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Entry: Puritans or Habsburgs Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/puritans_or_habsburgs#1257 Post contents: I read this great article by Paul Gottfried, a scholar I love to tweak on the two or three issues about which he is blind an/or wrong because the rest of his work is nearly flawless, and what do I find in the comments but inane discussion of the acronymn WASP. WASP was not invented by Jewish comics like Woody Allen. It was coined by Philadelphia blueblood Episcopalian Digby Baltzell to label the group that controlled his native city and the northeast, including its universities, and the entire nation. WASP fits perfectly. Not only are they white, but they also back then made a big show of promoting white as a concept to draw non-Anglo-Saxon/Normans to assimilate fully under their leadership. The WASP inclination to philoSemitism, which is a direct inheritance from the Anglo-Saxon Puritans, is a way to note the importance of white race and how it was used to harm most white ethnic groups, because American WASPs allied with Jews primarily to wage cultural war against white Christians they saw as being at least potential threats to WASP cultural hegemony. Anglo-Saxon is required not merely because the core group was ethnically Anglo-Saxon, even as compared to Anglo-Norman, but because the specific cultural values and attitudes it expressed were quintessentially self-righteosu imperialist Anglo-Saxon in the Modern sense (as opposed to the Beowulf sense) that was turned loose on the world by Cromwellians and other Roundheads. Protestant means little more than 'English-speaking person who is anti-Catholic or anti-Papal in some defining way.' Per capita the most important group in Phildelphia was Quakers, who are anti-Trinitarian, anti-baptism, anti-communion Gnostics of the worst kind. Yet Episcopalians (often a-doctrinal unless their faith in the English language, Anglo-Saxon-Norman ancestry, elite northeastern schools, and good country clubs can be counted as doctrines) always allied with Quakers, as did Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, northern Baptists, etc. So, WASP defines a small Elite, the Elite that came to run the USA almost totally with the victory of the Union army in 1865: the rich, well connected northeastern Protestants of English ancestry. Yankee WASP hegemony, which requires virtually all who 'succeed' on a large scale to assimilate to ist principle goals and emphases, is the bottom line for why America is the awful monster it is today. Sent at: 2008 05 16