With all due respect, I don't think that the discrimination a Jewish chapter faces from PNMs is quite the same as the discrimination a bottom-tier chapter faces. The end result (as in numbers) may be the same, but I think the reasons would be different. In the case of the bottom-tier group I think it really is what you described - a lack of humility that the PNM could lower herself to be associated with that group. I went through rush a million years ago and we had several Jewish chapters. I never thought of them as bottom-tier, but I didn't feel comfortable because the Jewish culture was an important part of those chapters.
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Adding 's does not make a word, not even an acronym, plural
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