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It never ends...
On 9/19/13 9:07 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:34:33 -0400, wrote: Nobody ever explained to me why saying Jewish people were good businessmen was a slur. I bet the Jewish guys were laughing the hardest. === It has become politically and culturally incorrect to make generalizations about any group of people even if there is strong statistical evidence to back up the assertion. Of course as we have seen, there are exceptions to every rule. So, Gregg, do you think "Jewish people" are good businesspeople because there is something inherent in the Jewish religion that genetically encodes them to be that way, even though religion is cultural? My liberal arts education taught me that in many parts of Europe for hundreds of years Jews for the most part were not allowed to own real property or go into the learned professions because of rampant anti-Semitism and, as a result, lots of Jews became shopkeepers and various other kinds of businessmen and women and artists. In this country, for the longest time, Jews were for the most part were not allowed to into the professions or into the upper levels of blue chip corporations or into country clubs or into many of the most prestigious universities. In the late 1940's, Laura Hobson wrote a novel that was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck..."Gentleman's Agreement." It tells the story of anti-Semitism in this country and how Jews were kept out of many businesses and social organizations. If you understood any of this, perhaps you might understand why your characterization might be considered a slur, the same sort of slur that says black people have "rhythm." I remember a sociology class in college (one of those many liberal art courses) in which a fellow student said that if Jews hated Christians the way Christians hated Jews, Doctors Salk and Sabin would have figured out a way to withhold their anti-polio vaccine from Gentiles. But, of course, Salk and Sabin didn't do that. Good businessman that Salk was (Jewish, you know), he didn't patent his vaccine. Gotta love rec.boats. |
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