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That's Isreal, not Judaism

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is a state intolerant for forbidding someone to open his business, or restricting his hours of busines by law on the Sabbath no matter what his religion?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

in·tol·er·ant ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-tlr-nt)
adj.

Not tolerant, especially:
a. Unwilling to tolerate differences in opinions, practices, or beliefs, especially religious beliefs.
b. Opposed to the inclusion or participation of those different from oneself, especially those of a different racial, ethnic, or social background.
c. Unable or unwilling to endure or support: intolerant of interruptions; a community intolerant of crime.

I'd say a) is pretty different to b)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's Isreal, not Judaism
-- run it off (davebeec...), January 27th, 2004 1:37 PM.

because people conflate judaism with the state of isreal?
-- Stringent Stepper (stringen...), January 27th, 2004 1:30 PM.

there you go mate

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

the State may well be intolerant if it restricted business hours for citizens who don't share the law of the Sabbath, but the religion isn't intolerant because the state does this.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

So, if the problem is the conflation of the state and the religion, does that mean it is racist to say that Judaism is intolerant instead of saying that Isreal is intolerant?

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

not racist, I mean anti-semitic...

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Huzzah, The UK is intolerant (no shock there....)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well, a lot of places in London settled by Jews had Sunday trading by dint of being closed on Saturday for Sabbath: see Brick Lane/Whitechapel, Golders Green/Hampstead.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

the religion isn't intolerant because the state does this

I don't know enough about the tenets of Judaism to go into it, but by analogy -- it *is* intolerant if it sanctions the law, surely?

Judaism != Jews, maybe, run it off? It's clumsy, but race and religion are not the same. So it isn't racist to criticize a faith? I doin't know.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Religious Law is not intolerant of those who break religious law.

Surely religious las IS intolerant of people who break it. I'm guessing there must be punishments for transgression, even if it's just an evil look during church - and that kind of emotional punishment can be extremely effective/painful, especially in close-knit communities and ones where the people have a God's good will yo lose.

Laws are not opinions, so flouting the law is not a differing opinion either.
If you are a Jew, you do not drive etc on the Sabbath. This is a ritual by which you live a religious life. It is the code by which you get closer to god. That is not intolerant. Judaism would be intolerant if it forbid non-Jews to drive etc on the Sabbath.

-- run it off (davebeec...), January 27th, 2004.

Laws are opinions, they're (usually(should be!)) the opinion of the majority as to how individuals should behave.

Also, not being allowed to drive on a Sunday (or Saturday) IS intolerant: intolerant toward Jews. I think most religions are least tolerant of their own.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Laws are opinions, they're (usually(should be!)) the opinion of the majority as to how individuals should behave.

That's a bit of a shallow view of jurisprudence.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

jurisprudence = ideological screen for repressive state apparatus

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

how could a religion as old as the hills sanction a state as young as Isreal? Still less the acts of the leaders of such a state.

The ideological screen idea is itself an ideological screen.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ideologies don't screen. They are productive not obstructive. Eagleton at one point uses the example of the phrase "the Prince of Wales is a nice chap". This is ideological because it produces a certain effect (support for the Royals as people) not because it hides the real social relations (Royals are social leeches, or etc). The fact that it makes no mention of politics, economics, and so on does not mean that it is a screen any more than a black and white photo can be said to be a screen against colour.

As such, juridprudence is not an ideological screen; it is ideological. That doesn't mean it is no different from other ideas or opinions. Opinions that are ratified and authorised are not opinions in the same way as opinions that are not.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sorry -- it was just my little joke. Nonetheless, I think it's interestingly provocative to call laws 'opinions'.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes, I agree.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hey, we Jews are barely tolerant of each other, let alone the rest of you.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Enough with the kvetching!

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

kvetching - one of my favourites. A friend calls her young baby a kvetch box

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

Every time you moan you have to put a coin in the kvetch box.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

[all babies are young, aren't they... doh!]

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

Laws are opinions, they're (usually(should be!)) the opinion of the majority as to how individuals should behave.
That's a bit of a shallow view of jurisprudence.

-- Ricardo (boyofbadger...), January 27th, 2004.

Jurisprudence is the philosophy of law isn't it? Isn't what I've said what that all boils down too?

Where _is_ the depth?
It's simple isn't it?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Can you explain how it all boils down to opinion?

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hey, we Jews are barely tolerant of each other, let alone the rest of you.
-- Chuck Tatum (sappy_papp...), January 27th, 2004.

See! Told you!

And more kvetchup please!

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

Laws (attempt to) make people behave in the ways other people _think_ they should behave.

