# Is this graphic anti-Semitic? (POLL) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043 "2015-08-05T06:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/1 "2015-08-05T06:32:35Z")
Is this graphic anti-Semitic? [http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/transparency.jpg](http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/transparency.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/2 "2015-08-05T07:10:54Z")
Looks like the Hinjews control Wall Street and the Big Banks! (I voted “No, of course not”, with the proviso that I’m assuming the numbers in the graph are in fact accurate. If whoever made that graph faked the numbers, then I would change my vote to “Yes, anti-Semitic”. And also “anti-Hindu”.) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/3 "2015-08-05T07:20:02Z")
What he said. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/4 "2015-08-05T07:39:36Z")
Why would it be anti-Semitic? ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/5 "2015-08-05T07:53:38Z")
I’d like to see some data. And where are the athiest/other respondents? ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/6 "2015-08-05T07:55:22Z")
It says it comes from the [Pew Research Center](http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/income-distribution-within-us-religious-groups/), and it does match those figures. So I’d say it’s kosher. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/7 "2015-08-05T08:06:34Z")
> [@camille](#): > > It says it comes from the [Pew Research Center](http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/income-distribution-within-us-religious-groups/), and it does match those figures. > > So I’d say it’s kosher. I saw what you did there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/8 "2015-08-05T08:12:53Z")
OP, I don’t really mean to come off as belligerent as _what are you trying to pull_ would suggest, but I _would_ be interested in knowing what thought processes led you to formulating the question. Like, did you find it being linked to by a known anti-Semitic site, or alternatively, by a site that calls out anti-Semites? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/9 "2015-08-05T08:19:45Z")
Anti semites could say its bad but I think its just data. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/10 "2015-08-05T08:27:11Z")
Only if you assume having money is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/11 "2015-08-05T08:38:14Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Why would it be anti-Semitic? No idea. Bizarro. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/12 "2015-08-05T09:11:36Z")
I’d ask why it was made. What point were they trying to make? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/13 "2015-08-05T10:17:21Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Only if you assume having money is a bad thing. This. If you did the same analysis state by state, and found that New York and California were richer than Alabama and Oklahoma, would that be anti-New-Yorker or anti-Californian? Looking at it another way, the problem is not really why some are richer: it’s why some are poorer. If you can work out what’s holding them back, you’re on the way to solving the problem. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/14 "2015-08-05T11:40:30Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > I’d ask why it was made. What point were they trying to make? +1 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/15 "2015-08-05T11:50:26Z")
Not only is it anti-semitic, it’s also anti-black. I suppose it depends on what you do with the data. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/16 "2015-08-05T11:54:29Z")
As others have said, it’s data. Now where do I get an application to be Jewish? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/17 "2015-08-05T12:17:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > As others have said, it’s data. > > Now where do I get an application to be Jewish? Mr. Kayaker, the moile will see you now. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/18 "2015-08-05T12:25:20Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Mr. Kayaker, the moile will see you now. 😃 Been there, done that. Just need paperwork and a yarmulke. ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/19 "2015-08-05T13:32:27Z")
It’s certainly anti-Tufte and a crime against data visualization. WTF is the point of arranging everything on a semicircle? What are those concentric wiggly semicircles? Why does the color scheme only use shades of green that aren’t very distinct from each other? And on a tan background that further reduces the contrast? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043/20 "2015-08-05T13:47:46Z")
Like most, assuming the data is fair/accurate -------- of course not. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-graphic-anti-semitic-poll/727043.md?page=2)