Oh, my. Norman has been hiding the newspaper from me ever since Asshole was elected, so I didn't know this had happened.
It's awful for it to happen anywhere, but it's positively chilling that it's happened in Arlington. ARLINGTON! If Jews aren't safe in Massachusetts, things are even worse than I'd realized.
I'm so, so sorry that you have this to deal with. *hug* I'm glad no one was physically harmed.
All bigotry is bad, of course, but anti-Semitism has always seemed to me to be a particularly insane idea. While I've certainly met a few individual Jews who I found dislikable, it's completely clear that Jews as a people are a force for good in this world. Let's go hate people whose culture advocates scholarship and good works? That's just ... totally insane.
Norman was telling me about a friend of his whose son was trying to do something the father disapproved of, and the father admonished him with, "We're Jews. We don't show off; we STUDY." And I laughed and said, "No wonder so many of the people I like are Jews!"
I'm sorry, I'm babbling. I'm just really upset right now. But you don't need my upset adding to your own, so I'll shut up now.
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Date: 2019-05-22 02:04 pm (UTC)It's awful for it to happen anywhere, but it's positively chilling that it's happened in Arlington. ARLINGTON! If Jews aren't safe in Massachusetts, things are even worse than I'd realized.
I'm so, so sorry that you have this to deal with. *hug* I'm glad no one was physically harmed.
All bigotry is bad, of course, but anti-Semitism has always seemed to me to be a particularly insane idea. While I've certainly met a few individual Jews who I found dislikable, it's completely clear that Jews as a people are a force for good in this world. Let's go hate people whose culture advocates scholarship and good works? That's just ... totally insane.
Norman was telling me about a friend of his whose son was trying to do something the father disapproved of, and the father admonished him with, "We're Jews. We don't show off; we STUDY." And I laughed and said, "No wonder so many of the people I like are Jews!"
I'm sorry, I'm babbling. I'm just really upset right now. But you don't need my upset adding to your own, so I'll shut up now.