For people who fashion themselves members of a “master race,” white supremacists and neo-Nazis are pretty crappy at basic research, not to mention statistical inference and interpretation.
To wit, the claims so often made by these types — and which I’m getting repeatedly in my e-mail inbox since the Pittsburgh terrorist attack on the Tree of Life synagogue — to the effect that Jews have too much power in America and enjoy massive privileges over others.
We run everything: the banks, the government, the media, everything. And this we know because of the disproportionate representation of Jews at the top of these institutions, and the fact that Jews as a group are the wealthiest ethnic or religious sub-group in America.
For instance, they say, Jews are only about 1.5 percent of the population, but we hold a much larger share of prominent positions in finance, media and government than this number would predict.
Just as a basic point of fact, the actual percentage of Jews, depending on how you count us is as high as 3.3 percent of American adults, so they can’t even get that right, but whatever…
Hold my fucking beer.
