Jeremy Kauffman

And I want to see politicians talking about this and bringing attention to this, because I think if we don't get through this problem, you know, we're not, you know, we're not going to sort of strike the root, you know, as it were.

Yeah, I mean, I'm probably a bit of a centrist, maybe, on this issue.

Like, I do...

i do see there being uh disproportionate well we it's this also the terms get very overloaded so we have israel uh you know we have sort of a zionist which we might say as a person who supports uh israel politically um i i feel like zionist tends to mean supports israel politically rather than just supports the idea of a jewish state i think zionists more used modern yep and then and then we have

you know jews generally as you know as an ethnic uh uh class which in america mostly means ashkenazi jews but could could mean you know could mean other types of you know could mean other types of jews um i think this is you know i i wish the whole thing would go away like to me this is an area where like people kind of get brain worms on both sides and so there's this class of people who are who have become

very anti, well, anti, more than anti-Israel.

I think being against Israel, if you're just cleanly against Israel, that's an understandable position.

I think some people extend it beyond that, you know, to being anti-Jewish, you know, generally, which here I think I actually would both defend and disagree with.

You know, there's a stance, there's a sense in which...

Like I think anyone who's against all Jews, I think it's kind of crazy.

Jews have contributed tremendous amounts to economy, to innovation, like the amounts of like Jews are just do seem to be remarkably able people in terms of contributions to sciences and various areas.

They also are disproportionately progressive.

They're disproportionately socially progressive.

And so if you're a social conservative, I think it's fine to say, you know, I wouldn't want to live in an area that's too Jewish.

This is something people should be allowed to say.

I think Jews seem to have a disproportionate influence on politics.

We could debate those reasons why, but they seem to bat above their population level.

Almost the opposite of Asians who like seem to bat below their, you know, their population level.

And so whether this is because of cultural reasons, ethnic reasons, you know, it's unclear.

I, you know, and I wish we could just kind of talk about this stuff, you know, more frankly.