Europe, the cradle of the large Ashkenazi ethnia, is mostly Judenfrei. One can travel from Greece to Spain without meeting a Jew. The only community with any vitality left in it (ie it is not dying out) lives in Antwerpen centred on the diamond trade. I think American Jews should be asking what is happening and what are their own perspectives. The late Nobel Prize Solzhenytsin wrote a tremendous book about the historical Jewish control of Russia, but current antisemites have difficulties to identify any living Russian Jew to be against and attack. In Hungary, the strong Jobbik Nazi Party has been forced to invent Jews or to accuse non Jewish politicians of having a grand daddy with Jewish sounding name or just being under the influence of etheric Jewish spirits.
In America, antisemites are writing books about Jewish domination of elite universities at a time when there are pitifully few Jewish students coming in. Where are the masses of Jewish students? (pic: from CUNY's website, under "Students". It may not reflect the student body, but not even one Jewish looking student?).Is it conceivable that America's Jews are also slowly withering away?
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Certainly, Mr Dershowitz is concerned.
But K seems not to be concerned.
Or am I mistaken?
Anon.
To maintain their high levels of vitriol, antisemites must see the Jews as an eternal cosmic enemy.
Even if we are as bad a threat as they say we are, merely recognizing the fact that we are a temporary one would remove their raison d'etre.
Why dedicate your life - possibly ruining career prospects, etc - to a jihad against something that won't exist in its current form in 50 years?
France has quite a large Jewish community, though it is mostly N. African and not the pre-war Ashkenazim.
Russia's loss is Israel's gain.
CUNY is a public university that is free and caters to the children of penniless immigrants. At one time these were Jews, nowadays it is blacks, Hispanic and Asian. Except for the Asians, it is a sad situation - CUNY used to produce Nobelists from its pool of 115 and up (sometimes way up) Jewish students. Nowadays they teach remedial reading to 85 IQ blacks.
The Jews have long passed on - now their children go to private universities. The Ivy Leagues (the top universities in the US) are still maybe 1/4 Jewish, far out of proportion to the Jewish share of the population. The truly underrepresented group at Ivies is white Christians.
K
Is it conceivable that America's Jews are also slowly withering away?
It's more than conceivable - it's a fact. There are probably between three and four million Jews in America today, down from between five and six million in the past. The figures we hear from demographers all the time - six to seven million Jews, 10 to 12 million Jews - are bogus and reflect insane sampling methods that try to tease out people who have any connection to Jews or Judaism however distant. It's all driven by funding considerations and self-importance.
On the other hand, the Orthodox are reproducing like rabbits. Of all the children in my children's generation, only one is Orthodox - he was married less than 1 year ago and he already has a baby (the 1st of many I'm sure). The others are mostly marrying non-Jews or not getting married at all. So this one cousin will produce the bulk of the future Jews in my family. The Jewish future of my family is assured but it was at the price of having someone brainwashed by the Lubavitch.
K
The successor to Judeo-Christianity is Narcisso-Materialism, and it is ruthlessly expunging the next generation.
Anon.
Indeed. Imagine how stunning it would be to come back in 1,500 years, and be totally debarred from learning anything about what's afoot with societies or culture or technology - but merely be allowed to meet 100 people. They'll be appreciably different even assuming no eugenics takes place.
The only way high-IQ people are going to survive is to develop safe and effective reproductive technology so that child-bearing is rendered the responsibility of the state, eg by surrogacy etc, and does not accrue as a cost to the natural parents.
This is a very dark thought, but I am increasingly convinced it is true.
Anon.
I don't see where the state fits into your sci-fi vision. The children of the rich were always raised by servants - this just moves it back to the fetal stage. I'll bet this is going on already. It's a thin line between saying that you are having a surrogate for some "medical need" and just having one because you don't want to be disabled for 9 months, just as "medical marijuana" in California is not really different than recreational pot except you have to have $50 to get a "prescription".
K
What I am saying is that the technology is available now for the wealthy, and could easily (in principle, at least) be scaled up to make good a demographic shortfall.
I don't like the idea myself but it may be the only route to survival, in which case it becomes, once the demographic catastrophe achieves the status of a national emergency, the responsibility of the state.
Anon.
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