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In article <20001113235738.24755.qmail@nym.alias.net>,
  Irmin <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
> Prof. Kevin MacDonald
>
> Chronicles
> Vol. 24 No. 9  September 2000
>
> POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
>
> On The Culture of Critique
>
> I thank Paul Gottfried for a generally accurate and positive
> review of my book, The Culture of Critique ("A Race Apart,"
> Opinions, June). Nevertheless, there are a few issues that bear
> discussion, the most important of which is the role of Jewish
> organizations and intellectuals with strong Jewish
> identifications as agents of change in the cultural
> transformations that have occurred in Western societies over the
> past 50 years. In general, Jewish intellectual and political
> movements were a necessary condition for these changes, not
> a sufficient condition, as Gottfried suggests. In the case of
> U.S. immigration policy, there simply were no other pressure
> groups pushing for liberalized immigration during the period
> under consideration (up to 1965). Moreover, I do not assume that
> these movements are part of a monolithic Jewish "conspiracy"; my
> argument is that these movements were dominated by individuals
> who identified themselves as Jews and who viewed their
> intellectual and political activities as advancing specific
> Jewish interests, especially the eradication of
> antisemitism.
>
> Gotffried attributes the sea change in immigration to "a general
> cultural change that beset Western societies and was pushed by
> the managerial state." I agree that multiethnic immigration
> resulted from a general cultural shift, but we still must develop
> theories for the origin of this shift, and Jewish intellectual
> and political movements were a necessary condition. Fundamental
> to this transformation was the decline of ethnic consciousness
> among European peoples. It is fascinating to contrast the
> immigration debates of the 1920's with those of the 50's and
> 60's. The restrictionists of the 20's unabashedly asserted the
> right of European-derived peoples, who colonized and created the
> political and economic culture of the country, to maintain it as
> their possession.
>
> By the 1950's (and certainly by the 60's), it was impossible to
> make such assertions without being deemed not only a racist but
> an intellectual Neanderthal. Such assertions conflicted with the
> [basic] wisdom that genetic differences between peoples were
> trivial and irrelevant; they conflicted with the Marxist belief
> that all peoples were equal and that nationalism and assertions
> of ethnic interests were reactionary; they were deemed a sure
> sign of psychopathology within the frameworks of psychoanalysis
> and the Frankfurt School; and they would have been regarded, as
> the babbles of country bumpkins by the New York intellectuals who
> spouted variants of all these ideologies from prestigious
> academic and media institutions. There may, indeed, have been
> other forces that relegated such a mindset to the political and
> intellectual fringe -- Gotffried mentions liberal Protestantism
> and the managerial state -- but it is difficult to understand the
> effectiveness of either of these influences in the absence of the
> Jewish movements I describe. The rise of a de-ethnicized gentile
> managerial elite -- exemplified by Bill Clinton -- that rejects
> traditional cultural institutions and is interwoven with a
> critical mass of ethnically conscious Jews is an important fact
> of our current political life. The rise of such an elite is
> hardly an inevitable consequence of modernization or any other
> force I am aware of. Such de-ethnicized managerial elites are
> unique to European and European-derived societies; they are not
> found elsewhere in the world, including highly developed nations
> such as Japan and Israel and the undeveloped nations of Africa.
>
> There is little doubt that there is something about European
> cultures that makes them susceptible to the movements I discuss.
> I think there is real value in Gotffried's suggestion that
> Protestant culture -- particularly its emphasis on social
> guilt -- provides a uniquely fertile ground for the movements I
> discuss. But it is noteworthy that the cultural shifts under
> consideration have also occurred in traditionally Catholic
> countries, such as France and Italy, where Protestantism has not
> been a factor.
>
> [...]
>
> --Kevin MacDonald
> Long Beach, CA
>


Oh, once again, we are hugely indebted to the wonderful jews for doing
so much for America. Hail Judah!

Will


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