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Almost equally revolting was the post-slavery "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 550, 551 (1896):SCOTUS in Dred Scott v. Sanford said:Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property....
Relying on Plessy, Oklahoma admitted a student named McLaurin to a graduate school. Pursuant to a requirement of state law that the instruction of Negroes in institutions of higher education be "upon a segregated basis," however, he was assigned to a seat in the classroom in a row specified for Negro students, was assigned to a special table in the library, and, although permitted to eat in the cafeteria at the same time as other students, was assigned to a special table there. The SCOTUS held that this treatment violated his right to equal treatment, and this and other decisions paved the way to the overturning of Plessy. See McLaurin v. Oklahoma, 339 U.S. 637 (1950).SCOTUS in Plessy v. Ferguson said:Gauged by this standard, we cannot say that a law which authorizes or even requires the separation of the two races in public conveyances is unreasonable, or more obnoxious to the fourteenth amendment than the acts of congress requiring separate schools for colored children in the District of Columbia, the constitutionality of which does not seem to have been questioned, or the corresponding acts of state legislatures.
The absolute hatred for Jewish people that exists is something I just don't understand. Is it jealousy? Scapegoating?
The absolute hatred for Jewish people that exists is something I just don't understand. Is it jealousy? Scapegoating?
The absolute hatred for Jewish people that exists is something I just don't understand. Is it jealousy? Scapegoating?
Very simple. We weren't even allowed to study or learn the language of the countries in which we lived, or own land. Most Jews actually wanted badly to assimilate. When we came to New York we worked by day, and went to night school to learn English. Except for the Hasids we are very big on assimilating.plus one other factor, for a good deal of history Jews in Europe were an identifiable population that assimilated slowly, thus subject to more jealousy and scapegoating.
not saying it's right, but it seems that oppression works best we it's easy to identify who it is you're oppressing.
The absolute hatred for Jewish people that exists is something I just don't understand. Is it jealousy? Scapegoating?
My own pet answer is that we are one somewhat non-conforming group that is hard to demonize on the merits. We obey the laws. We work. Our children go to school. Somehow we get into leadership positions. And yet we won't accept Jesus Christ.I never understood that either, when I was a little kid I couldn't understand why the "white" supremacists hated Jews when all the Jewsish people I had seen/met at that point were so pale and pasty
I never understood that either, when I was a little kid I couldn't understand why the "white" supremacists hated Jews when all the Jewsish people I had seen/met at that point were so pale and pasty
Many countries such as Japan don't allow blacks to immigrate at all.
Thanks for the info. It's still a distinction without much of a difference. As a practical matter Japan and many other affluent countries lack a mixing issue. They have truly insignificant numbers of blacks and Jews. And for that matter Japan's population of Vietnamese, Chinese and even Koreans is minor.Do you have a source for that? Most information I've found suggests that there are black immigrants in Japan, though it has had very restrictive immigration policies in general with <2% of its population born overseas.
What's it like to be black in Japan? - BBC News
I had forgotten when I last responded to this thread that I read a book called Anti-Judaism by David Nirenberg. The book is over 600 pages and is a tough but worthwhile read. It traces Jew-hatred back to the time of Egypt. Egypt even had a counter-Exodus story that the Jews were more trouble than the were worth but I digress. He concludes that most Jew-haters through history never met an actual Jew but Judaism was a symbol of forces they feared, such as a consistent body of law, modernism, and cosmopolitanism.The absolute hatred for Jewish people that exists is something I just don't understand. Is it jealousy? Scapegoating?
I never understood that either, when I was a little kid I couldn't understand why the "white" supremacists hated Jews when all the Jewsish people I had seen/met at that point were so pale and pasty
My own pet answer is that we are one somewhat non-conforming group that is hard to demonize on the merits. We obey the laws. We work. Our children go to school. Somehow we get into leadership positions. And yet we won't accept Jesus Christ.
Other minority groups are easy to demonize. But we have no 9/11's under our belt, or street crime, or much teen pregnancy though it does happen.
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