OK, so, my other topics are kind of winding down, so I thought I'd float an idea that I just had to you guys. It's still very tentative, but I think it has merit.
Let me preface this by saying that I am not Jewish. I'm your basic WASP male. Also, I would like to add two requests:
1. READ THE THREAD, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE OP, CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING
2. Please approach this with a fresh mind. Don't label it racism blindly, without first considering what I say.
Note also that I am talking about Jews as an ethnic group, not a religion. Also note that, unless I obviously mean it to, no statement herein applies to all Jews. I'm speaking about them generally; there will be many, many exceptions.
Now, let's consider the Jews. Jewish stereotypes abound, as do Jews who break all of those stereotypes and live their own cool, unique lives. This being said, what no one talks about is how goddamn successful those Jewish mother****ers are. I mean, not all of 'em, but an astounding proportion of the *******s. OK, so maybe they haven't produced many great athletes, but lemme break out some statistics that I just googled for you:
-Jews have won 52% of all pulitzer prizes in non-fiction, 38% of all US National Medal of Science awards, and 20% of ALL nobel prizes. 47% of world chess champions have been Jewish.
-About .002% of the world population is Jewish.
Now, granted, 45% of those guys makes up 2.1% of the US population, and (this is a simple fact, but I'm sure many of you will see it as your duty to disagree with it) that gives them a natural advantage, because the US is clearly culturally superior to the rest of the world in most measurable ways. Still, they're successful even by US standards.
"(24%) of Jewish adults 18 years of age and older has received a graduate degree, and 55% have earned at least a bachelor’s degree... The current comparable numbers for non-Jews [in the US] are 5% and 28%."
"The median household income of the Jewish population is about $50,000, which is higher than the approximately $42,000 median for all U.S. households reported by the Census Bureau. A fifth (19%) of all Jewish households are low income, defined as $25,000 or less per year, compared to 29% among all U.S. households."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/ujcpop.html is where I got those from.
Seems to me like every other famous person I can think of is a Jewish man. My three favorite currently living people- Stan Lee, Bob Dylan, and Harold Bloom- are all Jewish. They've got locks on everything, from psychology to comedy.
So, OK, they're pretty great. But why? You'll tell me that it's cultural; that they're successful for the same reason that other minorities are unsuccessful- they were born into it. Their parents are rich, ergo their test scores are good and they go to nice colleges, etc. etc. Don't give me that ****. Jews came to America as refugees with nothing in the '40s or as poor Eastern European peasants in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. They clawed their way to where they are now. Did WASP holocaust guilt do that for them? Maybe in a few cases, but by and large I think it's clear that they did it themselves. It could, conceivably, be their traditional values or whatever that do it, but I have a simpler explanation- it's genetic. They are, in many ways, a genetically superior race.
Now, the first reaction from many of you, regrettably, will be to throw up your hands and then type some errant nonsense about racism. Before you start (and you will start) I need you to acknowledge this- races and ethnicities do make for genetic differences which lead, in an overall general sense, to different peoples having different qualities. Of course, we're all human, the difference isn't great, etc etc blah blah blah. But if you think that White people are ever going to be as good at sprinting as West Africans, or that we'll ever be able to take the Kenyans in a marathon, you're talking out of your ***. Swimming, on the other hand, we're better at. Genetically. It's just the way it is. These are physical differences; easier to detect and measure than mental ones, and pretty slight as well. Do mental ones exist? Hard to say. But I'd lay even money that those Jews, with their thousands of years of tramping around, keeping their bloodlines (relatively) pure, have something going on for them.
Let me preface this by saying that I am not Jewish. I'm your basic WASP male. Also, I would like to add two requests:
1. READ THE THREAD, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE OP, CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING
2. Please approach this with a fresh mind. Don't label it racism blindly, without first considering what I say.
Note also that I am talking about Jews as an ethnic group, not a religion. Also note that, unless I obviously mean it to, no statement herein applies to all Jews. I'm speaking about them generally; there will be many, many exceptions.
Now, let's consider the Jews. Jewish stereotypes abound, as do Jews who break all of those stereotypes and live their own cool, unique lives. This being said, what no one talks about is how goddamn successful those Jewish mother****ers are. I mean, not all of 'em, but an astounding proportion of the *******s. OK, so maybe they haven't produced many great athletes, but lemme break out some statistics that I just googled for you:
-Jews have won 52% of all pulitzer prizes in non-fiction, 38% of all US National Medal of Science awards, and 20% of ALL nobel prizes. 47% of world chess champions have been Jewish.
-About .002% of the world population is Jewish.
Now, granted, 45% of those guys makes up 2.1% of the US population, and (this is a simple fact, but I'm sure many of you will see it as your duty to disagree with it) that gives them a natural advantage, because the US is clearly culturally superior to the rest of the world in most measurable ways. Still, they're successful even by US standards.
"(24%) of Jewish adults 18 years of age and older has received a graduate degree, and 55% have earned at least a bachelor’s degree... The current comparable numbers for non-Jews [in the US] are 5% and 28%."
"The median household income of the Jewish population is about $50,000, which is higher than the approximately $42,000 median for all U.S. households reported by the Census Bureau. A fifth (19%) of all Jewish households are low income, defined as $25,000 or less per year, compared to 29% among all U.S. households."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/ujcpop.html is where I got those from.
Seems to me like every other famous person I can think of is a Jewish man. My three favorite currently living people- Stan Lee, Bob Dylan, and Harold Bloom- are all Jewish. They've got locks on everything, from psychology to comedy.
So, OK, they're pretty great. But why? You'll tell me that it's cultural; that they're successful for the same reason that other minorities are unsuccessful- they were born into it. Their parents are rich, ergo their test scores are good and they go to nice colleges, etc. etc. Don't give me that ****. Jews came to America as refugees with nothing in the '40s or as poor Eastern European peasants in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. They clawed their way to where they are now. Did WASP holocaust guilt do that for them? Maybe in a few cases, but by and large I think it's clear that they did it themselves. It could, conceivably, be their traditional values or whatever that do it, but I have a simpler explanation- it's genetic. They are, in many ways, a genetically superior race.
Now, the first reaction from many of you, regrettably, will be to throw up your hands and then type some errant nonsense about racism. Before you start (and you will start) I need you to acknowledge this- races and ethnicities do make for genetic differences which lead, in an overall general sense, to different peoples having different qualities. Of course, we're all human, the difference isn't great, etc etc blah blah blah. But if you think that White people are ever going to be as good at sprinting as West Africans, or that we'll ever be able to take the Kenyans in a marathon, you're talking out of your ***. Swimming, on the other hand, we're better at. Genetically. It's just the way it is. These are physical differences; easier to detect and measure than mental ones, and pretty slight as well. Do mental ones exist? Hard to say. But I'd lay even money that those Jews, with their thousands of years of tramping around, keeping their bloodlines (relatively) pure, have something going on for them.
