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hoolstoptheheels

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You don't even know her. You haven't walked in her shoes.


She is a black American, probably descended from slaves.

I'm Jewish, and I can tell you that most Jews I know will not tolerate a swastika in their midst. And they would consider it their god given right to violently tear down a statue of Hitler - they would tell you where you could stick your legal process.

Jews have an advantage feeling that way - the swastika's place in American culture is a symbol of a demonized enemy. So Americans tend not to bark too loudly about law and order when it comes to smashing that or other symbols of nazisim.

But the Confederate Flag? Symbols of the Old South? That is way more complicated in this country. For some, they symbolize a romantic lost past. For others, they symbolize exactly what a swastika does to Jews.

My point isn't really that I disagree with you. It's just your last line I disagree with. You can disagree with her while acknowledging that from her angle, different from yours and mine, this looks very, very different.

I guess my new cause celeb is to get rid of the black and white thinking we're all so drawn to, but which has very little real world application.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 10/10/2018 10:07AM]

(In response to this post by CharlestonSC)

Posted: 10/10/2018 at 10:06AM



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