Blaming a small identifiable group for your despondency is a cop out, but aligns with this new victimhood mentality. None of this is new and young men without a good understanding of history is being led astray. 'No small part of the historic anti-Semitism of Europe (and corresponding anti-Chinese feeling in many Asian countries) is due to the Jews’ role as middlemen. Legally—that is, forcibly—denied access to many occupations in the production of goods, Jews could survive in Europe only by finding interstitial services not covered by the sweeping discriminatory bans against them. They became middlemen in the movement of goods and money over time and space—time because the Catholic Church’s moral prohibitions against charging interest did not apply to them. The virtually universal dislike and suspicion of middlemen focused on an ethnically-identifiable group of people, separated by religion and customs from the rest of the population, and therefore a perfect target. The economic success and political vulnerability of the Jews over the centuries has been paralleled by that of the Chinese middleman minority throughout Asia.' Sowell, Thomas. Knowledge And Decisions (p. 69).