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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Susan Sarandon is a vicious anti semite and must be condemned by all righteous people.

This is not helped by the failure of some of our heroes - like President Obama- to denounce the October killings in a forthright manner.

Anti-semitism has been growing in the shadows and now it’s appeared like black mold on our college campuses, our city streets and our social media.[/quote]

Anyone, like this individual, wandering around with a worldview that characterizes Susan Sarandon as a “vicious anti semite” based on her recents comments is part of a movement that everyone else should be forcefully arraying against.

This worldview is a symptom of derangement. It’s only a diseased mind that could possibly view her actions and words through that kind of lens. Who cares whether she’s A list or C list. She said nothing wrong.

Righteous people? Condemnation … for having compassion? Just bizarre.

Involuntary mental health treatment or “neutralization”. Anything short of that doesn’t go far enough, and allows this sickness to fester.[/quote]

You don’t find anything wrong in suggesting that Jews deserve to live in fear of violence and bigotry - as if they hadn’t well before 10/7?

That’s not compassion, that’s revolting ignorance and bigotry.

Israelis that were raped, murdered, and /or kidnapped didn’t deserve what happened to them on 10/7. And Jews in the United States who have encountered rising rates of violence and antisemitism through the decades also don’t need this “lesson” in fear.

So maybe think again of who is guilty of mental derangement. [/quote]

All of us live alongside Jews and, to a lesser extent, Muslims. To suggest that the former group is subjected to even a tiny fraction of the abuse and torment that the latter group is exposed to day in and day out is laughably out of touch with reality in the U.S.[/quote]

Interesting, you seem wildly out of touch with reality - and facts.

First, many of us live alongside Muslims.

Second, Jews have been chronically subjected to antisemitism and hate crimes for decades (centuries) in the US with rates rising over the last decade - 2022 saw a spike in hate crimes.

According to the FBI, hate crimes against Jews far outnumbered those against other religious groups. Some highlights - or more accurately, lowlights - of statistics from the FBI pasted below.

Perhaps educate yourself. Jews don’t need a lesson in fear.

Key Findings and Trends

Increase in Hate Crimes: The data reveals that hate crime incidents increased by 794 in 2022. There were 11,634 cases, compared to 10,840 in 2021.

Race-Based Crimes: Hate crimes rooted in race, ethnicity or ancestry remain the most common. There were 6,557 reported incidents in 2022.

Anti-Black or African American incidents —numbering 3,421 — were more than three times higher than the next highest racial or ethnic category.

Religion-Based Crimes: [b]There were 2,042 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,122) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. [/b]Incidents involving anti-Muslim (158) and anti-Sikh (181) sentiments remained at similar levels compared to 2021.

LGBTQI+ Targeted Crimes: Incidents targeting gay men reached 1,075, while anti-lesbian incidents numbered 622. Both categories recorded their highest totals in the past five years and increased by more than 10% since 2021. A significant increase of nearly 40% was observed in reported anti-transgender incidents (totaling 338) compared to 2021.

Source:
https://www.justice.gov/crs/highlights/2022-hate-crime-statistics

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Don’t let inconvenient details get in the way of data that vastly under-reports Islamophobic crime, like (1) the fact that every form of abuse and torment isn’t criminally codified or prioritized by law enforcement (Exhibit A: Most of us assumed that Stu Weldowitz’s “full Stewy” display in NYC was not going to even amount to criminal investigation, much less prosecution); (2) the relative level of trust of law enforcement by different groups, for very good reason, unfortunately; and certainly influencing reporting patterns; (3) systemic Islamophobia in law enforcement agencies across the U.S.,  and (4) the propensity of one particular group to overstate, inflate, exaggerate, and over-report anyone so much as looking at them the wrong way. No, those realities definitely cannot influence the data you shared.[/quote]

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