IMO, Liberal Jews are a reaction to anti-Semitism, and it snow-balls, because anti-Semitism is often a reaction to Liberal Jews now-a-days.
The Liberal Jew tends to want to control, limit, or even eliminate the White Goyim power, or masses, and see it best fit by tolerance, and control.
Incorrect...
Anti-Semitism forced Jews to create their own businesses.
Liberalism is a later product of the 60s and Dr. Timothy Leary.
The Jewish media around us came rather late around the 1980s and is a result of outdoing the goyim.
I'm calling BS, you even admitted that Spinoza was sort of a secularized / Liberal Jew, and that's going back close to 400 years ago.
Arguably people like Karl Marx, Ferdinand Lassalle, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Max Horkheimer, Franz Boas, formulated today's Liberalism heavily, and all were of a Jewish background.
Spinoza did not cause Liberalism in America.
I presme that’s what we’re discussing.
The fact is you live your life through Wikipedia and I live my life through life and the people I have met throughout my life.
Jews couldn’t get jobs due t Shabbos.
They started their own business and rejected the cold blooded Republicans who worked other people to death.
My OP speaks of Western civilization, that includes America, but isn't limited to that.
Leary an Irish dude, might've helped push Liberalism in the U.S.A, indeed.
But, what about people like Jew Sarnoff early founder / owner of Liberal media NBS, or William S. Paley a early owner of Liberal media CBS?
Then there's all the Jews in Liberal Hollywood early on.
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well as the founder of the New York Times Liberalism the Sulzberger's.
Jewish American Franz Boas supported racial equality for the first time ever, in Anthropology, and therefor altered Science to Liberalism.
Not to mention Jew Emanuel Celler, along with two Irish guys Hart, and Kennedy who formulated modern Liberal immigration in the U.S.A, as well as Celler working for modern Gun control in the U.S.A.
U.S.A Jewish feminists like Betty Friedan, Emma Goldman etc.
Also Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky, and Paul R. Ehrlich were early Jewish Liberals in the U.S.A too.