In a message dated 8/20/2005 10:30:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Then this is a big difference between you and me. While you've been > going on and on about subtle anti-semitism, you probably haven't felt > its effects, yet you've been suggesting that I don't understand > oppression. > I never implied that you do not know about oppression. > You haven't seen your people dragged to death in chains behind pickup > trucks in Texas, nor beaten and left to die on wire fences in Wyoming, > and yet you have the gall to suggest I don't understand something like > anti-semitism, which is as old as homophobia (even Jews are homophobic) > and very present, very active in US society today. So much so that > there's talk about codifying homophobia, making it a national law. > > In many parts of this "free" nation, my people can't adopt children > because there's an irrational, baseless fear that children will somehow > be "corrupted" by being loved, unconditionally and totally, by a > same-gender couple of parents. While Jews all across the US are free to > have children, I and my kind can't even have that right. > I am completely sympathetic to you with regard to this. I think it terrible that people are discriminated against because of their sexuality. I think gays deserve the rigths as anyone else. The right to marry adopt kids, to live freely in our society. > Howe dare you? How dare you suggest I have no understanding of lethal, > pervasive oppression? I am saying you are insensitive to a certain type of anti-semitism. Nothing more. > > I submit that it is you who don't understand oppression. You haven't, > by your admission, experienced it; I've lived with it every day of my > life. I have seen people like me die from it. People I have known have > killed themselves because of it. I live in a nation trying to make it > impossible and illegal for my people to marry. And you? Here is where we part company. I think I do understrand oppression. Even though I haven't experienced my people have in the past and may again. I feel fear and anger because of this and by the way I think it makes me more empathic with individuals who are suffering from active oppression now. Jews are not immune to criticism because they have been oppressed. Individuals and groups who act poorly need to be critcized regardless of their place in society,. Not blamed; criticized. > > Don't ever presume to lecture me again about my ignorance of prejudice. I have talked to you about what I see as your ignorance of the history of anti-semitism not oppression. > > > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
