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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that more and more swastikas being spray painted on synagogues is distressing.  I get that more and more Jews being beat up by hateful bigots is disturbing.  But I’d be remiss not to point out that those increasing hate crimes are being committed by civilians not the state and it was the state that carried out the Holocaust in 1930’s Germany.

Is the state still persecuting you in America today?

You ever had somebody call the cops on you simply because you’re Jewish?  You ever had the police tell you and your kippot wearing friends to “move along or we’re going to arrest you” simply because you’re Jewish?  You ever had an officer pull you over because of the Star of David decal on your SUV?  You ever had a judge hand down a harsh sentence on you because your last name denotes that you’re Jewish and turn you over to a corrupt criminal justice system that profits from your people’s pain?  You ever have your congressional district redrawn to dilute the value of your vote just because of it’s large Jewish population?  You ever had problems trying to cast your vote because there are no polling places in your predominantly Jewish community or you ever had strict voter ID laws put in place in your community to prevent you from exercising your Constitutional right?

Those are all examples of the state coming down on a people.  It’s all kinds of nutjobs and assholes out here among the general populace perpetuating discrimination against Jews, yes, but the state isn’t coming after you today with guns drawn ready to kill you and cuffs out eager to compromise your freedoms like in 1930’s Germany.

No, today the state is coming after people of color with guns drawn and cuffs out and when it’s the state doing the discriminating that’s what allows Holocausts to happen.[/quote]

1. It didn't start out as the State in Germany. It started out as bands of bigots who organized and got elected to office. You know, like the kind of people who elected Donald Trump and them marched in Charlottesville.

2. No, Jews do not have much to fear right now, today, from state institutions designed to protect citizens. Black people do, and that is a bigger problem, right now, today.

When Douglas high school was shot up, very little attention was paid to the fact that it has a huge Jewish population, and the shooter hated Jews. Even those media-savvy kids knew a focus on anti-semitism as a motive would lessen sympathy for their cause, at the same time they were using that position to also address gun violence in communities of color. They were speaking to left-leaning Americans, and they attempted to fold in communities of color while down-playing Jewishness. That would not have happened 50 years ago.[/quote]

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