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TurkeyDinner547 t1_iub14e2 wrote

Reply to comment by AlsdousHuxley in TIL Jewish persons could not hold public office in Maryland until 1826 by synonyco

What consequence do you feel I owe for something that happened in 1826? And how do you plan to extract that from me exactly?

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AlsdousHuxley t1_iub1qbm wrote

I never said owe, and you bringing up extract seems unnecessarily hostile when I said it’s about whether or not it matters to you.

Now you said it did, so if that’s the case and you’re down to assist voluntarily, I think the relevance is that Jews face the highest per capita hate crime rate and tracing why this did not happen randomly but builds on a pattern of both state sponsored and non-state based discrimination is useful to understanding how we ended up in a place where Jews are focused on disproportionately. And this understanding is important to changing this.

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TurkeyDinner547 t1_iub2pl4 wrote

That's no longer happening in modern US society. You're acting like something from 200 years ago is still happening today. Isolated incidents will always occur, but that doesn't mean Jews are being systematically or institutionally discriminated against, at least not more than any other group in various settings, even those that are referred to as "majority" don't receive fair treatment in many situations.

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