Rodney Ohebsion

White Supremacists, Jews, and Bernie Madoff

I wonder if white supremacists ever think to themselves, “You know what? Maybe I should broaden my interests a little. I’m going to stick with the Jew-hating, but just spread things out a bit. Maybe take up golfing.”

That might not work out, though. Imagine a white supremacist at a golf course. Everything will tempt him to come up with a Jewish plot. “Oh--the sand trap. You know what that is? That’s a Jewish conspiracy. They want us to spend all of our time trying to hit those damn balls out of sand. While they’re out there foreclosing on our homes. They want us to live in sand--just like they want the Palestinians to live in sand. They don’t want to let the Palestinians have homes! ... Fore!”

Hating Jews is a real source of satisfaction to them. It gives them meaning and purpose in life. It’s like their religion. Like “God created the universe--he wants me to do this so I can go to Heaven and purify my soul.” To them it's more like, “The Jews control the world, they’re ruining it, I hate them, and they must be stopped.” That's their creed.

I’ll bet whenever they come across a new white person they hate, they think to themselves, “I hope he’s Jewish.” That must be a recurring theme in their lives. "That son of a bitch. ... I hope he's Jewish."

I wonder what the whole Bernie Madoff thing was like to them. It was to them what Jesus’s second coming would be to Kirk Cameron.

Just imagine a neo-Nazi first hearing about Madoff. He comes across some information, and thinks to himself, “He was in the financial industry. He ran a Ponzi scheme. He defrauded people of billions of dollars. Oh please let him be Jewish, please let him be Jewish, please let him be Jewish.”

Then he does some Googling. Some "Is he Jewish?" Googling. It’s something he does a few times a day. It’s like a lottery he plays. "David Letterman Jewish." No. "Sumner Redstone Jewish." Yes. "Rupert Murdoch Jewish." No. "Alan Greenspan Jewish." Yes.

He wins some and loses some.

And this time, it's "Bernie Madoff Jewish." Enter. And then the Wikipedia result says, "Madoff's grandparents were Jewish emigrants." YES! To him, it's like winning the lottery 15 times in a row. It's like playing a slot machine and getting 7 7 7 7... The 7s aren't stopping. There are only three panels, but he keeps on getting 7s. 7 7 7 7... It makes up for all the non-Jews he hates. "Yeah--they're not Jewish. But I got Madoff."

And it opens the door to about 50,000 hours worth of complaining and theorizing and hating.

Thousands of years from now, they'll have some sort of Passoveer holiday commemorating Madoff's conviction. "We only eat leavened pork rinds on Madoff Day."

To white supremacists, Bernie Madoff is confirmation of all of their theories, their worldview, everything. "Yes Yes! We caught the Jews red-handed."

Suddenly, a Jew becomes the Jews. When a Jew does something bad, he's the Jews. "I didn't know. I thought I was a Jew." "No--you're the Jews." Bernie Madoff added a new alias the day he got caught. He became Bernie Madoff a.k.a the Jews.

But if a Jew were to discover the cure for AIDS, he wouldn't be the Jews anymore. He'd be some guy who happens to be Jewish. Actually, they'd put a negative spin on the whole thing. AIDS cure. Negative spin. "No--he didn't discover anything--he stole it from us." Or, "Yeah, he discovered it--but now he's going to hold it hostage and charge us an arm and a leg. This AIDS cure is nothing but a Jewish plot to take our money." Or, "The Jews are the ones who gave us AIDS in the first place!"

You knew that one was coming.

And some white supremacists might use the cure, eliminate their AIDS, and then blame the Jews for their side effects. [Coworker:] "Bob--you're not looking so great. Is something wrong?" [Bob / White Supremacist:] "Yeah--I'm just feeling a little sick. You know. Because of the Jews." [Coworker:] "What do yo mean because the Jews?" [Bob / White Supremacist:] "Oh, you know. The AIDS cure. It has side effects. ... Freaking Jews." [Coworker:] "Oh. Well. At least you don't have AIDS anymore." [Bob / White Supremacist:] "Yeah--after the Jews gave it to me. It's all a Jewish conspiracy. First the sandtraps, and then AIDS."

He'll blame Jews for AIDS, the price of the AIDS cure, and its side efects.

White supremacists do something like that already, The blame Jews for capitalism, communism, and socialism. Those are pretty much thee only thre systems out there. And Jews get blamed for all of them. "Damn Jews. They invented capitalism. See what capitalism has done to the world? They invented communism. See what communism has done to the world? They invented socialism. See what socialism has done to the world?"

OK. What's left? They're blaming Jews for the drawbacks of every economic system? They should at least pick one. "The Jews invented socialism. Socialism's worse than capitalism." Or "the Jews invented capitalism. Capitalism's worse than socialism." As opposed to "the Jews invented capitalism and socialism. Captialism's worse than socialism. Socialism's worse than captialism. Damn Jews!"

Or maybe we should blame Tesla and Edison for the off an on settings on a light switch. "The light's on! It's using up our energy and hurting our environment. And now the light's off! We can't see what's going on anymore. Damn light switches! Tesla and Eidson did this. I'll bet the Jews put them up to it. Damn Jews!"