Disclaimer: You can either watch the videos first or read the post first and then revert to watching the videos. If you read first, remember to scroll up to the top to watch the first set of shared videos. Thank you! Also, I am not a communist, but rather I find value in some Marxist talking points or sentiments from an analysis standpoint. I find the worldview of Marxism offers an alternative methodology to the seeing the world as is, yet, outside of analysis, I find the real-world applications of Marxism (a type of communism) to be less than desirable. I feel it oversimplifies reality into dialectics based on my novice understanding of it. However, I acknowledge and understand, contrary to critics and enemies of Left-Wing thought, that there is a difference between socialism and communism, in which socialism is a plethora of various and often differing egalitarian types of socio-political and/or economic systems, whereas communism is a type of socialism, and Marxism is a theory of communism. Also, I do see value in capitalism. I consider myself open minded and blend elements of capitalism, socialism etc., in my personal views. Personally, I prefer to think theoretically about a world beyond the dialectics of capitalism versus socialism.
This post will explore (1) Patrick Bet David’s erroneous claims that the first slaveowner in the Thirteen Colonies was a black man; (2) an analysis of his casual antisemitism despite attempting to court Jewish people and Zionists, i.e., he juggles two key demographics of Right Wing politics which are Zionists/Evangelicals and Antisemites; (3) how immigrants often adopt a white supremacist mentality when trying to assimilate into pre-existing super-structures [(in Marxist theory) the super-structures are the institutions and culture considered to result from or reflect the economic system underlying a society]; (4) the nexus between capitalism, colonialism, and supremacy, and (5) remembering disgraced New Jersey Institute of Technology professor, Jordan Reza Jorjani, who is of partial Iranian descent — similar to Patrick Bet David, and how Jorjani’s views were infused within the late twenty-teens Alt Right movement, particularly relating to “Indo Aryans”, “Indo Europeans”, etc. Jorjani’s main ideas could be considered at an intersection with “occultic fascism” in the vein of people such as Julius Evola, another darling of the Far Right and Alt-Right, and Francis Parkey Yockey.
Further, Jorjani’s ideas are adjacent to the theosophy of Madam Blavatsky (who coined terms such as “root races”), antediluvian “pre-flood’ myths, pan-spermia (alien intervention in human evolution) or ancient alien theories (e.g., Anunnaki believers and alien assistance with pyramid building), etc. These ideas have been platformed on popular YouTube podcasts such as the Joe Rogan Podcast, Danny Jones, etc. The accrual of these counter-cultural and/or alternative history ideas have been documented as having a cross-juncture with Far Right and fascist politics such as the field of “Nazi Archaeology”. This is best explained by University of Exeter professor, Dr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke who has explored Nazism and other fascists ideologies influence on and use of counterculture and fringe ideas such as Ariosophy, Western esoterism, etc. For example, regarding his 2001 book Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity it was mentioned that the book explored, “Subjects surveyed that include American and British neo-Nazism, the writings of Julius Evola and Francis Parker Yockey, Savitri Devi‘s and Miguel Serrano‘s Esoteric Nazism, belief in Nazi UFOs, neo-Nazi Satanism, Christian Identity, the World Church of the Creator and Nordic Racial Paganism.”
[Note: Jorjani was the editor of Arktos Media, the publisher of Vladmir Putin’s chief intellectual, Aleksandr Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory. Arktos Media has published Far-Right content. Jorjani is a believer in a cyclical view of history notably the Kali Yuga which as a concept was appropriated by the Nazis who themselves think they are Aryans, where Aryan is a variant of the word for Iran. Modern political pundits and provocateurs such as Steve Bannon have even been noted as having a “Kali Yuga” worldview.
