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I'm reminded of the old clip of an alleged 'jewish Democrat candidate' gleefully contextualizing how many white men are killing themselves.
In ingroup/outgroup terms, if my enemy is dying, I can only shrug my shoulders. Is it by his own hand? Wow, how curious, I can't imagine why he would do that. I can't contextualize his death in a wider context. It's just happening. Probably due to some failure on his part, obviously. There's not wider causal chain at play, no broad narrative to examine. Because if there's one thing I know, it's that my people are innocent, and my enemy is guilty and deserves it.
Now, if a member of my ingroup dies, that's not their fault or mine. There's a wider context, a system, that's at fault. We need to do something!
That's at least the rhetorical implication of noticing this event. Maybe now something will be done since the 'people with power' will take up arms for one of their own dying. In that sense, this is a joyous occasion for the 'have nots'. The more 'elite' children that die, the more their parents are forced to take up the common cause of others who have had to live in with such conditions for much longer. Conditions that people like Susan Wojcicicki had helped create, facilitate and ignore for a long time now. Some might even be waiting for any brave soul to take aim at more direct causal factors, like the Sacklers. Why do they get to exist free of the conditions they inflict on others? Not only that, they get to profit from it.
I think posts like this help illuminate where one stands in the hierarchy of everything. Those with power can place landmines in your environment, and if you or yours step on them you just get to suffer whilst they get to profit. The worst part is that your only recourse as a 'have not' is to hope that someone with power also steps on a landmine so that they just might lead your cause forward. A sort of validation of your suffering. That's it. Patriotism/national identity doesn't play a part, voting doesn't play a part, 'the voices of the many' doesn't play a part. The statistical significance, the economic impact, none of it matters even if it is so often acted like it does matter in so many different contexts. In the modern western democracy these things don't matter at all. The only common cause people can find is suffering. In clear terms: If a powerful jew isn't suffering your problems, you will just have to live with them.
This is not unique to modern western democracy, nor are powerful Jews the only one taking advantage of the hierarchy of everything. You are describing power. Power has not changed in thousands of years.
Power might not change but who benefits from it does, depending on who has it.
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Are there any other large-scale problems our society faces where we need a “powerful jew” to personally suffer before we can make progress?
All of them, but it was taken care of two millennia ago according to the Catholic Church.
Ok that’s funny because I didn’t even consider the obvious joke.
That dang Original Sin anyway.
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It's interesting that at the beginning of this paragraph you say that something might be done about drugs and by the end you are talking as if something has already been done and those damn Jews just don't care about anything until it affects them.
Luckily, there are so many powerful Jews that odds are high at least one of them is suffering from any given problem we gentiles might face.
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White suicide rates are higher than black suicide rates in the US, although the gap is closing fast; black rates have risen by 20% or so in the last 5 years, white rates have iirc declined very slightly. As with birth rates the gap will close. Natives have the highest rate of all, which hasn’t changed.
In general elites, being more likely to live in eg. Manhattan than the median middle-class white suburban American, are more exposed to, say, psychotic violent homeless people hanging around in Central Park or whatever than ‘normal’ people of their race. It’s not a good predictor (the average NYT editor or Dem political advisor takes the subway, they don’t have bodyguards or chauffeurs).
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