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I think anyone who is not familiar with these particular communities in Lakewood and Brooklyn will see warning flags of anti-semitism in a lot of related commen

by tdfx 7y ago

I think anyone who is not familiar with these particular communities in Lakewood and Brooklyn will see warning flags of anti-semitism in a lot of related comments about them. I would just like to voice some support for the people speaking up about them, because this is not a problem with Jews, or even Orthodox Jews. It is specific to these particular Hasidic communities and the fraud is rampant and expanding.

joecool1029 7y ago
Thanks, I believe it's really important to call out and charge the leadership inside these communities. They know full well what is and isn't legal. If you shut down discussion on these sorts of issues, I believe you allow for abuses to happen and rage to grow against the larger community who are often innocent. As others have mentioned, the Hasidic community is an insular community. I have interacted numerous times in business and I've never had an issue professionally. In matters of business they learn how to behave with customers and run things efficiently. It was why, until the discrimination charges were announced, I kept going back to B&H to spend thousands of dollars on gear over the years. When I was a kid I thought of them like Amish, but instead of farming and barn raising they just happened to sell stuff. Unfortunately, just like other groups that rely on propaganda to hide abuses, the good rabbis inside it that act as whistleblowers end up attacked. This sickening NSFW/NSFL article [1] is about a rabbi inside the community that decided to speak out against child abuse. He was rewarded with chemical burns after bleach was tossed in his face. [1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-ass...
- fortran77 7y ago
  Is it any more "insular" than the Haskell community or the Scheme community?
  - devin 7y ago
    One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just isn’t the same.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  How are they different from the Amish on this sense? I think you may have let some anti Semitism slip in there. Amish communities have their own problems, like running puppy mills. BTW, why did you say "child abuse" and not "child rape"?
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ngold 7y ago
Good example of how justice should be blind to all but the law.

by tdfx 7y ago

joecool1029 7y ago

Thanks, I believe it's really important to call out and charge the leadership inside these communities. They know full well what is and isn't legal. If you shut down discussion on these sorts of issues, I believe you allow for abuses to happen and rage to grow against the larger community who are often innocent. As others have mentioned, the Hasidic community is an insular community. I have interacted numerous times in business and I've never had an issue professionally. In matters of business they learn how to behave with customers and run things efficiently. It was why, until the discrimination charges were announced, I kept going back to B&H to spend thousands of dollars on gear over the years. When I was a kid I thought of them like Amish, but instead of farming and barn raising they just happened to sell stuff. Unfortunately, just like other groups that rely on propaganda to hide abuses, the good rabbis inside it that act as whistleblowers end up attacked. This sickening NSFW/NSFL article [1] is about a rabbi inside the community that decided to speak out against child abuse. He was rewarded with chemical burns after bleach was tossed in his face. [1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-ass...

fortran77 7y ago
Is it any more "insular" than the Haskell community or the Scheme community?
- devin 7y ago
  One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just isn’t the same.
lonelappde 7y ago
How are they different from the Amish on this sense? I think you may have let some anti Semitism slip in there. Amish communities have their own problems, like running puppy mills. BTW, why did you say "child abuse" and not "child rape"?

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ngold 7y ago

Good example of how justice should be blind to all but the law.