Alissa Heinerscheid, Dylan Mulvaney, And The Helter Skelter Strategy
Hear me out. I began to puzzle this through when I mentioned in a recent post that unlike 1968, when campus unrest was paralleled by riots in the ghettos, there's so far been no equivalence between student grievances and those of the African-American community. If fact, Al Sharpton has expressed deep skepticism of the pro-Palestine protests. There's no intersectional resonance. Instead, over the weeend, we had these stories:
President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros[.]
. . . . Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
But this isn't the same thing as radical chic, a 1970s phenomenon:
The phrase "radical chic" originated in a 1970 New York article by Tom Wolfe, titled "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's". . . . In the essay, Wolfe used the term to satirize composer Leonard Bernstein and his friends for their absurdity in hosting a fundraising party for the Black Panthers—an organization whose members, activities, and goals were clearly incongruous with those of Bernstein's elite circle. Wolfe's concept of radical chic was intended to lampoon individuals (particularly social elites like the jet set) who endorsed leftist radicalism merely to affect worldliness, assuage white guilt, or garner prestige, rather than to affirm genuine political convictions.
The current wave of campus pogroms is different. So far, none of the Pritzkers or Rockefellers has appeared in a keffiyeh to express public solidarity with the Gazans. This isn't about affectation -- these people are working assiduously behind the scenes. According to the Wall Street Journal,
[T]he political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.
Breitbart News continues,
National Students for Justice in Palestine (NJSP), which is involved in the encampments, has been receiving funding from a group in New York called Wespac:
Wespac denied being involved in the encampments or coordinating in any way with the participants in the campus protests.
However, NGO Monitor also listed Wespac among the non-governmental organizations involved in “orchestrating” the protests: “WESPAC Foundation, a Westchester, New York-based organization registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, serves as the fiscal sponsor for National SJP.”
. . . WESPAC serves as fiscal sponsor for some of the NGOs responsible for antisemitism on campuses, including Students for Justice in Palestine and Within Our Lifetime. WESPAC also fulfills this role for U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Adalah-NY, and the Palestinian Youth Movement USA.
WESPAC’s sources of income are mostly unknown. Public records reveal a handful of foundational donors, including from large donor-advised charities that further obscure the original donors.
We may also infer that the Pritzkers and similarly aligned well-known donors like Laurene Powell Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, are advocating the Biden administration's current policy of discouraging Israel from conducting an effective campaign against Hamas, as well as the new proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza into the US, which will simply create an additional militant interest group that will further roil domestic politics.Of course, some of these donors, like George Soros, the Pritzkers, and Mark Zuckerberg, are of Jewish heritage, although they don't appear to be observant. Alissa Heinerscheid went one step farther and became an Episcopalian, also of the less observant sort. None appears to have any particular reason to support Israel, which leads me to what I think is the social theory behind their current geopolitical alignment, the Helter Skelter scenario,
an apocalyptic vision that was supposedly embraced by Charles Manson and members of his so-called Family.
. . . Manson prophesied what he called Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic war that would arise from racial tensions between black and white people.
. . . In the vision's logic, black men would thus be deprived of the white women whom the political changes of the 1960s had made sexually available to them; they would lash out in violent crimes against whites. . . . When frightened whites, according to Watkins and Tex Watson, would retaliate with a murderous rampage, militant blacks would exploit it to provoke a war of near-extermination between racist and non-racist whites over the treatment of blacks. In the wake of that, black militants would arise to finish off the few white survivors and to kill off all non-blacks.
. . . In this holocaust, . . the members of the enlarged [Manson] Family would have little to fear; they would wait out the war in a secret city underneath Death Valley, a city they'd reach through a hole in the ground. Upon the war's conclusion, they would be the only remaining whites. Emerging from underground, they would rule the blacks, who, having "completed the white man's karma", would want no longer to kill.
Although the current pro-Hamas encampments are notionally made up of wealthy and entitled Ivy Leaguers, these people are useful idiots who've been set up by trained organizers, and the inchoate goal of the super-wealthy elite who are funding the effort is to replace the US middle class (which is far too Jewish) with a new proletariat imported from the Third World and bring down the structure of Western society, at which point Laurene Powell Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, the Pritzkers, Soros pere et fils, Jeff Bezos, the Rockefellers, the Kennedys (sans RFK Jr) and Alissa Heinerscheid will emerge from their secret city underneath Death Valley as the only remaining whites, and they'll be able to rule the people of color, who will become a docile underclass that no longer harbors revolutionary aspirations.I'm really trying to figure out where I've gone wrong here, but I'm wondering if this may have something to do with the lack of enthusiasm for the current campus unrest among African-Americans.