Intro:
The one thing I notice about Right Wing grifters is that if they have larger legal troubles or fear getting in trouble, they often deflect their problems as being the fault of the “woke mob” or Leftists. For example, when Brian Callen got accused of sexual misconduct, it was because the system was out to get him. When Andrew Tate got in trouble for trafficking, it was because of the woke mob. Dan Bilzerian who will be talked about a lot in this post got in trouble with authorities about possible fraudulent accounting practices regarding his penny stock weed company. Patrick Bet-David, who I will refer to as PBD throughout this post, that despite never having been in trouble with the law to my knowledge, has been accused of running a Multi-Level Marketing pyramid scheme, so it is possible that since he sees no issue in how you make your money (he’s just an entrepreneur, right?) is that he understands he may be in trouble one day with the Federal government so he preemptively sides with Right Wing anti-government politics. However, I consider PBD to be an Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman disciple, so his worldview will always have a libertarian, anti-government, and Republican viewpoint. (End Intro)
But that aside, I don’t really know where to begin.
Let’s start with PBD promoting a racist talking point about how the first slaveowner in the USA was a black person. This was stated in the Valuetainment video, titled: “HATES Jewish People!” – Candace Owens & Dan Bilzerian UNDER FIRE, published on 21 August 2024
Patrick Bet David recently pushed the Right Wing lie that the first slaveowner in the United States was a black person. This is likely alluding to the story of Andrew Johnson, which has been debunked.
Tyler Parry of the African American Intellectual Historical Society (2019) stated, “In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a pioneer of American slavery and the first slave owner in North America. Intended for shock value, these memes reveal the new ways people disseminate knowledge in the age of social media. Anyone with access to the internet and the necessary software can generate historical narratives that gain disconcerting popularity. Of course, memes are perfect for establishing “Myth-stories,” as they do not ask readers to evaluate the sources and are often shared prolifically.” (Parry, 2019).
Further, Perry (2019) stated, “Though it is not the only myth attached to American slavery, the meme-ing of Anthony Johnson manifests the unique challenges scholars face in combating historical misinformation. As one of the few documented Black landowners in 17th-century Virginia, his unique story has morphed into a manipulative trope used by right-wing activists. From the 1960s–90s Johnson was predominantly known among academics who studied slavery, but interest in his (misrepresented) life has recently gained traction with the advent of digital sharing, discussion sites, and public forums. For instance, as of July 12, 2019, Johnson’s Wikipedia page claims he was a “colonist” sold by “Arab slave traders,” though there is no citation for the latter claim, nor is it supported by historians. It was likely added by a user who hoped to redirect blame from the Atlantic Slave Trade toward the “Arab Slave Trade,” a popular talking point among right-wing commentators. In his podcast disputing reparations for slavery, conservative pundit Michael Knowles reiterated this myth about Johnson without reviewing the available literature. Such historical distortions seek to minimize Europe’s culpability in expanding African slavery and discredit the system’s intergenerational impact upon African Americans.” (Perry, 2019).
More can be read from the Perry (2019) article: https://www.aaihs.org/the-curious-history-of-anthony-johnson-from-captive-african-to-right-wing-talking-point/
Another source, the History Channel, stated, “On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The exact date is not definitively known (a letter from the time identified the ship’s arrival coming in “the latter part of August”), but this date has been chosen by many to mark the arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World—beginning two and a half centuries of slavery in North America. Founded at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive in Virginia disembarked at Point Comfort, in what is today known as Fort Monroe. Most of their names, as well as the exact number who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.” There is even a historical marker dedicated to the area where the first African slaves on American soil.
The lie that PBD casually believes in and promoted on his YouTube podcast, is just another attempt at covert white supremacist historical revisionism and revisionist contextuality (with the latter being not necessarily erasing or revising history for bias purposes, but rather trying to doctor the context of generally agreed upon historical facts for bias purposes, e.g., claiming the Irish, Anglo, or Scottish indentureship was as bad as Africans within chattel slavery).
And I understand that many people reading this might state that PBD…isn’t white.
Regardless, the fact that American society is and has largely been dictated by white men created a super-structure in which whiteness is the default position (and where blackness was designed to be the antithesis), and even newcomers who aren’t white, as they try to assimilate will adopt white supremacy as an ontological position as a means of “fitting in”, weighing values, and garnering acceptance, i.e., being a “pick me”.
By white supremacy I am not talking about “European culture” or simply existing as a white person, but rather the mentality of believing that white people must control the levers of power at the expense of others as a means of “preserving themselves” since they consider themselves superior. White supremacy is an inherently paranoid and therefore violent way of thinking, because it sees reality as a Darwinist struggle of “different species”. White supremacy is also the epitome of projection, i.e., it alleges that everyone is out to get white people, yet white supremacists use this as a means of wanting to dominate everyone else.
