[Ron Rosenbaum, 18.12.2008]
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The more I read about Bernie Madoff, the more disgusted I am with the whole crowd of country-club suckers he allegedly conned and the phony “gentility” they represent. The whole Bernie Madoff scandal was not about Jews and money but Jews and respectability. The scandal was a tragedy of misguided upward mobility.

This is a scandal that hinges on a false connection between country-club membership and “respectability.” Bernie seems to have preyed on those Jews who worship the false idol of WASP respectability. The sham gentility of country-club life. Give me a break. Give me a gangster over a golfer any day.

Old money in America is just old crime well-varnished by time. The big money has always been made by criminals of non-Jewish persuasions: The non-Jews who committed genocide to steal the land; the non-Jews who built up fortunes through slavery; the non-Jews who built “respectable” fortunes on the backs of wage slaves.