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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to love wearing my silver cross in my home country, but here in the DC area, I feel a little boxed-in by judgement people place on various religious symbols. So even though a star of David is lovely and I would want you to wear whatever you wanted... I don't know if you should. Particularly during this horrible, horrible time of mass murder in Gaza and as we uncover all this abuse and torture of Israeli hostages.

I'm sorry, OP. The world should be a better place.[/quote]

I think there's something fundamentally different in the experience wearing the sign of a minority religion vs a majority one. Group membership feels like a different declaration when the group in question is a minority. Of course everyone should wear what they want... but these symbols are a way to reach out to other members of a tiny community and say, yeah, you're not alone.

And it is in direct response to "this horrible, horrible time" and the antisemitism that has flourished.[/quote]

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