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Elon Musk Shifts The Discussion On Antisemitism

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by Portfolio Armor
Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023 - 23:51
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Setting The Stage

Shortly before Zero Hedge's Israel-Palestine debate on Wednesday, an important shift in the discourse about American Jews and antisemitism happened. We've seen two related phenomena in America since the October 7th Hamas attacks: 

  • Anti-Israel (and sometimes anti-Jewish) protests, mostly, but not exclusively by nonwhites. 
  • Some American Jewish activists blaming a rise in antisemitism on gentile American whites. 

A recent example of the second phenomenon was Gad Saad's post using the name "Roscoe" to describe archetypical American antisemite. The full text of Saad's tweet: 

The human mind is fueled by pathogical narcissistic tribalism. I've probably received more hate because of people being upset by my "Roscoe" tweet then from Islamists. "Roscoe" is meant to capture an American Jew-hater. He could reside in Boston, LA, or Mobile. The fact that I used "Arkansas" in my tweet does not imply that I'm demeaning people from Arkansas or people from the Midwest or the South. It is a f**king archetype of a person who is fueled by bigotry as per the Charlottesville March of a few years ago. Grow up. Focus. Think about the larger enemies of the West. Countless people who are choosing to be offended should be on the same team as me. I truly don't know why I persist in this fight. It is thankless, painful, and exhausting. I do it for my children and yours.

As Jack Posobiec and others pointed out, it hasn't been the Roscoes rioting against Israel or Jews. 

A Public Service Ad

Another example of the "Roscoe" phenomenon was this PSA posted by Charles Webber, in which an archetypical Midwestern white man scolds his son for posting antisemitic comments online. 

In response, the X account "The Artist Formerly Known As Eric" suggested that since American Jewish groups have advocated for mass third world immigration as well as an antiwhite dialectic (presumably, referring to DEI/wokeness), he wasn't sympathetic to the plight of American Jews now becoming the target of both. 

Okay.

Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities [they] support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.

You want truth said to your face, there it is.

This reply by Elon Musk has driven hundreds of thousands of views to that post. 

Elon Musk Versus The ADL Again

Elon followed up by directly calling out the ADL:

It will be interesting to see how the ADL responds.

Early Thursday Update

Reactions continue to Elon Musk's posts about this continue to pour in, with some on the left inevitably accusing him of antisemitism. In response, a friend of ours questioned their sudden concern about antisemitism following their silence in the face of "Gas the Jews" signs from pro-Palestinian protestors. 

Thursday Afternoon Update

ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt responds. 

Let's close on a less disturbing topic. 

In Case You Missed It

On The Portfolio Armor Substack Wednesday, we took advantage of the post-CPI market rally to bet against a municipal bond insurer. You an click on the distressed bond insurance man below to read more about that. 

Distressed bond insurance man.

 

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