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JimBoob cuts a thoughtful Sailer article on Jews
and immigration...A.
Importing Anti-Semitism? "La Raza and
Jews on Collision Course in Alta California"
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3ad30bfd4606.htm
Culture/Society Editorial Keywords: ANTI-SEMITISM,
IMMIGRATION
Source: Vdare
Published: 4/10/01 Author: Steve Sailer
Posted on 04/10/2001 06:34:53 PDT by wideawake
Recently a Mexican-American fringe publication called
"La Voz de Aztlan" published an editorial entitled "La
Raza and Jews on Collision Course in Alta California,"
which any Jewish-American concerned about the
maintenance of Jewish influence would be well advised
to ponder.
It's a fascinating document, but before I quote from it,
I'd like to offer some background. I think the Aztlan
movement, which calls for the secession of the
American Southwest, has no more likelihood of success
within the next couple of decades than the
neo-Confederate secession movement. Honest treason
is much less profitable than dual loyalty. What Mexican
President Vincente Fox and his Foreign Minister Jorge G.
Castaneda want is for people of Mexican descent living
in the U.S. to reap the benefits of dual citizenship. They
want them to be able to vote for Mexican interests in
American elections and for Fox's coalition in Mexican
elections.
Fox has quickly discovered that he is more likely to win
large concessions from the American establishment
than from the entrenched Mexican establishment. For
example, on March 21st Fox spoke in front of the
California legislature and asked that California give
bigger state college tuition subsidies to illegal
immigrants than to American citizens from other states.
At home, however, Fox is finding it much tougher. He
knows that his education and health programs are
starved for funds because Mexico's rich cheat like mad
on their income taxes. Yet the chance of getting them
to stop is slim. Fox has instead recommended raising
the regressive sales tax.
In contrast, the editorialist for La Voz, having forsworn
the devious machinations of Mexican-American politics
in favor of simple extremism, enjoys the freedom to
express the harsh logic of future American ethnic
relations:
The Jews of California, about 3% of the state's
population [this figure seems a little low], have an
overwhelming and disproportionate share of the
state's wealth, which they utilize effectively to
wield immense influence on the state's political
apparatus principally through dominance of the
Democratic Party. . . Since they comprise a very
small percent of the overall population, they are
forced to utilize strategies outside of having the
most numbers to maintain control. A principal
strategy is to utilize their vast supply of funds to
manipulate the political system as they are
presently doing in the race for mayor of Los
Angeles. . .
This largely parallels, in an uncharitable way, a March
25th essay in the L.A. Times entitled "Two Powers
Passing in the Night" (click here - it may require
registration to read) by respected ethnic analyst Joel
Kotkin, author of Tribes : How Race, Religion, and
Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy.
Kotkin's article was also an exploration of the growing
conflict in L.A. between the long-dominant Jews and the
up-and-coming Latinos. In describing what he calls
Jewish "economic hegemony" over L.A., Kotkin wrote:
Jews reign over many of the most dynamic parts of the
city's economy, from Hollywood to real estate, from
cyberspace to the garment business. They are well
represented at both the elite and grass-roots levels of
L.A. business. . . Nearly half the Los Angeles Business
Journal's list of richest Angelenos are Jews.
A Jewish-black coalition elected black Democrat Tom
Bradley to five consecutive terms as mayor from 1973
through 1989. But blacks are in relative decline in L.A.,
being swept aside by Mexican immigrants. Kotkin
noted:
Unlike Jews and Gentiles, or African Americans, Jews
and Latinos share little history or mythology. For the
most part, their contacts have been opportunistic. Jews
have employed Latinos in garment factories, as maids
and gardeners and serviced them as customers in a
host of enterprises from Whittier Boulevard to Santee
Alley and Pico-Union. . . But these two communities still
live largely in separate worlds. Jewish-Latino relations
are characterized not so much by an ethnic "schism" as
by something between indifference and
incomprehension. . . Prospects of creating anything like
the black-Jewish alliance of the Tom Bradley years seem
dim.
