Gregg Easterbrook | "I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

Gregg Easterbrook, American Author

Stereotype, Day, Identity, Now, Persecution

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"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

"When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed."

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"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

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"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."

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"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."

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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."

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"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."

People

"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."

Acting

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

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"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

Stereotype

"Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it."

People

"But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever."

Mistake

"Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now."

People

"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."

People

"And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment."

Firing

"It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly."

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"When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

Author Name

Personal Development

"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."

People

"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."

Acting

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

Numbers

"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."

Stereotype

"Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it."

People

"But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever."

Mistake

"Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now."

People

"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."

People

"And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment."

Firing

"It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly."

Reaction