Yes! The Klan is the perfect analogy for our modern times, and I would add another angle here:
It's not just that the South turned on the Klan to save the Jews. They turned on the Klan to uphold our universal moral TABOO against overt hateful eliminationist bigotry towards any group. We all must do the same today with those that espouse this hatred, ostracizing them out of polite society and our mainstream politics, marginalizing them to the fringes where they belong. If we don't, the TABOO erodes and the hate normalizes and destroys all of America and the West.
Jews have always been well-accepted in the South, in part no doubt because of our Protestant traditions. I was recently driving through the backwoods of Tennessee in deep hillbilly country when I spotted an Israeli flag posted on the side of a house. The owner was out in the yard so I stopped to ask him about it. "They're my people," he politely said.
Readers might also be interested in my response to October 7, in which I, as a Protestant American, explain why the West, not Israel, is ultimately responsible for the plight of the Palestinians, after which go on to describe what I think the West as a whole, speaking as a civilization, might do to help bring this otherwise impossible situation to an end: https://shorturl.at/7kBCu
Quillette is currently thinking about publishing it even though I'm a complete unknown. Who knows, maybe they will?
Especially the British. But the Arab governments of 1948 bear a great deal of responsibility as well. Palestinians linger in refugee camps after 80 years when Hungarians, Cubans, Vietnamese, pied noirs, and of course the Jews expelled from the Islamic world have all been assimilated.
What a great excerpt. It is a beautiful enrichment to the history of America on its 250th anniversary. I am even more eager for my pre-ordered book to arrive.
Very interesting. Not sure it is any more surprising, or should I add disappointing, than the fact that black Americans on the whole identify today more with the political party of their historic tormentors than the party and President of their Civil War liberators.
Yes. How sad that Jews historically championed the rights of black people and now black people are on average more antisemitic than many if not most other ethnic groups. I take a great lesson from this. Nobody will help us Jews we must help ourselves to the exclusion of everyone else.
I don't know if they are more anti-semitic as you suggest than many if not most other ethnic groups, but certainly less appreciative than they should be given the record of Jewish support. My ex is Jewish. I also lost an ancestor, Sanford McConnaughay, who was taken POW after a Virginia skirmish, marched to the infamous Libby Prison camp in Richmond where he died within days due to the terrible, overcrowded conditions and dysentery near war's end.
As a student of history, every man/group that goes against the Jews winds up @ the bottom of the pile in a big, big way. It never turns out well for them. They wind up destroyed. How many wars have the Islamists lost since 1948? What did Berlin look like in 1945?
It’s called Divine Intervention. People should take heed.
What people fail to understand about the KKK is that it was really 3 separate organizations separated by time, demographics and philosophy. KKK1.0 was the Southern resistance movement in the aftermath of Civil War One. Founded by CW1 general Nathan Bedford Forest, it was indeed anti-black but also violently anti-Yankee as exemplified by the carpetbaggers. KKK 2.0 in the 1920s was very different. It's demographic base was as much in the North as the South. It played a significant role in electing governors in Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Maine as well as some former Confederate states. It was this version of the Klan that was anti-Jewish. The lynching of Leo Frank in 1915 was the leading edge of KKK 2.0. In fact, they were generally anti-immigrant and the US had just experienced a massive wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Opposition to KKK 2.0 was not only black and Jewish but also Catholic with many new immigrants from Italy and Poland. KKK 3.0 which is what this article is mostly about is best understood as the FBI in drag along with whatever misfits they could recruit. (The FBI used the same tactics against the anti-war movement in the 60s, the militia movement, the monkey wrenchers, the Black Panthers and Muslims.) The "respectable" people of the era opposed to the civil rights movement gravitated toward the White Citizens Council. They did not engage in violence but used an early version of cancel culture..
Interestingly, there were a lot of Jewish businessmen who did very well in the South. Cone Mills was a very large concern, started by Moses and Caesar Cone in 1891. I wonder if the Cone brothers changed the spelling of their name and I wonder if the community embraced them or were they jealous?
Commie revisionist bullshit. The real take is when the jews attacked America with saboteurs like SPLC, the captured carpet bagger feds piled on and destroyed a foundational southern institution.
