A commenter said all Jews were narcissistic psychopaths. Clinically of course, that's not true, although a lot of the Jews in academia and business do have a thuggish quality about them that one could call sociopathic.
But they aren't diagnosed sociopaths. They may indeed have elevated scores in the PCL Psychopathy checklist. The scale is 0-40. 20+ means you are a psychopath. Most people score between 0-5.
But as you can see, anyone scoring 6-19 would have an elevated score and would be more sociopathic than average but would still be within the normal range. Even a score of one implies that one has at least a hint of psychopathy.
So psychopathy may be on spectrum and not Manichean like so many qualities. It's an odd implication that most of us are even slightly sociopathic, but maybe you have to be to survive. I have no idea.
I've also noticed that a lot of Jewish men can be quite narcissistic. In fact, Judaism itself is almost a Narcissistic Personality Disorder with claims of specialn…
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