Einheit zwischen Mensch und Kosmos. Das sind die F\u00e4den der Gr\u00f6\u00dfe, die in ein neues Gewebe der Au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlichkeit gewoben werden m\u00fcssen, explizit sch\u00f6pfend aus Deutschlands christlichem Erbe ethischer Strenge, gemeinschaftlicher Wohlt\u00e4tigkeit und erl\u00f6sender Gnade.
\nWir teilen, was Sie das \u201cAlte Testament\u201d nennen. Ob Sie glauben, dass es das Wort G-ttes ist oder nicht, es ist die Destillation tiefer und alter Weisheit, die sich immer wieder als wahr oder wahr-genug erwiesen hat. Und w\u00e4hrend die Bibel pervertiert und korrumpiert worden sein mag und B\u00f6ses als Priester und Rabbiner paradieren sah, ist das ein Problem des Boten und nicht der Botschaft. Die Ideale, die sie repr\u00e4sentiert, ob in Ihrem Jesus und seinen Aposteln oder in unserem Abraham, Yitzhak und Yaakov, sind es, die uns die wundersame Welt gebracht haben, in der wir leben. Im Christentum sind diese Patriarchen Modelle des Glaubens \u2014 Abrahams unersch\u00fctterliches Vertrauen in G-ttes Versprechen, Isaaks stille Unterwerfung, Jakobs transformative Kampf. Aber wie wir fr\u00fcher besprochen haben, k\u00f6nnten ihre christlichen Gegenst\u00fccke Petrus sein, der Fels des k\u00fchnen Glaubens; Jakobus, der M\u00e4rtyrer der standhaften Ausdauer; und Johannes, der Apostel der g\u00f6ttlichen Liebe. Diese Figuren erinnern uns daran, dass Unvollkommenheit das Ideal nicht aufhebt; Petrus’ Verleugnung wurde von Erl\u00f6sung gefolgt, \u00e4hnlich wie Deutschlands Nachkriegsrekonstruktion. Die Botschaft bleibt bestehen: ein Aufruf zu ethischem Leben, Gemeinschaft und \u00dcberwindung basaler Instinkte, verwurzelt in den christlichen Prinzipien, die Deutschland einst durch Kathedralen, Kl\u00f6ster und moralische Lehren einigten, die soziale Reformen inspirierten.
\nDie F\u00fchrung ist klar, und ein Teil davon ist nur eine Erinnerung an unsere Naturen: Mann und Frau schuf Er sie, ihre Aufgabe, aneinander zu kleben, fruchtbar zu sein und sich zu vermehren. Jedes lebende Wesen, unter den geeigneten Bedingungen zur Fortpflanzung, tut das. Einige paaren sich f\u00fcrs Leben. Jede Mutter wird das unter Risiko und Kosten f\u00fcr sich selbst. Jeder von uns ist hier, weil unsere Mutter dieses Risiko eingegangen ist. Und jede Mutter hat dieses Risiko eingegangen, wissend, dass ihr Kind den Schritten des Ideals folgen k\u00f6nnte oder von einer dunkleren Seite verf\u00fchrt werden k\u00f6nnte.
\nTrotzdem ist es das Eingehen dieses Risikos, das die Welt voranbringt. Und wenn es im richtigen Geist getan wird, und oft sogar im falschen, berichten diejenigen, die das tun, von mehr Zufriedenheit im Leben. Diejenigen, die diesen Weg w\u00e4hlen, investieren einfach anders in die Zukunft. Denken Sie an die Anekdote einer bayerischen Familie in den 1950er Jahren: inmitten der Tr\u00fcmmer des Krieges w\u00e4hlte ein junges Paar wie die M\u00fcllers aus M\u00fcnchen, zu heiraten und Kinder zu haben, trotz Knappheit, und pflanzten Samen, die zum Wirtschaftswunder wuchsen \u2014 dem wirtschaftlichen Wunder. Ihr \u201cBuy-in\u201d war w\u00f6rtlich: Schwei\u00df und Ersparnisse in Familie und Gemeinschaft investieren, was Generationen von Innovatoren hervorbrachte.
