A self-sealing logic is an argument system that negates all outside criticism by treating any challenge or doubt as proof that the challenger is wrong. If the claim that Zionists control US foreign policy is challenged, for example, the challenger is part of the conspiracy to perpetrate Zionist control over US foreign policy. He is more than an apologist for Zionism. He is a fellow traveler. If he denies the claim that there is a genocide in Gaza, then he is the equivalent of a holocaust denier. The genetic fallacy is at work here, as well. At the heart of the compound fallacy is the assumption that Jews orchestrate life and that anybody who rejects the assumption is part of the orchestra.
The theory that “Jews run the world” is a longstanding antisemitic claim asserting that Jews, acting as a coordinated group, control banks, corporations, governments, the media, and other major institutions to manipulate world events for their own benefit. This debunked (absurd on its face) belief has infected the worldviews of both the far-right and far-left. We see it among the Woke Reich, in the content of social media influencers such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. We see it on the left in the Democratic Socialists of America. If one attempts to debunk it, which I do for the benefit of their audiences, he is dismissed as an agent of a Jewish cabal.
The compound fallacy is necessary because, as noted above, the theory has no credible evidence to support it. It relies on fabricated documents, selective anecdotes, and stereotypes. Despite having been thoroughly discredited, these claims have persisted because they offer a simple explanation for complex economic, political, and social problems. The fallacy is protective; it negates rational discernment. The cracked theory is functional, used to scapegoat Jewish communities. Scapegoating is the primitive impulse of the stupidified mind, a distraction from the real causes of human suffering. Thus it persists because it is useful for dividing and manipulating the masses. Because scapegoating is irrational, it depends on the irrational mind.
To say that antisemitism is harmful is to state the obvious. That’s the purpose of it. Antisemitism has played a significant role in justifying discrimination, pogroms, and, ultimately, the Nazi persecution and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. The theory did not end with the Nazis. It is used today to undermine Israel and justify terrorism against Jewish civilians. The theory that Jews are puppetmasters pulling strings is ancient and perennial, and it has been used to divide the common folk and to obscure the reasons why things happen as they do for centuries. Just and rational minds know this, and are frustrated to see the reemergence of the ancient hatred at scale.
More recently, many decades now, the logic of this theory has been expanded to include all white people in the hatred. You’ve heard the line before, I’m sure: Whites control banks, corporations, governments, the media, and other major institutions to keep down blacks and other minorities. I show a propaganda film in class called The FBI’s War on Black America. It is told from the perspective of left-wing black activists and intellectuals working from the Black Panther perspective. I want students to experience a narrative from a particular standpoint to gain a deeper understanding of black nationalism. In the documentary, a journalist rants about the “white-owned” and “white-controlled” media. He asserts that the story of the FBI COINTELPRO operation has been warped by white supremacy—even though an almost exclusively white Congress exposed it and other clandestine operations on network television in the 1970s.
The book highlighted above, Global White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer, by Christopher Collins and his coauthors, is one of many academic productions portraying whites in the same way antisemites portray Jews. The spread of democracy, liberal values, and reason is not the persuasion of better ideas, but the work of global white supremacy. Rutgers University Press summarizes Global White Supremacy:
“The trajectory of global White [sic] supremacy is deeply historical and contemporary—it is a global, transnational, and imperial phenomenon. White supremacy is sustained through the construction of inferiority and anti-Blackness. The context, history, and perspective offered by Collins, Newman, and Jun should serve as an introduction to the disruption of the ways in which university and academic dispositions have and continue to serve as sites of colonial and White supremacist preservation—as well as sites of resistance.”
Collins et al.’s book obscures the reality that the university and academic dispositions, captured by the left, press in the opposite direction, recoding anti-white bigotry as “resistance.” Resistance to what? To the Enlightenment and liberal values. For the enemies of freedom and republicanism, whites are the color of the West. It would be better if there were fewer of them, as Joe Biden opined (see Joe Biden and the Ultimate Source of Our Strength: “an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop”). Raising the specter of “anti-blackness” is a bogeyman to distract the reader from the anti-whiteness that motivates the authors.
Need another example? David Roediger’s collection of essays in Towards the Abolition of Whiteness might suffice. According to the publisher’s summary: “At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic reform, Roediger wants to open, not close, debates on the privileges and miseries associated with being white. He closely examines the way in which white identities have historically prepared white Americans to accept the oppression of others, the emptiness of their own lives, and the impossibility of change.”
While most of us know about antisemitism, we rarely hear the parallel between antisemitism and anti-white bigotry. However, it is vital to preserving the West to recognize that the far-left weaponizes identity to advance the project of managed decline of the American Republic. Recall that, around 2010, major US magazines and newspapers flooded the zone with academic jargon, “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “white supremacy.” Zack Goldberg documented this in his article “How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening,” published in Tablet in August 2020. It wasn’t long before these, and other words, became commonplace.
Just as disaffected Germans and the human penchant for scapegoating were marshalled for the National Socialist project, disaffected Americans, prepared by indoctrination in anti-white bigotry, are being marshalled for the woke agenda—democratic socialism, Islamization, and all the rest of it.
