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“It is a must read. Wow! He hit the nail on the head, as they say.”

I don’t think so…I could barely get through it. Just a sampling of inaccurate and/or offensive things he said:

-“Concern over community hypocrisy” is something that only applies to “liberals”.

-“With the rarest of exceptions”, all colleges are “liberal”.

-Guys who go OTD in college do so because of girls from Barnard who apparently seduce them and “take them away” and “take over their minds”.

-Going OTD=”voting for Hillary”.

-It should “give us heart” that just as these goyishe seductresses can brainwash our precious boys, so too can aidel seductresses bring them back to us! Source: a Torah pasuk that forbids intermarriage.

-Liberalism=hedonism.

-People can’t and therefore don’t think for themselves. They just follow what everyone else tells them. Therefore gender equality isn’t an issue and it’s the liberals’ fault because liberals control college campuses, the media, and most probably the entire world.

-College professors voted for McGovern because they were stupid and blindly listened to each other rather than the rest of America, which was much smarter.

-Survey analysts are out to get the Orthodox and “advance their personal ideological agendas”. It’s a massive conspiracy started by the Jewish Federations. There isn’t a single statistical analyst out there who isn’t crooked.

-Only 11 percent of people from the survey (remember, we can’t trust the survey anyway) said that they left Orthodoxy because of gender roles. This proves that only a tiny minority of people leave Orthodoxy for ideological reasons, because gender role is the only issue that liberals care about. Therefore, at least 89 percent of people left Orthodoxy because they were brainwashed by their college professors. But remember, it’s probably more than 89 percent because the survey is wrong.

-I wrote this article that you should all read because it’s so important for us to wise up to the brainwashing college professors and Jewish Federation professionals who are out to get Orthodoxy. I’m going to tell you all about the yarmulke-wearing day school graduates who are no longer wearing yarmulkes by the time they graduate college. All the conspiracy theories took up too much space, though, so I can’t also tell you about what happens to women, who don’t wear yarmulkes. But you should just know that their experience is “somewhat similar”.

-“Orthodoxy would lose everything” if we allowed a crooked rabbi to actually be brought to justice.

-People who came from non-observant families, but the shul they didn’t go to was Orthodox, identified as Orthodox pre-1970. After 1970, when REAL Orthodox Jews “emerged from a century of hiding” in America, these people realized their silly error and began accurately classifying themselves as not actually Orthodox. Anyone with half a brain knows this.

And writersoul is absolutely correct that it’s ridiculous to argue that surveys should be distrusted in favor of 40+ year old anecdotal evidence.

This article made me sick.