Dude, this is an idiotic opinion. There are liars, evaders & deflectors of every ethnicity; there are honorable people of every ethnicity. Racial essentialism is LARPing for 13yos. Disagreggation is next to godliness - judge people by their ethics and politics, not ethnicity. https://twitter.com/HermannBillung/status/994668702883827712 …
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5/ Three possibilities, off the top of my head: * Jews are on average, more likely to lie and cheat * Jews are on average, more intelligent, and less intelligent people can't understand how intelligence works, so blame cheating * random slander https://twitter.com/ManlyMerchant/status/994671451637780480 …
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6/ re theory #1: have never seen any data suggesting this, and have had many Jewish and non-Jewish friends and have never noticed a difference in lying / cheating re theory #2: we have hard data that shows that Ashkenazi are more intelligent than regular Europeans >>>
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7/ Being more intelligent means that you can see problems ahead of time and protect yourself from them. I'm not Jewish but I'm intelligent, and I run into this all the time. >>>
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8/ I owned a video rental company for a long time. Before I started it I researched the laws on First Sale Doctrine, consulted a lawyer, etc. I ran into the situation dozens of times where someone published a video that I purchased then rented out, creator got upset >>>
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9/ I quoted law, they declared that I was lying, cheating, or "un-Christian" (which I find surprising, because I didn't realize that Jesus had an opinion on the First Sale Doctrine either way). I was being treated like Christians treated Jews: I made a smart move, hated for it
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10/ close to my stance, yes https://twitter.com/realDharmakirti/status/994672385466003457 …
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11/ This, for example, is a much better / more fair way to critique
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12/ yes There's nothing people hate so much as an obligation to pay someone back for the money that they lent. Crying "kill the Jew!" is a lot easier than being frugal and paying back a loan. https://twitter.com/unhygenicmacro/status/994672601619410944 …
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13/ No, usury (by which I think you mean "charging interest") is good on its own. https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994673572315521024 …
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14/ Spoken like someone who has no capital to loan out and dislikes that people who have low time preferences and have accumulated capital won't loan it out for free. https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994673852188770304 …
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15/ Well, rights are in fact kind of arbitrary and culturally dependent (e.g. we're settled people and we consider that property is a right, but nomads wouldn't). One can imagine all sorts of IP regimes. It just happens that ours allows renting DVDs. https://twitter.com/ManlyMerchant/status/994673883063218176 …
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16/ You have ZERO right to access other people's capital for free. If you don't like paying interest, don't borrow money. /shrug https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994674069550260224 …
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17/ Valid theory. This is the gypsy / traveler model. I don't think it's correct, but intellectual fairness suggests we look at it. My thought: people don't help randos they don't interact with repeatedly. You help your brother, your cousin but not...https://twitter.com/chrylis/status/994685507509551104 …
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