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=> Imagine being a Jewish kid...

Imagine being a Jewish kid...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, February 14 2011, 23:31:48 (UTC)
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...whose parents today have to tell him or her about their recent history, the very recent history, of Christian/Jewish relations....how would that kid feel going out to play next day in a community and country where he is surrounded by Christians? He´s just learned, remember, that Christians (even those elders around him who were born in 1940 and are now 70, maybe the grandaprents of his pals)got together and devised chilling new ways to murder kids just like him, for no reason OTHER than that they were Jewish, also like him. I would think at the least you´d want to watch your back...you also may not want to rile them, get the Christians surrounding you stirred up.

It would be a very nervous, insecure way to live. Of course you´ll be damned if you´ll let your fear of another Holocaust keep you from living the fullest most robust life you could...you´d still want to succeed, to study, to contribute, to make MONEY as everyone else around you is increasingly sacrificing everything for...after all, that money may come in handy the next time Christians decide to fire all Jews and close their businesses....for how can you be certain that it will never happen again?

We aren´t speaking of events in the distant past...of the 12th century BC...or AD, for that matter...we´re talking about horrific events that happened within the lifetime and perhaps memories of people still living today! You can´t confidentially state that "it could never happen again, because it happened so long ago"...no, it happened yesterday. And in the decades-long upsurge of violent Christian rhetoric which has dominated our lives for the last 30 years....you could be forgiven for feeling very paranoid...and yet, life must go on.

And when you, I mean the Jew, hears Christians say that Jews like him and her are the ones FORCING Christians to act in ways detrimental, even, to their OWN interests, and all for YOUR sake...you have to feel as weirded ou tas you did all those years when Christians blamed YOU, personally, for killing their Jew carpenter because he was YOUR god!!!

This is nightmare, hallucinatory stuff....and it hasn´t gone away.

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