Hassids live under the secular government of the USA. They pay taxes and obey traffic laws and don’t stone people to death and don’t marry a hundred women like Solomon did.
They are also frequently victims of hate crimes - not just by white neonazos, but also from the blacks, Muslims, and Hispanics who live alongside them and despise them. (Search “antisemitic hate crimes, New York” for a list of all the anti-Jewish violence the mainstream news doesn’t see fit to cover. You’ll be shocked.). So with all the hatred they get, it would be nice if so-called liberals didn’t tell lies about them.
Mostly though, I’m baffled by you thinking that “believing in a secular government” protects anyone from a virus. Obviously, it doesn’t. Look around the world. Most Italians believe in secular government, don’t they? So do most Californians. Certainly most Chinese do. So, one assumes, does the wife of Canada's very very secular prime minister. In fact, so do vast millions of Iranians (not that they have a secular government... they just long for one.) Yet all these superior beings, these “believers in secularism” also get sick with viruses. Their secularism is not a magic shield against biology, science, and medical reality. Only a bizarre sort of faith would claim that a secular outlook will prevent a virus from entering one’s lungs.
Please face the facts. One’s beliefs, lifestyle, religion, clothing, facial hair, language, ethnicity, wealth, name, and status in life have no power to attract or repel a virus. Even secular you and atheist me can get sick. It is true! We can even pass our virus to our secular loved ones. A hundred of our nearest and dearest might fall sick. And when we do.... trust me, no Hasidic Jews will be on a website sneering at our awful tragedy.
Your post seems to want to look down on Hassids for “asking for it” by being religious, just like, wink wink, we all know those gays “asked for it” (HIV) by sinning in the 1980’s, and of course those Liberians, wink wink, “asked for it” (Ebola) by being poor, and those Yemenis also “asked for it” (cholera) by being Muslim.
What you claimed is untrue, insulting - and most of all, it’s so unrelated to the topic at hand that it seems like a deliberate attempt to smear
a minority group you know nothing about. (Quick: name all your Hasidic friends and relatives - you know, the ones you’ve had long late-night talks with; the ones you got your expertise from!).
Smearing a beleaguered minority group one doesn’t know, based on rumors and lies one is all too eager to believe and repeat. .. hmmm... Pretty sure there’s a name for that.
I won’t ask that your post be hidden because I would rather it stand so people can see it and mull over your attitude and perhaps recognize the seeds of bigotry in ourselves.
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