Based Camp: Don't Order 66 Your Own Jews

In this thought-provoking discussion, Malcolm takes a deep dive into the current societal trends, specifically highlighting what he calls the "progressive mind virus". This "virus", he suggests, aims to homogenize society and systematically extinguish all genuine cultural diversity. He passionately argues for the importance of unity among diverse cultural and religious groups, focusing on Orthodox Jewish populations, to counter this prevailing issue. Also, Simone and Malcolm engage in a light-hearted conversation about performative Star Wars fandom and the impact of cultural signaling in our everyday interactions.

Transcript:

Malcolm: [00:00:00] right now the big boogeyman is this progressive mind virus, which is, taking control of our education system and using it to erase and eradicate any culture. That shows any sort of independent thinking Everyone needs to have exactly the same views on gender. Everyone needs to have the same views on morality. Everyone has to have the same views on sexuality. Everyone has to have the same views on how we relate to the environment. Everyone has to have the same views on how how women and men relate to each other and, and they're pressing this and they're like, they are trying to homogenize society, systematically extinguish all genuine cultural diversity . One of the groups that has the longest. History of fighting against that. Regardless of what you think about like their their allegiances, they do care about their own kids, Orthodox Jewish populations, and because of that, not only are they disproportionately in positions of power across the conservative movement, why they're in these positions of power, why they're fighting so hard.

Malcolm: Makes sense. It's because it's the same reason that we're fighting hard and they're not trying to convert your kids. Yeah, that they [00:01:00] don't, they don't want an all Jewish world. That's not the way their religion works. That's not the way their cultural group works. They are genuinely one of the lowest threat groups to you and one of the highest value aligned groups to you.

Malcolm: And , one of the things that really gave me heart is when Andrew Tate converted to Islam and conservatives weren't like, oh, you bastar, they were like, oh yeah. We understand that because that's what society is though. It's an alliance of conservative groups against this progressive mind virus that wants to systematically erase and homogenize every culture on the planet.

Malcolm: And we all have a lot in common. And if you try to form an ideological faction that is just your narrow cultural group in the hope that one day you can dominate the entire planet.

Malcolm: I'm sorry. You are so delusional about how much power your cultural group has right now. All of us, all of the Orthodox groups, all of the conservative groups are on the back foot right now. And the only way we win this is through working together.[00:02:00] And I do think that we can beat this progressive mind virus. I do think that, that it will not win. And I hope that some alliance of different cultural traditions can stay together coming out of this and fight off the cultural traditions that like the progressives want to do now, want to erase all cultural diversity in the world.

Malcolm: But even if you are from one of those cultural traditions, just understand that you're on a weak footing now.

Malcolm: Mm-hmm. And you need to fight with us or we all get erased. . And we need to just have this conversation where we need to have the conversation that we are different.

Malcolm: The conservative Protestants are different from the conservative Catholics, and they're different from the conservative Jews, and that's our strengths because that's not true of the progressive Catholics and the progressives, Protestants and the progressive Jews. If you scratch beneath the surface, if the same views on gender, the same views on sexuality, the same views on our relationship to the environment, the same views on morality, the same views on the future of our species.

Malcolm: They, they just have different holidays. What's that? That's not, that's not [00:03:00] difference. That's not strengthened diversity. That's, that's people who have had their cultures hollowed out and then worn, like a ghoulish skin mask is dusting and horrifying. And, and, and I am sick of it.

Malcolm: I am, I am sick of this cultural extermination campaign that so many people are standing by. Wow. And, and I think that it, it will take an alliance, it will take all of the people of middle Earth coming together to fight these hodes that want to see us erase from this earth.

Simone: So this morning while we were dropping off the kids at daycare I was talking with Malcolm about our difference between performative Star Wars fandom and actual Star Wars fandom, which which is actually inspired by the fact that like all the cars in our daycares parking lot are really nerdy.

Simone: Like they all have anime and Star Wars stickers on them, and it's really hilarious. It's, it's how mainstream these things are, but I was, but when I met Malcolm incredibly, A [00:04:00] performative Star Wars fan, like I didn't, I don't really like the movies that much. Not that into it, not into the lore. And yet my OkCupid username was Mos Eisley ton, a ton of Star Wars references in my Okay.

Simone: QID profile. And um, I was also posing in film grade Storm Trooper Armor, which I owned. Um, So it's, it's funny that I just use that as a signaling method. I, I think many women do use nerdy things as a signaling method without actually being into 'em at all ,

Malcolm: oh, because arbitrage play, there's less women in nerdy communities.

Malcolm: Mm-hmm. So you can mm-hmm. Oh, and you admit it, you

Simone: sneak, I own it. I own it. I, no, I'm just like, this is a thing that happens and women who pretend otherwise

Malcolm: are, yeah. You didn't even go to anime convent conventions and like, did you even care? You don't even No, no, no, no,

Simone: no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I love anime.

Simone: So don't even, don't especially manga. No, don't go there, friend. But we, we were, we actually just. In the afternoon revisited my complete performative Star Wars fandom and his [00:05:00] genuine like weird star Star Wars fandom. No, no.

Malcolm: Hold on. I like the lore. I don't like any of the new stuff. Okay.

Simone: Right, right. You like, yeah, you're in it for the plot friend.

Simone: Okay. So anyway That's, I, I asked him like, what do you mean you wanna talk about don't, don't order 66 your own Jews? That just shows like how performative I am. Because order

Malcolm: 60, no order 66, order 66 in Star Wars is the order that was given to the clones to kill the Jedi. And I, I often feel when I'm in conservative communities these days, one, one really Crazy thing is, you were on Ed Dutton's podcast and people were like in the comments trying to figure out if you were Jewish.

Malcolm: Jewish I don't know. So she is like one 16th Jewish, not that much. Like one eighth Jewish, I think one eighth Jewish Junos. Right.

Simone: I have a Junos one. Ju

Malcolm: knows, right? But, but Matrilineally Jewish though, I guess like technically she is kind of Jewish, but, but she didn't grow up knowing that she was Metro Jewish.

Malcolm: She found that out when she was an adult and they