Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 19:57:32 -0700 Lines: 109 Message-ID: <813d5j5e0g2pko5gpj5702duqhakb57q4k@4ax.com> References: <0001HW.2C03BD0B032D7BBD30E57938F@news.giganews.com> <8fic5jtvkc58jmh8kjo8pf84d1fg50e03h@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 3zOnjTT8606gQJQRWwz67gEcIYX53DTCwlfDf+T2rpTywIeeBg Cancel-Lock: sha1:xjojpNm7a11ofN8KSWLmR02FS8o= sha256:sP88dCSPlbOCuP3y2WmFKEwrE9qIwOfX5nxgSId9MNQ= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 6566 On Tue, 28 May 2024 14:32:31 -0700, john larkin wrote: >On Tue, 28 May 2024 12:43:57 -0700, 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. > >I'm sure none of that loan money was spent on beer or Playboy >magazines. Probably not. I only knew of a three students who were caught. All disappeared literally overnight. When I asked about one, everyone pretended that they didn't know anything. My guess is that not knowing any better, the loan money was used for baksheesh, without which nothing gets done in the middle east. It's origin goes back to the method of repaying loans in the form of a "gift". Baksheesh can be a bribe, tip, gift or payment for illicit services depending on country and social status: [Q] What's the difference between a bribe and a commission? [A] A commission is paid after the transaction. A bribe is paid in advance. Otherwise, they're the same. In the middle east, no sane businessman would risk their profits on the goodwill of the customer and a delayed payment. There's little to prevent the customer or buyer from hopping on their camel and disappearing into the desert, leaving the seller holding the bag, but not the payment or profit. It's a different culture, as the US learned in Iraq and Iran. Most of the students from the really wealthy families brought along a servant to carry the books and deal with all the mundane tasks including baksheesh. The servants were loyal to the family and not the student, which made it impossible for the student not to get caught. Because the servant had family back in the old country, bribing the servant was impossible. In the dormitories, I did something rather stupid. I was in the common bathroom shower etc. One of the foreign exchange students pointed to a urinal and asked "what's that"? Without much thought, I answered "It's a foot wash" and promptly disappeared. When I returned the next day, I discovered that student had interpreted my joke as an insult and sent the servant out to kill me. Eventually, they decided that killing a student did not offer proper respect to the school and was not in accordance with their responsibilities as a proper guest. >I'm reading a surprisingly interesting book now, >https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C24RDJNK Not available now on Amazon. This looks like it might work: $28. Thanks. It does look interesting. However, I have a problem. Prior to cataract surgery in Jan 2024, I could barely read from a book and then only in 15 minute intervals. After the surgery, it took me another 2 months to recover. The result was a large backlog of reading material. I'm catching up, but have vowed not add to the backlog for a while. Incidentally, reading on the computer screen was tolerable because of better fonts, dark mode, colored text and larger characters. I also used a screen reader and AudioBooks.com with limited success. I'll take a look at the book when I have more time. >I'm a german-irish protestant-catholic mutt, but I've always had close >Jewish friends (and girlfriends) for some reason. They were smart, >kind, friendly, and neurotic. Fun. My ancestors were Polish-Jewish for at least 3 generations. Past that, I don't know. Most of those coming from Europe after WWII married Americans if there were immigration problems, or Jewish if they were properly sponsored. They also kept in touch through various organizations, which also served as a social club and matchmaking service: The next 2 generations married almost randomly but about half remained Jewish and educated their children in Jewish traditions. >(There were dark rumors in my family of a bit of Jewish ancestry and, >much worse, a hint of French.) Do a DNA ancestry test and be a little more certain. I've never bothered to run a DNA ancestry test but some of my cousins have done so. The results were a mixed mess but did verify that my ancestors were from eastern Europe. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558