Some of my new friends here in D.R. are Jewish, and one of them shared a Jewish Journal article with me today:
October 3, 2022
We, the undersigned Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, are disappointed by recent events at the University of California, Berkeley, in which nine registered student organizations at Berkeley Law have amended their bylaws to ban any speakers that support Israel or Zionism — a standard Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky noted would ban both himself and 90% of his Jewish students from speaking at events hosted by these organizations.
The article doesn’t list the nine organization, but another Jewish Journal article does:
… these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus
The second article goes on:
It is now a century since Jewish-free zones first spread to the San Francisco Bay Area (“No Dogs. No Jews”). Nevertheless, this move seems frightening and unexpected, like a bang on the door in the night.
“Unexpected?” Perhaps this comes as a surprise to those whose heads have been buried in the sand for the past few decades. It’s certainly not unexpected to me. All of the groups in question have been coddled by the Establishment Left, and taught that white people are the scourge of the Earth. In their eyes, Jews are simply uber-white people, worthy of the same scorn and derision as other white people, but even more so.
I’ll quote David Cole, describing black and brown apathy about the Nazi Holocaust:
The problem isn’t not knowing but not caring. “Brown” America, the nonwhite Americans exalted domestically and imported from abroad by people like Soros and Weingarten, don’t give a damn about no Jew Holocaust. Back in 1996, a landmark Contemporary Jewry study found that black and Hispanic students not only don’t give a crap about the Holocaust, black students actually care less about it the more they learn about it. The study found that focusing on the Holocaust in school makes black students actively hostile toward Holocaust history.
Obviously, the reason black and brown people don’t care about the Holocaust is that, in their eyes, it’s just a bunch of white people killing other white people.
Official victim groups, in America, are taught to hate white people, and most American Jews look just like any other white people – therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised when said victim groups lash out against Jews; it’s just another form of lashing out against whites.
Unlike other whites, however, we Jews are actually allowed to speak up in our defense. We haven’t lost our political voice yet.
As for my Jewish friend, I’m not sure I’d call him a leftist (we haven’t really spoken about politics), but he was both surprised and outraged at this development, especially considering the fact that his kids attend that school.
Note: I’ve been having technical issues with my computer and internet, so please forgive any typos that might have escaped my notice.
California School Board Member Apologizes for Racist Comments
San Francisco school board member Anne Hsu is in hot water for comments she made about black and Latino students, and the reason they’re harder to educate. From AsAmNews:
The MSN version of this story includes a video, in which we get more details about what she actually said:
Let’s do something that Hsu’s detractors seem incapable of doing. Let’s view this through the lens of reasoning.
Almost every aspect of modern life can be described in relative terms. When we say a person is “suffering from hunger,” we don’t always mean that he has absolutely NO food whatsoever. What we generally mean is that he lacks enough quality, or quantity, of food to flourish. When we say that a student “lacks discipline,” we’re not saying that he’s the same as a wild animal, with no inhibitions or self-control whatsoever. What we mean is that, RELATIVE to other students, he’s not as disciplined.
East Asians have a worldwide reputation for excelling in school. A quick internet search will yield many mainstream websites that give essentially the same reason. For example, the website IMDiversity has this to say about it:
We can find countless other examples. They all agree that there are cultural traits, common to many Asian ethnicities, that stress academic achievement over all else.
Isn’t this the same as saying that other cultures stress academic achievement LESS? Anne Hsu is Asian, and she is 100% correct in pointing out that black and Latino families offer less academic support to their kids than do Asians.
Hsu’s mistake was apologizing; she’ll probably lose her job anyway, along with her dignity. If it’s forbidden to attribute racial academic disparities to cultural differences, then we might as well cut right to the chase and spell it out: These differences are rooted in BIOLOGICAL disparities between the races. Culture is downstream from genetics.