\nHeute liegt die Geburtenrate Deutschlands bei 1,35 Kindern pro Frau, weit unter dem Erhaltungsniveau. Ehe und Familie werden nicht als Gaben des G\u00f6ttlichen gesehen, sondern als Lasten. Das ist verkehrt herum.
\nUnsere St\u00e4rke als Menschen liegt in der tiefen F\u00e4higkeit, uns anzupassen und zu wachsen, \u00fcber Krisen hinauszuwachsen, die einst un\u00fcberwindbar schienen. Wir sollten diese St\u00e4rke mehr anerkennen und sie als Kern unseres j\u00fcdisch-christlichen Erbes feiern, anstatt sie zu mindern. Zu oft haben wir unsere Sorge um Menschen \u2014 um das Gedeihen menschlicher Leben \u2014 durch eine obsessive Sorge um eine indifferente Mutter Erde verdr\u00e4ngt, als ob die gewaltigen Zyklen des Planeten sich um unsere \u00c4ngste scheren w\u00fcrden. Vor mehr als 50 Jahren warnten Umweltaktivisten vor einem drohenden Kollaps aufgrund von \u00dcberbev\u00f6lkerung. Der amerikanische Biologe Paul Ehrlich, der diese Idee im Westen durch sein 1968 erschienenes Buch \u201cThe Population Bomb\u201d popularisierte, prognostizierte, dass Hunderte Millionen in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren verhungern w\u00fcrden, w\u00e4hrend die Weltbev\u00f6lkerung auf 4 Milliarden zusteuerte. (Bemerkenswert ist, dass der Bericht des Club of Rome von 1972 \u201cLimits to Growth\u201d, der diese \u00c4ngste vor Ressourcenersch\u00f6pfung und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenbruch widerspiegelte, erhebliche Finanzierung von der deutschen Volkswagen-Stiftung erhielt, was die fr\u00fche deutsche Beteiligung an solchen Diskussionen hervorhebt.) Diese d\u00fcsteren Prophezeiungen, obwohl gut gemeint, \u00fcbersahen die menschliche Erfindungsgabe \u2014 dieselbe Anpassungsf\u00e4higkeit, die W\u00fcsten in Ackerland verwandelt und Energie aus dem Atom gewonnen hat.
\nTragischerweise haben zu viele Deutsche diese \u00c4ngste internalisiert, w\u00e4hlen sie, sich nicht fortzupflanzen als ihren \u201cBeitrag\u201d zum Umweltschutz, und entscheiden sich stattdessen daf\u00fcr, zu protestieren, Fortschritt zu behindern und sogar Kunst zu zerst\u00f6ren, indem sie sich in disruptiven Akten der \u201cVerzweiflung\u201d an Asphalt in Stra\u00dfen und Galerien kleben, wie bei Gruppen wie Letzte Generation zu sehen.
\nLassen Sie uns diese Energie umleiten: Der Kleber und Asphalt selbst, den diese Protestierenden verwenden, um sich in Protest an Stra\u00dfen und Galerien zu befestigen, repr\u00e4sentieren die Fr\u00fcchte von Wissenschaft, Ingenieurwesen und menschlichem Geist, die genutzt werden k\u00f6nnen, um unsere Umst\u00e4nde anzugehen. Wir k\u00f6nnen und sollten menschliche L\u00f6sungen und Anpassungen f\u00fcr eine bessere Welt schmieden, die sowohl der Menschheit als auch der Umwelt zugutekommen. Dieses Engagement f\u00fcr die Zukunft k\u00f6nnte sehr wohl Ehe und Familie umfassen, eine R\u00fcckkehr zur Sch\u00f6nheit in der Sch\u00f6pfung und das edle Opfer, das uns \u00fcber blo\u00dfe \u00dcberleben hinaushebt.
