OK
makes sense that I misread the time signature on the format of the replies, for only someone who DIDN'T WATCH THE VIDEO (which I guess you did, with cotton stuffed in your ears) or who didn't want to face the factual points made in the presentation would come away saying that the video blames the jews entirely for slavery. It didn't say that at all. It DID say, among other things, (paraphrasing) that it is a mystery why every other group can identify their own complicity in the slave trade, but for some reason this Jewish group (generally speaking, in a few respected scholarly realms [and jewish scholarly realms being respected and being assumedly influential] ) has much trouble facing this reality.
"...just because neurological test show Jews to be smart doesn't mean that they aren't "the same" as other people, Just that they may have studied more."
you left out my Emperors emphatic word "PRECISELY" ie. "precisely the same"
and that's a flip flop from:
"Also recent neurological testing has demonstrated the Ashkenazim to be significantly more intelligent than any other ethnic group."
an OBJECTIVE neurological test will not reveal "significantly more intelligence" from subject who just "studied more"
so again I submit, from the viewpoint of human history, it seems peculiar to me that they (THE JEWS, ASKANAZ & SEPHARDIC) have not more or less done so (been an example to the world) beyond that of their human non-Jew counterparts, There are other religions, inventors, creative beings, of noteworthyness in numerous other nations.
really. and
truely The point about intelligence is moot. That's all I'm saying (BTW habashani is RHEDDA J, apologies for the dual citizenship
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but all of my obvious ranting aside -
I think you have been very defensive, sometimes sloppily, but, as a Jew, you do have a natural reason to be defensive. Just as Africans do, just as any who have been wrongfully persecuted.
Jews have been persecuted. period.
I would just ask for the sake of justice that you recheck a few historical and principled facts, namely
reparations are not a "handout". Reparations are not charity; it is not giving people anything; it is paying people back the wages that were withheld from their ancestors when they were forced to work for free. This is the money Black persons living now should have inherited, but couldn't. There's no essential difference from when a friend of mine loaned another man money, to be repaid in three months; yet, five years later he still couldn't get his money back. So he took this man to Small Claims Court, and the court ordered the man to pay him back immediately. In fact they froze his bank account until he did.
You would never say my friend was looking for a handout or that it lessened his dignity to demand he be given back what was rightfully his.
Also, if I may, your example of the Jewish "middleman" who just captained the ships of human cargo.
It's saying the ship captain need not have a conscience. Just stay in the business cause the $$$ advantage justifies it. - driving a ship, holding a whip, it's all part of the slavery experience. Need I discuss the conditions on those vessels?!? Who would captain a sailing torture chamber for $$$!? That, my friend, is someone WOEFULLY involved in the slave trade/slavery.
It reminds me of the same basic logic that says "If it hadn't been for the African people themselves selling each other into slavery, there wouldn't have been any slavery, so why should they get reparations?"
Now, I usually find that the people who have no compunction about saying this would however think it extremely crass to bring up the fact that many Jews ended up in concentration camps because other Jews turned them in, and that while in the death camps, some Jews, in the effort to save themselves, collaborated with the Nazis, carrying out atrocities against other Jews. Yet, would anyone, even for a moment, think that these facts in some way lessen or excuse what the Germans did?
No.
LET I & I
STAND TOGETHER FOR TRUTH
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