David Hogberg, in the American Spectator, has declared that mainstream conservatives must attack Alt Right ideas, otherwise they will be tarnished by association with them.
Charlottesville showed that such ideas can have deadly consequences, and we need to fight them before even more people are hurt.
Additionally, the Mainstream Media will use the Alt-Right to discredit conservatives everywhere now that one of the Alt-Right’s minions has committed murder. Left unchallenged, the MSM will plant the idea in most American’s minds that there is very little difference between the Alt-Right and the conservative movement. If they succeed in making many people believe that conservatives are racists, the conservative movement will suffer for a long time to come.
Hogberg begins his clueless crusade with the Charlottesville Statement.
Clearly, Spencer et al. feel that being white should determine one’s political beliefs. That, of course, is identity politics, the notion that race and/or gender are what defines a person’s politics. This has been a divisive force in our country as the high priests and priestesses of identity politics on the left have encouraged minorities to think of themselves as members of their race and not as Americans. Conservatives have rightly criticized that, and we should criticize the Alt-Right for encouraging whites to do the same.
Telling Europeans that they should just quietly deplore identity politics and ignore their own ancestral origins while everyone else obsesses about their is a de facto demand that Europeans practise unilateral disarmament in the ethno-war while brown people work on their H-bombs. It’s a strategy that can only result in extinction.
But here we come to the real meat of the article: defending the affronted honour of Jewry.
Whether or not Jews have assimilated here in the United States can be tested against the evidence. Take, for example, military service. Currently, there are an estimated 4,700 Jews in the U.S. military, an estimate which is likely low. Looking at history, during the time of the American Revolution, there were approximately 3,000 Jews in the colonies, 160 of whom fought in George Washington’s Army. 250,000 Jews served in the U.S. military in World War I, 500,000 in World War II, 150,000 in the Korean War, and 30,000 in Vietnam. During the Civil War, 7,000 Jews served on the Union Side and—something that might make Spencer’s head explode—3,000 served on the Confederate side. Generally speaking, you don’t fight in a nation’s military unless you are pretty committed to that nation. By that measure, Jews have shown they are as American as anyone else.
Although he doesn’t reference it, his figure of 4700 Jews in the US military seems to come from the book: Jews and the US Military by Derek J. Penslar.
So the book that Hogberg gets his figures from admits that Jews were “decidedly underrepresented” among the ranks of ordinary soldiers and “somewhat underrepresented” even among officers. Not a very convincing defence of Jewish patriotism, is it?
The total number of US military personnel in 2015 was 1,347,300 (link). So the Jewish figure of 4700 would be 0.35% per cent of that. Jews are estimated at about 2-3% of the US population (link1, link2). If they were represented proportionately, there would be 40,000-odd Jews in the US military. So they are underrepresented by about 10 times their share of the population. This is not exactly a compelling vindication of Jewish patriotism.
What about Jewish service in the past wars that he cites?
“Generally speaking, you don’t fight in a nation’s military unless you are pretty committed to that nation.”
Well, yes you do, David, if you’re conscripted. Figures for conscription-based military service tell us absolutely nothing about Jewish patriotism and are, in any case, meaningless without figures for the total size of the military and Jewish shares of the military and general populations that would allow an assessment of their relative contribution.
Any military strategist will tell you that one of the elementary rules of battle is to pick the ground you fight on well. Defending Jewish patriotism on the basis of their numerical contribution to military service is rather unpropitious ground to say the least.
All of the indications are that, for purely voluntary service, Jews have been significantly underrepresented in almost every war throughout history unless there was some compelling Jewish interest in the outcome. For example, the Jewish contribution to the German war effort in WW1 is often cited as proof of Jewish patriotism. But in that war Germany was fighting Russia, which Jews regarded as their historic enemy. So those figures prove nothing. By the same token, and for the same reason, Jews were underrepresented in Britain’s WW1 effort in part because Russia was Britain’s ally (link).
Hogberg’s attempt to refute the challenge to Jewish patriotism has only confirmed its validity. If all mainstream conservative attacks on the Alt Right are as weak as this one, it shouldn’t be long before we’re running the show.
Aside from profit, one of the main objectives in these jewish inspired and instigated world and civil wars is to exterminate as many Whites as possible in the process. So, why would they put their own lives at risk to any great degree by serving in the military when they can let all the grunts fight and die for them? Crushing our population numbers is part of the plan. An American civil war along with two world wars fought over Europe is a significant part of the White population decline. Imagine if all those Whites and their subsequent generations up to today had lived.
I believe if the truth were known, the jews who were in the military, especially during the 20th and 21st century were in high, procedural or administrative positions that rarely, if ever, saw combat. Before the 20th century, I highly doubt even the paltry numbers of jewish participation put out by the jews themselves. Besides, there is no real reliable data for jewish military participation for the pre-20th century anyway, so they can say whatever they want about that. At the same time, jews have never been particularly athletic and aren’t known for their physical prowess. If they did serve in the military, they’d probably make up a large part of the casualties.
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The jewish author also doesn’t seem to realize that there are many other ways to show one’s patriotism aside from military service, especially since the vast majority of the public, including jews, do not serve in the military. In matters such as illegal immigration, refugee human trafficking, gun control, threats against free speech and more, issues that certainly do NOT put America or Americans first, jews not only support in overwhelming numbers but most often lead such political movements. Hardly patriotic.
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