A
recent study found that 24.6 percent of Americans attrubite a moderate amount of blame to the Jews for causing the economic crisis. Anit-semitism has flared up
again and
again in
tough times throughout history, and especially in cicumstances that are
hard to understand.
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I just read that article and it seems like there was some significant statistical bias in it. They could have had used some other designs to control for the built in errors like the fact that people don't naturally tend to answer 'none at all' sorts of answers. They could have singled out other exclusive sorts of groups (WASPs, CEO's, wall-street bankers, speculators, media elite, cat-lovers, etc.) with perceptions of elitism and asked related questions like 'how much do you think ivy league executives are to blame for this current crisis?'
At the very least they should have used an exclusive group identifier in the paragraph question because an inclusive term like 'American Investor' could very easily skew interpretations.
I bet they could have gotten a lot of people to imply that Mr. Madoff was black given our general ignorance of current events.
Either way, I'm kind of against those frameworks that set up the misleading victim/oppressor, racist/race, or bigoter/bigotee. I think they end up making an unhelpful righteous/depraved continuum of sorts that resist scenarios imagining redemptive action and serious self-examination on either side.
In reality I think we are more like moral nodes in a complicated network of interaction. With such pervasive international problems such as climate change, international financial recession, and global 'insurgencies'; moral dualisms cloud or means to think reasonably. Strangely, it seems this type of language comes from Marx's proletariat/bourgious dialectic method which was supposed to be a superior alternative to dualism, but I don't think I completely understand that part of Marx.
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