Bouvard on Antisemitic Dog-Whistling and Right-Wing Complicity

Tucker Carlson's (First World) fans have been peeling away, one by one, but let's go back to the beginning, to the mindset that led us here. It would go something like this: "So, he's taunting the Jews a bit--so what? They're what, 2% of the population?--and they vote left!

Anyway, they've got it coming. If they complain about some little exaggeration, we'll just tell them we're allowed to criticize Israel. All in good fun--energizing the base!" Now we have a VP whose patron and mentor is head of a pack of seditionists. And the "dissident right"

will continue to complain about how this phantom they call the "neocons" is taking over the GOP.

@Imperius__13 It's not only OK but imperative to criticize all destabilizing politics, but the most prominent example right now is that carried out by the Carlson, et al, fanbase. I don't see any Jewish leftists (at least not with any audience) calling on US soldiers to disobey orders.

@Imperius__13 You or anyone else can talk about whatever you like but the RW subversion is the real threat to (and betrayal of) Trump right now. (Are you referring to 6 Democrats calling on soldiers to disobey orders right now, or that video laying out a hypothetical back in November?)

@Imperius__13 That was despicable but it wasn't in the middle of a war.

@Imperius__13 Scientifically I would want to trace activity within institutions in historically specific situations--thinking you can arrive at some kind of politics by sorting out genes is pointless. That's the dissident right, and why it's freaking out right now.

@Imperius__13 Yes, it's not going to have any real effect but a wide strip of the right going seditionist is meaningful, I think.

@Imperius__13 You can only deal with the expression of genes, which means you can only deal with behavior. You may determine someone is doing something you want to stop because they're Jewish, but either way the point is to stop it.

The point is not Tucker but, ultimately Vance.

@Imperius__13 But the question here is less "what is the use of science" and more "what do we consider 'scientific'?" Of course, if someone thinks that counting Jews in the area will help him make a better decision, I wish him the best of luck.

@Imperius__13 That's my central point here.