In a personally endearing moment, UCLA faculty are hanged from lampposts in an act of Aryan retribution. Compared to this, Mein Kampf is a sober work of political philosophy. Although I expected a great deal of racial paranoia, I was not quite ready for the Nazi-strength antisemitism.
Antisemitism is just about the only thing the White activist and the Black activist have in common.
And, curiously enough, Macdonald's book helps make this understandable. If there is one thing a Black reader of Turner might be tempted to accept, it is its antisemitism. Afrocentrism is a post- Holocaust phenomenon. The Holocaust, as an unequivocal demonstration of the sacrificial nature of ethnic discrimination, provided the originary guarantee for the great postwar surge in victimary thought and rhetoric, among the accomplishments of which were the liberation of European colonies and the American Civil Rights revolution. At the same time, this historical reiteration of Black dependency on the Jewish model of victimage has been a source of mimetic rivalry made all the more intense by the Jews' exemplary role as the bearers of White guilt in American society.