The hardcore capitalist mentality of PBD is naturally in bed with white supremacy, since capitalism (if left unchecked) is an inherently elitist, top down and an exploitative doctrine which has variants or styles such as colonialism, where colonialism was the main culprit for the enslavement of black people and the mass murder of Indigenous peoples. Better put, PBD being a capitalist, notably of the Ayn Randian type of “virtuous selfishness” (e.g., the global pro-business organization called the Atlas Network takes its name from Rand’s Atlas Shrugged book despite claims that it did not), where Rand was popular within paleoconservative politics of the mid-to-late twentieth century, is naturally in alignment with a colonial exploitative framework which created the foundation for anti-blackness within the West. This therefore explains why PBD often has “Freudian slips” of casual racism when arguing for legitimacy of his capitalist doctrine. Even better put further, PBD essentially believes marginalized peoples are the result of their own follies, and he disregards the deeply enshrined white supremacy that dictated American discourse for most of its history. For example, many capitalists when speaking against the government or in support of the police state which protects their property, the typical culprits are black people, such as pushing the stereotype of being black people getting “handouts”, being “welfare queens”, being inherently poor, criminal, uneducated, and lacking an entrepreneurial spirit. Even white liberals can make this subconscious instant association of blackness with defectiveness or poverty, despite these liberals yearning to reconcile the flaws of the past, yet this yearning can come off as infantilizing via something akin to the “clinical gaze”. The clinical gaze I am referring to was address by Michel Foucault and is described as “how doctors modify the patient’s story, fitting it into a biomedical paradigm, filtering out non-biomedical material” (The British Journal of General Practice. https://bjgp.org/content/63/611/312)
In other words, at least based on my understanding of the concept, this means doctors dehumanize the person and then turn the person into data, statistics, etc. So, progressive liberals can be seen at times, despite noble intent, as incidentally seeing black people for example as the embodiment of statistical data needing to be corrected. However, the Left Wing’s emphasis on qualitative experience, i.e., lived experience, has been a movement that has largely corrected the clinical gaze of older progressive liberals who inhabited a more segregated paradigm.
I take what PBD said personally since I am descended from people who suffered under slavery in the United States, mainly from the US states of Georgia and Alabama.
At minute 26:40 of the video, PBD states talks about how one of the black descendants of Thomas Jefferson was wanting to erase history for not liking Jefferson statues. At minute 28:10 he states that the first slave owner was black, and his co-host Andrew Siosik agrees with them. First off, PBD does not get the point that by having a statue you are not just learning about that history, but rather you are celebrating and idolizing that history. No one is saying we can’t learn about Jefferson or even later Confederate soldiers, but rather people are raising the question of whether we should celebrate them, since a statue, i.e., a monument, ends up memorializing the person or persons.
But the fact remains that what PBD said is a flat out lie used by white supremacists as a means of taking the steam out of black people’s argument when discussing their lived experiences in relation to white supremacy such as being profiled, followed, any many cases killed. White supremacy is not about simply conquering a people but getting the people who were conquered to blame themselves for their lots in life. Yet ironically, white supremacy despite pushing notions that it is the most superior, also likes to play victim politics as a means of pre-emptively attacking and keeping down those which it rules over. By revising history, in this matter regarding PBD, it robs black people of authentic justification to be angry and tries to use reverse psychology to get black people to blame themselves and “look into the mirror”, i.e., judge ourselves.
White supremacy, in which many immigrants align with as they try to fit into the larger status quo and super-structure of American society, is what PBD panders to without even understanding it I think. In other words, he is very ignorant about the complexities of US history, but since he aligns himself with the profit seeking capitalist Right Wing, he applies as right wing historical revisionism to history (despite, the full history of the United States not being his own history). This mentality is very similar to the child of immigrants, such as Fit (real name Amrou Fudl) from the Fresh and Fit podcasts, who despite being of African origin has adopted a right-wing, Darwinist, Bell-Curve statistical viewpoint. Fit from the Fresh and Fit podcast has called black people stupid, lazy, and acted as a primate when describing black Americans.
