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Jonathan Kay - FrumForum.com: Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

October 26th, 2011 by JONATHAN KAY

FrumForum.com http://www.frumforum.com/where-are-the-anti-semites-at-occupy-wall-street

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The video goes on for eight minutes like this. It quickly gets tedious. And we don’t really learn anything from it: No matter our place on the political spectrum, most of us sound dumb when someone suddenly puts a microphone in front of us and asks for our opinion.

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Two years later, exactly the same trick is underway on the other side of the political spectrum: Lazy conservatives who instinctively are repelled by the Occupy Wall Street movement, but can’t be bothered to intellectually engage with the issue, are circulating their own YouTube hits — alleging not just stupidity and bad hygiene, but also anti-Semitism. A popular one (200,000 hits so far) called “Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street — LA” features a woman who declares: “The Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve … they need to be run out of this country.”

Armed with video snippets such as these, an American conservative group is running a slick ad suggesting that the Occupy movement is basically just one big Democratic-supported anti-Semitic jamboree. ”

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Experts call it the “confirmation bias” — our natural psychological attraction toward data or anecdotes that serve to support our pre-existing attitudes and bigotries. And it’s something that always has been part of human nature. But the combination of social media with cheap online video technology has turbocharged the confirmation bias to the point where rational political dialogue is in danger of extinction.

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Originally Posted at the National Post

Topics: anti-semitism, Internet, Occupy Wall Street, YouTube

http://www.frumforum.com/where-are-the-anti-semites-at-occupy-wall-street

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