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Let's say you're not an academic so you're not well-placed to judge merit. You're also not on DR sites and aren't into the IQ-determinist camp (those tests are culturally biased anyway right?). And you keep seeing Jews do well, everywhere?
It's easy to see how you can both sincerely and self-servingly believe that Jews aren't really doing better than you and yours, they're cheating (I think I recall this outright being stated by disgruntled parents about Asians when DiBlasio was first taking on "equity" in the NY magnet schools - that they had a culture of cheating which explained they dominate). Nobody wants to just fold and say someone else's kid deserves that spot more than theirs. They'll come up with some theory.
So I don't see how there isn't a link - the former can easily motivate or aggravate the latter. A lot of people believe things in their interests and won't uncouple things when it doesn't suit them.
I know this because...this doesn't just apply to Jews who, let's face it, people already hated. Non-Chosen wypipo are even more subject to it, because you can accuse any white person of "privilege" or benefiting from the old boy's club or implicit bias or whatever without being hit with the "antisemite" label. So we hear even more about "mediocre white men" waltzing into things. If white people had the grace to score worse I doubt those theories would have the same vise grip.
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