Racism and antisemitism are two sides of the same coin, and both find expression on same Web forums. Alternative Right is a Webzine devoted to academic racism and espouses a "science-based" white supremacy sometimes called Human Bio-Diversity (HBD). One of the editors on the site's masthead is Paul Gottfried, a Jewish professor of political science at Elizabethtown College and an expert on the 2oth century fascist movement, an ideology he seems to have adopted for himself. Professor Gottfried is a latter-day Otto Weininger, a scholar/thinker whose writings can be interpreted as both racist and antisemitic.
Here is Professor Gottfried's analysisof the nomination of Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court:
A Woman for our Time: Elena Kagan well-represents our ruling elite
Listening to Elena Kagan as she was speaking before the Senate Judicial Committee, I was struck by how perfectly she fits her time and place. An overweight Jewish lesbian, whose career seems to have been put on fast track by her political supporters both inside and outside the media and someone who if she held diametrically opposed views, would not even be considered for a grounds crew post at Harvard, she is the quintessential symbol of Obama’s America. Her praise for her mentor Thurgood Marshall, whose "glory" it was to have acknowledged "special rights for the disadvantaged and despised," does not in any way represent Christian or bourgeois morality. It is a ridiculous parody of what Nietzsche described as the behavior of the "Last Man," the type of decadent who combines slave morality with philistine tastelessness. Kagan not only looks the part of this Last Man. She is the real article, no less than her fellow-law professors in the Ivy League and their imitators in the Bush League, who spend their time and energy instructing judges and state administrators on the practices and intricacies of victimology.
Later in the piece, Gottfried manages to insult First Lady Michelle Obama and all African-Americans as part of a despised "multicultural America". But it was Gottfried's phrase "overweight Jewish lesbian" that resonated with his readers and elicited a number of hateful, antiSemitic comments which I won't bother to reproduce here. What is astonishing is that Gottfried, far from condemning the hate, seems to rationalize it by putting Jewish support of "cultural Marxism" in a historical context:
As for the chicken and egg conundrum and the Jewish question, I think there is no necessary relation between Jewish economic and social success and Jewish support for cultural Marxism. Jews are cultural Marxists because they fear an intact Christian bourgeois society, which they see as an historic enemy. They therefore try to neutralize the perceived or imaginary enemy in order to survive as a supposedly endangered minority. Jewish support for the cultural Left and its allies in government does no more to advance Jewish interests than Hitler's decision to persecute Jews. It is an entirely irrational as well as destructive response to a fictitious friend/enemy distinction...
Gottfried has been honored by his college for his "distinguished work" and now has the honorific title "Raffensperger Professor of Humanities" at Elizabethtown. Presumably the college would have so honored Julius Streicher for his "distinguished work" in editing Der Stürmer .