\nEs gibt keine Ehre darin, nationalen Selbstmord zu begehen. Das bringt uns an den Abgrund, den wir konfrontieren m\u00fcssen: Die moderne Toleranz gegen\u00fcber dem Aufstieg des Islam in Europa hallt die Zulassung des Aufstiegs der Nazi-Partei in den 1930er Jahren wider. Damals schufen wirtschaftliche Turbulenzen durch die Gro\u00dfe Depression, Hyperinflation und die Fragilit\u00e4t der Weimarer Republik fruchtbaren Boden f\u00fcr Extremismus. Viele Deutsche, m\u00fcde und desillusioniert, tolerierten die NS-Propaganda, Stra\u00dfengewalt und den schrittweisen Abbau von Freiheiten und sahen sie als notwendige Korrektur zum Chaos. Sparma\u00dfnahmen sch\u00fcrten Ressentiments, und Eliten untersch\u00e4tzten die Bedrohung, was Hitler erlaubte, durch legale Mittel wie das Erm\u00e4chtigungsgesetz Macht zu konsolidieren.
\n\u00c4hnlich werden die heutigen Deutschen durch explodierende Energiekosten in Sparsamkeit gezwungen, getrieben durch Klima-Alarmismus und Politiken wie die Energiewende, die Industrie und Innovation ersticken, zu Arbeitsplatzverlusten in Sektoren wie Chemie und Fertigung f\u00fchren, wirtschaftliche Stagnation, verschlechterte globale Verschmutzung durch verlagerte Emissionen und schmutzigere Stromproduktion in Deutschland sowie erh\u00f6hte Abh\u00e4ngigkeit von autorit\u00e4ren Akteuren wie Russland (fr\u00fcher f\u00fcr Gas) und China (f\u00fcr kritische Mineralien und Solarpaneele).
\nDar\u00fcber hinaus brodelt wachsendes Ressentiment \u00fcber das zunehmende Einmischen des b\u00fcrokratischen Staates, der Ressourcen f\u00fcr eine nicht-beitragende, destabilisierende islamische Asylgemeinschaft priorisiert \u2014 Wohnraum, Wohlfahrt und Dienste umleitet \u2014 gegen\u00fcber seinen eigenen bed\u00fcrftigen B\u00fcrgern, die unter diesen wirtschaftlichen Druck geraten. Dieser Mix aus wirtschaftlicher Frustration und wahrgenommener Ungerechtigkeit k\u00f6nnte, unkontrolliert, denselben Unruhen entz\u00fcnden, der die Nazi-Partei in den 1930er Jahren gebar, insbesondere inmitten aktueller Trends, Rede zu polizeilich \u00fcberwachen und stolze deutsche Stimmen zum Schweigen zu bringen.
\nDie muslimische Bev\u00f6lkerung Europas ist von etwa 4,9 % im Jahr 2016 auf Prognosen von 7-14 % bis 2050 gewachsen, angetrieben durch h\u00f6here Geburtenraten und Migration. W\u00e4hrend einige Muslime sich integrieren und wirtschaftlich beitragen, ist die breitere Realit\u00e4t belastet: anhaltende Armut, Segregation und Ideologien, die mit europ\u00e4ischen Werten unvereinbar sind, einschlie\u00dflich rampantem Antisemitismus und Opposition gegen s\u00e4kulare Freiheiten. Im Gegensatz zu den Juden, die bestrebt waren, deutscher als die Deutschen zu sein \u2014 tief in Kultur, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft assimiliert, w\u00e4hrend sie sie bereicherten \u2014 zeigt der Islam wenig Respekt vor seinen europ\u00e4ischen Gastgebern. Seine Anh\u00e4nger streben oft nicht an, sich anzupassen, sondern umzust\u00fcrzen, indem sie eine theokratische Ordnung auferlegen, die alle unterjocht. Das ist ein B\u00f6ses \u00e4hnlich dem Nazismus: Beide Ideologien w\u00fcrden Zivilisationen niederbrennen, um eine verkleinerte, unterdr\u00fcckerische Welt in ihrem eigenen Bild zu schaffen.
