(1/9) @nathancofnas: Obviously, the relevant question is whether Jews are marrying people at random with respect to whether their mates are Jewish. We agree that the intermarriage rates of Jews cannot be taken to prove that they are ethnocentric because Jews may have...
(2/9) non-ethnic reasons for preferring to marry fellow Jews. This is one of the reasons for which I regard marriage rates as an inferior form of evidence.
What I'm not sure you have admitted is that you obviously cannot compare the intermarriage rates across groups to...
What I'm not sure you have admitted is that you obviously cannot compare the intermarriage rates across groups to...
(3/9) establish a rank order of ethnocentrism because these groups differ in size and because, as you have said, reasons other than ethnocentrism can affect intermarriage rates.
(4/9) Most Jewish Americans say that their ethnicity is important to them (more so than most American do), that they feel a special connection to their coethnics, that part of what it means to be Jewish to them is to fight for “social justice”, that their politics are informed
(5/9) by their experience as a minority, and that they see the right as a source of antisemitism.
That a population which is 2% of the general population marries each other around 40% of the time does not give us good reason to disbelieve what they are telling us about...
That a population which is 2% of the general population marries each other around 40% of the time does not give us good reason to disbelieve what they are telling us about...
(6/9) their own motives.
And while a 40% intermarriage rate does not prove that they are ethnocentric, it does not contradict what we would predict if they were, and so is not evidence against the proposition. Even if it were, the totality of...
And while a 40% intermarriage rate does not prove that they are ethnocentric, it does not contradict what we would predict if they were, and so is not evidence against the proposition. Even if it were, the totality of...
(7/9) the evidence would still side with them being relatively ethnocentric and with ethnic interests playing a role in their politics.
You ask how leftism serves the ethnic interests of Jews. This question is surprising since not only did I state...
You ask how leftism serves the ethnic interests of Jews. This question is surprising since not only did I state...
(8/9) the relevant logic in the article, you have also written, seemingly approvingly, of the same explanation in the past.
And of course Jewish people are not the sole variable which explains variance in leftism, so it is not a contradiction that America at once has more...
And of course Jewish people are not the sole variable which explains variance in leftism, so it is not a contradiction that America at once has more...
(9/9) ... Jews and is less leftist in Europe. But we know that Jewish are to the left of gentile Americans and that their presence statistically explains why American elites leaned left by the 1980s. This is obviously superior evidence to the observation that Europe is liberal.
