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Maybe Islamic terror has a similar effect in alienating the majority, which then decreases the risk that Muslims will assimilate into a majority culture.
Heck, the Amish don't really want to talk to you either, because outside influences are a threat to their identity. But no one hates the Amish because they are so darn peaceful.
My cynical present self now suspects that General Mills did it deliberately in cooperation with the ADL as a publicity stunt to their mutual benefit.
There's some video of Ronald Reagan speaking at a large gathering. A balloon pops, sounding like a gunshot. Reagan immediately says "Missed me!" and goes on with his speach.
At first I thought Reagan was cool for saying that.
After a minute, I realized that he almost certainly had planned the balloon pop and coment, just to look cool. And then I was kind of disgusted with him.
There's some video of Ronald Reagan speaking at a large gathering. A balloon pops, sounding like a gunshot. Reagan immediately says "Missed me!" and goes on with his speach.
At first I thought Reagan was cool for saying that.
After a minute, I realized that he almost certainly had planned the balloon pop and coment, just to look cool. And then I was kind of disgusted with him.
After a minute, I realized that he almost certainly had planned the balloon pop and coment, just to look cool. And then I was kind of disgusted with him.
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After a minute, I realized that he almost certainly had planned the balloon pop and coment, just to look cool. And then I was kind of disgusted with him.
Likely not a setup. Remember Reagan made a joke after he was actually shot as well, and I am sure that was not planned.
One day, I drove by and the fencing around the Chabad House was covered by big, spray painted swastikas. Of course, there was the usual publicity that this was a hate crime.
My buddy later confessed to me that he was the one who painted the swastikas and he was laughing madly about it. He did it in the middle of the night. I was a bit concerned about the vandalism and him getting caught, because there was quite a stir for week or so about it. He said that the sect invited punishment and persecution because it was part of its ethos.
When I was at university, a building on the corner of Channing was renovated to become a new outpost called ‘Chabad Hpuse’. I had a Jewish buddy in my dorm who told me they were a radical sect. His father worked for Stanford Research Institute and his family lived in Redwood City. His sister studied Japanese and was recruited by the CIA. He, himself, had spent a summer at a kibbutz in Israel. In spite of all, he was somewhat detached about his religion.
The supply of hate doesn't match demand.
They ignore that on the frescos, and in keeping with Middle Eastern and Hellenic culture, the women were all pale skinned, just like most Arab/Syrian/Lebanese women are today.
Many American Jews have a somewhat obsessive fear about Anti-Semitism, despite there being very little of it in modern day to day American life. This manifests in them funding a bunch of organizations whose purported goal is to report on Anti-Semitism anywhere it rears its head in American society. There’s nothing wrong with keeping an eye out for it, but the problem comes in when these organizations come to depend on their reporting on finding Anti-Semitism for funding and status. They’re now incentivized to keep finding more Anti-Semitism to report on, so they explore deeper and darker corners of society, find people of less significance, and statements that are much further away from actual religious hatred. It turns out the audience isn’t that picky, and anything they can report pays.
This increasingly hysterical reporting on increasingly minor and ambiguous cases has troublesome side effects.
https://www.thehebrewconservative.com/2022/02/03/how-to-create-anti-semitism-from-scratch/
Many American Jews have a somewhat obsessive fear about Anti-Semitism, despite there being very little of it in modern day to day American life. This manifests in them funding a bunch of organizations whose purported goal is to report on Anti-Semitism anywhere it rears its head in American society. There’s nothing wrong with keeping an eye out for it, but the problem comes in when these organizations come to depend on their reporting on finding Anti-Semitism for funding and status. They’re now incentivized to keep finding more Anti-Semitism to report on, so they explore deeper and darker corners of society, find people of less significance, and statements that are much further away from actual religious hatred. It turns o...
So, the almost non-existent antisemitism is being used to generate funding and it benefits the Jews!! Same can be said of Islamophobia. Interesting how Islam and Judaism seem to have these parallels.
Well, it benefits certain organizations that need anti-semitism to exist in order to get Jews to donate.
Oddly, both the Amish and the Hasidic Jews wear black, have beards, and speak archaic dialects of German. Maybe some kind of convergent evolution that works to keep the group together.
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder. Its prevalence in the United States population is approximately 1 newborn out of 180,000 live births. However, in populations where there is a higher frequency of consanguinity, such as the Mennonites in Pennsylvania or the Amish, the frequency of MSUD is significantly higher at 1 newborn out of 176 live births. In Austria, 1 newborn out of 250,000 live births inherits MSUD.[13] It also is believed to have a higher prevalence in certain populations due in part to the founder effect[14] since MSUD has a much higher prevalence in children of Amish, Mennonite, and Jewish descent.
Accusations of Jewish supremacy? Not a peep.
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If there's too much, that's obviously bad, because genocide.
But on the other hand, if there is too little antisemitism, Jews rapidly assimilate into the mainstream and a distinct Jewish community no longer exists. This has even been openly stated by some groups - that America is "Killing the Jews with kindness." By which they don't mean literal killing, only a removal of all barriers to assimilation.
I think white South Africans are also at enormous risk of genocide by the black majority because they maintain a distance and distinct identity.
The same thing plays out with almost every minority group that is determined not to assimilate. The Armenians were careful to maintain distinctions between themselves and the Turks. Heck, the Amish don't really want to talk to you either, because outside influences are a threat to their identity. But no one hates the Amish because they are so darn peaceful.
Another counterexample would be the Parsis of India. They don't intermarry with non-Parsis and are quite distinct and very rich. Non-Parsis may not even set foot in Parsi fire temples. But they make a point of benevolent public works and are highly regarded in India. So maybe a strategy of maintaining some hostility and tension is not absolutely necessary to maintain an ethnic minority in the long term, and other strategies could work as well.