\nWenn eine Kultur sich weigert, sich anzupassen, sollten ihre Anh\u00e4nger dorthin zur\u00fcckgeschickt werden, woher sie kamen. Das ist nicht die j\u00fcdisch-christliche Ethik der Zusammenarbeit und gegenseitigen Hebung, die unsere Gr\u00f6\u00dfe gebar. Toleranz des Untolerierbaren l\u00e4dt Ruin ein; Deutsche m\u00fcssen das Schlimmste unter uns ablehnen, diese invasive Kraft, und den Geist des Wachstums zur\u00fcckerobern, der im Besten unseres Erbes verk\u00f6rpert ist.
\nIm Hintergrund lauert ein gr\u00f6\u00dferes Unwohlsein: Die Tendenz der modernen Welt, Krisen als Vorwand f\u00fcr Kontrolle durch nicht gew\u00e4hlte Eliten zu erkl\u00e4ren. Sie verk\u00fcnden Notst\u00e4nde \u2014 Klimakatastrophen, das Gespenst des Nationalismus, den Griff der Armut \u2014 und bestehen darauf, dass wir Regierungen vertrauen, Erl\u00f6sung durch Anspr\u00fcche zu liefern: Nahrung, Wohnraum, medizinische Versorgung. Das f\u00f6rdert Abh\u00e4ngigkeit und erstickt die Selbstst\u00e4ndigkeit, die die j\u00fcdisch-christliche Ethik definierte.
\nEliten nutzen diese Narrative aus, um Dissens zu unterdr\u00fccken, Nationalismus als Xenophobie zu etikettieren, w\u00e4hrend sie demografische Verschiebungen durch offene Grenzen manipulieren. In Deutschland heute manifestiert sich das in der Drosselung von Freiheiten: strenge Hassredegesetze, die freie Meinungs\u00e4u\u00dferung einsch\u00fcchtern, \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfige Polizeiarbeit bei Versammlungen, die Proteste einschr\u00e4nken (au\u00dfer sie sind f\u00fcr eine \u201cgenehmigte\u201d Sache), und ein Justizsystem, das von Falllasten \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigt ist und Gerechtigkeit verz\u00f6gert, alles unter dem Deckmantel des Schutzes der Demokratie vor ihren eigenen B\u00fcrgern, die die Quelle ihrer Macht sein sollten. Doch wahre Sicherheit kommt nicht von staatlichen Almosen, sondern von Familien und Gemeinschaften, die in unserer wei\u00dfen, westlichen, meist m\u00e4nnlich gef\u00fchrten j\u00fcdisch-christlichen Tradition verwurzelt sind.
\nMeine Cousins, lassen Sie uns unsere Geschichte umarmen, nicht als Kette, sondern als Leiter zur Gr\u00f6\u00dfe. Erobern Sie die Eigenschaften von Flei\u00df, Innovation und moralischer St\u00e4rke zur\u00fcck, die Philosophen wie Kant und F\u00fchrer wie Bismarck gebaren. Erwecken Sie Ihr christliches Erbe wieder zum Leben, mit seinem Schwerpunkt auf Wohlt\u00e4tigkeit und Gerechtigkeit, um eine neue Au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlichkeit zu schmieden: eine, die Familie als Pflicht und Privileg feiert. Heiraten Sie, vermehren Sie sich und investieren Sie in die Zukunft \u2014 nicht durch Elite-Dekrete, sondern durch pers\u00f6nliches Engagement und das Geschenk Ihrer Kinder.
