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Jeanne K's avatar

They were overtly denied jobs. Hard to stop them for driving as being Jewish is not as easy to identify from across. Denied housing. Beat up and bullied. Told they were going to burn in hell. Heard jew used as a verb to mean cheap or stingy. Poked in the back with a ruler by the boy who sat behind me in 6th grade and called dirty jew. All these things happened to family members or me. And I can assure you such stories are not unique.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

How many American Jews were enslaved or lynched here? Why were American Jews allowed to become white adjacent whereas Black and Native Americans were not?

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Again, you need to review the history of Judaism in America. We’ve been lynched and mass-murdered. Antisemitism is alive and well in America.

We have no homeland. Jews have been thrown out of every country we’ve settled in; that’s why so many Jews cling so desperately to Israel (which presently could screw up a two-car funeral).

No one is denying that slavery is the great national stain. My only point is that the neo-Nazi movement creates terror in the hearts of many of us, and the MAGA movement is neo-Nazi.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

You really want to compare the number of mass murdered or lynched Jewish people in the US to Black or Native people? That suggests you don't know the history if this country.

Jewish people chose to come here. They weren't brought in shackles and then subjected to physical, emotional, and spiritual torture as well as cultural erasure. They weren't invaded and ethnically cleansed. The MAGA movement us as American as Apple pie and fundamentally white supremacist.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

I don’t. You do.

Bye now.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Yep. And I loved being told we killed Jesus.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

Imagine being told you're subhuman monsters who were better off as slaves or that your culture and society was "primitive" and your people deserved to be exterminated in public school this century. Also, imagine if your country's currency primarily had people on it who committed atrocities against your people.

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Jeanne K's avatar

Oh yeah, how on earth did I forget that? I actually attended a Lutheran church service about 8 years ago (my husband and I were visiting his very devout aunt and uncle and I offered to go with them to be polite- my husband did not want to go but I convinced him to honor them and his own long rejected upbringing.) The pastor's sermon was bizarre. All about conspiracy theory and pretty much about how the Jews conspired to kill Jesus- he never came out and said that but the implications were clear. Horrific. Our aunt and uncle did not get it.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

My Southern Baptist father’s minister told him his Jewish wife and children were going to hell. That was special.

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Jeanne K's avatar

Ouch. Good thing we don't believe in he'll.

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