@p @judgedread This is the difference between how normal people and Inquisitors think. A normal person thinks, "only sub-5% of the members of group X cause real problems." An inquisitor thinks, "60% of the public high-level troublemakers out there are part of group X, which is only 2% of the population." Both of these statements can be true (and in the case of the jews likely are).

Those of us with a libertarian background get unhappy about the injustice associated with putting the boots to the entire group, because we empathize with the unfortunate small business jew who's just trying to sell bagels, who *hasn't committed any crime personally yet*. By an accident of birth that could be *us*. We want a purely reactive justice system where nobody gets hit except for bad shit they personally did, one where "everyone gets to go to Hell in their own go-kart", as WJBIII once said.

There are two difficulties with this reactive approach. The first one is that groups containing a much larger than normal percentage of coordinated manipulative exploiters can use their first strike advantage to *capture the enforcement mechanisms*. This is what has happened to us: the FBI, CIA, court system have been completely subverted by bad actors for a long time, and very obviously so.

The second problem is when the group in question has sufficient in-group loyalty such that members will not actively report bad faith actors in the group to the enforcers in the larger society. Civilian reporting of real crime is essential to a functional high-trust society, especially a more libertarian one where we want law enforcement to be as decentralized as possible. The jews fail very badly on this measure.

Now if those jews who consider themselves good faith Americans got really serious about purging the bad faith actors from their ranks, much unpleasantness and injustice could surely be avoided -- but I've seen no indication that they are ready for that at scale.

It's a big mess, and I haven't even gotten started on the *religious* aspects of this problem.