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Or a set of ideas refracted through a poorly educated mind which can only conceive of things in near-cartoon terms?Lucas' stuff here reads like a poorly-conceived "Right Wing Conspiracy Post Generator" googled up on some obscure alternative search engine.
This state of affairs temporarily serves those who want to discredit politically antinomian ideas before they've had a hearing on their own terms but it's a bad long term strategy. Hiding complexities and making ideas taboo will simply cause them to burst out in far less controlled forms and that's already happening, rapidly in fact. I, for one, am probably not going to enjoy what is coming; cultivated, bi, LHPers in the "scary old house on the hill" have historically not done well when the mob picks up pitchforks and torches. Que sara, sara.
"These backward hicks think that Jews run the world" is much easier to mock/deal with than looking at what happens when game theory meets in-group preference. Probably because the latter is so well known to sociologists and so well represented in sociological literature among every group but one. There's something in Dave Chappelle's joke:
To "never speak about it", even though the facts are looking you plain in the face, even though the links can be found by anyone with a modicum of open-mindedness and curiosity, means that secular Western society has privileged the essentially religious (and foreign to the West) idea of the "Chosen People"."If they're Black, it's a gang. If they're Italian, it's the mob. If they're Jewish, it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it"