Daniel Schmidt is very proud that a controversy he started on campus has lead to a $100 million donation, certainly from a Jew, to "free speech." In the context of a college campus this means it will go to support Jewish students who are upset they have to see pro-Palestine demonstrations.
He credits his awakening to a paper by Nathan Cofnas where Nathan complains that conservatives are low IQ and thus not very useful politically or intellectually. Cofnas is entirely correct about this. Cofnas even says that the fact that so many dumb people are attracted to conservatism means there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is also true.
The irony here is that Cofnas's initial claim to fame is his dumbest paper ever, that you would have to be low IQ in order to find convincing. This is the paper in which he completely failed to rebut Kevin MacDonald's thesis on Jewish intellectual movements and their negative effect on White gentile society. The "woke" attitudes of today can be traced to Jewish intellectual movements that attacked Darwinism and evidence based racial anthropology, and which pathologized the idea of racial or ethnic allegiance among intelligent Whites. MacDonald specifically describes how Jewish movements achieved this in The Culture of Critique and Cofnas not only failed to refute it, he failed to even accurately restate MacDonald's thesis. He's not too stupid to understand MacDonald. He's lying and hoping that no one checks.
The issue is not that conservatives are dumb and liberals are smart inherently. The issue is that smart people are incentivized and rewarded to take on "woke" beliefs. Cofnas agrees with this entirely. What he wants to do is make sure that the intellectual backlash to systemic anti-Whiteness among intelligent Whites who are excluded by the system is not anti-Jewish. It naturally should be, because Jews constructed this system in order to put whites at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to attaining positions of power and influence. Those Whites who do attain such positions are completely beholden to Jews and act at the whim of Jewish pressure groups. Cofnas and co. want to replicate this situation on the right.
Until recently highly intelligent, non-liberal Whites did in fact become racist and antisemitic. Jews didn't care as mich because before the internet, Jews felt they were sufficiently marginalized. But in the early days of the internet these ideas were gaining traction and a lot of excluded and marginalized smart White guys were talking amongst themselves and the JQ was getting very popular. This necessitated the creation of the NRX movement as a philosemitic off ramp.
Cofnas is a very small part of a cadre of Jews that think that "woke" has gone too far and is putting Jewish interests at risk, both in terms of pro-Palestine sentiment among intelligent gentiles and in terms of the competency crisis created by egalitarian ideology. What Cofnas, Moldbug, Hanania, BAP and others are promising is some kind of access to a socially approved intellectual movement that is not liberal, but also not antisemitic. In doing this, they are carrying forward the work laid out before by the Frankfurt school in the pathologization of White gentile allegiance and White friend/enemy distinctions between Whites and Jews. And their method of attack is exactly the same as the Jews that came before them, attack, critique and characterize these views as low status while never tackling them head on.
He credits his awakening to a paper by Nathan Cofnas where Nathan complains that conservatives are low IQ and thus not very useful politically or intellectually. Cofnas is entirely correct about this. Cofnas even says that the fact that so many dumb people are attracted to conservatism means there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is also true.
The irony here is that Cofnas's initial claim to fame is his dumbest paper ever, that you would have to be low IQ in order to find convincing. This is the paper in which he completely failed to rebut Kevin MacDonald's thesis on Jewish intellectual movements and their negative effect on White gentile society. The "woke" attitudes of today can be traced to Jewish intellectual movements that attacked Darwinism and evidence based racial anthropology, and which pathologized the idea of racial or ethnic allegiance among intelligent Whites. MacDonald specifically describes how Jewish movements achieved this in The Culture of Critique and Cofnas not only failed to refute it, he failed to even accurately restate MacDonald's thesis. He's not too stupid to understand MacDonald. He's lying and hoping that no one checks.
The issue is not that conservatives are dumb and liberals are smart inherently. The issue is that smart people are incentivized and rewarded to take on "woke" beliefs. Cofnas agrees with this entirely. What he wants to do is make sure that the intellectual backlash to systemic anti-Whiteness among intelligent Whites who are excluded by the system is not anti-Jewish. It naturally should be, because Jews constructed this system in order to put whites at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to attaining positions of power and influence. Those Whites who do attain such positions are completely beholden to Jews and act at the whim of Jewish pressure groups. Cofnas and co. want to replicate this situation on the right.
Until recently highly intelligent, non-liberal Whites did in fact become racist and antisemitic. Jews didn't care as mich because before the internet, Jews felt they were sufficiently marginalized. But in the early days of the internet these ideas were gaining traction and a lot of excluded and marginalized smart White guys were talking amongst themselves and the JQ was getting very popular. This necessitated the creation of the NRX movement as a philosemitic off ramp.
Cofnas is a very small part of a cadre of Jews that think that "woke" has gone too far and is putting Jewish interests at risk, both in terms of pro-Palestine sentiment among intelligent gentiles and in terms of the competency crisis created by egalitarian ideology. What Cofnas, Moldbug, Hanania, BAP and others are promising is some kind of access to a socially approved intellectual movement that is not liberal, but also not antisemitic. In doing this, they are carrying forward the work laid out before by the Frankfurt school in the pathologization of White gentile allegiance and White friend/enemy distinctions between Whites and Jews. And their method of attack is exactly the same as the Jews that came before them, attack, critique and characterize these views as low status while never tackling them head on.