For my own curiously I did a little search to see how often people on Daily Kos used the word "Jew". The results were quite striking, so I continued with my search to see how many times other religions, nationalities and races were mentioned.
I found it interesting that only Christians were mentioned more than Jews in a two week period. One caveat, considering that "white" and "black" are also used to refer to colors I took them out of my search.
So why is this? Jews only make up 0.2% of the world population, while Christianity is between 24.54% - 28.82%, and Islam is like 22% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations ). Even if we look at the nationalities, there are over 42 million Hispanics in this country and a little over 5 million Jews. Hispanics were mentioned 242 times and Latin 198 times. while Jews were mentioned 1421. So why so much attention on the Jews?
Anyone who has spent any time on DK know the reason behind this, I/P diaries. But are I/P diaries such a big part of Daily Kos that they result in numbers like these? Is Daily Kos a little obsessed with discussing Jews?
I just thought this information was interesting and wanted to share
Below is the search i conducted. These are all based off a two week period
Christians- 1812
Jews- 1421
Arabs- 1054
Muslims- 1047
Catholics- 512
African Americans- 497
Hispanics-242
Islam- 227
Latin- 198
Asian- 196
Caucasian- 51