I think I have a better handle on what's been niggling at me.
The way the story is written, it has a tone of "Newsflash! Jews are being blamed for the world financial crisis [after many years of people not holding stereotypical anger against them]!" as if there is a sudden surge in anti-Semitism while the real story is (in my mind) "Nothing has changed; a third of Europeans still think the Jews are to blame for their ills, we just have a new set of ills to blame the Jews for."
Now, I'm glad that this is news to you because it highlights a problem that had been previously unseen. But I worry that it is news because it implies (infers?) in general that 30-33% of the people reflexively blaming Jews is acceptable background noise.
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Date: 2009-02-12 01:55 pm (UTC)The way the story is written, it has a tone of "Newsflash! Jews are being blamed for the world financial crisis [after many years of people not holding stereotypical anger against them]!" as if there is a sudden surge in anti-Semitism while the real story is (in my mind) "Nothing has changed; a third of Europeans still think the Jews are to blame for their ills, we just have a new set of ills to blame the Jews for."
Now, I'm glad that this is news to you because it highlights a problem that had been previously unseen. But I worry that it is news because it implies (infers?) in general that 30-33% of the people reflexively blaming Jews is acceptable background noise.