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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't read this thread anymore. I was commenting, but it's making me feel sick.

Jeff, those Nazis marching the woman around town with the sign were simultaneously gassing people in the countryside in mobile vans, and viciously beating or shooting people on the street who wouldn't comply with orders for humiliating actions. The sign, or something like happened to my Father-in-law's father, where he was forced to scrub the street on his hands and knees while people shouted and spit at him.

This IS part and parcel of preparation for the death camps. And we know, for a fact, that's where it ended up. And so did White. So, yes, it's giving a pass (or defending) Nazi atrocities.

Jim Crow was terrible not only because black people suffered poorer services and conditions, and were regularly humiliated in public, but because separate spheres of life led directly to looking the other way for public lynchings. It was teaching people how to treat black people. [/quote]

PP, you and I, as Jews, should go into the AA museum and tell the docent that it looks like the slavemaster was trying to protect the slaves. I bet we aren’t treated as nicely as White [/quote] 
And me three (another Jew). I can't believe the pass this guy is getting. The double standard is jumping off every page of this thread. (And the venom being hurled our way sort of proves it.)[/quote]

I'm the OP of this thread of the conversation. I don't want to do that, except perhaps as a rhetorical exercise.

I want everyone to see prejudice where it exists, even in themselves, and take it seriously, not as a personal failing, but as something he or she needs to work on. I'm a white person in 2018 (and a Jew). I have been working diligently since Trayvon Martin was shot a few years ago to undo 40+ years of not quite getting what it meant for racism to be "systemic," and how I am myself implicated in it. I am embarrassed it took me this long. As a Jew, I recognize that I need non-Jews to have that same realization about anti-semitism, an I would hope for it most from a community leader, who could help his constituents see how you raise your own consciousness and build a stronger society.[/quote]

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