How humans should behave is a matter of opinion. Different religions, for example, havie differing opinions.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sorry -- it was just my little joke. Nonetheless, I think it's interestingly provocative to call laws 'opinions'.
-- Enrique (miltonpinsk...), January 27th, 2004.

To clarify, laws themselves aren't exactly opinions, but what they attempt to enshrine as 'right' and 'wrong' ARE opinions.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

I might break the law even though I agree with it generally, but I may also break the law because I have a different opinion as to what is 'rihgt' and what is 'wrong'.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

who are these other people? Don't the laws apply to the people who write them? (Seriously)

If laws are backed by the state (and, after all, that's what makes them laws, rather than guidelines or codes or something else) then they are not just opinions, they are sanctified, ordered, institutionalied, backed up by the criminal justice system etc. I'm not saying power and hierarchy and stuff aren't involved -- of course they are -- but laws don't get to be laws without going through a socially sanctioned process.

The case of breaking the law because you have a different opinion (civil disobedience etc) does not mean that the law is treated as opinion it means that laws are seen as arbitrary and changeble, so that collective action can bring about social changes that force laws to change.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes they do apply to those that write them (or they're supposed to).

Yes, they are socially sanctioned, they are the combined opinions of a lot of people.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

By 'opinion' here I mean 'what some people' think is right.

Also, I'm not saying the law is _treated as_ an opinion, I'm saying it _is_ an opinion.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

From dictionary.com

o·pin·ion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-pnyn)
n.

A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof: “The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion” (Elizabeth Drew).

A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert: a medical opinion.

A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing: has a low opinion of braggarts.

The prevailing view: public opinion.

Law. A formal statement by a court or other adjudicative body of the legal reasons and principles for the conclusions of the court.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

So for example, the law that says "kill someone, go to jail", implies that killing is wrong.

And "Killing is wrong" is "A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof".

(The last clause of that definition is a coincidence, and not what I was aiming at really, 'opinion' seems to be fairly slight homonym.)

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

I believe killing is wrong, but I'll admit that it's just a belief.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

law is not an opinion except in an abstract sense. Even if an opinion is converted into law through the established procedure it is not an opinion. At least it's not an opinion anymore.

That's all I'm saying.

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

How can 'killing is wrong' be just a belief? Do you mean it's only wrong for you and people who agree with you? What about people who don't agree with you, such as, let me think, ah yes, murderers?

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Our rabbi would curtail his sermon whenever Spurs played home, which was a great act of altruism and tolerance.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

About 40.5% said Jews in their country had “a particular relationship with money”

So what if a culture is associated with professions like banking and so on? My Parsee ancestors held a similar position in India. Big deal.

That is not nearly as harmless an accusation as you may think. The belief that Jews are obsessed with money is one of the foundations to anti-semitism.

Also "playing the victim" in regards to the Holocaust has that vomit-inducing ring of Holocaust denial.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Why did people stop writing books of the bible, anyway? There should totally be one tracing the decline of Spurs that culminates in them being cast of the garden of 'big clubs'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

So what if a culture is associated with professions like banking and so on? My Parsee ancestors held a similar position in India. Big deal.

That is not nearly as harmless an accusation as you may think. The belief that Jews are obsessed with money is one of the foundations to anti-semitism.

I think N made his point well, actually, in that within the matrix of (especially central and eastern) European culture, the link between Jews and banking/trade was made into an ideological justification for anti-semitism, and was therefore more harmful than in other contexts. Stereotyping according to race/culture is a touchy area, but the association, or the making of associations, is/are not in themselves bad.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sorry for crossposting with a serious post.

bnw - I know that about the money thing. But the question didn't ask 'are Jews intrinsically obsessed with money?'. I know that a good number of the people who answered yes to the question are probably horribly anti-semitic, but I resent the implication that they all have to be. 'Vomit inducing rings' are what all these questions work with, but I prefer my anti-racism to be less 'you must mean that really', in character.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

"mentality and lifestyle" different from, and this is the important part, "OTHER CITIZENS." Reminds me of that Bojeffries Saga story where the cops burst in to see a slavering werewolf standing on the table in a restaurant, say "well, it's obvious what our job is here," grab the one black guy in the restaurant, beat him up and drag him away, as one of the other patrons says to his companion "I'm not racism, but they ent the same as us, are they?"

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

I know that a good number of the people who answered yes to the question are probably horribly anti-semitic, but I resent the implication that they all have to be.

My problem with it is how reasonable and academic it makes anti-semitism sound. It allows people to hold onto their suspicions about Jews, and not have to consider themselves anti-semites.

