Avira
Not my main point,m so need to get too bogged down
Briefly
“My grandfather, a yiddish speaking doctor from Europe, wrote a book in yiddish on it.”
Great! Have them teach it in schools Everybody wins. not sure on the point of this
“Ever read the yiddish magazines? They’re full of health news, and mention diabetes, heart disease, etc… Quite often.”
Yes indeed. This may surprise you though, not every person reads every article. So a system where such major gaps are meant to be filled in by hopefully them stumbling across your grandfather’s book or them reading every article in a newspaper. ISnt a great one.
Again, not terrible. Just a flaw I pointed out.
“While amusing, they’re not statistically representative of the majority of people.”
Agreed, which is part of why I mentioned this wasn’t a particularly convincing argument. Its not like chasidim have a higher incidence of diabetes, dialysis etc (as far as I can tell), so it isnt the biggest deal. And there are wonderful chesed oprganizations to help guide through the medcial maze (maybe even providing a net benefit?) Though I’m not sure Id characterize telling a patient that if he didn’t start taking insulin he’d end up on dialysis and it was if I was explaining physiology to a child “amusing” (I bristle at you describing regular Chasidim as Developmentally disabled, if it never came up it never came up)
“It’s simply hateful. You’re misrepresenting your own brethren and you’re full of hate.”
If that makes you feel better. Sure why not. Pure hate .
To be clear though; you dont seem to be disputing my main point. Namely that they don’t really learn Yiddish, they just pick up what they need as they go on. Correct?
(not that this is bad per se)