[lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun May 7 17:46:55 PDT 2006


Joel Schalit wrote:


> 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. It was all fairly consistent
> and fairly stupid. I'd say high school was the worst - tons of
> Christian kids would give me grief (up until my senior year, I was
> the only jew in my high school.)

It works both ways. I went to a 98% Jewish HighSchool in LA. I was the issue of a Xtian (mom) + Jewish (dad), which made me not girlfriend material for my Jewish classmates. I'm not inferring this, the guys were pretty explicit about it.That was stupid too.

Joanna



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