Fear I may be anti-Semitic

OP

Pechorin

why on earth would you be anti-semitic? Wise up

Can't help it just have these thoughts at times

Reply 3

Artemidoros.

3

I doubt you're a true anti-semite. Try looking up the religion, that may instigate a new perspective regarding the matter.

Reply 4

OP

Yeah but it's based on my experience of Jewish people, sounds awful but there you go

Reply 5

yellow96

15

Well, try not to go killing any Jews, and nobody can blame you for what you've been conditioned to feel. Let your feelings get the better of you, and you're just a racist.

Reply 6

Thud

17

wtf?

weirdest thread ever award. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Jews.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7XrRyqses5U

Reply 7

I'm glad that you're concerned about it rather than not.

I'm more worried, though, about your 'experience of Jewish people'! I'd be devastated if I let down Judaism by being a bad ambassador, and I'm certain that all the Jews I know would feel the same.

Please talk about it :smile:

PM me if you like.

Jonathan

Reply 8

OP

Maybe I'm exaggerating. I can think of Jews I like. Maybe what I mean is that when I encounter members of a certain ethnicity I hate, my feelings get transferred to other more innocent members of that ethnicity.

Reply 9

qubog

what? why wouldn't you like jewish people? random. also, how do you know so many jewish people? i can honestly say i have never met one jewish person. then again there isnt a lot of diversity where i come from.

Reply 10

OP

qubog

what? why wouldn't you like jewish people? thats like saying you don't like people with green eyes. random.

I have had certain prejudices about their character, stereotypes, which I won't go into

Reply 11

Maybe what I mean is that when I encounter members of a certain ethnicity I hate, my feelings get transferred to other more innocent members of that ethnicity.

A kind of racism - but very easy to fall into and quite natural.

The fact that you're aware of it means you must make your best efforts to go against it.

I doubt what these Jews did to you was anything to do with their being Jewish... did they batter you over the head with a menorah? The person or persons may just be arseholes - you have to disconnect it from what they are, as with any bad experience.

Reply 12

Anonymous

I have had certain prejudices about their character, stereotypes, which I won't go into

When you're judging someone's character, preconceptions you have about them have far more magnitude than what you actually observe. They destroy any fair judgment skills you usually have. This is bad.

Reply 13

qubog

Actually, i think i might be prejudiced against Scottish people. This is because the only 2 Scottish people I've met have been complete stereotypes. Both of them have:

(a) Been fans of haggis
(b) Drunk Highland Clan whiskey
(c) Started fights with me
(D) Swore a lot

Take into account the fact that a Scottish bloke once headbutted my boyfriend for no reason, and that i've watched a lot of Rab C Nesbitt and how could i not be prejudiced?!

Really though, I know that not all Scottish people are like that. I don't believe for a second that David Tennant, for example, drinks too much Highland Clan and headbutts people he doesn't know for no reason at all.

Reply 14