I wonder if the far left consider Jews "white"?
I think the answer to that will probably illuminate some minds here.
That's an interesting one. The far right and left certainly consider Jews "clever" as they (in their view) can control all these networks that hold the levers of power whereas non-whites are seen (by the far right) as their inferiors. The left, being internationalists, don't really do the "go back to your own country" thing like the right do and don't feel that Israel should be mainly or exclusively run for the benefit of Jews, although they never seem to have the same reservation about countries like Saudi Arabia, where there are cities that non-Muslims aren't even allowed to set foot in. Apartheid anyone?
But I think you've misunderstood the original point that ChicagoBlue made. I suspect he meant rich, powerful, Ivy League, WASP American men - the Frat house brats, Bullingdon Club equivalents - whose wealth and power, as we've seen with Trump himself, makes them think they can get away with virtually anything including sexual assault. If the Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne had instead seen a black man driving the car, does anyone think the black guy would only have got a 2-month suspended jail sentence like Kennedy did?
I visited the National Holocaust Museum in Washington back in June and it illustrated two themes for me. The first was that the language & demagoguery used by Hitler and the Nazis in coming to power was eerily echoed by Trump and his supporters. "Putting Germany First", "Making Germany Great" "The rest of the world has taken advantage of us financially", the twisting of facts and outright lies. I mentioned it to my host that night and he (a Democrat) agreed wholeheartedly.
The other side of it was the way the Nazis created a state of fear among the Jews and gradually isolated them, while unleashing what had been up to then mostly latent antisemitism among the German public. Hitler himself had a period of not showing much overt antisemitism for diplomatic reasons but he certainly didn't discourage his underlings in that regard. He certainly wasn't a Zionist as the thought of a Jewish state, with a vote at the League of Nations, was anathema to him. He wanted Germany's Jews gone but not to a country of their own. And that largely reflects the current far left attitude. They're happy to create an element of fear in the Jewish community but they don't want them to strengthen Israel by emigrating there as they don't want the existence of an Israeli state. But I should point out that I don't believe that either the current left or Trump would go down the same path that the Nazis did.
There was another interesting conversation I had in Washington, this time with someone I know who works at the Israeli embassy. There's a view that the US "Israel lobby" is all-powerful in the US but they told me that the view in the Embassy was that Americans aren't as sympathetic to Israel as people imagined. The religious right tend to be but they can also be a bit sniffy about the Jews themselves. The ambassador there was very much a Netanyahu man but there was a sense I got that even he was getting a bit nervous.
So I certainly agree that it can be disturbingly easy to transition from 'the rich' to 'the Jews' but there is a class of people in the USA who you can refer to disparagingly in the former sense without meaning the latter.
