Big Swastika Painted Outside My Door - Page 7 - Politics and Economics

They're mostly incapable of making this distinction. Verbally they often don't distinguish. It's not a conscious anti Jewishness. Quite the contrary, they would deny being anti-Jewish, or anti any ethnic or religious group, because being so is not ideologically coherent with being leftist/communist. But what they say about Jews, usually in the context of Israel, is, at any rate, to the ear of someone of Jewish ancestry, sometimes quite disturbing, particularly when one is sitting in some place in France or Austria that never has really dealt with its history in regards to this issue.

I'm not going to say it doesn't happen that their perception of individuals gets colored by their political conviction in many cases, it would be unreasonable to think it does not.

But in the context of this thread ("Big Swastika Painted Outside My Door") I took "anti-Jew" to mean someone actively supporting persecution of Jewish people, and that would be a fairly rare view in the current European left.

All that said I certainly agree that the left's view of Israel is very often unrefined, stereotypical and destructive.

11-12-2018 , 12:47 PM

#152

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

That's could be worth money as well. But it wasn't quite what I meant. What I meant was simply that Sue's inability to drive makes it less likely she can find friends she can spend time with and the good luck the nasty incident happened to bring to her, made us feel good to an extent that would have been worth at least 5K. But there was another reason I translated the lucky event into to money and I would have thought it was obvious.

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Originally Posted by tomdemaine

David,

Really glad that it didn't have the intended effect on you the cowardly scum that did it picked on the wrong dude, but even if you aren't rattled personally doesn't it worry you in the general sense? The conclusion of stanley milgram after his famous experiment was

If the sentiment in america is tilting to where people are emboldened to do things like this are you not at all concerned about the slippery slope? What about in 2 years when the economy takes a plunge and president trump needs a scapegoat? You don't think it's possible he'll lean on old hatreds?

Two years to the day and the economy is booming....just thought I would remind you...

11-12-2018 , 12:50 PM

#153

tomdemaine

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and all thanks to that swastika.

11-12-2018 , 04:20 PM

#154

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Obviously the Trump win emboldened these folks even though there is no chance that Trump would have approved and almost no chance he is an anti-semite. They will learn this soon enough when they see Trump's upcoming inner circle.

lol! Boy you sure were wrong here David. This is some grade-A Sklansky.

11-12-2018 , 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

So here is an example of a bad incident actually being good. I wonder if those painters would have still put up that art if they knew how it would turn out. Frankly I feel like I owe them five thousand dollars or so. Perhaps they would like to come back and collect.

lol holy **** this guy!

David I'll be e-friends with Sue for a month for $500 dollars in bitcoin.

Holy **** I gotta read the rest of this **** later.

11-12-2018 , 05:56 PM

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So I realized this happened three months after Unite The Right in Charlottesville.

David, I know people give you a lot of grief on this forum, and I think they are unfair. I find it very refreshing how you always look to find the best in people like Trump and supporters of his who go painting swastikas on Jewish people's houses. Most of us humans aren't capable of such perspectives and I'm sure this ability would give you a great advantage over the vast majority of the human population on Earth in the math section of the SAT. I've purchased and read many of your books and always enjoyed your writing in them and on the forums here, and I hope the day comes when The Special Sklansky forum is reopened. You should be proud you reacted to such a horrible thing in such a way, just like I'm sure you'll react to Donald Trump's Presidency by voting to reelect him.

Don't let the haters get you down David, you're one of a kind! I hope this post makes you feel great!

Spoiler:

But if that was insufficient for some odd reason, surely a little music and comedy will hit the $pot!

Spoiler:

11-12-2018 , 08:47 PM

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What? This happenned a few days after the election in 2016, it wasn’t after Charlottesville.

11-12-2018 , 09:18 PM

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Oh sorry, sleep dep. Point stands though.

12-04-2018 , 03:01 AM

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Inter alia, I'm a retired mathematician and my area is considered to be pure mathematics. Almost* no one I know in these areas of math are in it for the money. Which is fortunate for them because they arepaid far less then lawyers, doctors, etc.

*"Quants" (mathematicians and physicists working for Wall Street) are a possible exception.

12-04-2018 , 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by BobC

Google says avg. salary for a mathematician is $105k. That would be good pay for the majority of lawyers I know. I think you're overestimating the % of lawyers making biglaw salaries.

12-04-2018 , 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by catfacemeowmers

Google says avg. salary for a mathematician is $105k. That would be good pay for the majority of lawyers I know. I think you're overestimating the % of lawyers making biglaw salaries.

Most lawyers I know claim to be taking home at least 150k/year, most claim much more. And these are young men and women just starting out. But then again I’ve lived in some high cost of living cities like Boston.

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