Orwell wrote:
codarac wrote:
Last but not least, if we take Whites to mean Europeans (as I do), then jews (like Romany Gypsies) are not a people I consider to be White, and that does change the overall conclusion.
There are European Jews, though. And actually, it still doesn't change the overall conclusion that whites are in power, unless you're one of those people who believes our government is secretly being controlled by Zionist reptilians.
I posted on the previous page saying that since you are clearly fine with discussing WASP power, I trusted I could also mention non-WASP power without having to answer jests about “reptilians”. I wasn’t really very confident about that, but I did not expect you, like one of Pavlov’s dogs, to go and use that same word so soon in the very same thread. Don’t you see that that reflects badly on you and not on me?
By way of providing some evidence that the assertion that “WASPs are in control” is at least a simplistic exaggeration, here is a long quote from “Fatal Embrace” (1993) by Benjamin Ginsberg, who is Jewish and a Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins University.
Quote:
Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual. and political life.
Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today, though barely 2% of the nation’s population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation’s largest newspaper chain and most influential single newspaper, the New York Times. In the late 1960s, Jews already constituted 20% of the faculty of elite universities and 40% of the professors of elite law schools; today, these percentages doubtless are higher.
The role and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked. Jews are elected to public office in disproportionate numbers. In 1993, ten members of the United States Senate and thirty-two members of the House of Representatives were Jewish, three to four times their percentage of the general population. Jews are even more prominent in political organizations and in finance. One
recent study found that in twenty-seven of thirty-six campaigns for the United States Senate, one or both candidates relied upon a Jewish campaign chairman or finance director. In the realm of lobbying and litigation, Jews organized what was for many years one of Washington’s most successful political action committees, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and they play leadership roles in such important public interest groups as the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and Common Cause. Several Jews also played very important roles in the 1992 Democratic presidential campaign. After the Democrats' victory, President Clinton appointed a
number of Jews to prominent positions in his administration.
Their role in American economic, social, and political institutions has enabled Jews to wield considerable influence in the nation's public life. The most obvious indicator of this influence is the $3 billion in direct military and economic aid provided to Israel by the United States each year and, for that matter, the like amount given to Egypt since it agreed to maintain peaceful relations with Israel. That fully three-fourths of America's foreign aid budget is devoted to Israel's security interests is a tribute in considerable measure to the lobbying prowess of AIPAC and the importance of the Jewish community in American politics.
At least until recently, another mark of Jewish influence was the virtual disappearance of anti-Semitic rhetoric from mainstream public discourse in the United States. As a general rule, what can and cannot be said in public reflects the distribution of political power in society; as Jews gained political power, politicians who indulged in anti-Semitic tactics were labeled extremists and exiled to the margins of American politics. Similarly, religious symbols and forms of expression that Jews find threatening have been almost completely eliminated from schools and other public institutions. Suits brought by the ACLU, an organization whose leadership and membership are predominantly Jewish, secured federal court decisions banning officially sanctioned prayers in the public schools and creches and other religious displays in parks and public buildings.
American Jews secured their position of power quite recently ...
I could go on, but I don’t really expect this to register on your radar screen. I find radical leftists often seem to have a better grasp of these issues than self-described moderates. In your case, you just seem to be a person of quite small political horizons, a person for whom political analysis rarely stretches beyond laughing at Tea Party types for not studying historical income tax patterns closely enough.
17 Sep 2010, 2:32 pm