PDB, Fit, and other immigrants or children of immigrants often swing down on black Americans because black America is historically the most swung down on race in the United States, and swinging down on blackness is almost a rite of passage when trying to assimilate into the predominate white superstructure. I would recommend you watch this video about Ferris State’s Museum dedicated towards understanding America’s racism.
Patrick Bet-David’s casual Antisemitism
But let me switch up to what I consider to be the subconscious antisemitism within Patrick Bet David’s mindset despite his claims of being a Christian Zionist. Separately, it is important to note that PBD doesn’t call himself Iranian (e-rahn-ian) but Assyrian, despite being born and raised in his early years in Iran. Back on track, I have been noticing that PBD has been pushing antisemitic tropes despites him appearing to seem to defend Jewish people in his recent discussion with Dan Bilzerian. Further, Patrick Bet David pushed more Jewish stereotypes in his group discussion about Candace Owens and PBD helped push the antisemitic George Soros conspiracy theory on the Flagrant 2 Podcast with Andrew Schulz. The video is titled, Patrick Bet-David Explains Who George Soros is & Why He’s Important in Society
Hannes Grassegger (2019) of Buzzfeed wrote a piece about how two Jewish political consultants helped to push the George Soros conspiracy theory. It is my understanding that they did this because of Soros’ criticism towards the Zionist project and the treatment of Palestinians, yet, by pushing a new version of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” conspiracy theory with Soros as the main villain, the real rise in antisemitism would create top cover for Zionists by making them into victims able to deflect away from their own mechanizations, plans, agendas, etc. Better put, these Jewish consultants scarified Soros for the cause of expanding Zionism yet also putting pressure on one of its biggest critics being George Soros.
The hatred towards Soros is laughable considering he is just one billionaire and the Right Wing who love capitalism are incapable of pointing out any plausible conspiracies from non-Jewish billionaires. The hatred towards Soros is not only lazy but it is just another form of white supremacist projectionism, i.e., desiring the capitalist avarice but only for themselves, and when a Jewish person plays and wins the game, the lizard brain of white supremacy descends into paranoid manic conspiracy theories. However, it is not just white supremacy that pushes antisemitism but also black militant politics such as the tomfoolery of people such as Louis Farrakhan, who ironically visited Iran to do give an antisemitic speech.
Note that this article was done in 2019 yet as of 2024, the Israeli state under Netanyahu has not only raised Gaza (with Zionists even blocking and destroying humanitarian aid to Gazans) but the IDF has also invaded the West Bank which has ever-growingly become conquered by Israeli settlers.
Grassegger (2019) stated, “The demonization of Soros is one of the defining features of contemporary global politics, and it is, with a couple of exceptions, a pack of lies. Soros is indeed Jewish. He was an aggressive currency trader. He has backed Democrats in the US and Karl Popper’s notion of an “open society” in the former communist bloc. But the many wild and proliferating theories, which include the suggestion that he helped bring down the Soviet Union in order to clear a path to Europe for Africans and Arabs, are so crazy as to be laughable — if they weren’t so virulent.”
The article by Grassegger (2019) talks about how Jews, George Birnbaum and Arthur Finklestein helped create the Soros conspiracy. [The article can be found at: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu]
Back to the video by Valuetainment, titled: “HATES Jewish People!” – Candace Owens & Dan Bilzerian UNDER FIRE, published on 21 August 2024, which as of August 22, 2024 at 3:17 PST has amassed 284,110 views. Contributor and co-host, Andrew Sosnick, who is of Jewish descent, actually justifies getting into bed with the Far Right if it means helping defeat Kamala Harris. Sosnick in a past video that I don’t have the title of or the time-stamp on has been accused or belittle by PBD for being soft on Democrats, so I feel Sosnik has to continue to double down on right wing rhetoric for his own credibility within the largely right-wing oriented, male, crypto bro, dating guru, Bell Curve statistic believing sphere of the Red Pill section of YouTube.
