Nov. 6, 2022 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
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| Hey everyone, I haven't done one of these monologues in too long, but I'm back and I'm going to talk about Kanye West, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, the ADL, Ali Alexander, J6 Insurrectionist, and more. | |
| And I'm going to circle around the topic of Christian anti-Semitism. | |
| By that, I mean something very specific. | |
| So, I'm sure that everyone listening to this has been exposed to what could probably be called, most accurately, casual anti-Semitism. | |
| These usually involve Jews being good with money or tight with money or not great athletes or something like that. | |
| I can remember when I was growing up, there was a joke of, how do you lose a Jewish cop? | |
| You take the toll road. | |
| You know, badoom crash. | |
| The implication that Jews, you know, are very tight with money and wouldn't chase you down the toll road. | |
| Yeah, I mean, these, in my mind, are the equivalent of, you know, funny stories. | |
| Jokes about Italians or whatever, in the sense that they might be mean-spirited in some cases. | |
| They might also contain a kernel of truth, but at the end of the day, they're rather benign and maybe even rather meaningless. | |
| But Christian antisemitism is something different, and I do think it's something more profound. | |
| And as I said on Twitter, I think there's a kind of pathological ambivalence to it. | |
| There's inherent mixed feelings and contradiction to this. | |
| And so the Christian antisemite... | |
| Can say some rather harsh stuff. | |
| Kanye West has talked about people in the media and people he's had relationships with in the recording industry as basically being a bunch of bastards. | |
| He can say some harsh things. | |
| But at the end of the day... | |
| I guess what's most telling about his anti-Semitism is that he considers himself to be a Jew. | |
| And by being a Christian, or the blood of Christ, he is a Jew. | |
| So that kind of seeming contradiction, I think, gets at the heart of this deep ambivalence. | |
| Jesus came to fulfill the laws of Moses. | |
| That is the... | |
| Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Old Testament. | |
| He did not come to cancel the Jewish scriptures, even though he did break some of the Jewish laws in his practice, and also is notable for stressing grace and forgiveness above adherence to laws. | |
| Jesus, even when he was raging against the Pharisees, even when he was seemingly contradicting Judaism, was ultimately a Jew and ultimately fulfilling Judaism. | |
| Very similar to Kanye, who in his anti-Semitic quote-unquote outburst is ultimately declaring himself to be a Jew and declaring Jews as, so to speak, So, this is the profound ambivalence that I think really should be taken seriously, because you hear a lot of... | |
| What are we going to do next thing you know, the Third Reich is going to come back again? | |
| Well, look, that's overstated to begin with. | |
| But again, I would stress that... | |
| What we're seeing right now is not mere Jew hatred. | |
| It's something deeper and something more contradictory. | |
| And it is, in the minds of the people saying these things, an attempt to redeem the Jews. | |
| So, let me look at this a little more specifically in this ADL Kanye West controversy. | |
| That is happening. |
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