Dude, who even knows.

11th September 2018

Post reblogged from AlexanderRM with 54 notes

alexanderrm:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Hey yo real question: who do poor Israeli Jews identify as the secret power behind an economic conspiracy keeping them down?

Or is settler colonialism the valve that makes sure you never get there so it’s always externalized?

(‘Merica!)

I’m sure somewhere in a world of 14-17 million Jews there’s a poor Jewish person who believes there’s an international Jewish conspiracy, but only the elites get to be in on it.

For that matter, there have probably been cases where (for the very loose and non-deliberate definition of “Jewish conspiracy”) this was true- like if all the wealthy and middle-class Jews moved out of a Jewish neighborhood when poor nonjews started moving in, leaving the people too poor to move cut off from neighborhood networking opportunities, because they were based not on deliberate religious discrimination but just helping out the people you know.

Yeah based on the replies I might have framed it wrong, I’m not looking for like, the Jewish version of big overarching theories, but like who’s the poor Israeli version of “the guys who own the apartment building and always raise rent, own the corner store and only hire their cousins not us, who generally keep us down”, cause it can’t be “the Jews”. “The Russians”? “The Galicians”?

  1. industrialangel reblogged this from iteratedextras and added:
    Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became anti-semitic near the end of his life, despite being Jewish.
  2. not-a-lizard said: Yeah I just don’t think that’s a social universal at all. (And to the extent that it is, the easiest answer is just “rich people” without looking into ethnic groups at ALL.)
  3. xhxhxhx said: Israel is famously corrupt, so it might be whatever the local equivalent of “the corrupt Establishment” is, and I assume the secular Israeli Right is content to condemn the dovish, leftist, internationalist “elite”, which hasn’t run the country in years but does makes a lot of noise (e.g., the New Historians, Aharon Barak)
  4. infraredarmy reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  5. kontextmaschine reblogged this from balioc and added:
    @tropylium > > I don’t think this specific thing has to be a societal universal reallyYeah, it really might not be! Bcuz...
  6. tropylium said: I don’t think this specific thing has to be a societal universal really
  7. thetransintransgenic reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Possibly “The Ashkenazis” or “The Europeans” or something? Is maybe who the Etheopians/North...
  8. paleglanceaustereface reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I think I remember an article in a Israeli newspaper on a disabled Jewish guy in his 20s or 30s with intellegence of a...
  9. iteratedextras reblogged this from balioc and added:
    Gamers.
  10. balioc reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    For non-Ashkenazi Jews it’s “the Ashkenazis,” but that’s obviously just kicking the can a little bit.…I’ve never...
  11. alexanderrm reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I’m sure somewhere in a world of 14-17 million Jews there’s a poor Jewish person who believes there’s an international...
  12. alkatyn-castle reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    if they’re religous conservatives its the fault of liberals in government. Palestinians, Israeli arabs, other muslim...
  13. meskel said: there’s a lot of sublimated Ashkenazi/Mizrahi tension
  14. gattsuru reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    …“Globalist conspiracy of resource merchants, rich financiers, and politically connected transport moguls, all with...
  15. jjuradvbh reblogged this from kontextmaschine