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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that, in all of the discussions around race, fairness, college admissions, etc is it the case that the overrepresentation of the Jewish population in Ivy League schools is never discussed?

“40% of students at Columbia and UPenn are now Jewish.“

https://www.jta.org/archive/doors-of-ivy-league-colleges-reported-wide-open-for-jewish-students

“2.2% of US adult population has some basis for Jewish self-identification”

Should we be drawing swastikas on school grounds? Hell no. Should we have an open discussion around the systemic issues that are leading to one group being so remarkably over overrepresented and the level of suppressed antagonistic thoughts that may be brewing under the surface and leading to these aggressive behaviors?

Let’s see how the board responds to such a thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#:~:text=According%20to%20Gallup%20and%20Pew,demographers%20Arnold%20Dashefsky%20%26%20Ira%20M.

I mean these stats are remarkable. [/quote]

I can't even express how angry this post makes me. Are you trying to justify anti-antisemitism by saying that people are aggrieved that Jews are "over represented"? Kind of like "we brought it on ourselves"? Thank you for trolling in typical antisemitic tropes! Pathetic-you sound paranoid and jealous on top of blatantly antisemitic.
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The PP is pointing out a resentment that is partially fueling the antisemitic wave and is dismissed and personally attacked as antisemitic because of it. Whether or not Ivy overrepresentation is true, I've observed this kind of resentment goes much deeper than that. Calmer heads are needed for solutions.[/quote]

Yes, precisely. In the public discourse, there exists an overwhelming amount of support for “increasing diversity” - such discourse naturally has the unintended consequence of leading to resentment - whether it be through college admissions, work promotions, etc. These situations are often described in skits, comedy shows, etc and provide a sort of comedic relief to us all surrounding the issue.

Through the narrow eyes of one individual, increasing diversity come to be viewed as a zero-sun game. On the aggregate, it is not. However, the appeal of thinking it negatively impacted one’s life would be difficult for one to evade when XXX student got into this school despite having inferior YYY parts of their application or so-and-so got promoted despite their inferior skillset. Such resentment boils over time and leads to demagoguery as the people turn to a strong man/woman to restore their place in society (sound familiar at all?). No society is immune to such patterns. Decentralized power has historically been the most ideal way to prevent such extremes from manifesting fully, but power has consolidated immensely in recent years.

However, certain topics, it seems, remain simply forbidden from discussion. The automatic “load the gun and scream anti-semite” knee-jerk response to broaching the discussion demonstrates exactly how the topic and thoughts are forced into the hidden self. Thoughts that grow in isolation are the most dangerous thoughts indeed.

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Cool.  So let’s say someone harbored “resentment” toward an entire group of people based on a cherry picked statistic.  What would you call that person?  [/quote]

Cherry-picked? Hardly. [/quote]

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