The La Voz editorialist echoes Kotkin's theme and
expands upon it:
Our increasing population and voting strength will, in
the near future, collide with the interests of the Jews in
Alta California, and for that matter, in the other regions
of Aztlan. Our increasing ties with our brothers and
sisters in Mexico will also present a challenge for the
American Jewish community. The Mexican Dual
Nationality Program means that we now have the same
status with Mexico that American Jews have with Israel.
We are now in the position to question the over eight
billion dollars [this figure is high] of our tax money that
are sent to Israel each year, much of it which is used
for military weaponry to strike out against the
Palestinians, and soon we will be in the position to
remind the American Jews of their shoddy treatment of
Mexico when the nation's U.N. Ambassador voted to
equate Zionism with Racism.
In assessing this, we should keep in mind that lots of
immigrant groups hold much stronger views about Jews
than do Mexicans. For example, America's rapidly
growing Muslim population. Muslim leaders contend that
there are now about as many Muslims as Jews in the
U.S. If they are exaggerating, it won't be for much
longer. By contrast, the American Jewish Council
demographers expect the U.S. Jewish community to
shrink substantially in absolute numbers in the 21st
century. So within a generation there will be many times
more Muslims than Jews in America. The long-run
prospects for Jewish political interests, such as support
for Israel, are correspondingly dim.
Jews have long tended to back heavy immigration for a
variety of reasons, some sentimental, some practical.
One reason has been to help break Protestant
monopolization of the best jobs in America. While
successful, this has obviously reached the point of
diminishing returns. There isn't much Protestant
hegemony left.
Immigrants arriving in Southern California don't see
WASPs running the place. They see Jews as having a
huge proportion of the really sexy jobs. The guy who
has got the best job in Southern California isn't some
WASP head of a big industrial corporation (there aren't
many Fortune 500 corporations in LA). No, it's Steven
Spielberg.
Now, Mr. Spielberg is a phenomenally competent man
(for example, he earned 48 merit badges as a Boy
Scout - you only need 21 to make Eagle Scout). He has
very much earned his eminence. Still, to anybody who
has recently showed up, he's obviously at the top of
the heap. To immigrants, the notion that they should
subsidize Israel through their taxes, rather than
Spielberg and his zillionaire friends doing so through
their voluntary donations, is puzzling to say the least.
European opinion has swung strongly in favor of the
Palestinians since last fall. The U.S. is the last devoted
friend that Israel has left. Jews who want to keep
America on Israel's side need to reassess their
traditional enthusiasm for immigration.
During the Crack Epidemic years, Jewish voters in big
cities helped to bring crime under control by throwing
out black mayors and replacing them with white
Republicans, like Rudy Giuliani in New York and Richard
Riordan in LA, or white conservative machine
Democrats, like Richard M. Daley in Chicago. This has
worked well.
The next big question: can Jews bring themselves to
vote at the federal level for candidates willing to cut
back on immigration? That's a much a bigger
psychological hurdle than voting for Giuliani or Riordan.
You can't tell yourself you aren't selling out your Jewish
liberal roots because you still vote for immigration
federally.
Jews, however, will eventually realize that by voting for
immigration, they are selling out Israel.
This is the logic of political correctness. One of the key
texts of the politically correct movement is, of course,
Edward Said's Orientalism - a touchstone of what is
now called "postcolonial studies".
Latino activists often read this book in tandem with a
famous Latino "postcolonial" text called I, Rigoberta
Menchu. They are taught that both the Palestinians and
Latinos are martyrs, oppressed by Western colonialism.
They, like black militants, reject the relevance of the
holocaust as something "whites did to other whites".
1 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:34:53 PDT by wideawake
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To: Sabramerican, The Sword, dennisw
Bump.
2 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:35:28 PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
Anti-semitism is the code word of the ADL = Anti
Defamtion League to attack anyone who criticizes Israel.
Even Patriotic Americans who can't accept their
Politically Correct Speech rules.
It is a term that has been overused by an organization
financed by such Pardonned Americans as Rich and
Convicted American spy Jonathan Pollard.
