Einspruch's Iron Law of Identitarianism
You could say that the Jews have a nose for such things.
In November of 2019 I wrote about the politics that had taken over the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The acts of tokenism are obvious as such. The identitarian bean-counting is obvious as such. The privileging of politics over art is obvious as such. The anti-white and anti-male animus is obvious as such. This whole charade of “recontextualization” is obvious as such. And they are accomplishing nothing except entertaining the already-convinced by embittering everyone else, who retort in kind.
If this continues to amplify, the resulting mutual distrust is going to make it impossible to function as a society, at least the sort of society that comes together to nurture museums. The identitarian progressives want change, or claim to want change. They accuse the people who don't want change, or don't want that change, or want that change but not in that way, of bigotry or equally serious iniquities. The accused reply by acting against the interests of the accusers, who in turn accuse them of ever greater iniquities, and back and forth it goes until the ditch dividing them becomes a canyon.
A Jewish reader replied:
Academic Marxism rules, and its ends justify its means. Now we see incivility being tolerated. When groupthink takes over, very quickly governments can kill their own citizens. We must think about this all the time. It takes a village to kill a Jew.
And I answered:
In an escalating conflict between identitarian progressives and identitarian reactionaries, I would be inclined to root for casualties, except for the rising probability that the casualties will include me. Einspruch's Iron Law of Identitarianism: All identitarians, regardless of political bent, eventually conclude that The Real Problem Around Here Is The Jews.
Did this sound paranoid to you at the time? How about now?
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Yes and no, Franklin. Being opposed to identitarian "progressives" does not make one an identitarian reactionary. Alas, as you know, there are Jews who jumped on the identitarian progressive bandwagon, which makes them part of that problem, but not because they are Jews. One can only hope that, if nothing else, they now realize they have no business on said vehicle and will act accordingly.