Schnutzel t1_itozetw wrote on October 25, 2022 at 6:48 AM

Reply to comment by DrSmurfalicious in ELI5: Why exactly have Jewish people been discriminated against for so long throughout history? by DumpsterPuff

You're ignoring history. Antisemitism didn't just pop up in the 20th century, it had existed for hundreds of years. The reasons provided by /u/Hydrasaur explain how antisemitism came to be, not why it exists now. Now it exists because it has been perpetuated since the middle ages.

DrSmurfalicious t1_itp0cw5 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:01 AM

Sure, but things change, or should change, over time. Many groups of people have been discriminated against in the past that aren't today.

Schnutzel t1_itp0en5 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:01 AM

Of course. There's a lot less antisemitism now than there was 100 years ago. But it still exists.

Hydrasaur t1_itq0c4e wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:48 PM

Sure, that tends to be the case, but we've always been an outlier throughout history. Discrimination follows us wherever we go, and persists throughout millennia to this day, perhaps by virtue of the fact that it's existed for so long, and has been so systemically ingrained, and perhaps because of the diaspora forcing us to spread out. We've always been an easy target, especially with antisemitism taking the form of conspiracy theories, portraying us as attempting to undermine the established order.