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Entry: Further Notes on Nationalism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/further_notes_on_nationalism#23526 Post contents: Kevin MacDonald is a two-bit hack who has no concept of the complexitities of intragroup relations between Jewish communities, denominations, sects, and ethnicities. He looks at the kooky behaviour of Ashkenazi Jews who emmigrated to American from 1880-1920 and assumes that this is the norm for Jews and the definition of Jewishness. This is called fallacy of induction. Before I emailed him and put him on the spot, MacDonald had never heard of a Karaite or Karaylar, Juwhuri or Beta Israel. I'm sure that he has no concept of the divide between Orthodox Mitnigadim and Hasidim, or of the differing ethno-cultural implications of Religious Zionism and standard Orthodoxy. However, putting aside MacDonalds ignorance, there is his perniciously foolish theory. It holds that any behavior followed by a group of Jews he dislikes is both normative and must be part of an evolutionary thinking, even if said idea leads to groups destruction. Intermarriage and liberalism are the most obvious examples. This isn't a coherent theory any more than the ranting of Black Nationalist professors on white behavior is. It is revisionist and delusional grievance politics, suggesting that Macdonald simply is mimicking and projecting behavior. Sent at: 2008 08 30