It is worrisome that this guy and the Barstool quarter thrower were both from upper middle class Jackson area families with solid private school educations and lots of advantages. I just don't remember this kind of anti-semitism when I was growing up in similar circles in the 90's. There was racism, certainly, but I don't remember much if any of it being anti-semitic.
'99-04 MSU college years for me. The amount of antisemitism in the form of Jew Jokes was wild to experience. It was really just casual language that I heard through all the years I was there. 'He Jewed me', 'big Hook over there', etc etc. Casual language that was disappointing to hear.
I heard it growing up in the 90s too, but I lived in an area with a sizable Jewish population(got Jewish holidays off of school), so I figured it was more prominently heard due to population.
It's a failure on so many levels.
I do think there is an element of this that is backlash from young, white males for constantly being told in media, movies, etc. that they are the cause of all the world's problems. I am not excusing him at all. Give him the max sentence.
For the last 10+ years I have heard about how young white males are being told by basically every outlet possible that they are to blame for everything in the world.
I think a more accurate view is that in the last 10 years there has been more responsibility assigned to a group that largely skirted blame for years. Young white males arent the cause of all the world's problems, and if anyone has actually claimed that, they are an extremist who deserves to be ignored. Its hyperbole at most.
Young white males, as a group, are just being held accountable more than they previously were.
I mean come on now- blacks and Hispanics are obviously still being blamed for all sorts of problems.