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I guess Brooks knows his audience but it's generally not a good idea to write things like this. Another example:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19...

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.




What's your point? Is it that we shouldn't publicly talk about some statistics for fear that people might draw the 'wrong conclusions'. What if Stein was right and 'Jews' actually did run Hollywood? (BTW I really don't know or care) Would that be a piece of information that should reflexively suppressed?


That's pretty funny.

All joking aside, a disproportionately high percentage of the Hollywood studio system is in fact Jewish, and for historical reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film#The_studio_sys...

This happened a lot in the early 20th century: certain immigrant groups ended up dominating certain industries. That need not be cause for offense.


Well, humor may be misleading and easily misunderstood, but this article is not a scientific paper, and the rules of which things look better and which don't are different.




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