“Aren’t you doing the same thing, Andy?” I can hear it now. “Isn’t all that a conspiracy theory? Aren’t you scapegoating?” Not at all. Don’t be absurd. Calling out the anti-West left for its machinations is entirely unlike antisemitism. The far-left is not an ethnic group (nor is the far right that’s jumped on the antisemitic train, while, like its left-wing counterpart, cozied up to Islam). It’s an organized political force that opposes the West and promulgates anti-white rhetoric to advance its cause. It does all this openly. And it’s making strides. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery. Global White Supremacy and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness are real books. Major magazines and newspapers, as well as cultural programming, are real developments.
The true elites and their minions announce their desires. The programming operates in the open. The results are undeniable. Western youth are being indoctrinated to hate America and Western values, and the quickest route to scrambling their minds is anti-whiteness. Elites manufacture guilt and leverage it for power. The Democratic Party—the party of transnationalism—embraces the hate. Who could forget the symbolism on display on June 8, 2020, when top congressional Democrats—including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate leader Chuck Schumer—knelt in Emancipation Hall at the US Capitol for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to honor the overdose death of career criminal George Floyd and protest police brutality. They knelt while American cities burned. They were endorsing the color revolution that anti-white bigotry fomented.
In many ways, the left today is Maoist in orientation. It is anti-family, anti-tradition, and anti-freedom. The left, bankrolled by global financiers, models Mao’s Cultural Revolution—right down to the struggle sessions. Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to whip up revolutionary fervor, reassert his authority over the state, and eliminate capitalist, cultural, and traditional elements from Chinese society. The figurehead of the Chinese Communist Party formulated a foreign policy focused on promoting global anti-imperialist revolution, branding the United States a “paper tiger” and supporting national liberation movements in the Global South, i.e., those places lying outside the West (the Global North). This is the politics of today’s left.
(I have been warning readers about this for years. See The Wuhan Virus, the Chinese Communist Party, and its Menagerie of Useful Idiots; The Cultural Revolution; Maoism and Wokism and the Tyranny of Bureaucratic Collectivism; Mao Zedong Thought and the New Left Corruption of Emancipatory Politics; The Mao Zedong Thought Shift from the Class-Analytical to Race-Ideological; Maoism and Wokism and the Tyranny of Bureaucratic Collectivism.)
There’s a reason social influencer Hasan Piker, dressed like Mao, has become the folk hero for democratic socialists. He fuses socialism and Third Worldism, in particular Islamism, in his messaging. His rhetoric is Maoist, and it finds purchase among young Americans prepared for generations to receive the message. Piker has millions of followers. One will watch his content, see a stupid man, and wonder why he is so popular. The tragic fact is that anti-white bigotry has made millions of Americans not only self-loathing but stupid.
Piker began his media career working for The Young Turks—a progressive network co-founded by his uncle, blowhard Cenk Uygur—where he hosted and produced the viral political series “The Breakdown.” The Young Turks are in many ways the mirror image of the Woke Reich—Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene (a Georgian politician who recently resigned from the House of Representatives), and Thomas Massie (overwhelmingly rejected by Kentucky voters in his bid for Senate reelection). On the right, the scapegoating is more exclusively Judeocentric, but the spirit is the same, and the Woke Reich is turning its back on those of European Christian descent.
The Young Turks have become explicitly and virulently antisemitic. Uygur and his sidekick Ana Kasparian post antisemitic content on X daily. They are, moreover, at the forefront of fomenting anti-white bigotry, despite being white themselves, and leaders in advancing the Islamist project. Kasparian, the child of Armenian refugees, appears to have forgotten that more than a million of her people were murdered by Ottoman Turks. The reach of TYT extends far beyond what one might suppose watching their unhinged content. Piker played a major role in Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. Piker is also influential on Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, a Shi’a Muslim belonging to the same religious order as the ruling class of Iran.
The woke left worldview is rooted in anti-Western postmodernism and its offspring—critical race theory, queer activism, and post-colonial studies. The organic intellectuals of Third Worldism, having insinuated themselves into the university, enjoy an endless supply of young people, already confused by the culture industry and prior education, who enter their classrooms to be indoctrinated further in anti-West and anti-white ideology. The university has become the finishing school for anti-Jewish and anti-Western activists.
The Red-Green Alliance, with wealthy financiers bankrolling street-level action, seeks the end of the modern nation-state. In its stead, they intend to entrench a global system controlled by transnational corporations. Rigid ideological systems, such as Islam, and more broadly (what is presented as) socialism, will keep the masses ignorant and passive. Key to this strategy is anti-white bigotry. Be ready for it: they portray those who call them out on it as white supremacists. That’s the trick of the self-sealing logic. The only white person worth listening to is one who self-loathes and nods along with the anti-white bigot.
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We don’t need to speculate about whether the DSA is an apologist for Islamofascism. They will tell you to your face that they are. The DSA has managed to mix together Maoism and Nazism in an ideological stew that is shaping the politics of the Democratic Party. This is the most dangerous development in our lifetimes. One of the two major political parties is openly embracing antisemitic totalitarianism.
Joe Scarborough is right to be shocked. But is he really? He has to realise that he played a major role in this development by portraying the ordinary liberalism and conservatism of Donald Trump and MAGA as “fascism,” while downplaying the twin threats of Islam and socialism. MSNOW and other news networks prepared the ground for DSA’s madness. And the reason for this is that both the culture industry and the Democrats represent transnational corporate power. This is what they pined for. They can’t now claim to be shocked. Scarborough knows it looks bad, so he taps his pen on the table.
Look at who is sitting next to him. Do you know who that is? It’s the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the first director of the Trilateral Commission and National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter. She knows what all this is about. Mika is Joe’s wife.
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