Quote (Kamahl16 @ Jul 8 2020 04:53pm)
That's a very valid observation regarding Jews. It brings to mind when I read Eyes Wide Open, written by the movie's screenwriter, about how him and Kubrick wove the theme of Jewish persecution into the film and how relevant it was for both of them throughout their lives.
I would say that your argument follows when you consider a conservative, like I've said in other posts, are not interested in changing themselves/their culture/etc. and therefore must find a flaw in things external to themselves, which they have no shortage in finding as we've seen throughout the years. The more importance you place in your heritage, culture and such the more difficult it becomes to acknowledge shortfalls in them and to change them or at least to put them into context and be consciousness of contemporary needs and realities.
I really like how it manifests into "schrodinger's immigrant", they are so lazy and yet they are taking all the hard jobs nobody wants. They are peaceful salt of the earth working class when you talk about how they are catholic, but evil rapists when Trump needs to rally the base on how we need to build a wall.
It happens pretty much everywhere. The good parts are molded into the culture, like how MLK has been whitewashed to hell, and the bad parts are used as rallying points.
I ultimately see conservatism in the modern U.S. as a group of people fundamentally unable to adapt. They have found themselves in an interconnected world that values critical thought and flexibility and find themselves unable to keep up, and with that inability they are unable to affect change. In the before-time they were effective because small communities could rally people to political causes and join together to stop change. However, now that we are interconnected the isolated communities no longer have sway over their members. It's far easier to sway people to action over the internet than it is to talk to your neighbors.