Judith Weiss at Kesher Talk explains why more Jews don't vote Republican. She makes some sound points, but then there's this bit:

Even suburban middle-class Jews tend to think of ourselves as more ethnic, urbane, artsy-fartsy, entrepreneurial, emotionally "authentic," and encouraging of independent thought in our children, than our gentile neighbors. We tend to stereotype Republicans as: WASP, corporate, suburban, lowbrow, preoccupied with being "nice" to the detriment of honest emotion, believing that children should be "seen but not heard," having bland taste in music and literature. (And dumb enough to pay retail.) Both stereotypes may not be true or even desirable, but it's our own little bit of in-house bigotry.

Indeed, neither of those stereotypes is true, desirable, or useful, and calling them "our own little bit of in-house bigotry" doesn't exactly justify perpetuating them, does it?



And who's fooling themselves here? More and more Jews are voting Republican; how does Weiss's "stereotype theory" account for that?

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