Tag: Anti-Semitism
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The Most Frustrating Thing About Anti-Semitism Is What It’s Based On: NOTHING
I’ve said here before that I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust — in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore just 20 years after the camps were liberated. Many survivors lived in my community. I can tell you from experience — it’s damned hard for a little kid to wrap his young mind around…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away.…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. I grew up in the 1960’s & 1970’s in a Jewish suburb…
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Maya Angelou Had It SOOOOOO Right – When People Tell You Who They Are…
If you want me to be your friend — but, the fact is, you hate Jews on sight — I’m not seeing a future for our relationship regardless of how much you tell me MY being Jewish isn’t an issue for you. That’s not the point, right? You’re an anti-Semite. It’s who you are. I…
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The WORST Thing About Anti-Semitism Is How IRRATIONAL It Is…
A Thought Experiment: You walk into a room. Another person enters and punches you – hard. You ask — “What was that for?” And the other person responds “Because you killed my god”. Being a RATIONAL person who doesn’t want to get punched again — and who doesn’t want to resort to violence yourself —…
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I Grew Up In The Holocaust’s Shadow
I grew up in the 1960’s in a mostly upper middle class Jewish suburb in northwest Baltimore. Pikesville was so predominantly Jewish that the area — and its Junior & Senior High Schools — were known as ‘Kikesville’, get it? World War II ended 14 years before I was born. By the time I started…
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If Bullshit Had A ‘Hall Of Fame’…
Bullshit comes with being Human. We don’t know yet if Bullshit comes with being sentient; do other animals capable of conscious thought LIE to each other when necessary? Why would we assume they didn’t? I’m just saying — Lying and Bullshit seem so natural to us that it could be an organic outgrown of having…