If you argue that moral standards should depend on an individual's/group's power, you're effectively arguing that we should empower those who are less moral.

This is a big reason group statements of condemnation are so stupid and ineffective--they're constrained to the narrow space that avoids triggering each of their special interest subgroups. Arguments that would appeal to everyone else often get left on the table.

Ideological ingroup signaling often seems to converge on "least controversial attack", and presumably this was the attack that would upset the smallest segment of that ingroup. Obviously there are better attacks, but ingroup vetos preclude them.

Relatedly, many Jews (Stoller obviously included) weren't built to handle post-Haskalah life. The shtetl is exactly what he needs.

I've met principled pacifists, but most people offering "killing is bad" takes don't actually believe this. They excuse or rationalize killing in service of their team. They mostly just want to shut down discussion of tradeoffs/context/nuance. It's rhetorical sloganeering.

The moral assessment of killing depends on circumstances and on the person being killed.

I would like Wemby to articulate precisely which policy outcomes he wants to result from these "demonstrations" (riots) and how exactly--in measurable terms--he believes these policies will causally impact the future path for his country.

Religion and culture can probably help, but I suspect @nathancofnas is right in this context too. This kind of naivete is dangerous.

It should now be clear that partial Ashkenazi phenotypes can be basically anything.

If there were two Nassim Talebs on this site, how long would it take for them to block each other?

I suspect couples tend to assortatively match on character.

One's complaints about Jews (valid or not) often reflect one's frustrations with society itself. Here, Tucker and Jess resent the established class of technical experts (and the tools they use, technical or otherwise). They hate the cognitive hierarchy rewarded by existing power structures and deny that it reflects anything real. Some progressives hate inequality and ultimately individualized success itself--they resent the prosperous. There's a related right-wing version of this (aspects of which show up in this clip) that accepts inequality/hierarchy but believes the "proper" hierarchy has been manipulatively inverted by sinister players. ("I/we should be on top") Some progressives (including many secular Jews) resent organized religion and project this onto the Haredim or even observant Jews in general--some of this resentment pertains to hierarchical authoritarian structures, while some pertains to particularism (they believe these religious structures are a central part of what divides us). Some right-wingers complain about the naive, self-destructive, and often hypocritical ("particularism for me, universalism for thee") political sensibilities of the secular/reform Jewish left. The reverse of this applies too! Hunter's a genuine nerd--he can't help but feel a kinship with technical innovators.