DISAPPOINTING STEREOTYPING BY A GOOD FRIEND

I also posted SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY UNCOVERD on PACOVILLA Corrections blog. To my surprise, my friend Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle made the following comment:

You have to admit, these days “the Jews” in this country for the most part are socialists.

Here is how I responded to Greg’s comment:

Whoa there Greg! You’ve just touched a raw nerve in my body. Where do you get that “Jews in this country for the most part are socialists”? I take strong exception to and am disappointed in your stereotyping! It is true that most Jews in this country are liberals, but for the most part those liberal Jews are capitalists, not socialists.

You have fallen into the trap of characterizing Jews on the basis of some prominent liberal Jews that have been in the public spotlight. I can assure you that most Jews, while liberal, abhor socialism. I’ll grant you there were a lot of sorry-ass Jewish communists during the McCarthy era, but they faded as quickly from the scene as Joe McCarthy himself.

You might want to ask, who are these liberal Jews. Let me answer that for you. They are college and university graduates that have been indoctrinated by the prevalent far-left professors in our institutions of higher education. But it’s not just the majority of Jewish graduates, it’s the majority of all college and university graduates that are liberals, regardless of their religious or ethnic backgrounds.

There is also another reason why many Jews tend to be liberals. Jews have been victims of persecution throughout history. And people that have been victims of persecution, whether Jewish or otherwise, tend to be liberal because much of such persecution came from conservative elements wherever it occurred.

While I know that you are definitely not anti-Semitic, your statement could easily be construed as being anti-Semitic.