“The report claims the change was suggested because Frank is no longer aligned with “the new focus on diversity.” “ Nothing could be more ironic. If there ever was an example of oppression and violence against the perceived ‘other’, it was the 1933-1945 experience of European Jews. The fact that this could be happening in a Germany is st…
“The report claims the change was suggested because Frank is no longer aligned with “the new focus on diversity.” “ Nothing could be more ironic. If there ever was an example of oppression and violence against the perceived ‘other’, it was the 1933-1945 experience of European Jews. The fact that this could be happening in a Germany is startling given the reckoning they undertook over the last 50 years.
Several months ago, my headstrong and foolish 56 year old cousin called and told me she had applied to attend graduate school in Germany because she wouldn't have to pay tuition. I told her in no uncertain terms that her plan was idiotic and suicidal. My cousin is not only Jewish, she also looks and sounds Jewish, very Jewish. I told her that given Germany's past she could she could become an easy target overnight -- not only by the neo-Nazis, but also by the large and hostile Muslim population. She slammed down the phone, and I never heard from her again.
It's possible to identify Jews with a moderate degree of accuracy by their physiognomy, speech and gestures. In the 1940s, the German Nazis used these criteria along with written records to round up millions of European Jews and send them to the ovens.
The same thing could happen again. The following research study, The Identifiability of Jews (1959) conducted in the US and reported in the Journal of Sociology found that 30% of Jewish study participants (college students) could be correctly identified as Jewish by all six of the study's judges.
As if that were not enough, the DNA database of 23 and Me was breached just a few months ago. It exposed the names and of hundreds of thousands of individuals classified as having European Jewish ancestry based on their DNA. You could be identified as Jewish even if you never joined 23 and Me or submitted a DNA sample. All it would take is having one or more distant cousins you've never even heard of who joined 23 and Me and filled out genealogical questionnaires. No one knows who stole the DNA data or whom they sold it to. But I can easily imagine who the recipient might be and what nefarious purposes they would it for.
I'm skeptical of the physiognomy part being reliably useful. The Nazis used local people to turn in Jews, since they knew who was who and anti-semitism was rampant in EU then as now. I wonder how many times the judges misidentified someone as Jewish also. The DNA thing...that is a concern.
Yes, our Palmetto State's beautiful banner is often recognized as the USA's best state flag. The earliest major victory of the US secession from Great Britain was due in no small part to our Palmetto trees (Fort Sullivan, June 28, 1776).
“The report claims the change was suggested because Frank is no longer aligned with “the new focus on diversity.” “ Nothing could be more ironic. If there ever was an example of oppression and violence against the perceived ‘other’, it was the 1933-1945 experience of European Jews. The fact that this could be happening in a Germany is startling given the reckoning they undertook over the last 50 years.
Several months ago, my headstrong and foolish 56 year old cousin called and told me she had applied to attend graduate school in Germany because she wouldn't have to pay tuition. I told her in no uncertain terms that her plan was idiotic and suicidal. My cousin is not only Jewish, she also looks and sounds Jewish, very Jewish. I told her that given Germany's past she could she could become an easy target overnight -- not only by the neo-Nazis, but also by the large and hostile Muslim population. She slammed down the phone, and I never heard from her again.
I hope things work out for her. What is "looks and sounds Jewish" though?
It's possible to identify Jews with a moderate degree of accuracy by their physiognomy, speech and gestures. In the 1940s, the German Nazis used these criteria along with written records to round up millions of European Jews and send them to the ovens.
The same thing could happen again. The following research study, The Identifiability of Jews (1959) conducted in the US and reported in the Journal of Sociology found that 30% of Jewish study participants (college students) could be correctly identified as Jewish by all six of the study's judges.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2773434
As if that were not enough, the DNA database of 23 and Me was breached just a few months ago. It exposed the names and of hundreds of thousands of individuals classified as having European Jewish ancestry based on their DNA. You could be identified as Jewish even if you never joined 23 and Me or submitted a DNA sample. All it would take is having one or more distant cousins you've never even heard of who joined 23 and Me and filled out genealogical questionnaires. No one knows who stole the DNA data or whom they sold it to. But I can easily imagine who the recipient might be and what nefarious purposes they would it for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/23andme-user-data-targeting-ashkenazi-jews-leaked-online-rcna119324
By the way, I could not help but notice the palm tree and crescent moon symbols in your thumbnail.
I'm skeptical of the physiognomy part being reliably useful. The Nazis used local people to turn in Jews, since they knew who was who and anti-semitism was rampant in EU then as now. I wonder how many times the judges misidentified someone as Jewish also. The DNA thing...that is a concern.
Yes, our Palmetto State's beautiful banner is often recognized as the USA's best state flag. The earliest major victory of the US secession from Great Britain was due in no small part to our Palmetto trees (Fort Sullivan, June 28, 1776).
If she goes through with this you might literally never hear from her again.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.