Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=m^nU>@nP8QGGE;6X:DPoL@U5[F2hIijDO7J470dMQQ7KJ4R`5ADBYnBCODD059b9oO1A?EK]8;W0KE7F X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 16:19:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design References: <0001HW.2C03BD0B032D7BBD30E57938F@news.giganews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: <66563c51$7$1258333$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1716927569 reader.netnews.com 1258333 127.0.0.1:47139 Bytes: 2591 On 5/28/2024 3:43 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2024 14:41:38 -0700, john larkin wrote: >> One major cause of anti-semitism was that both Christians and Muslims >> considered usury, lending money at interest, to be sinful. So people >> and kings had to borrow from Jews to finance their farms and >> businesses and wars. It was then more convenient to have inquisitions >> and pogroms and genocides than it was to pay them back. > > Mostly correct. Usury was charging excessive interest rates. While > in college in the 1960's, I was the local loan shark. The college > (Cal Poly, Pomona) had large number of foreign exchange students, > mostly from Iran and Saudi Arabia. They were all the son's (no > daughters) of the rich upper classes in their countries. All these > students were granted very little pocket money by their parents on the > assumption that if they lacked the funds to play around, they would > spend their time studying. It didn't work, but that was the plan. So, > the students went to disreputable sources (like me) for borrowing > money. I had no trouble getting paid because I knew that the very > last thing they wanted was for me to inform their parents of their > son's activities. They'd likely just sadly remark "I fell in with the wrong crowd" if caught (despite almost nobody ever meeting a self-declared member of "the wrong crowd")