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[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This is so gratuitous, and so irrelevant to the actual demographics of Israel (most Israeli are neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi, which shouldn't be a surprise if you're vaguely aware of geography) that I have to wonder if this is meant as some sort of weird antisemitic dog whistle. Probably he couldn't even say himself.

In any case, typical ignorance of Israel stans (and many critics sadly) who love to think of it as a white country.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 20 hours ago

I assume it is just the genetics/iq fanboying which leads them to think like this, not some weird antisemitic dogwhistle, not that philosemitism isn't also a form of antisemitism via othering.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 24 minutes ago

dog whistle

Ashkenazi IQ and asian SAT scores absolutely are the "but I have a black friend!" of race science, but further mythologizing Yud and Scoot on those grounds also happens.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago

yeah remember that it's a LW tenet that Ashkenazi Jews are of unusually high IQ. Coincidentally a group containing both Eliezer and Scoot

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

their ancestors were optimized in the shtetl

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