Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine

It’s funny (it’s really not) that at least part of the modern stereotype about Jews being greedy is probably because Christians weren’t supposed to charge interest. The whole “if someone asks you for your jacket, give them your shirt as well” Bible quote. So, if you needed a loan, you went to a Jewish moneylender, who would loan you the money, for a price.

It’s funny (it’s really not) how far Christian morality has swung in the other direction (but the stereotype about Jews remains).

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