Ive lost count of the number of people who think Jews rule this world and run all the major businesses and therefore they’re bad. It’s completely futile trying to engage in an argument involving that line of thought too.
Start here.
Hmm, Curious. I wonder where you live because I’ve never in my life heard of or witnessed any “Jew Hate” of any significance.
I mean, I’ve heard all the jokes about how Jews are good with or tight with money. But even in those instances, I never got the impression that the people telling these jokes truly believed that Jews are “the evil.”
I’m not trying argue these jokes are completely harmless, just that said people who say such jokes seem to be more naive than racist.
Um…because they are bigots?
One does not engage in rational discussion or argue with bigots. You just tell them to shut their fucking mouth and keep their comments to themselves.
Nobody ever likes the Jews. We’re too rich or too poor, too sectorial or too eager to assimilate. We’re greedy capitalists and godlessn communists. Maybe it’s our deoderant?
And don’t forget, we killed Jesus!
sigh.
No, they’re not jokes.
They’re an easy target : until Israel, they were the one minority every country was guaranteed to have. It’s a general rule that minorities are the hated source of a country’s ills. It’s only logical : it’s our country and we’re the majority, surely *we *wouldn’t create the problems that affect us. So *they *must be to blame.
So, you’ve got country A blaming minorities X and Y, and country B blaming minorities X and Z. When people from country A and country B meet, they realize they have one minority in common and holy crap ! They’re up to the same shit EVERYWHERE ! The godless greedy conspirating commies !
This, you needed me to explain ?
That surprises me. Denigration of Jews is widespread and longstanding, almost certainly more so on both counts than for any other identifiable group. Where do you live that you haven’t seen this?
They’re actually Illuminati doing a double end around on you … throwing you off their path.
Really? I think that the Roma and homosexuals might disagree with that, at least as far as the past 50 years or so is concerned.
FWIW, it’s been a while since I’ve seen a specific case of anti-Semitism that wasn’t accompanied by more broadband bigotry (ie. the speaker seemed to be equally prejudiced against just about everyone that wasn’t a straight Christian white male).
Somebody had to. What kind of a major religion can you start if you die of old age on the couch in front of the TV?
Buddhism? (Okay, it was Food Poisoning, but still)
I think you’d come closer if you replaced “bigots” with “stupid.”
Jews are a lot like Christians, but with some differences so they don’t quite fit in. That kind of thing frightens people, so what’s not to hate?
Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates.
But he came back
Oh, wait…he keeps coming back.
Yea, I agree.
Just because they rule the world and run all the major businesses doesn’t make them bad! 
Hell, not even the Jews like the Jews! For the very same reasons!
Technically the Romans killed Jesus, you just presented the case that convicted him. 
And until recently they were the only non-Christians most ordinary people in Western countries would come into contact with.