Why are American Jews so Socially Liberal?
A comment to my recent post Status Competition pointed out that Barbara Boxer, a Senator who recently made a statement supporting the repeal of DADT, is of Jewish heritage.
This led commenter Hail to write:
They don't care that it would reduce effectiveness, making normal men uncomfortable being in close quarters with gays, showering together, sleeping nearby, etc.
They just want to tear down all walls of 'bigotry'. "If walls exist, they can be used against Jews, too."
Statsaholic replies:
I think it will reduce effectiveness, not least because the US Military probably gets a disproportionate portion of its recruits from more socially conservative segments of the population.
They just want to tear down all walls of 'bigotry'. "If walls exist, they can be used against Jews, too."
That's may be part of it.
At the same time I think there's an ancient historical motive plaing an important role in driving Jews to support the policy platform of homosexuals.
The thing to understand about Jews is that the transition from Paganism to Catholicism was viewed very negatively by the Jews in Europe.
The thing is that under Paganism Europeans never tried to convert Jews from their race-based religion.
But with the rise of the Catholic Church, a situation obtained where the leaders of Jewry felt constantly threatened by the possibility that their followers might at some point all become incorporated into European Christendom.
This was a problem for them on account of their doctrine of Jewish supremacy over all gentiles, even ones close to them in genetics.
Then there was the issue that the early Catholic Church put serious restrictions on Jews.
This created the conditions for the Jews in Europe to be selected for the quality of feeling animus toward Christendom.
Those Jews feeling such animus would be more attuned to the orientation of a group which constantly found itself in conflict with the Church, thus likely giving those Jews a selection advantage within the Jewish group.
American Jews overwhelmingly come from stock where their ancestors spent a long time in Europe during the time period where Jews and the Church were having a lot of conflict.
I think this has created a situation where American Jews tend to have something resembling an instinctual animus toward what I would call traditional post-pagan Western Culture.
The irony of this is that the hatred of the Jews has often continued long after the conflict which selected for the hatred ended.
Neither Catholics nor Protestants any longer seek to convert Jews, neither Catholics nor Protestants any longer seek to shield European gentiles from Jewish dominance and ethnic networking.
One of the linchpins of traditional post-pagan Western Culture was the tabooizing of homosexuality.
It, along with the tabooizing of abortion and extra-marital sex, was absolutely central to how the early European Christians managed to demographically outcompete European Pagans.
Ever since then these three taboos have been central to all traditional post-pagan Western Culture.
Many Jews seek to undermine these taboos because deep down they want to destroy post-pagan Western Culture.
They want to destroy post-pagan Western Culture in spite of its current pro-Jewish stance for the simple reason that it “rubs them the wrong way”.
The reason it rubs them the wrong way is because of the centuries of conflict their ancestors went through against it.
In contrast, most Jews in America and Europe didn’t have their ancestors go through centuries of conflict with Muslims.
This is because their ancestors left the Middle East before the rise of Islam.
This largely explains the paradox of so many Jews supporting mass Muslim immigration into Europe today.
The Jews in Europe weren’t selected for the ability or desire to compete with post-pagan Middle Easterners, instead only being selected for the ability and desire to compete with post-pagan Europeans.
For this reason on a gut level Jews in Europe view the European gentiles as more of a threat than the Middle Easterners, even though the opposite situation so obviously obtains.
In conclusion, Jews like Boxer want homosexuals to serve openly in the US Military because they want to undermine what's left of the taboo against homosexuality.
They want to undermine this taboo because it is a linchpin of post-pagan European culture, and the Jews tend to feel an instinctive sense of rivalry and competition toward that culture.
This sense of rivalry evolved under the conditions of intense conflict which existed between Jews and Christendom for centuries, especially during the Middle Ages.
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