What is at the root of the liberals’ racism and antisemitism (ironic, since they claim to be opposed to bigotry) is their assignment of entire groups of people (right there something bigots do) into “oppressed” and “oppressors.”
And the way they figure out which group goes into which category is by their success level, or lack thereof, even when that group’s history is full of persecution and oppression.
The most glaring example are the Jews, whose emphasis on education and good values (I’d also argue innate intelligence, on average) has led them to be near the very top of earners and education levels. Yet they have accomplished this despite millennia of oppression (the Democrat FDR wouldn’t even let fleeing Jews from Europe dock here and returned them to their deaths), showing that one cannot blame bigotry and racism for failure.
That gets the leftists angry: “Here we are, trying to convince gullible idiots that any failures in the black community can, 100%, he blamed on racism….and then we have all these Jews, daring to succeed!? Some of them are one generation removed from having their families massacred in Germany, and they have the nerve to become college educated and hold professional jobs?! Damn?!”
This explains the antisemitism on the left: they are resentful of Jews’ success in the face of bigotry - the worst imaginable! - and therefore chalk it up to them being “oppressors.” They are unable to admit that Jews succeed by prudent decisions and good personal traits.
And the way they figure out which group goes into which category is by their success level, or lack thereof, even when that group’s history is full of persecution and oppression.
The most glaring example are the Jews, whose emphasis on education and good values (I’d also argue innate intelligence, on average) has led them to be near the very top of earners and education levels. Yet they have accomplished this despite millennia of oppression (the Democrat FDR wouldn’t even let fleeing Jews from Europe dock here and returned them to their deaths), showing that one cannot blame bigotry and racism for failure.
That gets the leftists angry: “Here we are, trying to convince gullible idiots that any failures in the black community can, 100%, he blamed on racism….and then we have all these Jews, daring to succeed!? Some of them are one generation removed from having their families massacred in Germany, and they have the nerve to become college educated and hold professional jobs?! Damn?!”
This explains the antisemitism on the left: they are resentful of Jews’ success in the face of bigotry - the worst imaginable! - and therefore chalk it up to them being “oppressors.” They are unable to admit that Jews succeed by prudent decisions and good personal traits.