\nStellen Sie sich eine Renaissance vor, in der Deutschlands Beitr\u00e4ge zu Wissenschaft, Kunst und Philosophie wieder so profund sind, dass die Welt Deutsch studiert, um direkt darauf zuzugreifen, wie es vor dem Krieg notwendig war \u2014 als Denker von Freud bis Heidegger globale Geister zur deutschen Sprache und den darin ausgedr\u00fcckten Ideen zogen. Das erfordert, dass Deutsche sich selbst als Antwort sehen und nicht als Krebsgeschw\u00fcr, den Mantel der besten Teile dessen anzulegen, was es bedeutet, Deutscher zu sein: Pr\u00e4zision im Denken, Resilienz im Geist und ein Antrieb, Ihr Volk als leuchtenden Beitrag zur Welt voranzutreiben.
\nH\u00f6ren Sie auf, unsere alte Weisheit zu Ihrem pers\u00f6nlichen Nachteil wegzuwerfen. Schenken Sie sich die gr\u00f6\u00dfere Zufriedenheit, die aus dem Leben in Harmonie mit diesen zeitlosen Wahrheiten kommt. Wie der Ph\u00f6nix aus der Asche, erheben Sie sich erneuert, tun Sie richtige Teschuwa und die Welt wird triumphieren.
\nEs gibt Ehre auf dem Pfad G-ttes \u2014 und gr\u00f6\u00dfere pers\u00f6nliche Zufriedenheit. Darin liegt auch die Rettung der deutschen Nation \u2014 und tats\u00e4chlich die Rettung der Welt.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nMy Dear German Cousins\n<\/a>
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Dear German Cousins,
\nThe Jewish word for repentance is t’shuva. It is only complete t’shuva when we are confronted with the same situation again and choose to act differently. Imagine a river that has flooded its banks once before, devastating the surrounding fields. True repentance isn’t merely regretting the damage or building a temporary barrier; it’s recognizing the signs of rising waters the next time and diverting the flow with wisdom and resolve. Germany, my cousins, stands at such a confluence today. The shadows of the past\u2014economic despair, ideological seduction, and unchecked extremism\u2014loom once more, disguised in new garments. T’shuva demands not paralysis in guilt, but bold redirection toward a future rooted in our inherent strengths.
\nJudaism also prohibits mourning too severely. One is not allowed to cut or gash oneself as a sign of grief, make a bald spot, or tear out one’s hair. Grieving follows a cycle of crying (three days), eulogizing (seven), and restrictions on various other practices (a month) and celebrations (a year). This ancient wisdom acknowledges the human need to honor loss, yet it curbs self-destruction. Germany has mourned its darkest chapter\u2014the Holocaust and the Nazi era\u2014for generations, and rightly so. Its crimes are a stain it can not remove. But excessive mourning has become a cultural scar, a self-inflicted wound that saps vitality.
\nOn the one hand, it is as if the nation has been trapped in an eternal shiva, the seven-day mourning period, unable to rise and reclaim its place among the living. Anecdotes abound of post-war Germans who, in their zeal to atone, suppressed national pride to the point of cultural amnesia, for instance the young Berliner in the 1960s who tore down family portraits of his grandfather, a mere soldier, fearing any association with the regime, only to later regret erasing the fuller tapestry of his heritage\u2014engineers, poets, and philosophers who built cathedrals, not just weapons and concentration camps. It’s time to complete the cycle: mourn, yes, but then create a new world on the shoulders of those we’ve lost..
\nOn the other hand is a generation resentful that it is reminded of this past, that can’t understand it and won’t identify with it, that has been taught that there is no G-d, and that is willing again to blame the Jews for the current state of the world.
\nEurope, America, and most of what is great in the world, have come from our shared Judaeo-Christian tradition. It is a tradition of cooperation, of a certain sacrifice today for a greater tomorrow. It is a tradition of the diligent application of the best parts of oneself to advancing the world. It is a tradition that honors what is special about each human being while also calling him to share responsibility for his community.
