The Jewish Price of Whiteness

The Price of Whiteness is a book by Eric L. Goldstein, concerning the Jewish journey of integration within a white and black world, with no particular place for a Jewish man, so the Jewish men had to create one. It discusses how the Jewish man throughout time has thought of himself as his own race, had his own blood running through his veins, and has suffered becoming a part of American whiteness, as he has sometimes had to forgo his biological Jewishness to be accepted and and hold a place within the social construct of whiteness – a very ‘successful’ place I may add, so much so, that he points out a Leading American journal stated that the race of  the Jewish man had become ‘the purest, finest, and most perfect type, of the Caucasian race’. Whilst attaining such ‘maximum flexibility’ they could also help the African Americans by like-minding with them in their joint suffering and difference in this white world. This book ranges from 1870- to early 2000, as the book was written in 2006, and has some fabulous distinctions as to how the Jewish man perceives himself and how he perceives the white man. I would like to highlight the ‘differences’ that the Jewish man sees between himself and the white man, and what price he seems to have paid.

This discussion, or ongoing Jewish appraisal to be more precise, tells of the unfortunate hardship the Jewish man has faced. He could either remain an ethnicity in his own right and be seen along the same light as the black man, a non white trying to be better in a land of racial divide, who has all odds stacked against him. The African American IQ, however, was seen as lower than the Jewish man’s, and it would not serve him to be seen as an ethnic minority alongside a perceived more violent and less intelligent race. So, the Jewish man had to became white in a social structural view; he longed for whiteness to succeed. However he felt great empathy for the African American and found living above him within a social structure emotionally damaging to his own identity.

According to the American Hebrew in 1884,  he concludes a very different distinction within our race difference as he explains:

‘Aryan has stood for pillage’ whilst, ‘the Semite race has stood for peace.’

Throughout the ages the white man is synonymous with violence and the Jewish man with peace. The Jewish man has a ‘higher morality’ and takes credit for ‘laying the ethic foundations of the western civilisation’ and that they have ‘moral genius’, and this ‘which was a particular and peculiar gift of the Hebrew people’, and that Jewish women have made better mothers as they had a ‘special gift for child rearing’, which normal American women did not, and that because of this they were ‘envied of most of the world and the marvel of all.’

Another quote by Jacob Schiff in this magnificent ongoing portrayal of the ‘gifted’ Jew, is that all other men should ‘better understand and acknowledge the debt it owes to the semetic people.’ Debates aside on the meaning of Semite, this book clearly means Jewish ancestry, and that the Semite is on the level of hierarchy above all other races. The American white man was comfortable with previously attaining this role and uncomfortable with the Jewish man taking it from him. This book explores quote after quote of how excellent a race the Jew is, and how inferior the Aryan man is in comparison, yet at the same time to be able to express their Jewish gift they have had to lose what sets them apart from white Americans to integrate. How morally amazing they are is what makes them so different to the white man, but for the sake of fitting in, they had to pretend not to be the superior man they are. They have suffered because they couldn’t continually tell us western pieces of shit that we are western pieces of shit because they would not be able to climb higher on the ladder of success, if we thought that they thought that we are pieces of shit. As their religion proclaims they are a pure race and that the gentiles are impure, Jews are to take over our world.

I hope this clears up any confusion of the struggle Jewish men have suffered. The book is basically stating Jews are not privileged because they assimilated with the privileged white man at a psychological loss, and have only been able to express their true identity more and more over the last 40-50 years; before then they could not openly be proud of their difference in race, IQ and religion in case they were persecuted as they had been in Europe. I interpret this as: the poor successful Jew could not blatantly gloat of his control, whilst gaining it. To truly be himself he would have to tell the gentile what a gentile is, and as the white gentile was already extremely anxious as the Jewish man took his reigns, it was best kept a little more quiet.

However I could be biased toward my own Aryan identity and blinded by the constant privilege pouring from my every orifice that I could lack understanding, as being without  a history of persecution I cannot truly understand another’s struggle in life which makes me naturally morally inferior, but from my specially placed subjective view of immorality, it looks like this book is telling me to again feel sorry for the Jewish man in his forever turbulent tale, whilst he disses my entire ancestral history and self, and to of course let everyone know that he is definitely NOT PRIVILEGED; he is just racially and religiously superior with god given rights to have the world serve him, but he is not privileged.

Although; Oxford dictionary explains that privileged is:

a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Cambridge says:

an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or because they are rich.

But what do I know, being just a gentile?

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