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> Being "excluded from society" doesn't mean you get shut out of good jobs. It means you get shut out of certain good jobs That may be true, but I'm not sure w
by hackuser 10y ago
> Being "excluded from society" doesn't mean you get shut out of good jobs. It means you get shut out of certain good jobs
That may be true, but I'm not sure what your point is. Certainly it's prejudiced against, and harmful and oppressive to people, even if not everything is bad or someone else has it worse.
> Jews weren't exactly popular in Europe from the Middle Ages forward, but everyone acknowledged that they nevertheless had good jobs
I'm not sure that's the case, about "good" jobs being common. But certainly Jewish people were victims of widespread, brutal, and sometimes horrific discrimination and oppression in Europe. At one point, in the lifetimes of many people still living, 6 million were murdered over the course of a few years, including almost the entire populations of Jewish people in Poland and other countries. And that well-known event was the worst of a long history of brutal oppression. Did some have good jobs at some times? I don't see the point.
> Disraeli
Disraeli converted; he was no longer Jewish. It's nothing like the people of many religions who still claim to be part of their religion but don't observe its rituals or share its core beliefs.
- hackuser 10y agoI'll add to my comment above: The example in the grandparent post was the most successful people in one community at one time; I'm not sure what it actually represents.