Do We Really Need This Kind of Bigotry?

[Alceste]

Your wife might be my cousin. My uncle made his son quit baseball because an Arab kid joined the team.

Oh, Alberta. Keepin' it real.

 

[Revoltingest]

Ever get the impression that some people (not singling out any group here)
grew up the kind of kid who screamed bloody murder if one kind of food
touched another on their plates?

That wasn't my thing, but I can understand compulsions
which make one's life more work than is necessary.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Ever get the impression that some people (not singling out any group here)
grew up the kind of kid who screamed bloody murder if one kind of food
touched another on their plates?

I'm pretty sure there are people here who still do that as adults.

 

[Levite]

Maybe it might be better if more relaxed members of your religion represent Judaism to the World?

I think you'll find that when we aren't being harassed by anti-Semites, being told our culture makes us bigoted, or having implications thrown at us that our people don't really have the right to exist and persist, we're mostly pretty relaxed.

 

[Alceste]

Wot's 'is IQ?

I can't pin a number on it, but we can have conversations without policing ourselves to dumb down our vocabulary, speak in short, simple sentences or use allegory to explain complex ideas like we have to with humans.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm pretty sure there are people here who still do that as adults.

My major life achievement is that I can eat a bowl of pesto pasta,
& then have fruit or desert in the same bowl. Basil & garlic on
me watermelon, you gasp!? Yep. Although...we intentionally
mix feta cheese with our watermelon, so it's no biggie.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think you'll find that when we aren't being harassed by anti-Semites, being told our culture makes us bigoted, or having implications thrown at us that our people don't really have the right to exist and persist, we're mostly pretty relaxed.

Aye! I'll confirm that.
Some Jews even socialize with me.
Yes, hard to believe, but it's true!

 

[Alceste]

I'm pretty sure there are people here who still do that as adults.

I can confirm this. My great uncle wouldn't even come over for dinner because of this. Even my grandma was annoyed with the way we cook (curries, stir fries, chili, pasta etc.) because all the bits were mixed together and it had too much flavour for her taste. Her meals were always unadorned meat, some kind of vegetable, and some kind of starchy thing, which always seemed to require about four billion pots and half the day to produce.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

My major life achievement is that I can eat a bowl of pesto pasta,
& then have fruit or desert in the same bowl. Basil & garlic on
me watermelon, you gasp!? Yep. Although...we intentionally
mix feta cheese with our watermelon, so it's no biggie.

We can only hope whoever does your eulogy is able to do justice to your major life achievement, and capture the essence encapsulated in this personal anecdote.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Her meals were always unadorned meat, some kind of vegetable, and some kind of starchy thing, which always seemed to require about four billion pots and half the day to produce.

Sounds like some type of prison menu.

 

[Alceste]

My major life achievement is that I can eat a bowl of pesto pasta,
& then have fruit or desert in the same bowl. Basil & garlic on
me watermelon, you gasp!? Yep. Although...we intentionally
mix feta cheese with our watermelon, so it's no biggie.

Mmmmmm - feta and watermelon salad. It's divine. **** the begrudgers.

 

[Revoltingest]

We can only hope whoever does your eulogy is able to do justice to your major life achievement, and capture the essence encapsulated in this personal anecdote.

I already have a eulogy in mind.

He aimed low.
He succeeded.
Hawaiian style.

It replaced my old one.

He aimed low.
He met expectations.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I think you'll find that when we aren't being harassed by anti-Semites, being told our culture makes us bigoted, or having implications thrown at us that our people don't really have the right to exist and persist, we're mostly pretty relaxed.

Oh, please.

 

[Wirey]

Oh, Alberta. Keepin' it real.

He lives in Halifax.

 

[George-ananda]

And of course George will now want to fruball Jaywalker for saying something bigoted.

George doesn't frubal bigots. I should know.

 

[xkatz]

Oh, please.

It's very easy to say that such things don't happen or are over-exaggerated if one isn't subject to it, Saint Frank. Just take a look at half of the 'net or listen to the rhetoric of David Duke, Louis Farrakhan, or a Salafist preacher.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It's very easy to say that such things don't happen or are over-exaggerated if one isn't subject to it, Saint Frank. Just take a look at half of the 'net.

Half of the Internet is devoted to bashing Jews? I think your proportions are a tad bit off because that would mean the other half is all porn.

 

[Alceste]

Sounds like some type of prison menu.

It FELT like some kind of prison menu.

 

[Alceste]

He lives in Halifax.

Oh Nova Scotia. Keepin it real!

 

[Phil25]

Just as said that more religious Jews are becoming conservative. Well guess what? More and more young Jews are coming to embrace secular liberalism. They don't seem to be embracing conservatism to me.

Study Shows Jews in America Becoming More Secular, Especially Millenials - World Religion News

It was religion alone that helped Jews to survive especially in Europe for 2000 yrs. If Jews lose faith, they are also leaving their Jewish culture and identity behind. If Jews of Europe and Middle East had converted to Christianity or Islam in the past(and it was not that hard, considering the amount of persecution they faced), there would have been no Jew in the present.

The grandchildren or great grandchildren of these young secular Jews would not even know they had any Jewish(ness?) in them.
And as evidence, I am quoting from A Portrait of Jewish Americans | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project

Compared with Jews by religion, however, Jews of no religion (also commonly called secular or cultural Jews) are not only less religious but also much less connected to Jewish organizations and much less likely to be raising their children Jewish. More than 90% of Jews by religion who are currently raising minor children in their home say they are raising those children Jewish or partially Jewish. In stark contrast, the survey finds that two-thirds of Jews of no religion say they are not raising their children Jewish or partially Jewish – either by religion or aside from religion.

Intermarriage is a related phenomenon. It is much more common among secular Jews in the survey than among Jews by religion: 79% of married Jews of no religion have a spouse who is not Jewish, compared with 36% among Jews by religion. And intermarried Jews, like Jews of no religion, are much less likely to be raising their children in the Jewish faith. Nearly all Jews who have a Jewish spouse say they are raising their children as Jewish by religion (96%). Among Jews with a non-Jewish spouse, however, 20% say they are raising their children Jewish by religion, and 25% are raising their children partly Jewish by religion. Roughly one-third (37%) of intermarried Jews who are raising children say they are not raising those children Jewish at all.