It may be helpful to repair this 60 year obsession with associating American Patriots with Goose Stepping Nazis then. Don’t spend 60 years painting the people most loyal to our constitution as those most likely to march Jews off to camps, then turn around and expect solidarity in the face of a common enemy.
I’m a Southerner. My family has served in every war this country has ever had. I can’t think of a single member of my family that’s ever uttered a single anti-Semitic thought. Yet at the same time I am fully aware that Jewish organizations have been instrumental over the years as painting entire generations of my family as ignorant racist hicks. I was born under that sign myself. I had that accusation hung over my head the moment I was born a white male Christian in Mississippi. I’ve lived under that slander my entire life. It came from somewhere! It didn’t just come out of thin air!
This is not some psycho lunatic rant about “da jews” controlling the media or some such grassy knoll garbage. This is about openly Jewish anti-discrimination organizations overstepping their intended mandate and slandering my people for 60 years! I’m suppose to just forget that now that the wolves are at the door? I would be more than happy to stand with Jewish folks against these lunatics, but there are some fences that need mending.
I’ll make a deal with you. I won’t call you a racist hick, if you don’t call me a LIBERAL Jew.
You don’t have to forget anything.
Just realize that the Jihadis are not just coming for the Jews. They have every intension of killing or converting every kefir in the West.
They will not rest until every last vestige of Western Civilization is destroyed and all the world submits to Sharia.
I believe that is the point of the Rabbi’s sermon. It is time for the politically correct in our society to wake up to the reality that we can not make amends with the radicals in Islam they can not be appeased. It is an existential threat that we face.
Just to be clear: as a matter of personal observation that statement probably only goes back to your grandparents, and you don't really know about them. Anti-semitism used to be pretty widespread throughout the U.S. It would be surprising indeed if at least some of your ancestors had not uttered an anti-Semitic thought.
Yet at the same time I am fully aware that Jewish organizations have been instrumental over the years as painting entire generations of my family as ignorant racist hicks. I was born under that sign myself. I had that accusation hung over my head the moment I was born a white male Christian in Mississippi. It came from somewhere! It didn’t just come out of thin air!
No, it didn't just come out of thin air. You had the misfortune of being born into Jim Crow central, didn't you? You're tarred by association with an entire region whose actual laws and policies were encapsulated so neatly by Gov. Wallace: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!"
To a Jew in particular (with their long history of being persecuted), there is something quite troubling about the sort of segregation that defined the South until the 60s. Whether that unease is still justified is open to question -- it may have changed over the past few decades (though my several years living in Texas reminded me that there are still some pretty "interesting" tensions that need to be worked out).