For the past 300 years in the West, Jews have often had incentives to side with the fringe against the core. Now that the fringe (including blacks, latinos, and Muslims) is more anti-Jewish than the white core, that might change. Jews, like blacks, respond to incentives. If Jews in Europe keep getting slaughtered by Muslims, Jews will increasingly side with the anti-Muslim nationalist core (National Front in France, etc).<\/p>\n
If people are rewarded for pointing out all the flaws in the majority, they’ll keep doing it. If they are punished, they’ll stop. <\/p>\n
In strongly Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, there’s no incentive for Muslims to criticize Muslims. That’s not tolerated. <\/p>\n
Every functioning society has to have taboos. The flag was a sacred object in America, for instance. The more Jewish Israel gets, the less permissible it will be to trash Jews and Judaism there. The more Jewish the Jew, the less interested he is in hearing criticism of Jews. Orthodox Jews tend to be more Jewishly nationalistic and chauvinist than Reform and secular Jews. If you want to get along in Orthodox life, you don’t trash Jews and Judaism. <\/p>\n
The main reason blacks love Obama is that they see him as black. The main reason many non-blacks hate Obama is because they see him as black. <\/p>\n
New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014 As he left Martha Lou\u2019s Kitchen, a soul food institution here on Wednesday, Edward Gadsden expressed irritation about the Republican determination to block President Obama from selecting Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s replacement on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve been fighting that man since he\u2019s been there,\u201d Mr. Gadsden, who is African-American, said of Mr. Obama, before pointing at his forearm to explain what he said was driving the Republican opposition: \u201cThe color of his skin, that\u2019s all, the color of his skin.\u201d<\/p>\n When Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said after Mr. Scalia\u2019s death on Saturday that the next president, rather than Mr. Obama, should select a successor, the senator\u2019s words struck a familiar and painful chord with many black voters.<\/p>\n After years of watching political opponents question the president\u2019s birthplace and his faith, and hearing a member of Congress shout \u201cYou lie!\u201d at him from the House floor, some African-Americans saw the move by Senate Republicans as another attempt to deny the legitimacy of the country\u2019s first black president. And they call it increasingly infuriating after Mr. Obama has spent seven years in the White House and won two resounding election victories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past 300 years in the West, Jews have often had incentives to side with the fringe against the core. Now that the fringe (including blacks, latinos, and Muslims) is more anti-Jewish than the white core, that might change. … Continue reading