Low-IQ people tend to think in black-and-white terms. They don’t understand that you can be nice to an individual from a group (or vice-versa), or even think highly of a group, and still not like what that group is doing politically.
For this precise reason, low-IQ antisemites like to deny any intellectual advantage Jews have over White Gentiles, or any other positive attributes they have.
“Since they’re doing something bad, they must be bad across the board, and nothing good has ever come out of them!”
The logic of adopting antisemitic conspiracy theories, I believe stems from this thought process, “since these people are bad across the board, then they must also do these bad things I can’t explain!”.
What separates a high-IQ antisemite from a low-IQ antisemite is that the high-IQ antisemite charges them with what there is demonstrable evidence for and demands a change of their behavior. As I wrote in my earlier blogpost, the basic gentile grievance against Jews is the following:
Jews see themselves as different and are in-fact different from non-Jews.
Jews act as a collective and have good understanding of their collective interests.
Jewish and non-Jewish interests are sometimes at opposite ends.
Jewish influence is highly disproportionate to their size.
Jews maintain this disproportionate grip on society and use it to advance their collective interests sometimes at the expense of non-Jews.
This obviously becomes even more egregious when Jews demand to be treated nice as minorities, but when they are in the position of majority themselves they like to treat their minorities not much better than Nazi Germans.
I write about it here:
How Ethnocentric Are Jews?
Since many people have enjoyed my previous Jewish article, I have decided to follow-up with the second episode.
But I don’t want to spend this article complaining about Jews. Rather it is Gage’s emotional reasoning that I want to dissect. Particularly the one he wrote for the Jewish publication.
Also I should mention that:
I don’t advocate for antisemitism even though it may appear like it (read my first linked article).
I’ve always been against low-IQ antisemitism and have criticized Lucas Gage numerous times in the past for promoting low-IQ antisemitism while he was active so I suppose modern Lucas Gage would be inclined to hear me out if he were to stumble upon this article.
I am purely concerned with the reasoning of Lucas Gage which I am inclined to dismiss because his main reason for conversion has been an emotional experience with two Jews, rather than being convinced by better arguments.
Also, the funny thing is that it is not even the first time he does it, he had to abandon his previous far-right political identity over similar threats he faced from the same community.
But alas, the logical crux of his thesis is essentially the following:
I believed Jews had a proclivity for certain behaviors and that whether an individual Jew was good or bad, Jews as a whole were bad for my people.
Once you accept that premise, the “solution” to the so-called Jewish problem can only be expulsion or extermination.
A lot of things to digest, first of all, at no point of his essay or his other media appearances does he properly addresses the question of Jews having bad proclivities, other than “other groups do it too!” or “they do some good things also”!
The reality is that nothing comes up as the whole package, you can like one thing about the person or the group and openly tell them that you don’t like another thing that they’re doing.
Jewish proclivities for negative things are truly extraordinary, just as their proclivities for good things and I believe it is a moral thing to do, to talk about the bad things that Jews do because the end goal is to reform their behavior.
But most importantly I want to concentrate your attention on the low-IQ “solution” to the Jewish Question which is: “since Jews are so terrible, let’s just expel them or genocide them!”.
The obvious problem with this approach, besides the moral one and of course ignoring the positive Jewish contributions to the economy, culture, science or even humor is that there is a better one.
Since the origin of the Jewish-Gentile conflict is in the friend-enemy distinction, the abolition of such a distinction is the clear way forward and it would require either:
Significant reforms of the Jewish tradition and cultural milieu that would make them abandon their ethnocentrism and doing the same procedure for antisemites.
Biological assimilation of Jews into the Gentile gene-pool.
I don’t really believe that the first option is likely, but we are definitely moving towards the second option, although it will not impact Israeli Jews who will continue doing what they’re doing.
The second option is already working judging by the intermarriage numbers. Christians in Spain have actually managed to achieve this to a point that around a quarter of the Spaniard population has some Jewish ancestry.
I myself represent the second option as a solution to the Jewish question. Nobody had to expel or exterminate my Jewish ancestors, but my in-group behavior and genetics are in-line with the broader White Gentile predisposition which highlights the biological ingression of one group with another.
Why is it so difficult for these people to think of something practical and not morally questionable? Why should it be either you love Jews and think there’s nothing wrong with them or you hate them and you want to genocide them.
As I have called out earlier, Lucas Gage seems to be going from one extreme to another, which is a sign of mentally unstable personality.
Also if Jews are afraid of biological assimilation (best long-term solution). Then there’s also the third option, although I prefer it less than the second one, which is learn to tolerate each-other but it will require the Jews to tolerate themselves being at the center of negative attention constantly and the existence of open-antisemites like last years’ Lucas Gage.
Anyways, Lucas Gage seems to believe that there is no Jewish-privilege or bottom-up exclusive networks of Jews popping up other Jews in a zero-sum environment.
“The average Jew doesn’t get special benefits just because some of the elites are Jewish billionaires.”
The issue is not “Jewish billionaires”, the issue is Jewish privilege and the refusal of Jews to share it equitably. Did Lucas Gage go to an Italian summer camp? Has Lucas Gage ever visited Italy on a free ticket? Has he benefited from scholarships because of his Italian ancestry? Has Italian religious and ethnic concerns been at the forefront of American politics?
The existence of Jewish privilege can be seen on the micro and macro scales, with the best line of evidence being Jews with stronger identity and stronger membership within Jewish organizations like the Orthodox Jews doing better financially than Jews with weaker identity or membership in Jewish organizations.
Everyone assumes the rich Jew is the assimilated, secular one. The data says the opposite. Modern Orthodox: 37% earn $150k+. Unaffiliated Jews: 22%.
Identity pays.
As you can clearly see, the more Jews are connected to their exclusive community the better is their financial situation. Poorest American Jews: 18% synagogue members. Richest: 41%. Community and money go together for Jews.
Here is how it is for Christians for comparison.
Now, that is just one example of Jewish privilege through networking. There are many more and I don’t really have the mental energy to be listing every single instance of it happening because the scale of this is enormous.
My bigger point is that the Jewish Question does not have to be a choice between worship and extermination. I liked it when Lucas Gage pushed back against low-IQ antisemitism but now he is pretending like there is nothing wrong with them.
What Lucas Gage is doing now is excusing and minimizing Israeli atrocities and only attacking antisemites. The bad aspects of Jews didn’t go anywhere, he just now prefers to pretend like they don’t exist, just like when he was an antisemite he closed his eyes on the good aspects of Jews.
Lucas Gage never left that binary, he only switched sides of it. We had low-IQ antisemitism from him and now it’s low-IQ philosemitism. The content changed, but the approach of one sided thinking has unfortunately stayed the same. Yesterday Jews were responsible for everything wrong with the world but today, after an emotional encounter with two of them, there is apparently nothing left to discuss.
Recently Lucas Gage started to debunk conspiracy theories related to 9/11 involving Jews as well as 9/11 truther claims in general. Notice how he never mentioned what was the chief reason motivating Osama Bin Laden to commit the terroristic attack. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not because “they hate our freedoms!”.
What I see now is Lucas Gage following the same trajectory as Derek Black, a former White nationalist who was invited to numerous Shabbat dinners by a Jewish friend, left the movement, and ultimately became a transgender anti-racist.
Will we see Lucas Gage transforming into Lucia Cage? So, far we’ve only received the Lucas Gage to Lucas Cage transformation…
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