If the preceding comment was your definition of humour then you are a walking self-satire of a Hollywood dumb redneck doofus.

If people say things which are entirely ridiculous, I find they most often say them to defend their ego in some way. Certainly not because they really believe them to be true.

As a truly open hearted liberal I do sympathise with feminists and I certainly see the utility of feminism. I am actually a very strong feminist in many situations. Perhaps in Africa.

Indeed when I hear about feminism I think of the Israel Palestine conflict. Anyway, at root, the conflict is so hard to solve because many Israelis want the Palestinians to disappear and many Palestinians want the Israelis to disappear. There isn’t a lot of common ground.

Now Israel has essentially won militarily and with technology but they cannot actually close the deal. You see the problem is that there were about 1 million Palestinian Arabs in 1948, the year of Israeli independence, while now there are in total over 12 million. They had a lot of kids.

This means that Israel cannot accept living in the same state with all of them. It would mean their end. 12 million Palestinians would outvote 6 million Israelis and Israel would disappear.

So I can’t help with hindsight thinking, and I’ll get to the point, that if the Israelis had been very smart then in 1948 they would have secretly pushed and funded Palestinian feminism. ‘Gender equality’ ‘rape culture’ ‘equal pay’ ‘intersectionality’ ‘trans stuff’ – the whole shebang. That would have been really great and I’d be a total feminist for that. It would have been genious.

As that would mean they the Israelis would probably have fewer than 1 million Palestinians not 12 million to deal with by now and there’d be no issue. The 1948 1 million would have barely had any kids. Look at what is happening and has happened to all countries that have adopted feminism as a reigning plank of elite ideology over the last 50 years. Their people are disappearing and being replaced.

Israel could then have simply sent in some of their 6 million people as migrants into the West Bank and eventually voted the Palestinian land for themselves while waiting for Palestinians to (not) breed themselves out of existence. Easy.

So don’t dismiss feminism. It is pretty amazing.

Pointlessly offensive comments like that do no favours.

On the other hand, it approaches a fair possibility. That answering questions with “yes, I have high self-esteem” may be a mark of low self-esteem in many cases. It can be just as much a defensive claim as an honest one.

From my own anecdotal observances, Steve’s theory genetic does actually make more sense though.

There were a lot of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, and then there weren’t. There were whole quarters of major cities full of Jews, and now there aren’t.

I have no doubt that accounts of the Holocaust have been sensationalised and exaggerated by its primary victims but which disaster isn’t?

I really don’t get what people like you are trying to say. That Poland still has a huge and thriving Jewish population? Or that it never did and a handful of Jews have somehow placed the bones of a mythological community in the ground to trick you?

Or maybe they disappeared into Stalinist and not exactly Jew-friendly Russia? Or sailed on an invisible flotilla to America and blended into a very well censused general population?

Scratching around at whether most were shot, gassed or worked to death really doesn’t matter. Sure traumatised people often lose track of reality when recounting the causes of their trauma but there are a heck of a lot of traumatised people, or rather there were, who were missing most of their family and lived normal lives in the West, consistent till the day they died.

This is a dumb article written by somebody not fit to polish McWhorter’s boots and I say that as a fully-paid believer in all things HBD.