[St.Chuck]

This paragraph is the essnce of the piece, and what we have here is a restatement of the Medieval idea of the "dirty Jew," the corrupting Jew, the Jew as a defective human, the Jew who undermines good, clean Christian values.

I didn't get that at all. You are the one applying some kind of steroetype.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I didn't get that at all."

Referring to Jews as "plague carriers" didn't suggest some kind of racial, biological smear to you? Holding Jews - and no one else - totally responsible for a perceived decline in social values doesn't remind you of anything? Doesn't remind you of Hitler?