I am saying that. I'm saying that there are deep cultural beliefs that have been inculcated over generations and millennia that have manifested into the identify of some peoples.
Where did Hitler get his hatred of the Jews?
Why do so many people hate black people?
I'm saying that people don't really know the roots of why they hate certain people, but they hate them nonetheless. Why did people enslave the black Africans 250 years ago, and does that have roots in why people still hate blacks today? Should we only look at why blacks are resented today without regard to the historical path that got us to today? Why put blinders on the hatred of the Jewish people in a similar way?
I'd go further to hypothesize that hatred for Jews is almost universal across the globe right now. Can the same be said for Africans? Can the same be said for any other cultural people?
Can it be said that the hatred of Jews is a global phenomenon that is not paralleled by another other race of people? Can it be surmised that something profound in the past of history is behind such a phenomenon?
I'm not a Biblical scholar by any means, but I've read that there are Great Flood stories in many cultural historic texts, not just in the Bible. I can't say if this has been archaeologically proven or just historic propaganda, but if similar epic stories have been repeated in diverse cultural histories, then why can't we assume that hatred for the Biblical chosen people was another epic story that perpetuated across the cultures of time and history?
-PJ
No doubt there has been deep prejudice against Jews, particularly in Europe that goes back hundreds of years. But there’s also been at this point over a hundred years of disproportionate Marxist agitation from Jews and controversial Zionist/Israel geopolitics that I think are at least perceived as contributors to more recent resentments. I’d suggest there are many factors involved.
Similarly, but also very differently, there no doubt was a very early and persistent sense of inferiority conferred on Africans as they were “discovered” by European adventurers and exploiters, reinforced by at least perceived disproportionate crime rates added more recently to the mix.
But there also is great admiration and warmth directed toward these two populations that have been disproportionate contributors to entertainment and culture as well. Again, it is complicated.
Hatred of course is a bad human weakness all around. But it probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t at times protective insofar as it at times helps populations to mount defenses in circumstances of war and invasion, for example. We can be a squirrelly species. Just look at the current global environment.