Adam quoted the recent Ronald Reagan movie starring Denis Quaid (who they called a friend), by stating “A person who agrees with you 80% of time is a friend an ally, not a 20% traitor”. Adam referenced this quote in relation to white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Far Right pundits such as Candace Owens criticizing the MAGA movement and Donald Trump. Adam, making a false equivalency between Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, one being center left and the often being left (some say “far left), justifies the Neo Nazis of the American First movement, Goyim Defense League, Groypers, etc., being part of MAGA. To me this common sense because Nazis, survivalists, race realists, antisemites, anti-feminists, anti-LGBTQ have always been apart of the modern Republican Party, so Adam is simply admitting what Democrats and the Left allege the Right actually is.
The irony to me is further exacerbate since Adam being Jewish is essentially arguing for a type of amoral realpolitik and pragmatism, which is something that Israel has been criticized for as far as achieving their objectives such as how Israel contracted a Nazi such as Otto Skorzeny to hunt other Nazis despite Otto Skorzeny starting various Neo Nazi organizations which endangered Jews across the globe.
Instead, Adam should have stated, “We don’t need you. Good riddance”, yet that doesn’t seem to enter his head.
Next off in the segment, another co-host, Vinnie Oshana, goes off to allege how the media is controlled by the Left, but fails to realize (if true) that this is not a manufactured conspiracy but possibly (and, most likely) the natural trajectory of American media since the US is a melting pot and has become more socially aware and accepting over the last sixty years.
It’s not that the mainstream media is biased but rather media is reflecting where most of the people are today. If we view the content of OAN, Newsmax, etc., most of that content is highly alienating and arguably offensive. Conservative media, art, etc., is not intended to be inclusive or accepting, and since capitalism is about market expansion, most media would lean progressive since they would have a larger pool of potential customers, etc. This seems like something a self-ascribed capitalist should know but Vinnie’s intent is to weave another needle in the right narrative of conservative victimhood despite their own propensity for bullying people outside the traditional Western norms. This goes back to my earlier points about PBD in which his type of capitalist beliefs has historically been in alignment with right-wing and far-right politics. PBD wants capitalism but a capitalism that only has a media that feeds into supporting the larger supremacist superstructure that hides behind the levers of power, i.e., the status quo.
In the discussion with Bilzerian, PBD around minute 1:01:10 starts talking about…Jewgenics, which is the study of Jews allegedly having higher IQs than everyone else. After, talking about this quasi “Bell Curve” talking point, PBD then goes to talk about how Jews are successful because of unity and higher IQs, thus they make “better decisions”. Sure, this may be flattering on the surface, but it does thread upon stereotyping a people, when there are many Jewish people living in poverty or in lower income demographics. We can debates studies on the matter all day, but the success of Jewish people seems (emphasis on seems) to be more environmental such as children (often bilingual since they are learning Hebrew and the language of the nations, they are citizens of), develop stronger linguistic and reading comprehension skills. This mixed with expectations and what I consider to be the multiplier effect of opportunity, i.e., uplifting each other despite academic performance, i.e., giving each other “a shot”, helps to incubate sub-communities of the larger Jewish community (which has segments that are impoverished, uneducated, under-employed, etc.) towards success.
We can even add on notions of inheritance to children, and the cultural traditional of giving financial donations that many Jewish children get during Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s that help train children how to deal or invest money, etc. It is almost a trope about how many Jewish teens get money from family members and use that money in something akin to venture capital to go start their first businesses. In other words, supportive environments with strong professional connections to get an inside leverage on jobs in exclusive industries – even if starting out as unpaid interns – mixed with children developing stronger bilingual, linguistic, and reading comprehension skills would generally produce “smarter children” in any race or culture.
PBD effectively is pushing the notion of seeing Jews as “lucky” or “lucky charms”.
At minute, 1:07:35, PBD brings up that portrait with the Shah of Iran. He goes to stated that the Shah actually oppressed the Jews and called out the “Zionist media”, and because of this his beloved Shah was removed from power.
This statement is strange because it seems PBD is trying to relate to and agree with Bilzerian and attempts to acknowledge that a “global Zionist plot” is possible or has been involved in regime change. So, it seems PBD trying to relate to the points of Bilzerian is alleging that because the Shah oppressed Jews that they somehow removed the Shah and installed the Ayatollah. If this is true, this means that PBD has revised history to totally disregard the abuse that the Shah imposed on his people overall (secret police, torture, abhorrent wealth hording and lavish lifestyles, etc.), and that his relationship with the US government, who were supportive of Israel, is a reason for the rise of the radical Islamic Ayatollah. The Shah was suffering from cancer and was allowed to get treatment within the United States, and this provoked the Iranians who were angry with the Shah and wanted him returned to Iran to face trail.
