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u/Justicepork55 · 16 pointsr/preppers

I don't remember who said it or where I heard it, but a Jewish person was explaining that her parents weren't religious and didn't seem to strongly identify with the Jewish cultural traditions, but that they would occasionally say things like "A Jew should never own anything they can't carry on their backs."
I take this as a cultural memory of having to flee pogroms and genocides at a moment's notice, so one could compare this to a form of prepping. Thomas Sowell is an amazing author, and he has several books about different racial groups, and he suggested that Jews had gone into trades that were highly knowledge based because a skill set like medicine is valuable wherever a person lives and is eminently portable, whereas other forms of trade or occupations are more tied to geographic areas and the wealth from them can't be easily moved (farming). Again, a cultural form of prepping, if we define that as a premeditated preparation for catastrophic events.

I also think that Americans tend to have extra money and time, whereas people in most of the world are consumed with a day to day struggle for survival, so there is very little mental bandwidth or resources left to prepare for possible disasters.
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u/mariox19 · 10 pointsr/politics

> Actually, until the late 1960s, average white Americans couldn't relate to Eastern European Jews.

I read somewhere that when the Ashkenazi Jews first began to emigrate to the United States, the Sephardic Jews, who more or less were in this country since the beginning, "couldn't relate" to them either.

u/ThisPlaceIsToxic · 6 pointsr/Sacramento

Says Thomas Sowell, one of the lead conservative black thought leaders of the Right. Just like I said in my previous statement which I am assuming you glossed over since you felt the need to ask "says who" after I clearly mentioned a direct conservative source. Go read "Ethnic America".

If you want to make the argument that redneck is a classist term, I might agree, but it is not racist as it does not pertain to perceived race or an actual ethnicity. It's about class not race. Middle class and Upper class Whites use it to belittle poorer Whites, and those poorer whites then work together with the Middle and Upper class Whites to create and reinforce Whiteness which is in turn used to limit influence of PoC throughout our history. Racism is just one of many tools used to maintain class order.

Also correcting your incorrect usage and understanding of racism is not race baiting. You're the one baiting this shit by throwing out undisguised racist terminology (in various posts) and ideology hoping you don't get called on it. Shit YOU brought race into this by incorrectly trying to say Redneck is a racist term. So seriously, please stop with your ignorant comments on race and racism because you don't understand the terms or systems you are saying/describing.