\nThis tradition is a grand orchestra, the strings weave melodies of liberty and freedom, the brass blares forth the power of industry and innovation, the winds breathe the spirit of inspiration and faith, and percussion punctuates with rhythmic bursts of creativity and art\u2014all harmonizing under a divine conductor. Germany has been a virtuoso in this ensemble, its Christian roots running deep from the Reformation’s Protestant fervor in the north to the Catholic heartlands of Bavaria, fostering a historical tolerance that, at its best, embraced Protestants, Catholics, and Jews alike. This spirit of coexistence, embodied in figures like Martin Luther challenging ecclesiastical corruption and Moses Mendelssohn bridging Enlightenment thought with Jewish tradition in Berlin, propelled a nation where diverse faiths contributed to a cultural and intellectual flourishing.
\nGermany gave us Bach, whose fugues wove complexity into divine order, and Beethoven, who, deaf and defiant, composed symphonies that echoed the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. These are not mere historical footnotes; they embody the German characteristics of precision, perseverance, and profound depth\u2014traits that propelled innovations from the Catholic Gutenberg’s printing press to the Jew Einstein’s relativity.
\nOurs is a culture prizing industry, efficiency and innovation, like the Autobahn’s unyielding flow, and the cars you put upon it, and a love for nature, evident in the Romantic wanderings of Goethe through the Black Forest, seeking unity between man and the cosmos. These are the threads of greatness that must be rewoven into a new tapestry of exceptionalism, drawing explicitly from Germany’s Christian heritage of ethical rigor, communal charity, and redemptive grace.
\nWe share what you call the \u201cold testament.\u201d Whether you believe it is the word of G-d or not, it is the distillation of deep and ancient wisdom, proven true, or true-enough, over and over again. And while the bible may have been perverted and corrupted, and has seen evil parade around as priests and rabbis, this is a problem of messenger and not message. The ideals it represents, whether in your Jesus and his Apostles, or in our Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, are what have brought us the miraculous world in which we live. In Christianity, these patriarchs are models of faith\u2014Abraham’s unwavering trust in God’s promise, Isaac’s quiet submission, Jacob’s transformative struggle. But as we discussed earlier, their Christian counterparts might be Peter, the rock of bold faith; James, the martyr of steadfast endurance; and John, the apostle of divine love. These figures remind us that imperfection does not negate the ideal; Peter’s denial was followed by redemption, much like Germany’s post-war reconstruction. The message endures: a call to ethical living, community, and transcendence over base instincts, rooted in the Christian principles that once unified Germany through cathedrals, monasteries, and the moral teachings that inspired social reforms.
\nThe guidance is clear, and some of it is just a reminder of our natures: man and woman He made them, their job to cleave to each other, to be fruitful and multiply. Every living being, given the appropriate conditions to reproduce, does so. Some mate for life. Every mother becomes that at a risk and cost to herself. Every one of us is here because our mother took that risk. And every mother took that risk knowing that her child could choose to follow in the footsteps of the ideal, or could be seduced by a darker side.
\nStill, it is the taking of that risk that brings the world forward. And when done in the right spirit, and often even when in the wrong, those who go here report more satisfaction in life. Those who choose this path simply buy into the future differently. Consider the anecdote of a Bavarian family in the 1950s: amid the rubble of war, a young couple like the M\u00fcllers from Munich chose to marry and have children despite scarcity, planting seeds that grew into the Wirtschaftswunder\u2014the economic miracle. Their \u201cbuy-in\u201d was literal: investing sweat and savings in family and community, yielding generations of innovators.
\nToday, Germany’s birth rate languishes at 1.35 children per woman, well below replacement levels. Marriage and family do not occur as gifts of the divine, but as burdens. This is backwards.
