{"id":66450,"date":"2015-03-26T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66450"},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:45:51","slug":"wp-entrenched-anti-semitic-views-very-rare-among-whites-and-asian-americans-common-among-blacks-and-latinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66450","title":{"rendered":"WP: \u201cEntrenched anti-Semitic views\u201d very rare among whites and Asian Americans, common among blacks and Latinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Bernstein writes in 2014<\/a>: According this article<\/a>, ADL surveys show that \u201capproximately 12 percent of Americans hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views.\u201d However, over 30% of African Americans and Latinos hold such views. Given that they are almost 30% of the population, this suggests that of the 12% of Americans who hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, 9% or so are African Americans or Latinos. This means, in turn, of the 70% or so of the population that is not African American or Latino, only 3% hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views. Put another way, less than 5% of whites, Asians, and \u201cothers\u201d (including Native Americans) combined hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, compared to over 30% of African Americans and Latinos\u2013or at least that\u2019s the difference in percentages of those willing to express anti-Semitic attitudes to pollsters. Regardless, it seems odd given these numbers that Jews seem especially concerned about mostly phantom anti-Semitism emanating from white evangelical Christians, while being less concerned about anti-Semitism in core Democratic constituencies. But, as Ilya pointed out a few years back<\/a>, \u201cmany studies show that people tend to devalue or ignore any information that makes their political adversaries look good, while overvaluing anything that looks bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article adds: \u201c[Retiring ADL President Abe] Foxman attributes the persistence of anti-Semitism among African-Americans to denial of the problem and a dearth of black leaders speaking out against anti-Semitism. Among Latinos, the attitudes are seen as a holdover from Latin America, where traditional Catholic anti-Semitism persists and anti-Semitic attitudes are higher than in America. Once they acculturate to the United States, Latino anti-Semitism declines: Among first-generation immigrants, about 40 percent hold anti-Semitic attitudes; among those born here, the number falls to 20 percent. \u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A reader points me to the most recent ADL survey, from 2013<\/a>, which shows a lower rate of black (22%) and Latino (36% foreign-born, 14% native-born) anti-Semitism than the article states. The 2011 data comes closer to matching the author\u2019s assertion, but the overall figure there was not 12% but 15% overall, and 29% (not over 30%) for African Americans and 42 and 20% for foreign and native-born Latinos, respectively. The rates for whites were 8% and 9% in 2013 and 2011. So I\u2019m not sure if the author is looking at different data, or just got his facts wrong. Nevertheless, the basic point, that \u201centrenched anti-Semitic views\u201d are far more common among African Americans and Latinos than among others, still holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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