You can guarantee he still thinks about moving back home. His girlfriend will be able to read the subtext of his stupid posts
I'm awaiting the next Sander post being along the lines of "Five reasons my girlfriend dumping me was actually a good thing! 1. I can spend more time growing my digital marking company, that I'm CEO of..."
No. Sander wishes it was for oppression points, but it's not. Most Americans dgaf, others only have issues with the Orthodox if they act weird, and I bet you very few American could even tell you what Chabad even is.
When Sander says "We have a Chabad near us" he's conflating a generic Jewish temple with a specific subgroup/movement and banking on his followers not knowing any different.
That was my first thought. If we believe this story actually happened then on the surface, it's weird that someone who was a former neighbour and apparently friendly with the Bloshinskys would randomly start talking to a Jewish man about a "Jewish invasion". But a Chabad makes sense. The likely boomer who made these remarks probably has no issue whatsoever with Jews, he's feeling funny about Haredi Jews. Because Haredim
do tend to do this - move en masse and form insular communities. It's happening in the UK on
Canvey Island. A group of Satmar sent a scouting party, identified a school that could be purchased and turned into a Yeshiva and an old bingo hall that could be turned into a synagogue, identified properties within walking distance of them and settled them with six "pioneer" families who all moved in on the same weekend of May 2016. Over the next three years, a further sixty families moved in to the area (and approximately
another 60 in the four years after that). They strung up an eruv, established a private Jewish ambulance (Hatzalah) and began door knocking to identify local residents who might be willing to sell, so they could earmark properties for further settlement before they went on the market. Also the Jewish centre they had
mysteriously burned down which meant they could replace it with something bigger.
If that sounds like an antisemetic conspiracy theory, it's not - Dr. Shlomit Flint Ashery wrote a paper on how they "community formed" and one of the pioneers compared the process to
establishing a kibbutz. They very specifically wanted to find an area easily commutable to the existing Jewish community in London that they could essentially overwrite and make into a parallel society. Canvey Island has a pretty strong identity and local community (once voted "the most English place in England") but initially you saw puff pieces about "well they're very respectable and keep to themselves". Unfortunately, as anyone who's spent time around Haredi Jews will know, they're not
just insular. They'll generally avoid talking to goyim unless they need to, but the men can often be incredibly rude and they'll come with a huge sense of entitlement - they do not like the goys. A group of men wearing shtreimels looking at empty properties in your area is a bad sign. So now a lot of the local community hates them, hates how they completely lie to the local council to squeeze things through like a shul in a back garden, hates how they apparently see traffic laws as advisory... weirdly also hate that they haven't opened a proper "bagel shop" yet, although apparently a kosher bakery is planned.
Anyway, that's almost certainly what Sander's neighbour was observing and Sander deliberately misunderstood him (or is just genuinely stupid) and framed him as including all Jews in his statement. Which is probably why he was so confused by Sander asking if
he smelled, because Sander is very obviously not a Haredi Jew. The neighbour probably assumed the hyper-woke secular Jewish Bloshinsky family would also be feeling uneasy about the Chabad, since the men have been known to spit on women they deem to be immodestly dressed so I cannot think they'd react positively to Jazz. Also I imagine Haredi Jewis in Florida probably
do smell, because they're going to be walking around in wool coats and fur hats in high humidity heat.
