Anytime you see two Jews in leading roles, debating each other in some political or moral conversation, you are witnessing the "Jewish Question" right before your eyes.

The "Jewish Question" is essentially a two part question:

Firstly, how does this extremely tiny minority find itself in such influential positions, leading, and in many cases, dominating important sectors of a nation, in such disproportionate numbers compared to their population, when they didn't even found said nation?

Secondly, how dare this group, that considers themselves separate from all humanity because they're supposedly chosen by God, believe they have the right to not only dictate to the majority of that nation, but also demand censorship of anyone who resists their dictates?

So I reposted this tweet, and I did so with way way too much apathy. It's a generations-old conversation that's been had to wit's end. In talking to one of my boys it is clear I shouldn't have done so, with such a nonchalant attitude. I have had and always had many friends of differing dedication to their Jewish faith. I don't possess an ounce of anti-semitism, never have. Opinions like the one posted elicit conversations and in rational adults they elicit deep conversations. I always like those conversations and enjoy getting into them. Anyone who took this repost as some sort of endorsement of anti-semitism, you were wrong. I could have done a far better job of elaborating, given I didn't elaborate even a little, and that's on me, and I apologize to anyone who is a rational adult who thought I might have been endorsing some sort of anti-semitic opinion. Anyone who actually knows me knows for a fact nothing could be farther from the truth. That being said I am not going to caveat social media posts on a weekly basis to placate people who hate by nature and who enter this discussion with their pre-conditioned opinions. Shalom!

In doing so, Schilling admitted he didn’t know if Wakefield wanted the diagnosis shared.

Curt Schilling said on his podcast the Wakefields are fighting cancer. Hard to imagine why he would do that, but he did. To say that people with the Sox and others around Tim and Stacy are furious is an understatement.

All the best to the Wakefields, who are very nice people.

I keep forgetting that Elmo doesn't let not xitters see stuff anymore...

What does a ''really deep'' conversation with schilling sound like?

I don't possess an ounce of anti-semitism, never have. Opinions like the one posted elicit conversations and in rational adults they elicit deep conversations. I always like those conversations and enjoy getting into them. Anyone who took this repost as some sort of endorsement of anti-semitism, you were wrong.

He's just JAQing off, you see.

Schilling admitted he didn’t know if Wakefield wanted the diagnosis shared.

I don't possess an ounce of anti-semitism, never have. Opinions like the one posted elicit conversations and in rational adults they elicit deep conversations. I always like those conversations and enjoy getting into them. Anyone who took this repost as some sort of endorsement of anti-semitism, you were wrong.

He's merely JAQing off, you see.

This does not surprise me, but admittedly, it's the type of thing that thousands, even millions of people would blurt out without a shred of respect for other people's privacy.

I don't possess an ounce of [___]ism. ... Anyone who actually knows me knows for a fact nothing could be farther from the truth.

This kind of statement is always a strong indication that such person is a very big [___]ist.

WHy cant he just say "Ok jewish people seem to put a higher percentage of people in professional jobs and why is that?

there's only a couple million American Indians in the country

um, in th USA, there's 5.2 million Native Americans of all tribes and 7.6 million Jews, according to the 2020 census,

Sosh,

we can dump on him for that too

34. An increasingly rare voice for free speech. Of course he should be able to say this stuff and suffer the consequences (or not) in the public forum.

First- Schilling has already himself asked NOT to be considered for the Hall anymore (good. request granted).

Second - I *used to* feel that Schilling should go into the HoF regardless too... I don't remember which rung it was he hit on his way down the shitbag ladder, but I remember he hit a rung some time back that caused me to say "Nope, he's crossed a line". I vaguely recall it was some J6 nuttiness or maybe it was some Q crap, I don't recall.

First- Schilling has already himself asked NOT to be considered for the Hall anymore (good. request granted).

Steve Carlton also had some, er, interesting political opinions, but nobody's saying he shouldn't be in the Hall.

WHy cant he just say "Ok jewish people seem to put a higher percentage of people in professional jobs and why is that?

And they are one of the smallest minority groups at least in this country. Do they trigger emotions simply because they are successful?

This does not surprise me, but admittedly, it's the type of thing that thousands, even millions of people would blurt out without a shred of respect for other people's privacy.

31. SoSH U at work Posted: September 29, 2023 at 12:41 AM (#6142700)

I'm just mocking those Schilling defenders here who claim that his exclusion from the Hall is just based on "politics," rather than the fact that he's just a horrible person, as he's these latest incidents tell us

If you are calling Jewish people a small minority, then it's pretty safe to say that everyone is a minority. This is the problem with this "deep" conversation is that it's incorrectly starts a classification wrong. If the standard is Jewish = minority, then everyone is a minority. Lumping all Christian sects into one to create a "majority" is utterly ridiculous, you have to break it down to different groupings, because Lutherans and Southern Baptist and Catholic etc are all different. By this logic, there is no majority, so complaining about a minority having influence is just idiotic on the face of it.

and all them old timers n the veterans committee i bet agree with every dammm word of it. they all right wingers too, just ain't made a post ballplaying career of putting foot in mouth all the way up to the butthole

I am not even lousy amateur psychologist, but did S do this stuff while he was playing? I forget b/c I did not pay attention to him, other than he was on the diamond (where his performance was frequently spectacular and HOF worthy)

Tony S makes a very interesting point (at least to me) in describing S as a martyr.

Schilling has a much more solid baseball case than Puckett, though he'd still be in the lower half (probably lower third) of HoF starting pitchers.

Should be in the Hall of Fame -- 200 wins as a knuckleballer looks increasingly like a record that will never be matched.

(I find myself morbidly curious as to whether any other MLB veterans died on the last day of the regular season.)

my buddy and I drove up to a game at Fenway Park many years ago.

we sat in the RF bleachers, and the sun made the field mostly invisible. I told my pal that Wakefield would pitch a no-hitter.

I assume he just meant never again.