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by jachee 2659 days ago
Oi. What's with the antisemitism?
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NavyNuke 2659 days ago
Uh...that wasn't antisemetic...when talking about Ivy league representation, Jews are disproportionately represented which is why I distinguished between "Jewish Whites" and Non-Jewish Whites...
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jachee 2659 days ago
Bigger question: Why bring race up at all, then? Class has demonstrably larger effect.

The 1% are very disproportionately represented in the Ivy League, too.

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_red 2659 days ago
A couple of interesting questions:

1. Is being Jewish a race or a religion?

2. Being Jewish is also strongly correlated to class. 44% of Jews earn 100K+. Thats compared to ~20% for Christian, 19% Catholic, 20% Islam. (Interestingly Hindus are close at 36%).

Source: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/income-dis...

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mikemotherwell 2659 days ago
Is that how the system works? I'm not American, but it seems like race does get factored in. Or am I just sorely mistaken?
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