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To: arun gera who wrote (237414)	7/21/2007 5:47:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Just curious. So what changed the attitude towards jews in the United States? And when? It was gradual. In the 1940s and 1950s for example, there were many professional fields that Jews could not enter; the firms just would not hire them. I think it was three things working together that changed it - the rise of the idea of meritocracy, which was behind legislation like the GI Bill that made it possible for so many sons and daughters of the working poor to move up in the world, the civil rights movement, in which Jews sided with blacks and also benefited, and the general horror at Nazi atrocities when they were uncovered after the war, which made anti-Semitism unrespectable. Unfortunately, anti-semitism seems to have become respectable again, judging by the frequency with which the Left indulges in it.