PBD despite objectifying the Jews from a standpoint of wealth that he admires, he then panders to the possibility of right-wing conspiracy such as “global Jewry”, “the Zionist occupied government”, etc. To me it is more about environment and incentive than supernatural forces or genetics, though genetics may play a role, though genetics are so complicated – with mutations happening all the time – that it seems rather objectifying to distill success down to pure genetic characteristics.
We also fall into the trap of defining intelligence based on a pre-conceived set of standards but who determined the standards? Creativity may outweigh concrete concepts like math or science in certain situations.
At minute 1:23:08, PBD goes off about how fascist and communists got rid of religion in order to support “materialism” and this was done to control people.
This is an odd statement because sure, yes, totalitarian regimes – both left and right – have employed erasing religion as a means of control, however…. religion was used since the beginning of religion to control people. PDB brings this up I suspect because it feeds back into his propensity for oversimplistic binary thinking, where in essence he is actually referring to dialectical materialism of Marx as being the culprit for what he see as the moral decay of the West and attacks against wealth.
This therefore can lead one to start pushing allegations of “cultural Marxism” against those who do not represent or bow down to the traditional status quo. In other words, conservatives can allege that people wanting rights are somehow employing “Marxism” has a means of “destroying hierarchy”, when in essence, people just want rights.
It is important to note that these Cultural Marxist allegations are ironically anchored in part in antisemitism, and contemporary figures such as Jordan Peterson who uses terms such as “Postmodern Neo-Marxists” are simply rehashing and repacking this cultural Marxist or cultural Bolshevik term employed by the likes of the Nazis for a new generation. A new generation which includes Dan Bilzerian.
Around minutes 1:25:29, Bilzerian asks PBD if Nazis are bad and PBD simply says “depends on who you ask”. Seriously? So PBD somehow thinks he is a defender of “Jewish people”, some sort of Cyrus the Great from Persia, yet, he cannot even straight up say that Nazis are bad and that it is all subjective?
The issue with Bilzerian’s question is that he is using the question to set up for his following false equivalencies. Bilzerian doesn’t distinguish German people from Nazis, as a means of alleging that not all Nazis were bad. He is making it sound as if the Western propaganda against Muslims during the Global War on Terrorism is somehow equal to stereotyping all Nazis. The difference is that the Nazis were a political party, i.e., a hate group, so yes all were bad, yet, Muslims are a religion so not all are bad, but Bilzerian is trying to use the “don’t stereotype” people notion because of their religion as a means of defending not stereotyping all Nazis. This therefore feeds into the foundation of Bilzerian’s ever-growing antisemitic lens. He is effectively saying without saying that the Nazis were good people, and they had a reason for disliking the Jews. The Nazis were pure evil. Many Nazis that survived the war never renounced their allegiance to Hitler and many died as ardent Holocaust deniers.
The creepy thing about living in the twenty-twenties and beyond is that the internet has repackaged old antisemitism and racism for a new generation of meme making, video game playing, technologically saturated youths who look up to people such as Elon Musk, where Musk promotes racist talking points all the time. This trend seems indicative of the inherent fear of many white people and the need for many to push apartheid like politics and sentiments. Online on YouTube for example, it is common to see Rhodesia nostalgia videos or Rhodesian military analysis videos which paints the Rhodesians has heroic rather than a Jim Crow racist pariah state. It is also common to see World War II videos pointing out the bravery of the SS. White supremacists have appropriated the self-determination of marginalized groups to push towards a new “White Identity politics”, where white supremacist can finally celebrate being different, separate, and superior to others. Many individuals within immigrant groups such as Indians, Iranians, Cubans, Mexicans, etc., often wish to be included into the right-wing white superstructure because of its perceived higher value.
