“Stories about anti-semitism on college campuses are both interesting and important, for example, precisely because they are an expression of a broader societal trend.”
Broader trend, yes and we should shudder.
It is interesting you seem (if I am not wrong)casually intellectualise hatred and falsehoods spewing from newspaper articles and from those students’mouths. What these students do is not a reflection of a trend.Trends come and go, but anti semitism has never not been a trend. It has been unfortunately established thousands of years ago, it seems it is here to stay.
When you are portrayed the way Jews are (as the killers) and the actual terrorists as martyrs and brave, there is something seriously wrong with these young people. Journalists are working for a business and most would write about any dirt to sell more papers ( investigative reporting excluded) But, how about the impact these misguided student have on the younger generations? What a 12 year old finds cool is his brother’s friends in college celebrating on 7 October the massacre, gloating celebrating how many Jewish babies were killed and hoping for more.
I am not certain we can take anti semitism lightly.
"Even one hundred college students who say outlandish things won’t allow you to draw any conclusions about the 20 million. 100 college students is still a mere .0005 percent of them!"
First of all, a sample of 100, if representative of the target population, definitely can provide a good deal of useful information. Secondly, when one is sampling from a target population the total proportion of the target population that is sampled does not matter. All that matters is the size (and representativeness) of the sample.
" Serious journalists who write those stories should reconsider their career and life choices."
love. :)
“Stories about anti-semitism on college campuses are both interesting and important, for example, precisely because they are an expression of a broader societal trend.”
Broader trend, yes and we should shudder.
It is interesting you seem (if I am not wrong)casually intellectualise hatred and falsehoods spewing from newspaper articles and from those students’mouths. What these students do is not a reflection of a trend.Trends come and go, but anti semitism has never not been a trend. It has been unfortunately established thousands of years ago, it seems it is here to stay.
When you are portrayed the way Jews are (as the killers) and the actual terrorists as martyrs and brave, there is something seriously wrong with these young people. Journalists are working for a business and most would write about any dirt to sell more papers ( investigative reporting excluded) But, how about the impact these misguided student have on the younger generations? What a 12 year old finds cool is his brother’s friends in college celebrating on 7 October the massacre, gloating celebrating how many Jewish babies were killed and hoping for more.
I am not certain we can take anti semitism lightly.
This is a good article. But...
This part is a bit misleading -
"Even one hundred college students who say outlandish things won’t allow you to draw any conclusions about the 20 million. 100 college students is still a mere .0005 percent of them!"
First of all, a sample of 100, if representative of the target population, definitely can provide a good deal of useful information. Secondly, when one is sampling from a target population the total proportion of the target population that is sampled does not matter. All that matters is the size (and representativeness) of the sample.