The very opening of the paths lends legitimacy to each.
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What does it mean for one of the nation’s most prominent and most watched news channels to broadcast the words IF JEWS ARE PEOPLE for nearly three full minutes? The clause’s conditionality, that minuscule yet monumental if, opens up two paths: Jews are people, or they are not. The latter message stood for the remainder of the segment. TRUMP MEETS WITH PARADE OF POSSIBLE CABINET PICKS became ALT-RIGHT FOUNDER QUESTIONS IF JEWS ARE PEOPLE. As anchor John Sciulto traced recently appointed White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s connection to the movement and pivoted to a discussion of a remark made by white supremacist Richard Spencer, the banner onscreen underwent an alarming shift. On November 21, 2016, The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN hosted a discussion on the subject of whether president-elect Donald Trump should formally disavow the so-called “alt-right,” a movement of white nationalists who have vocally supported Trump and have ties to his advisers. This contact forces me-even if only for a moment, in the privacy of my own reading-to viscerally encounter this fact: I am white, so I am safe, but it could be otherwise. Heidegger brings me into contact with the history of the racialization of bodies like mine. It’s not the same disruption that Husserl experienced. Reading the anti-Semitic remarks in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, I feel a disruption. After disgust comes a strange disorientation, an uncanny flicker out of my comfort in the world and unimpeded movement through it-a comfort I experience, in part, because I am white. I’m overcome by disgust: at Heidegger, at myself for allowing his thinking the intimacy of impacting mine.
How am I, a Jewish reader of Heidegger, to feel reading these words? If Jewishness is worldlessness, it’s a state inferior even to animality Heidegger, in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, describes non-human animals as merely “poor in world.” World Jewry, uprooting, worldlessness. For Heidegger, to be human is to have a world. They seek to account for me, not as a possible reader of Heidegger-not as a human being at all-but as a metaphysical phenomenon: as World Jewry, as uprooting, as an apocalyptic worldlessness.
Heidegger’s words concern me, though they are not meant for me.
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“The question of the role of World Jewry,” writes Martin Heidegger in his recently published Black Notebooks, “is not a racial one, but the metaphysical question concerning the kind of humanity, which, free from all attachments, can assume the world-historical ‘task’ of uprooting all beings from being.” Elsewhere in the Black Notebooks, he writes of “the cleverness of calculation, pushiness, and intermixing whereby Jewry’s worldlessness is established.”
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