Dan Bilzerian represents what happens when society has such a lack of discourse around the state of Israel and its politics that people then find themselves listening to good-faith but mostly bad-faith analysis of Israel, where the bad-faith side is of course steeped in a literal mistrust, hatred, and fear of Jews. This is something that Vinnie Ohsana on the the PBD segment alluded to but didn’t outright state.
What I mean by good-faith is pragmatic analysis of Israel indifferent to ethnicity of Jewish people, e.g., criticizing their government but not hating Jews. The lack of discourse in contemporary politics around Israel has enabled fringe ideologies to dictate the discourse, even if presenting their arguments as professional, restrained, well-researched, etc.
The typical subjects within this contemporary antisemitism involves a range of topics such as (1) 9/11 was in inside job and that a group of “dancing Israelis” celebrated because this meant that Netanyahu and the Mossad, etc., could drag the US into wars in the Middle East for the protection of Israel, (2) the USS Liberty attack by Israeli Air Force and alleged involvement in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings (3) the plausibility of Jeffrey Epstein being some sort of blackmailing intel asset for Mossad to make sure US politicians towed the line of AIPAC, WJC, etc. (4) the Jews allegedly controlling hip-hop, pornography, sports, etc., which helps conservatives point to Jews as being responsible for “moral decay” or “bread and circus” antics — despite the fact that many Jews are ultra conservative, follow Kosher laws, etc. However, the rebuttal is that despite Jews being conservative mostly, they have no problem in “corrupting” the goyim who have “lesser souls” (5) the over-representation on Jews in prominent positions, etc. (6) George Soros, who as a billionaire has spent his money on progressive causes to the ire of conservatives. Soros has found himself unilaterally being blamed for the current state of the world despite in the USA and Europe, most of the wealth or socio-political power is still largely white, male, and Christian, etc. (7) the Rothchilds via “central banking” have turned nations into slaves for the Jews, etc., (8) Jewish participation in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, (9) Jewish male “neuroticism” and the wavering between being unassertive versus a Might Makes Right clinical view of power, etc. (10) the Jews we see today are not the real Jews but Caucus peoples called Khazars who converted to Judaism to distinguish themselves from Muslims and Christians, who later migrated into Europe, so they have no legal claim on the lands in current day Israel (11) Jewish men enjoy abusing “shiksa” or Gentile Women
Antisemitism happens across racial, ethnic, and nationalistic lines, often where the develops an intersectionality of antisemitism depending on whichever group is promoting it. For example, antisemitism in the African American or Black-American community often centered around being denied power, whereas antisemitism in white people often centers around their power being corrupted and drained.
For example, around 2018 – 2020, on YouTube there was a creator called Adam Green, who went under the moniker, Know More News. He had guests such as Ryan Dawson who has been accused of holocaust denial.
I had watched quite a bit of the content because at first it seemed like a genuine criticism of plausibly shady dealing with Israel, such spying on campus protestors who support the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement, but also Israel being home to many US tech companies and how this sharing of technology (and possible theft thereof) of US trade secrets, etc., has damaged American primacy.
Yet slowly but surely Adam Green started pushing the theory that the Talmud endorses hatred towards the “goy” or “goyim” (gentiles, non-Jews, etc.). He also started mixing in very common conspiracy theories about Jews such as Jews controlling the hip-hop industry as a means on enslaving black people and destroying the family unit (despite Adam Green likely being a white supremacist or at least adjacent to many of their talking points).
I actually wrote about Adam Green in another post relating to RFJ, Jr., where RFK himself has said antisemitic things.
Side note. The Right Wing is attempting to paint the Political Left as antisemitic because they are protesting the bombings in Gaza. Yet, the Right Wing my entire life have been the ones in bed with actual white supremacist antisemites. Look into Willis Carto or Eustace Mullins where Mullins is notable helping push the myth that Jews are behind the Federal Reserve. For example, the John Birch Society – a right-wing conspiracy organization – which was founded in part by th Bradley Family (who are related to the Uihlein Family who fund figures such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA), had splintered into the National Alliance, a white supremacist organization founded by William Luther Pierce and Revilo P. Oliver. Piece, author of the Turner Diaries, inspired hate groups such as The Order, who killed Jewish radio host, Alan Berg, but also this book inspired Tim McVeigh who did the Oklahoma City Bombing.
