I’m not sure that all these people are “racist” because they believe that Jews are so smart. After all, by many indicators, “the Jewish people” have made many seminal contributions to human civilization and evolution these past two hundred years or so, of the Copernican paradigm shift sort, akin to harnessing fire or inventing the wheel. I’d think such a people are correctly determined to be “smart” or “clever.”

Yes, this doesn’t say anything about any particular individual Jew, but there is such a thing as tendencies, standard distributions. Not all men are alike, but when compared to any sizable group of women, they are often much more alike than not. Is that “sexist?”

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I personally don’t dismiss generalizations as inherently bad — racist, sexist, or whatever…depends on the context, I think.

Very similar to RB’s claim that “the Jews are a clever bunch.”

RB meant this in earnest, not as an example of racism; however both statements are racist because they ascribe an innate characteristic to an entire class of people– Chinese or Jews.

Not productive, and not very interesting to me.

It’s as if I were to say that Chinese culture is inherently capitalistic (“never met a Chinese who didn’t know how to make a buck” — hence the old racist ditty about “chink chink chinaman sitting on a fence/trying to make a dollar out of fifty cents”) but of course there was no “capitalism” at all in the ancient world.

As for whether the Jews will survive the American empire, of course they will — assuming you mean “people of Jewish ancestry/heritage.” Hopefully, however, all religions will be overcome one day, such that that’s all “Jewish” will ever mean.

Yes, the Abrahamic holy texts, like all holy texts (except possibly certain Zen Buddhist ones) like to refer to another world, another plane of existence, that ol’ “something more to life”…the thing has has me so exercised about Abrahamism is that they’re so overtly fascist, as I say, and I think that as long as we hold Abrahamism dear and Abrahamic representatives (priests, rabbis, and imams) to be dear as well we’re going to have problems in the world.

Why, just look at all those sex scandals in the Catholic Church — and in Brooklyn’s Ultra-Orthodox communities — where if it’d been non-religious people involved in shielding sexual predators there would have been mass arrests! But oh no, because it’s these dear holy men of an ancient Canaanite wargod, we must respect their perogatives and give them the benefit of the doubt…it’s been like this with the Abrahamic religions ever since Pontius Pilate!

Here are your comments, which my prompted my response:

“I am very interested in seeing whether the Jews will survive the fall of the US empire. So far, the signs are not encouraging, but they’re a clever bunch once the get the message. Perhaps in 20 years’ time they will be allied with China…”