Misreading of special case

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013

Re: "Stereotypes aren't reality", Letters, May 14.

 

C Buckley has misread my letter which addressed the way in which Jews are being used by non-Jews in an effort to brainwash people, and the thinking goes like this: Jews are special people and we revere Jews, so therefore we are also special people.
This brainwashing puts Jews in the precarious position of being elevated to a supreme status and, by extension, eventually taking the blame for failures. It is now non-Jews who are in control of this brainwashing, using while also abusing Jews who are left on the sidelines, recognising that they get so much positive attention (to the point of mythological) while also being summarily blamed for disasters.
Judaism has thus been abducted for the purposes of non-Jews’ brainwashing and Jews have lost almost complete control of the situation.
The attempt to use Tibetans in this way was also tried, but that did not quite work out.
Jews, Buddhists and others must stay aware of how they are used and then discarded simply for the purposes of brainwashing, and if stereotypes exist, then governments and corporations are creating them.
After Jews are eventually abandoned, then other subjects will be selected, just as victims of vampires would be.
Guy Baker
Bangkok