\nOur strength as humans lies the profound ability to adapt and grow, to innovate beyond crises that once seemed insurmountable. We should do more to acknowledge this strength, celebrating it as the core of our Judeo-Christian heritage rather than diminishing it. Too often, we’ve displaced our concern for people\u2014for the flourishing of human lives\u2014with an obsessive worry about an indifferent Mother Earth, as if the planet’s vast cycles care for our anxieties. More than 50 years ago, environmental activists warned of impending collapse due to overpopulation. The American biologist Paul Ehrlich, the popularizer of this idea in the West through his 1968 book \u201cThe Population Bomb,\u201d predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s as the world’s population approached 4 billion. (Notably, the Club of Rome’s 1972 report \u201cLimits to Growth,\u201d which echoed these fears of resource exhaustion and societal breakdown, received significant funding from Germany’s Volkswagen Foundation, highlighting early German involvement in such discussions.) These dire prophecies, while well-intentioned, overlooked humanity’s ingenuity\u2014the same adaptability that has turned deserts into farmlands and harnessed energy from the atom.
\nTragically, too many Germans have internalized these fears, choosing not to reproduce as their \u201ccontribution\u201d to the environment, opting instead to protest, impede progress, and even destroy art as they glue themselves to the asphalt in streets and galleries in disruptive acts of \u201cdespair,\u201d as seen with groups like Last Generation.
\nLet us redirect that energy: the very glue and asphalt which these protesters use to attach themselves in protest to the streets and galleries represent the fruits of science, engineering, and human spirit that can be harnessed to address our circumstances. We can and should forge human solutions and adaptations for a better world, benefiting both humanity and the environment. This buy-in to the future might well include marriage and family, a return to beauty in creation, and the noble sacrifice that elevates us beyond mere survival.
\nThere is no honor in committing national suicide. This brings us to the precipice we must confront: the modern tolerance of the rise of Islam in Europe echoes the allowance of the Nazi party’s ascent in the 1930s. Then, economic turmoil from the Great Depression, hyperinflation, and the Weimar Republic’s fragility created fertile ground for extremism. Many Germans, weary and disillusioned, tolerated the Nazis’ propaganda, street violence, and gradual erosion of freedoms, viewing them as a necessary corrective to chaos. Austerity measures fueled resentment, and elites underestimated the threat, allowing Hitler to consolidate power through legal means like the Enabling Act.
\nSimilarly, today’s Germans are being forced into austerity by skyrocketing energy costs driven by climate alarmism and policies like the Energiewende, which stifle industry and innovation, leading to job losses in sectors like chemicals and manufacturing, economic stagnation, worsened global pollution through offshored emissions and dirtier power production in Germany, and increased dependency on authoritarian bad actors like Russia (formerly for gas) and China (for critical minerals and solar panels).
\nMoreover, growing resentment simmers over the bureaucratic state’s increasing meddling, prioritizing resources for a non-contributory, destabilizing Islamic asylee community\u2014diverting housing, welfare, and services\u2014over its own needy citizens who face hardships amid these economic pressures. This brew of economic frustration and perceived injustice could, unchecked, ignite the same type of unrest that birthed the Nazi party in the 1930s, especially amid current trends to police speech and silence proud German voices.
\nEurope’s Muslim population has grown from about 4.9% in 2016 to projections of 7-14% by 2050, fueled by higher birth rates and migration. While some Muslims integrate, contributing economically, the broader reality is fraught: persistent poverty, segregation, and ideologies incompatible with European values, including rampant anti-Semitism and opposition to secular freedoms. Unlike the Jews, who strove to be more German than the Germans\u2014assimilating deeply into culture, science, and society while enriching it\u2014Islam shows scant respect for its European hosts. Its adherents often seek not to adopt but to overthrow, imposing a theocratic order that subjugates all. This is an evil akin to Nazism: both ideologies would burn down civilizations to make a diminished, oppressive world in their own image.
\nIf a culture refuses to adapt, its adherents should be returned to whence they came. This is not the Judeo-Christian ethic of cooperation and mutual uplift that birthed our greatness. Tolerance of the intolerable invites ruin; Germans must reject the worst among us, this invasive force, and reclaim the spirit of growth embodied in the best of our heritage.
\nLurking in the background is a larger malaise: the modern world’s tendency to declare crises as pretexts for control by unelected elites. They proclaim emergencies\u2014climate catastrophes, nationalism’s specter, poverty’s grip\u2014and insist we trust governments to deliver salvation through entitlements: food, housing, medical care. This fosters dependency, stifling the self-reliance that defined Judeo-Christian ethics.
