Jewish Problems

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Post by victorhn » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by pav3l » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 9:14 PM UTC

I'm assuming this is a follow-up on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047

Wow, that is crazy!! Even though i have 2 math degrees and am doing applied math and stats for a living, there is a very good chance I'd fail such an exam if I took it now!

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by pessimizer » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793 [202 comments]

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by nacker » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem.

http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by agf » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:25 PM UTC

nacker wrote: post #4

I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem. http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...

What exactly does that have to do with math or intolerance?

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by nacker » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:34 PM UTC

agf wrote: post #5

nacker wrote: post #4

I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem. http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...

What exactly does that have to do with math or intolerance?

Actually, nothing. I just posted it because I am in shock after reading it. Feel free to downvote, or, I'll just delete it. Are you one of the "nearly one third"?

EDIT: To be fair though, it does have a Jewish connection - cattle trains?

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by idle_processor » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:35 PM UTC

agf wrote: post #5

nacker wrote: post #4

I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem. http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...

What exactly does that have to do with math or intolerance?

Going out on a limb and guessing he means unquestioningly bending over—in this case, rather literally—for authority figures in the face of unreasonable demands.

IMO, Philip Zombardo's studies (most famously, the Stanford prison experiment[0]) suggest this is nothing new.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by shmerl » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:56 PM UTC

Number 17 doesn't look to be extraordinary, it actually was commonly given in Moscow State University (on math and computer science departments) until recently, when oral examinations were removed altogether.

In general such discrimination against Jews in Moscow State University was commonplace until the beginning of 1990s, and is gone since then.

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by mynameishere » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

It's just affirmative action. This sort of thing happens in every multicultural country, especially when one group apparently does better financially than the others.

http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-Around-World-Empiri...

The Russians came up with an unusually crass method for this, but guess what? Jews and other whites and East Asians all are, to some degree, kept from elite institutions today because of our more subtle system.

Re: Jewish Problems

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Post by DaniFong » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 11:27 PM UTC

mynameishere wrote: post #9

It's just affirmative action. This sort of thing happens in every multicultural country, especially when one group apparently does better financially than the others. http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-Around-World-Empiri... The Russians came up with an unusually crass method for this, but guess what? Jews and other whites and East Asians all are, to some degree, kept from elite institutions today because of ou…

Affirmative action? Are you mad?

Perhaps you're unaware of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Russ...

Affirmative action is not the same thing as making it artificially harder for a discriminated minority!