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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #125 on: March 06, 2019, 05:49:24 PM »
Honestly where I grew up in Kansas I legit didn't realize anti semitism was still much of a thing at all when I was a kid. Like I definitely recognized and observed pretty bad racism against all kinds of other groups but didn't hear much about hating Jews.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #126 on: March 06, 2019, 05:53:25 PM »
Honestly where I grew up in Kansas I legit didn't realize anti semitism was still much of a thing at all when I was a kid. Like I definitely recognized and observed pretty bad racism against all kinds of other groups but didn't hear much about hating Jews.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #127 on: March 06, 2019, 05:54:27 PM »
Honestly where I grew up in Kansas I legit didn't realize anti semitism was still much of a thing at all when I was a kid. Like I definitely recognized and observed pretty bad racism against all kinds of other groups but didn't hear much about hating Jews.

Yeah, I was just thinking about how I can't ever even remember an instance of antisemitism in my life other than some dumb kids spray painting swastikas at my high school but that was likely more racially motivated.
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #128 on: March 06, 2019, 06:13:14 PM »
i wouldn't beat yourself up over it.  lots of americans are pretty "ignorant" about antisemitism.
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odd.  i must have completely misread your post.
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #129 on: March 06, 2019, 06:21:35 PM »
Honestly where I grew up in Kansas I legit didn't realize anti semitism was still much of a thing at all when I was a kid. Like I definitely recognized and observed pretty bad racism against all kinds of other groups but didn't hear much about hating Jews.

there was a really good noah smith twitter thread about america a few weeks back.  the gist of which was that americans like to consider the us to be a nation that fought fascism in ww2 because it is a country that believes in democracy, equality, etc.  but it may be more accurate to understand that to the extent that the us is committed to those values it is because we fought against fascist countries in that war.
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« Reply #130 on: March 06, 2019, 06:30:26 PM »
americans like to consider the us to be a nation that fought fascism in ww2 because it is a country that believes in democracy, equality, etc.

I've never really heard this before. I've heard people retrospectively take pride in Jesse Owens dunking on Hitler.

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« Reply #131 on: March 06, 2019, 06:31:34 PM »
My first real exposure to Jews was definitely after I moved away from Kansas.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #132 on: March 06, 2019, 06:33:55 PM »
I've heard people retrospectively take pride in Jesse Owens dunking on Hitler.

yeah, that's a good example.
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« Reply #133 on: March 06, 2019, 06:36:50 PM »
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My first real exposure to Jews was definitely after I moved away from Kansas.

i grew up (in kansas!) on a street with both israeli jew (one) and palestinian arab (one) families.
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #134 on: March 06, 2019, 06:42:12 PM »
My first real exposure to Jews was definitely after I moved away from Kansas.

Yea me too, the amount of Jews living in Kansas is basically a rounding error.
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #135 on: March 06, 2019, 07:43:56 PM »
2019 is the year where I learned a lot about "anti-Semitic tropes" that I had no idea existed

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/03/05/ilhan-omar-explaining-the-latest-antisemitism-allegations

We once had a representative from a Jewish rights organization come and speak at our work and her first question was to name some of the common Jewish stereotypes that were out there.

Fortunately I work with a lot of smart people and no one took the bait.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #136 on: March 06, 2019, 07:47:37 PM »
It’s not Antisemitism until we say it is.  (SysWhackadooand resident LibDerp Nation).

It’s not a dog whistle unless we’re offended.  (SysWhackadoo and resident LibDerp Nation).

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #137 on: March 06, 2019, 07:48:41 PM »
My first real exposure to Jews was definitely after I moved away from Kansas.

Yea me too, the amount of Jews living in Kansas is basically a rounding error.

FFS, where did you live?

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #138 on: March 06, 2019, 07:54:08 PM »
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #139 on: March 06, 2019, 07:54:21 PM »
Honestly where I grew up in Kansas I legit didn't realize anti semitism was still much of a thing at all when I was a kid. Like I definitely recognized and observed pretty bad racism against all kinds of other groups but didn't hear much about hating Jews.

there was a really good noah smith twitter thread about america a few weeks back.  the gist of which was that americans like to consider the us to be a nation that fought fascism in ww2 because it is a country that believes in democracy, equality, etc.  but it may be more accurate to understand that to the extent that the us is committed to those values it is because we fought against fascist countries in that war.

This is called bootstrapping, fwiw. In this instance, bootstrapping is a pejorative.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #140 on: March 06, 2019, 08:18:36 PM »
My first real exposure to Jews was definitely after I moved away from Kansas.

Yea me too, the amount of Jews living in Kansas is basically a rounding error.

FFS, where did you live?

Salina.  There are only 17,000 Jews living in Kansas dude.
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #142 on: March 06, 2019, 08:26:42 PM »
it's really kind of amazing that this board has at least two Jews (that I have met IRL!) who grew up in Kansas

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #144 on: March 06, 2019, 08:28:09 PM »
I’d like to meet these Episcopalian Meade’ites. IF THEY ACTUALLY EVEN EXIST.


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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #145 on: March 06, 2019, 08:40:00 PM »
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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #146 on: March 06, 2019, 08:43:06 PM »
Holy crap! Why do you hate my people rus? Just straight up bigotry against the King James?


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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #147 on: March 06, 2019, 08:44:40 PM »
I grew up in JoCo, no Jewish kids in my elementary school class (1 lebenese, 1 half black). High school was a little more diverse, probably 5% black, 5% Asian including all asian, and maybe 10 Jewish kids out of 315.  Then I went to KSU.

I knew nothing of Jewish persecution other than what was taught about the Holocaust in school. Read  "The Chosen" freshman year HS and it may have well been about aliens.

I married a Jewish girl, though she stopped practicing shortly after her Bat Mitzvah. People casually say mumped up anti-Semitic crap constantly.  Without thinking of it.

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Re: Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #148 on: March 06, 2019, 08:48:56 PM »
We have UP TO THREE Jewish mods here. Which is an incredible ratio.


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Who is brave enough to be honest about Israel and the Democrat Party?
« Reply #149 on: March 06, 2019, 08:50:55 PM »
We have UP TO THREE Jewish mods here. Which is an incredible ratio.


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