that sucks about the girl's shitty parents. my parents rule was "Catholics and Arabs cool, no WASPS."
On May 7, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
> Sorry, Doug. I'm way over quota today.
>
> On 5/7/06, Joel Schalit <managingeditor at tikkun.org> wrote:
>> I grew up with undue warnings about anti-Semitism too. When the Likud
>> came to power in Israel in '77, its pretty much all they talked
>> about, and it was clearly more about their leadership's historical
>> experiences in Europe than it was real. It was very clear to many of
>> us that the Arabs weren't a reincarnation of the Nazis, and a second
>> Holocaust wasn't right around the corner. It was just a generalized
>> discourse of nationalist self-victimization to advance other
>> concerns,...
>
> it seems that the Bushites have been pushing an ideology of US
> national victimization, too. (you do mean "victimization," not
> self-victimization, don't you?) Though it's based partly on 911,
> suddenly the biggest and most powerful guy on the block is a victim,
> as are men and whites.
>
>> When I moved to Oregon at the age of 16, I experienced recurring
>> bouts of discrimination that was a lot different than anything I ever
>> heard about racism from right-wing Jews. I got turned down for jobs
>> during the summer (both in high school, and in college) based on my
>> ethnicity, and frequently got ruled out as boyfriend material by the
>> parents of folks I would try and date....
>
> Alas, in high school in Illinois, I was ruled out as boyfriend
> material by the parents of the girl I had a crush on because I
> _wasn't_ Jewish. Her parents (or was it grandparents?) were going to
> sit shiva for her if she dated me. (This was in a North Chicago
> suburbs area where most or much of the population was Jewish.) No hard
> feelings, though.
> --
> Jim Devine / "Sanity is a madness put to good use." -- George
> Santayana.
>
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