There are many links between conservatism and the Far Right, and ironically MAGA inspired the Far Right to change their appearance from skinheads for example, but rather into young ideological men in suits with modern haircuts, etc.
Other thoughts on PBD
Patrick Bet David is a….self-made millionaire…who allegedly made his money by running a Multi Level Marketing insurance company where he siphoned off the profits in order to inflate his own personal brand dubbed Valuetainment (which includes his PBD Podcast).
Patrick to me after having watched his material for years is a proponent of unfettered capitalism (almost teetering upon the libertarianism of The Atlas Network, Mont Pelerin Society, Mises Institute, etc.), social conservatism, etc. For example, Patrick Bet David in his home has a portrait with him, Tupac, Einstein, Martin Luther King, Milton Friedman, The Shah of Iran, etc. Within the portrait, there are the books Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (hence proving his links to Atlas Network type of anarcho-capitalist and libertarian thinking) and the Communist Manifesto. These two books best explain Patrick’s dialectic framework. It’s either “freedom” or “communism”, i.e., a hardliner yet oversimplified way of thinking.
Patrick despite maybe having changed his name to “Bet David” which insinuates a connection to Judaism, despite him being Iranian (he prefers Assyrian), ironically panders to antisemitic talking points and stereotypes despite what his almost scripted defense of Israel and Jews. Yet, Patrick has such as an oversimplistic and binary way of thinking mixed with his use of cherry picked statistics, that he sometimes comes off as gruff, unrefined, and in many ways simply pandering to current conservative landscape, notably online, which is comprised of everything spanning the Man-o-sphere (Men’s Rights Movement, Red Pill movement, Fresh & Fit podcast, etc.), Cryptocurrency community (a medium of exchange which has been linked to libertarianism on the surface, but organized crime under the surface), Trad-Wife Movement (via Pearl Davis, via Just Pearly Things), COVID skeptics, but also the George Soros Conspiracy (which is important to this piece I am writing).
Far Right love for Indo-European and Indo-Aryan Studies. PBD, Jorjani, etc.
PBD being Right Wing reminded me of the curious case of Jordan Jorjani. Jorjani of partial Iranian heritage was a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology but was fired I believe after being videotaped talking about a new world order of Aryans. He says it was taken out of context. Regardless, from what I know about Jorjani, who can be seen from time to time contributing to “New Age” podcasts on subjects such as time-travel and aliens, is that his main thesis is that Aryans, i.e., a Proto Indo-European peoples, whose traditions were best manifested in ancient Persia during the times Zoroaster, where corrupted and “mongrel-ized” by the Asiatic Muslims of the Mongols. These Aryans had spread sacred knowledge and in order to save the world, the world needs to adopt an Evola or Rene Guenon like return to traditionalism. He wishes to reinvigorate the Aryan spirit, invoking something asking to the Übermensch concept of Nietzsche in writings such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra which gave us terms such as “Will to Power”. This affinity with the Indo-European or Indo-Iranian or Aryan research is of course common within Nazi and white supremacist concepts. Many white supremacists however push that the original Aryans were blonde haired, blue eyed. Yet, most mainstream researchers seem to think of Aryans as a class of peoples within the social structures of the Steppe peoples of Central Eurasia, who may have domesticated the horse and spread their language west towards Southwest Russia and modern-day Ukraine but also as far as East as the Iranian basin and Indian subcontinent. Regardless, Patrick Bet David without saying it, though very prideful of his Assyrian origins seems to point here and there to being of a noble lineage that laid the foundation of Western civilization, but I had also heard him say somewhere that his language is the same that Jesus spoke, which may be true if he’s talking about a particular strain of Aramaic, notably that of Levant region.
There have been notable Right Wing or Alt-Right YouTubers such as Survive the Jive, who devotes his entire time to promoting Aryanism in as much of an academic sense as he can.
Jorjani however to me represents the “Kook Right Wing” at its finest. There’s something both quack but also Lovecraftian where of course H.P. Lovecraft was a notorious racist. He reminds me of a kind of Ghostbusters gone bad researcher who may have been a contributor to P.E.A.R, i.e., the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Lab, if it were still in existence.
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