Yes! The Klan is the perfect analogy for our modern times, and I would add another angle here:
It's not just that the South turned on the Klan to save the Jews. They turned on the Klan to uphold our universal moral TABOO against overt hateful eliminationist bigotry towards any group. We all must do the same today with those that espouse this hatred, ostracizing them out of polite society and our mainstream politics, marginalizing them to the fringes where they belong. If we don't, the TABOO erodes and the hate normalizes and destroys all of America and the West.
#MakeTaboosTabooAgain
Jews have always been well-accepted in the South, in part no doubt because of our Protestant traditions. I was recently driving through the backwoods of Tennessee in deep hillbilly country when I spotted an Israeli flag posted on the side of a house. The owner was out in the yard so I stopped to ask him about it. "They're my people," he politely said.
Readers might also be interested in my response to October 7, in which I, as a Protestant American, explain why the West, not Israel, is ultimately responsible for the plight of the Palestinians, after which go on to describe what I think the West as a whole, speaking as a civilization, might do to help bring this otherwise impossible situation to an end: https://shorturl.at/7kBCu
Quillette is currently thinking about publishing it even though I'm a complete unknown. Who knows, maybe they will?
Especially the British. But the Arab governments of 1948 bear a great deal of responsibility as well. Palestinians linger in refugee camps after 80 years when Hungarians, Cubans, Vietnamese, pied noirs, and of course the Jews expelled from the Islamic world have all been assimilated.
I have taken your advice and ordered your book. It sounds fascinating.
What a great excerpt. It is a beautiful enrichment to the history of America on its 250th anniversary. I am even more eager for my pre-ordered book to arrive.
Very interesting. Not sure it is any more surprising, or should I add disappointing, than the fact that black Americans on the whole identify today more with the political party of their historic tormentors than the party and President of their Civil War liberators.
That, too, may be changing, if too slowly.
Yes. How sad that Jews historically championed the rights of black people and now black people are on average more antisemitic than many if not most other ethnic groups. I take a great lesson from this. Nobody will help us Jews we must help ourselves to the exclusion of everyone else.
I don't know if they are more anti-semitic as you suggest than many if not most other ethnic groups, but certainly less appreciative than they should be given the record of Jewish support. My ex is Jewish. I also lost an ancestor, Sanford McConnaughay, who was taken POW after a Virginia skirmish, marched to the infamous Libby Prison camp in Richmond where he died within days due to the terrible, overcrowded conditions and dysentery near war's end.
Jews marched with our black brothers in the South but now the blacks (BLM) hate Jews …..WTF?
Wasn't the KKK started by Democrats?
As a student of history, every man/group that goes against the Jews winds up @ the bottom of the pile in a big, big way. It never turns out well for them. They wind up destroyed. How many wars have the Islamists lost since 1948? What did Berlin look like in 1945?
It’s called Divine Intervention. People should take heed.
What people fail to understand about the KKK is that it was really 3 separate organizations separated by time, demographics and philosophy. KKK1.0 was the Southern resistance movement in the aftermath of Civil War One. Founded by CW1 general Nathan Bedford Forest, it was indeed anti-black but also violently anti-Yankee as exemplified by the carpetbaggers. KKK 2.0 in the 1920s was very different. It's demographic base was as much in the North as the South. It played a significant role in electing governors in Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Maine as well as some former Confederate states. It was this version of the Klan that was anti-Jewish. The lynching of Leo Frank in 1915 was the leading edge of KKK 2.0. In fact, they were generally anti-immigrant and the US had just experienced a massive wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Opposition to KKK 2.0 was not only black and Jewish but also Catholic with many new immigrants from Italy and Poland. KKK 3.0 which is what this article is mostly about is best understood as the FBI in drag along with whatever misfits they could recruit. (The FBI used the same tactics against the anti-war movement in the 60s, the militia movement, the monkey wrenchers, the Black Panthers and Muslims.) The "respectable" people of the era opposed to the civil rights movement gravitated toward the White Citizens Council. They did not engage in violence but used an early version of cancel culture..
Interestingly, there were a lot of Jewish businessmen who did very well in the South. Cone Mills was a very large concern, started by Moses and Caesar Cone in 1891. I wonder if the Cone brothers changed the spelling of their name and I wonder if the community embraced them or were they jealous?
Commie revisionist bullshit. The real take is when the jews attacked America with saboteurs like SPLC, the captured carpet bagger feds piled on and destroyed a foundational southern institution.
YT???