Published on July 14, 2025 6:57 PM GMT
Before I voice some really normie, stereotypically overblown concerns on LessWrong, let me state a couple things about myself:
- I'm a non-Jewish white manI've never been concerned about race relations beforeI don't think of myself as the kind of person who gets overly politically activated about the "current thing", whether it be the rise of Donald Trump or illegal immigration or global warming or any of the stuff I feel like normies tend to get excited over.
Nevertheless, for the past year or so I've voiced to most of my friends a suspicion I've had that, barring a black swan event like AI that makes politics irrelevant, the conservative base is going to become way more actively antisemitic by 2030. . But the extent to which alt right personalities have become an unignorable fixture in conservative politics over the last couple years feels qualitatively different than anything that happened in the 2010s. The most virulently antisemitic talking heads on X are now regularly getting more interactions than virtually every "mainstream" conservative on the platform - with the possible exception of Tucker Carlson, who himself is spending his days publicly accusing the former prime minister of Israel of running a Mossad blackmail ring with Jeffrey Epstein.
And somehow it feels like I am the only person noticing this! I keep checking the New York Times website to see if they're ever gonna run an article about "the rise of anti-Jewish hate", but it's like it's not even happening. Maybe to liberals increasing antisemitism is such obvious background knowledge that they don't even bother reporting it, but I think even then they're probably underestimating how different this tonal shift is from the kinds of basic anti-foreigner shticks they were worried about a decade ago. I am genuinely a little worried about whether my Jewish friends (who for their part don't seem nearly as concerned as me) will have to end up having to do something drastic like leave the country in the near future in an abundance of caution.
What the hell is going on? Are zoomers really this into antisemitism? Is there just not enough legible information out there on what's happening? Are people noticing what's happening and just not saying it because they're afraid of adding fuel to the fire? Am I just old now and naturally predisposed to crazy conspiracy theories on how the country is going to go to shit in ten years?
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