ADL attacks reality
Defamatory to say Jews are good with money?
"In an opinion piece published Oct. 18 by The Times and Democrat newspaper, Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County Chairman James Ulmer defended the fiscal policies of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, by saying he was "like Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves."
"Their apology is a first step, but it doesn't go far enough," said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director. "Stereotypes about Jews' facility with money have survived through generations and have been inculcated into our culture. Mr. Merwin and Mr. Ulmer need to better understand the impact of their words, and how those words will resonate and reinforce anti-Semitism."
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It's certainly true that not all Jews are good with money. Otherwise I would not be donating to Israeli charities that help poor Israelis. But Jews as a group are indeed overwhelmingly successful economically. But the ADL are just Leftists who grab any excuse to attack conservatives.
Muslims and Leftists can of course say genuinely abusive things about Jews and the ADL stands silent
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Once again, the ADL proves the truth can be anti-semitic, especially when it's convenient.
On one hand, it's a compliment to us for being able to do well with money. On the other hand, like the asians are smart joke, it creates an expectation on us Jews that all of us have to be good with money
It's a matter of "connections" whether one is Jewish, Ivy League, Masonic, the local golf club, or whatever!
Askhenazi Jews have the highest measured intelligence of all the groups of people studied. Even higher than East Asians. That combined with close group relations, high regard for education, inbuilt expectations of success and a long long tradition in business and banking is what makes Jews a financially successful group. Nothing wrong with that.
"Defamatory to say Jews are good with money?"
---There's a lot of baggage that comes with that. You say that and people suddenly think of penny-pinching jews with hooked noses and rivers of gold running behind their houses.
It also creates class envy and class warfare, and it diminishes individual success in favor of collective stereotyping. Suddenly you're not good in business because you're smart but because you're jewish, or you're not a great doctor because you went to Harvard but because you're jewish.
That's why minorities get offended, statemetns like that diminish individual success.
Think about this, left-wingers talk about "white priviledge," the idea that if you're white you have access to things blacks and others can't get.
Hmmm.....while I abhor stereotyping, it does seem to be a useful tool in some cases.
it creates an expectation on us Jews that all of us have to be good with money
Isn't that a better expectation than that you're going to sleep around, have a dozen kids, and be on welfare for the rest of your life?
"Only another jew would believe that. Maybe it's from 2000 years of inbreeding?"
---Catholics marry catholics, protestants marry protestants, whites marry whites and blacks marry blacks. So who are you accusing of inbreeding? The fact is that most people are attracted to someone just like them.
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