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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.
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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening and welcome to the Tangled Podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host Isaac Saul, and today we're gonna talk about the Jews. When I was in college, a friend told me that black people were overrepresented in professional basketball because American slavery was an exercise that in survival of the fittest and that the black Americans who made it to the modern era were therefore predisposed to be more athletic. At first blush, this explanation made some sense. Even as an adult, I can see how it feels intuitive. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's a commonly held belief today. Of course, the idea only really works if you're ignorant like I was the first time I heard it. To buy this explanation, you have to think slavery was a highly selective process of breeding big strong men men to labor in the fields. Basically the story that you see in Hollywood. In reality, slavery was a brutal, messy exercise in violence and greed. It fueled rampant malnutrition and disease that limited the lifespans of slaves who were sold and traded and killed with little thought or reason. To the extent that slave breeding happened at all, it was usually through haphazard force coupling or masters raping their female slaves and then enslaving their own children. The work itself was varied too. More than just manning farms, it involved domestic work, crafting, cooking and childcare. Basically, the only way this seemingly intuitive theory works is if you actually don't know anything about slavery at all, or genetics for that matter. Since physical characteristics of a group require hundreds of generations to manifest, not just four or five, deconstructing a silly idea like this is simple enough. But to close the loop, you have to be able to offer real explanations too. Otherwise, people will continue to invent their own theories to explain the patterns they can see with their own two eyes. Researchers discovered that a higher concentration of type 2 muscle fibers, or fast twitch muscles, was present in populations of West African descent. Similar observations apply to distance runners from East Africa or powerlifters from southern or Eastern Europe. These are just bell curve trends, not destiny. One athlete isn't going to be faster or stronger than another just because they are part of one group. But we don't get to these explanations without first noticing the trends. There's also a cultural explanation rooted in historical fact. Black Americans were excluded from high status careers for generations, so they turned to sports and entertainment. Sports like basketball became highly visible routes to success in the black community. And community institutions like the YMCA or AAU or HBCUs. They built pipelines for young black kids to play basketball and hone their craft at an early age so they could use their skills to get scholarships and unlock the opportunities available to them. All of this cultural pressure explains why a particular racial demographic outperforms others in professional sports, a highly meritocratic space. This same concept applies to antisemitism. Something I've learned over the years of talking about the Jews is that it helps to think critically about the things people are saying and address them head on. It has been my experience that antisemitism, like racism, thrives when swimming in ignorance. So my message for Jews or friends of Jews interested in combating antisemitism is we have nothing to hide. It's okay. All we need is defenders who know our history and aren't ignorant enough to be tricked by antisemitism. You can let your guard down and address these issues honestly. And today, in an effort to walk that walk, I'D like to do just that. 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