“and the Freepers who defend her! They shouldn’t. Not this time.”
I’m also disappointed that they do. I don’t ask for or expect any agreement on theological disputes - that is, after all, the very reason that people profess and practice different religions, because their beliefs are different. Nope, all I ask is that people who are not Jewish try - just for a few moments - to put themselves in the position of a member of the most reviled group of people in history, a group that has been persecuted, exiled, stolen from, forced to convert or outright murdered by Christians (and others basing their beliefs on some version of Christian replacement theology) simply for the fact of their faith. Worry about such things, even if subconscious, don’t disappear with a few decades, or even a century or 2, of good treatment in one country...not when 1/3 of the Jewish People was slaughtered within the living memory of many, not when there is increasing hostility to Jews in that old hotbed of anti-Semitism, Europe, and not when some mad SOB in Iran threatens a nuclear holocaust of all of Israel (with its 6 million Jews) while denying that the first took place.
Just a few moments of empathy, and maybe these people would understand why Ann Coulter went too far this time, why she threw the bomb in the wrong place. Maybe if they’d read Fr. Edward Flannery’s “The Anguish of the Jews” they’d begin to understand.
I was a big fan and have spoken to her in person. She was very gracious - at an RTL banquet. Now I am steamed at her. She should never have gone on the bozo’s show and she said something that does offend my religious sensibilities. I am a very, very ecumenical person - and I don’t like being told that my religion is “imperfect”. Anne should “perfect” thinking before she offends some of her fans. My relatives did not die so that a skinny blonde can tell her that their religious beliefs are “imperfect”.