\nElites exploit these narratives to suppress dissent, labeling nationalism as xenophobia while engineering demographic shifts through open borders. In Germany today, this manifests in throttling liberties: stringent hate speech laws that chill free expression, overzealous policing of assemblies that restrict protests (unless they are for an “approved” cause), and a judiciary overwhelmed by caseloads delaying justice, all under the guise of protecting democracy from its own citizens, which should be the fount of its power. Yet true security comes not from state handouts, but from families and communities rooted in our white, western, usually male-lead, Judaeo-Christian tradition.
\nMy Cousins, let us embrace our history, not as a chain but as a ladder to greatness. Reclaim the characteristics of diligence, innovation, and moral fortitude that birthed philosophers like Kant and leaders like Bismarck. Revive your Christian heritage, with its emphasis on charity and justice, to forge a new exceptionalism: one that celebrates family as both duty and privilege. Marry, multiply, and invest in the future\u2014not through elite decrees, but through personal commitment and the gift of your children.
\nImagine a renaissance where Germany’s contributions to science, art, and philosophy are so profound once more that the world studies German to access them directly, as was necessary before the War\u2014when thinkers from Freud to Heidegger drew global minds to the German language and ideas expressed therein. This requires Germans to see themselves as an answer rather than a cancer, to don the mantle of the best parts of what it is to be German: precision in thought, resilience in spirit, and a drive to advance your people as a luminous contribution to the world.
\nStop throwing out our ancient wisdom to your personal detriment. Gift yourself the greater satisfaction that comes from living in harmony with these timeless truths. Like the phoenix from ashes, rise renewed, do proper t’shuva and the world will triumph.
\nThere is honor in the path of G-d\u2014and greater personal satisfaction. In it also lies the salvation of the German nation\u2014and indeed, the salvation of the world.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n

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\nResentment\/Oppression and Jews\n<\/a>
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Hello Lisa,
\nI tried to respond as you were talking, but I was muted.
\nMy thesis is that the Jews everyone craps on circled the wagons, hunkered down and went to work building enormous wealth.
\nIn 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\u2019t thrive. Their lives got worse. If they couldn\u2019t make it in spite of the gifts they were given, this might lead naturally to a thought that maybe the game is rigged.
\nOur nation\u2019s 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.
\nThen came Moynihan\u2019s 1965 report on the Negro Family, along with Johnson\u2019s Great Society\u2014and the unfortunate fact that every government program has unintended consequences, but no measure for when to pull the plug\u2014and 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\u2019s 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 \u201cThe Queering of the American Child.\u201d It\u2019s a really good primer on the place we find ourselves.
\nAnd this is the formula today, this being Professor Peterson\u2019s formulation on the Victim\/Oppressor Narrative
\nIdentify an area of human activity
\nNote the distribution of success
\nIdentify the winners and losers
\nClaim the losers are losing because oppressed by winners
\nClaim allegiance of losers
\nFeel secure in your comprehensive explanation of the world
\nTarget your resentment toward your newly discovered enemies.
\nRepeat, forever, everywhere
\nAnd we\u2019ve fallen for it, and you host Mr. Winston every week, and allow conversations of structural racism, micro-aggressions, white fragility, etc.
\nI have been informed on the streets of Bridgeport that I am definitionally racist, and that a black person isn\u2019t.
\nSo my suggestion if we don\u2019t want to foster resentment and upheaval is actually to celebrate the individual\u2019s 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.
\nIf 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.
\nWho cares if most people rent? The rate of homeownership in Europe runs from the low 40s to the mid 60s in most of Europe.
\nAnyway, 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.
\nIf you want to discuss any of this\u2014and especially the gender-ideology thing, or the patriotic education thing\u2014I am running in the 136th in Bridgeport, so you have an excuse to bring me on.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/main>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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