Statistics: Posted by popeye1945 — Today, 12:31 pm
Yes, I think that's right.
Are you saying that holding and acting on an underlying attitude that blacks/Jews/Republicans are likely to be more than averagely criminal/miserly/hard-hearted/whatever is discrimination, whether this prejudice involves feeling of animosity or not ?
Yes, I think so.
It's my understanding that discrimination is making negative comments or assumptions about a particular group. In your particular example, it's about portraying Jews as miserly skinflints, or the like, not praising their wealth or education.So a person who, based on their experience, pre-judges Jews as tending to be wealthy or well-educated, is guilty of discrimination ? Whether that prejudice is true or not ?
I'm still trying to avoid the intentionally-misleading term "anti-Semitism", and go instead with the catch-all parent term, "discrimination". And yes, I can read the words of the topic title, but there are those who will insist that negative political observations concerning the political state of Israel are "anti-Semitic". By that measure, I am strongly anti-Semitic, as my opinion of the actions of Israel are disapproving. And yet I do not, and would never, discriminate against those of the Jewish faith *because* they are Jewish. So can we say "discrimination", for clarity?But presumably if their attitude to wealthy well-educated people is entirely positive then that isn't anti-semitism ? It is possible to discriminate for or against any group ? To be biased either way ?
But if that someone dismisses wealthy and well-educated people as not warranting our sympathy, and treats them less favourably than others (those in whom they discern some level of victimhood) then they are discriminating against Jews and are thus anti-semitic ?
Statistics: Posted by Pattern-chaser — Today, 9:14 am
Here in the UK, our newspapers (the "press") and TV are solidly pro-Israel, as our elected leaders are. It's only on social media, and on our streets, that any support for the plight of the Palestinian people becomes evident. The protests reflect only that the voice of the 'common' people is not being reported, and so it's not being heard. This may all be different in other countries. Any comments from any of those other countries?Every day there's another featured pity piece from the supposed "pro Israel press" about the plight of some small group of Palestinians...
I searched for this, but only managed to find mention of Oz restoring funding to the UNRWA, nothing about giving "more funding to Palestine". Maybe I've simply failed to find the news you mention?Every day our articles are either:
1) something sad in Palestine
2) sad Palestinian children
3) Our foreign minister calling:
a) for a ceasefire
b) to give more funding to Palestine
c) expressing concern.
And zero pieces covering other humanitarian crises. The hypocrisy of it all is astonishing.
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Statistics: Posted by Sy Borg — Today, 6:07 am
Yes, I think that's right.I think what you're describing here is what Wikipedia calls a "prejudicial distinction". Treating a person differently because you have pre-judged them, based on their membership of some group.
Yes, I think so.Are you saying that holding and acting on an underlying attitude that blacks/Jews/Republicans are likely to be more than averagely criminal/miserly/hard-hearted/whatever is discrimination, whether this prejudice involves feeling of animosity or not ?
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