# Thread about ultra-Orthodox Jews given an inaccurate title change

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**Created:** [October 15, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-ultra-orthodox-jews-given-an-inaccurate-title-change/923009 "2020-10-15T13:11:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-ultra-orthodox-jews-given-an-inaccurate-title-change/923009/10 "2020-10-15T14:13:10Z")

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> [@Ultra-Orthodox Jews of New York spreading covid and other problems (ed. title)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultra-orthodox-jews-of-new-york-spreading-covid-and-other-problems-ed-title/922666/1):
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> Before anyone objects that this sounds anti-Semitic, let me just say that I have known many Reform Jews and they were literally all delightful people, every single one. But these ultra-orthodox/Hasids seem to be racist, misogynist, and now rioting against masks? FFS

The number of people who rioted against masks is a tiny percentage of the ultra-orthodox/Hasids in those neighborhoods, but you are ascribing this idea to the entire group. Is this based on your deep familiarity with this group (do you know what the position of community leaders or rabbis is?), or simply because you think you can get away with stereotyping this group in ways that are verboten for others? (More below.)

> And as I understand it, over in Israel they are not required to work for a living or join the military, but they are happy to be the spearfront of the settler movement and thereby gin up military oppression of Palesti… "

This displays ignorance. The groups who do not work for a living or join the military and the groups who are the “spearfront of the settler movement” are completely distinct groups, who are vehemently opposed to each other ideologically.

Bottom line is that you don’t like these ultra-orthodox/Hasids so anything goes. You try this type of ignorance-based broad-brush tarring with any other group you would probably be suspended on the spot and subsequently banned.

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