What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common?

[scaredyclassic]

heavy duty jews don’t let men and women sit together during services. also women get the bad seats …

[scaredyclassic]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/opinion/singh-hate-crime-forgiveness/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

here’s an actually uplifting article on an actual hate crime cvictim whow ants to hang out and chat with his aggressors.

[scaredyclassic]

WWJD?

[FlyerInHi]

I agree with you, CAr. Sexism hurts women but, unlike racism it doesn’t keep generations after generations down.

On a family level, sexism is financially neutral (unless you have a lesbian couple).

[CA renter]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I agree with you, CAr. Sexism hurts women but, unlike racism it doesn’t keep generations after generations down.

On a family level, sexism is financially neutral (unless you have a lesbian couple).[/quote]

I sincerely hope you’re joking, FIH. Surely, you cannot be this naive.

[CA renter]

[quote=6packscaredy]http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/opinion/singh-hate-crime-forgiveness/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

here’s an actually uplifting article on an actual hate crime cvictim whow ants to hang out and chat with his aggressors.[/quote]

Very cool story. I can see how this would be much more effective at mending fences than jail time or blithely telling a person that his opinions and feelings are “just wrong.”

[scaredyclassic]

if walter white can change in BB, anyone can change

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=CA renter][quote=6packscaredy]http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/opinion/singh-hate-crime-forgiveness/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

here’s an actually uplifting article on an actual hate crime cvictim whow ants to hang out and chat with his aggressors.[/quote]

Very cool story. I can see how this would be much more effective at mending fences than jail time or blithely telling a person that his opinions and feelings are “just wrong.”[/quote]

surprise people. at the very least, they won’t expect that.

[CA renter]

Ties in a bit with what scaredy was saying — that we need to discuss things with one another and get to know each other on a more personal level in order to gain a better understanding and empathize more with others.

Do rich people simply not care about others? Do people from a higher SES simply not care about others who have less power and wealth? How does empathy play a role in our understanding and opinions of one another? Do we use our biases justify our behavior…and the (negative) outcomes for others?

Personally, I think a lack of empathy has a lot to do with the problems in our society. IMHO, electronics, especially for kids, are making the problems even worse.

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“Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Freud called this “the narcissism of minor differences,” a theme repeated by Vamik D. Volkan, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, who was born in Cyprus to Turkish parents. Dr. Volkan remembers hearing as a small boy awful things about the hated Greek Cypriots — who, he points out, actually share many similarities with Turkish Cypriots. Yet for decades their modest-size island has been politically divided, which exacerbates the problem by letting prejudicial myths flourish.

In contrast, extensive interpersonal contact counteracts biases by letting people from hostile groups get to know one another as individuals and even friends. Thomas F. Pettigrew, a research professor of social psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, analyzed more than 500 studies on intergroup contact. Mr. Pettigrew, who was born in Virginia in 1931 and lived there until going to Harvard for graduate school, told me in an e-mail that it was the “the rampant racism in the Virginia of my childhood” that led him to study prejudice.”

[scaredyclassic]

i don’t care what that goddamn study says, I am not buying a German car. No, not even used.

[all]

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Changed my mind, it is bad carma to start a work week with sarcasm. I will wait until noon.

[backintown]

While there are regions of the Middle East with a particularly high concentration of wackos, bigots and lunatics, these types of individuals unfortunately can be found everywhere. The Netherlands might not be immune to this, but it is clearly a thriving secular democracy and its government (and presumably its public TV) promotes liberal values having no direct stake in the Middle East. The facts outlined in the Dutch public TV documentary speak for themselves.

To insinuate that the Netherlands is a racist country is ridiculous, especially if compared to Israel which is a state created from the very beginning on the sole basis of a religion (other than the even tinier and citizen-less Vatican, the only in the world I believe) by people fleeing absurd persecution elsewhere. It unfortunately evolved into an apartheid state (heavily subsidized by American taxpayers) practicing some of the same abuses some of these migrants were escaping from.

If the Jerusalem Times article you refer to were right and this tiny minority (<0.3% of the world’s population and ~0.2%% in the Netherlands) faces significant discrimination today even in peaceful and tolerant Holland, there would be even more reason for all to be amazed how it is possible for this group to be so over-represented in so many of the most prestigious spheres of western societies. To be sure, this group did suffer from some barbaric acts in the past, but it doesn’t appear logically possible for them to be doing so amazingly well today if significant discrimination is still taking place. Quite the opposite, the question should be on how it achieves such disproportional power.

For those interested, it is certainly worthwhile reading a book written by Norman Finkelstein (son of Holocaust survivors) called “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering”. The book and the life story of the author after he presented his views are eye-opening.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation/dp/185984488X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381255308&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Holocaust+Industry%3A+Reflections+on+the+Exploitation+of+Jewish+Suffering

[Anonymous]

Norman Finkelstein is a very interesting man and is dispised by THE lobby as a traitor. Whilst most who dare to talk about this religious group other than to praise its unique brilliance and uncanny ability to reach the top echelons of power risk being immediately labeled by the ‘AIPAC police’ as anti-semitic, which is sort of what happened in this very thread, it is very difficult to use this type of covert attempt to silence any related discussion on Finkelstein. This makes him particularly dangerous as any debate then moves to the facts he brings up and the merits of his arguments and some of those are pretty compelling.

While the typical label tactic doesn’t work on him, he has suffered several other forms of attack and it is sad to see what happened to his career once he started to catch too much attention.

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=6packscaredy]WWJD?[/quote]

I am buying a t-shirt that says that though the J stands for Jose…

As in Jose Mourniho… The Coach of Chelsea FC…

I look to him for divine inspiration.

CE

[backintown]

What an amazing coincidence! Who is going to be nominated to the #2 of the Fed under Yellen? After an extremely careful and totally unbiased selection process, it turned out the most qualified is the former head of the Bank of Israel.

The gentiles need to take a grip and understand they don’t know any of this complicated stuff and let the two percent take care of us all.

[Author]

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