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Originally posted by StoneWT,
Oh, I guess there is a reputation for intelligence and humor.
The hypocrisy is the point. Many jews identify themselves as jews. No problem there. You, if you are a non-jew, are an antisemite if you say 'jew.' We had a black member of our platoon that would pull the 'we' card. Black people this, black people that. If you said 'you people' or 'yall,' you were a virtual member of the KKK. |
It is really amazing to read this thread and listen to so many of you discussing Jews as if we were some bugs in a petrie dish whose behavior you didn't understand. Is there no possibility you could put yourself in the position of someone who has endured (or not survived) oppression to even think about how you would behave under similar circumstances..
Every group that has been oppressed appears oversensitive and annoying to even a sort of tolerant majority. You gave the example of an oversensitive black person. Does it also annoy you to hear women complain about being raped. Is it annoying that Italians bristle when associated with criminals? Does it upset you that Native Americans want to change the name of the Washington Redskins? Does it bother you that there are Japanese looking for reparations over the WWII internment camps? Does it annoy you that American children who are not Christian resent having to sing songs honoring Jesus Christ?
I mean who wants to listen? Who wants to face up to their own intolerance? Certainly not those of you who are regaling us with stories of the annoying complaints of Jews and African-Americans.
Of course we are oversensitive. No one has an easy life, but you have no concept of what we have been through.
I'd like to put it in perspective. In America on 9/11 we lost about 3000 people. Our reaction has been to go to war in two countries, to round up thousands of profiled Muslims, to suspend the Geneva conventions over the treatment of prisoners and on and on and on. Pretty sensitive I would say and justifiably so. One the other hand, one third of all the living Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis. And there is still rampant , if not government sponsored, anti-semitism in Europe. Maybe we don't comlain enough!
There has been a preponderance of the perjorative use of the word "Jew" when coming from non-jews . You are wrong. I have never heard a Jewish person call himself a Jew. We use the adjective form as much as possible because the noun has been stolen by our enemies. When someone asks me my religion, I tell them I am Jewish. Other words have been invented. We bristle when you use the word Jew as African-Americans bristle when you use the "N-word". You intent no longer matters. What matters is that rather than any attempt to understand the pain or to make things better you continue to condemn us.
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