blake are you jewish?

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Let's think about this for a second.

How often in semi-recent world history has a group of oppressed, poor, powerless people rise up to become successful and influential within less than a century? And when that does happen, how often does it occur without government assistance spurring it (aside from some very basic human rights changes)?

The Jews accomplished this in the 20th century. Think of how impressive that was, especially with how much antisemitism there was at the time (far worse than today, overall).

And then, despite their success, the Jews also haven't forgotten what conditions they rose from, and are at the forefront of social equality movements. Again, very admirable.

And while I disagree politically with many Jews who have taken the "social equality" goal way too far to the point of absurdity, I do have to acknowledge that most of their hearts are in the right place. They're just not thinking realistically, and allowing that to shape their politics and social views. But that's a different subject for a different time.

The bottom line is that American Jews are as self-made people, AND they care about those less fortunate than them. It's hard to understand why there would be hatred of these qualities, unless it stems from jealousy or ignorance.

How does this play with the jealousy theory. Antisemitism seems to precede wealth.

Far as i see Jews got lucky on a few occasions. They weren't doing anything different in the last 100 years vs last 1000 years. They didn't change the world, the world around them changed. More precisely the value of new industries vs old blew up. They didn't find new industries because of ingenuity, hard work, family/community oriented thinking, education etc, but because that was the only place to go. For a long time "white" people protected old industries by disallowing Jews to work in them. That was a good bet for "anglo-saxons" for about 500ish years. Then the pace of progress changed.

Mostly just disagree with the term self-made. Not that big on taking credit from things outside your control that tend to have bigger impact on the end result than whatever list of positive attributes that are just as common with those that didn't make it.