The “disproportionate problem”.

Genuine religious hate is wrong.

And the groups who receive a disproportionate number of genuine hate, deserve special focus from society to alleviate the problem.

What intrigues me is there’s always a recognition of “disproportionality” by the Jewish community when it comes to hate.

However, disproportionality debates are labelled “antisemitic” when discussed in the context of disproportionate Jewish representation in, for example, the Biden administration.

Why is that?

Imagine all these positions were held by any other single minority group; Blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, etc.

Would we not be having the disproportionate representation debate?

You bet we would!

And rightly so, because this type of disproportionate concentration has real-world negative impacts – just like we as a society debated and agreed disproportionate representation of “middle aged white men” had negative impacts.

It creates a group think environment. It fuels bias; conscious and sub-conscious.

When the so called “middle aged white man” was disproportionately represented in many areas of society, we debated it sensibly and worked towards a more balanced and fair representation.

One that better represented society as a whole.

So why is it problem to discuss it with Jewish disproportionate representation, where it exists?

There is precedence for this too; where a particular minority is disproportionately represented – we ask why, and seek the reasons behind it.

For example, there have been open debates regarding the disproportionate representation of black athletes. In order to understand, why.

No one called those debates racist, nor would it have made sense for them to do so.

Asking why, and seeking answers is not something a free and democratic society should every shy away from.