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Hmmm...
That's a perspective on this topic I haven't heard before, and I don't mean that in a passive-aggressive way. It's pretty intriguing, actually.
I appreciate that.
Despite the stormfags slurs against me, I'm no philosemite, and there is quite a lot worth discussing about jews as a demographic in European societies, and how as the rise of the merchant classes in post-feudal Europe gave rise to integrated, secular, jewish intelligentsias; while their poor, religious, working/peasant class counter-parts had wildly different experiences.
There's also plenty of valuable discussion to be had regarding American jews (being that it's history of jew-hatred is mild by comparison, and made the US uniquely positive for jews in ethnically european countries), and Portuguese jews (which seamlessly blended into the population while prospering heavily around the trade of the Portuguese Empire). The jews who integrated the most became part of intelligentsia's and embraced Socialism and atheism, and were the target of anti-jew conspiracy claims; while segregationist and isolationist jews integrated the least, never joined the intelligentsia, remained staunchly religious, had antagonism with Leftist jews, were subjected to violence under Socialism, and were the primary stereotype traits of anti-jew sentiment.
"The Eternal Jew" actually demonstrates the weird double-think of jew-hatred with these two groups. They always focus on demonstrating poor, low IQ, immigrant, isolationist jews for the majority of their disgust conditioning and insist that this is the nature "of the eternal jew", and heavily focus on them been poor, huckstering, dirty people. Then, just abruptly, they assert that there's also this swath of super right, intelligent, integrated (subversive) jews that control the world... and who's goal it is to turn the rest of the world into the poor jewish communities they just showed you... but if that's true, why are they rich and married to Germans?
Truth is, they're mashing together a bunch of different sub-ethnic (or simply just different ethnic) groups to fit an overall narrative. But we need to have properly intelligent discussions on ethnicity with the nuance that it requires, now more than ever. You're just not going to get that from most people that aren't: Thomas Sowell & Tik History (Though Black Pidgeon Speaks has done a few good points). There's valuable information, we just can't get past the starting block of: "It's annoda shoa" said either seriously or sarcastically depending on the speaker!
Hell, it's important for American elections. Orthodox jews in NYC went from 80% Dem to 80% Rep in one election cycle because of outreach by Lee Zeldin, and anti-jew discrimination being institutionalized by Bill DeBlasio; and despite that fact, overall, most American jews will mostly be voting Democratic because they are not of that Orthodox bent. You can actually see that this is where Trump's leads are coming from with minorities if we take a careful look at nuance. He's not winning over that many urban blacks, but he's winning the majority rural blacks. He's not winning over hispanics generally; but he's winning white hispanics, anti-communist latino immigrants, and devout latino catholics. He's winning whites, but he sucks with middle-class anglos.