Bobby Fischer was probably half-Jewish in ancestry. His mother was Jewish, but his father wasn’t. Somebody is going to nitpick this, so let me add the following: There is some suspicion that his mother had an affair around the time he was conceived, so the man his mother was married to when he was born might not be his biological father. The man she had an affair with was Jewish.
Anti-suffrage movements, willful spousal submission, curtailing of reproductive freedom, slut-shaming, feminist-bashing… I think women take the cake here, if only because they’re such a large and varied group with a long and colorful history of oppression.
No, it’s a religion.
If we’re looking for individuals who hate themselves I think Phyllis Schlafly is up there. She has a serious complex about needing people to legislate that women are inferior.
The phenomenon of anti-white whites probably deserves its own thread. Most likely, President Strauss is not bat**** crazy like Bobby Fischer was.
Anyway, the most prominent example of this I could think of is Susan Sontag, who once said “The white race is the cancer of human history.”
It’s both a religion and an ethnicity. The word has two meanings. There is a Jewish people and there is a Jewish religion. You can belong to one without belonging to the other.
There’s also a semantic distinction between antipathy towards the religion and racist antipathy towards the people. Hatred of the people, “race,” ethnicity is Antisemitism. Purely theological hostility or opposition towards the religion, absent any ethnic or racial considerations, is anti-Judaism.
Yes, Judaism is a religion.
But Jew is also an Ethnicity.
You want notorious, there’s leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust:
“His fierce anti-Semitism apparently was an emblem of self-hatred; all his life he was bewitched by the knowledge that some of his ancestors may have been Jewish.”
There’s apparently still controversy over whether Heydrich actually had Jewish ancestors; it does seem that he was taunted about this as a child and viewed with some skepticism by his Nazi peers over this alleged connection - which may explain the virulence of his anti-Semitic beliefs and actions.
Mussolini harbored a degree of contempt for his fellow Italians as a race, often speaking out that they were too dolce far niente to be good Fascisti.
There are plenty of people of every group who focus on the perceived errors of their group (race, religion, nationality, hobby, etc) to the extent that they are unable to accept the positives of their group or the negatives of any opposing or exterior groups.
For example, the Cold War was filled with Americans who thought that America was the root of all evil in the world and that those poor, misunderstood Communists and Revolutionaries were completely innocent of any wrongdoing.
Then there’s the dark side of advocacy, in which a group claims that past and present discrimination or societal fault entitles them to not be held to the same standards of behavior and accountability, or to special protection that others are not entitled to. Such things are a two-edged sword. While they may help to bring positive changes, if they’re held onto too long or pushed too hard, they send the message that the group in question is inferior and therefore cannot ever be held to the same standards. No, I’m not just talking about racial issues, but sex, sexual orientation, religion and cultural protections as well.
While you might say “what does that have to do with the OP?”, I’d say that there’s a subtle self-hatred involved in saying “My group cannot be held to the same standards of accountability as other groups”.
Both J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn were vehemently and relentlessly homophobic.
Here the most recent of his controversial columns:
Antiforeigner discrimination is a right for Japanese people
In other columns (which unfortunately I don’t have links to, as the site I read them on has been down for maintenance for the past few days) he defends the right of landlords to refuse non-Japanese. His reasoning here was that he knows someone who had a problem with a foreign renter, so banning all foreigners is perfectly justified.
And to clarify my first post, he’s the VP of Akita International University, and general septuagenarian fart.
Quite possible. I suppose one could argue his side from a legal standpoint, rights of business owners, etc., in which case him coming along and shouting “I know a guy who got cheated by a member of group A, so it’s reasonable for me to ban every member of group A from my business!” would make me want him to just shut up.
Hell, on the other side, Debito gets the same reaction from me. I believe foreigners will make far more headway through community involvement (i.e. it’s harder to justify refusing to do business with someone when they sit next to you at the PTA meetings and your kids play together), while he goes for lawsuits and polemics.
Would that be Sephardic Jews or Ashkenazi Jews?
Without wanting to spark a hijack, but in anti-oppression theory the point of recognizing one’s privilege isn’t to spark self-hatred, just self-awareness. You’re not supposed to beat up on yourself, but just be able to check the privilege and the systems that create it, and notice what they give you and what they deny others, the better to be able to work against oppression.
… It would be the Jewy Jew?
Jews are an ethnoreligious group.
So, one can be religiously Jewish, or Ethnically Jewish.
ETA: Or both.
I used to work with an…interesting character. He was non-religious, but ethnically Jewish. Thing was, he would only identify as “American”. He’d shoot down any talk of his heritage – even though he parents always told him he was Jewish, they had to be wrong. His iron-clad reasoning that he stood behind against any argument came down to this: Jewish couldn’t be an ethnicity because there was no such country as Jewland.
Interesting. I wonder if he knows that much of the country that is now called Israel (including the capital city) used to be called Judea, which basically means “Jewland.”
Heh…he went into a lather when it was suggested that perhaps he should identify as "Israeli ". Since, ya know, he wasn’t “a damn towel-head”.
How about that guy who had the mega-church in Colorado, preached against homosexuality, then was outed? Haggerty, was that his name? Pretty strong self-hatred there.