{"id":1268,"date":"2017-03-17T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:08:06","slug":"i-dont-know-what-bugs-me-more-the-vicious-anti-semitism-or-the-terrible-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/03\/i-dont-know-what-bugs-me-more-the-vicious-anti-semitism-or-the-terrible-math\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t know what bugs me more: the vicious anti-Semitism or the terrible math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Just a quick take here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These flyers were found <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoist.com\/2017\/03\/16\/jewish_privilege_flyers_at_uic.php\">posted around the University of Illinois Chicago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1269\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1269 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/anti-Semitic-flyer-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Whoa! Racist, but persuasive\u2014there's even footnotes!\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/anti-Semitic-flyer-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/anti-Semitic-flyer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/anti-Semitic-flyer.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whoa! Racist, but persuasive\u2014there&#8217;s even footnotes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">The argument <i>looks<\/i> kosher\u2014there&#8217;s a neat graphic, and even footnotes to a reputable, impartial\u00a0source!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But if you actually <i>look <\/i>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2009\/01\/30\/income-distribution-within-us-religious-groups\/\">link indicated for footnote #2<\/a>, you find pretty much nothing other than this graphic:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1270\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1270 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/income-by-religion.gif\" alt=\"Actual facts once again wreck a perfectly usable racist trope. Also, way to go, American Hindus!\" width=\"550\" height=\"595\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual facts once again wreck a perfectly usable racist trope. Also, way to go, American Hindus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">While this graph <i>does<\/i> show 46% of Jews to be in the top 18% of earners (the largest percentage for an identified American religious group), <strong>it is not possible<\/strong> to extrapolate what percentage of which religious persuasions occupy\u00a0the 1% from this graphic (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/news\/how-much-income-puts-you-top-1-5-10\/\">those earning in the $500,000 to $1.2 million range<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anyway, just another reminder that on November 8, 2016 me and my kids were fired from being White\u2014<em>again<\/em>.\u00a0&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f525;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick take here.\u00a0 These flyers were found posted around the University of Illinois Chicago: The argument looks kosher\u2014there&#8217;s a neat graphic, and even footnotes to a reputable, impartial\u00a0source!\u00a0 But if you actually look at the link indicated for footnote #2, you find pretty much nothing other than this graphic: While this graph does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/03\/i-dont-know-what-bugs-me-more-the-vicious-anti-semitism-or-the-terrible-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what bugs me more: the vicious anti-Semitism or the terrible math&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[76,33,77,83,53,43],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}