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Who’s deterring whom?
August 9, 2021
While WASPs won by losing, Jews lost by winning.
Over the past century and a half, Jews have achieved incredible success in the U.S., finding their way into almost every area that was once the province of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) elite. Yet, notes Samuel Goldman, this upward mobility “came at a cost.”
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“I carried out my mission and Allah made me successful.”
While WASPs won by losing, Jews lost by winning.
Scholars pursue truth; politicians pursue power.
“They don’t need a rabbi for something that’s not Jewish.”