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I think what he was trying to say is that this is affirmative action for gentiles. In other words, Russia made it easier for non-Jews by virtue of giving them e
by jonnathanson 14y ago
I think what he was trying to say is that this is affirmative action for gentiles. In other words, Russia made it easier for non-Jews by virtue of giving them easier entrance exams.
I still think "affirmative action" is a clumsy and not entirely correct way of describing what he's trying to articulate. But he's not trying to be as provocative as he comes across. At least I don't think (?) he is?
- goldfeld 14y agoJust because you have a name for non-Jews doesn't make it a cohesive group and most importantly nowhere near a minority. It's insane to say discriminating against a minority is like affirmative action for everyone else. So if I don't like Bob I could phrase it that it's not that I don't like him--I do!-- it's just that I like everyone else better (including other people I dislike). And for someone to fall for that would be ridiculous.
- taejo 14y ago> most importantly nowhere near a minority. Affirmative action is not just for minorities... in some (many?) places, the historically excluded group form a majority.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoAnd yet, Russians have never been the historically excluded group in Russia. Jews were.