I wouldn't pay much attention to the rantings of this
Pro-semitic terrorist extortionist group that taught
Jesse Jackson an Al Sharpton all they know.
3 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:43:14 PDT by A+Bert
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To: wideawake
I don't know what to say, every other sentence in the
piece relies on debateable assumptions.
I do want to make a few comments, however.
1. Mexico's rich cheat like mad on their income taxes.
Yet the chance of getting them to stop is slim. Fox has
instead recommended raising the regressive sales tax.
The alternative is to lower income taxes dramatically.
People will stop cheating as much, and will invest more
locally.
2. I, Rogoberta Menchu, has been proven to have been
a complete and total fraud, written by a comparatively
wealthy woman who went to school in france.
3. La Raza is a basically non-existent entity, financed
almost entirely by the Ford Foundation. They have no
real support whatsoever.
4 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:44:22 PDT by Rodney King
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To: wideawake
"They are taught that both the Palestinians and Latinos
are martyrs, oppressed by Western colonialism........"
HEY! I was first with that take.
5 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:57:47 PDT by dennisw
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To: Rodney King
To your points:
1. Lowering Mexican taxes is a nice idea - but I don't
believe that Vicente Fox is the political revolutionary
most make him out to be.
2. I know the story of Ms. Menchu's pathological lying
well. Even though her lies are thoroughly documented,
her book remains on college syllabi and the teachers
who assign it rarely draw their students attention to its
fictional character.
3. La Raza may be funded largely by the Ford
Foundation, but it has many sympathizers. I remember
a La Raza campus rally in Chicago which drew about
5,000 angry Latino students. I doubt they all received a
check from the Ford Foundation.
6 Posted on 04/10/2001 06:58:55 PDT by wideawake
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To: dennisw
It wouldn't surprise me if you were - in fact, I probably
got it from you.
7 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:00:02 PDT by wideawake
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To: A+Bert
Abe Foxman's admitted acceptation of a bribe from
Marc Rich in return for pardon pressure on the Clinton
administration is a matter of public record.
The ADL is now proved to be nothing other than a
mouthpiece of the Democratic party and is an
organization wholly without moral authority.
8 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:04:09 PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
It's a strange, strange world we live in. Everone wants to go
to heaven, no one wants to be dead.
9 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:08:25 PDT by d-energy
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To: wideawake
Thanks, Now if we can get the Israeli Lobby to accept that fact
and quit playing in our sandbox. Let them play in their own
sandbox with the kitty cats.
10 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:08:52 PDT by A+Bert
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To: wideawake
They, like black militants, reject the relevance of the
holocaust as something "whites did to other whites".
To be fair didn't we whites reject the relevance of the butchery
in Rwanda, and the crime wave in our urban areas as
something "blacks did to other blacks."?
11 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:10:04 PDT by bulldog905
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To: bulldog905
I, for one, have pointed out time and again the hypocrisy of
those who were gung-ho for intervention in Kosovo but who
didn't think Rwanda was worthwhile.
And, unless I've been asleep for the last 30 years, I thought
the law and order Republicans who have continually called for a
crackdown on urban crime were mostly white. I thought the
inner city Democrat politicans who ignored or excused the
urban crimewave were in large part black.
It was David Dinkins who sat on his hands while something like
4,000 blacks were murdered in NYC. It was Rudy Giuliani who
drove that number down by two-thirds while black activists
bitched at him for it.
12 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:17:08 PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake
Maybe you did or maybe you didn't get it from me. I only
meant it semi seriously. Yes, I do see parallels between an
Israel besieged by a relentless, higher birthrate people just as
the USA is. Huge income gap too between Israel/Pallies just
like between America/Mexicans
13 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:19:08 PDT by dennisw
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To: wideawake
Maybe it's just me, but as an American I don't like subsidizing
anyone with no ties to America. Whether it's Israel, Ireland,
Mexico, or a hundred other foreign countries. The politics of
California's "minority" community is one of "getting anything
you can get for yourself". Not for the betterment of the
community as a whole or the American people as a whole.
14 Posted on 04/10/2001 07:22:30 PDT by MoJo2001
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