Really, what's the point of the association between jews and money if not anti-semitism? Have you heard this made in a positive light?

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

No, but I've heard it said in a neutral light, by Enrique four posts up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

This thread made it past 60 posts without anyone mentioning the link to the article doesn't work?

― Stuart (Stuart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Another thing is Jews are what.. like 3% of the population? That makes an 18% anti-semitism rate scary enough.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

bnw - I completely agree with that (though I don't understand what the 3% has to do with it)

Stuart - oops! I pasted all the text anyway but the link is here

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

I found it too just now. I didn't realize you'd posted the whole piece. I'm looking for the original survey but not having much luck so far.

― Stuart (Stuart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

More at good ol' Al Jazeera - including the delightful headline: Jews urged to stop playing Holocaust victim

It also makes note of this, which I hadn't heard about: One in seven Britons says Holocaust is exaggerated.

― Stuart (Stuart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

This stuff scares me a lot. Because, unless I just had my eyes closed as a young man, it seems that anti-Semitism has really grown just in the last five years. Since 9/11, really.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

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Oh the orig blog I started reading was the Hasidic Rebel, I think. Hurt, will read that article more carefully when I'm at computer.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:30 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

Oh hah he's quoted! Is that the same Pearl who did the docu about her family's divan?

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:33 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

Oh no sry that was Pearl Gluck.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:34 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

I don't think so but IDK, she's mainly a photojournalist

oh xp

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:34 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

I tried to read Hurting's link at Dunkin Donuts, and it was blocked as "pornography."

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 26 April 2013 20:34 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-gateways-to-old-hatreds/

― Mordy, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I really want to post the Times piece about Nueva Germania, Paraguay somewhere but I don't think this is the right thread. So interesting though.

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I haven't seen it yet but I think the doc is here:

― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:56 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

the first minute of that came off as hysterical agit prop, didn't really need to watch more

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-are-human-rights-organizations.html

― Mordy , Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

about half-way down the page:
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom/index.htm#wrapper

― Mordy , Monday, 20 May 2013 19:51 (4 days ago) Permalink

Venezuala?!

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:28 (4 days ago) Permalink

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-disappearing-jews-of-malmo-sweden.html

― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 May 2013 12:51 (3 days ago) Permalink

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/05/21/greek-politician-screams-heil-hitler-in-parliament-during-debate/

― goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:21 (3 days ago) Permalink

god bless america, tbh

― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:28 (3 days ago) Permalink

The rise of the Golden Dawn movement obv is a tragic development, but the extremism of the “Golden Dawn” movement in Greece, which is now reaching out to other European countries? Really, which ones?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:51 (3 days ago) Permalink

Not sure what's meant by that either, I mean, Hungary's rancid with anti-Semitism but there's no connection to what's going on in Greece.

― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:54 (3 days ago) Permalink

GD-movement is a typical national movement that is being ridiculed and smdh'd at by all of Europe iirc, also the Medditerranean countries

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:56 (3 days ago) Permalink

Not to deny it's dangerous, mind, but I've yet to hear of movements outside of Greece that are following the footsteps of those fools.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:57 (3 days ago) Permalink

andersbreivik.jpg

― goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:59 (3 days ago) Permalink

While it isn't as organised and popular as Golden Dawn, this brand of fascism is rampant in Eastern Europe.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:00 (3 days ago) Permalink

though his relationship to antisemitism is not quite as ahem direct iirc

― goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:01 (3 days ago) Permalink

andersbreivik.jpg

― goole, dinsdag 21 mei 2013 17:59 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Huh? A lone wolf psychopath isn't exactly a good example of anti-semitism. His primary motive was anti-islam.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:06 (3 days ago) Permalink

i think calling him "lone" (or even psychopathic) is a stretch, given the bridged online-irl community he came out of. but you're right about islam, in his/their case

― goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:10 (3 days ago) Permalink

I think I have an Ikea product called Malmo

― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:52 (2 days ago) Permalink

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/biden-praises-jews-goes-too-far.html

― Mordy , Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:12 (2 days ago) Permalink

Biden’s intentions here are obviously as friendly as can be, but the execution is awkward.

oh, no shit?

― goole, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:17 (2 days ago) Permalink

That will be the first line on his obit.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:23 (2 days ago) Permalink

The main problem here is that gay rights, unlike black civil rights, are politically controversial at the moment. Biden may find it “all to the good” that Jews have used their influence over popular culture to change societal attitudes toward homosexuality, but lots of people don’t find it good at all.

chait making sure to cover all his bases as usual

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:24 (2 days ago) Permalink

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