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Even when it's over, I don't think it's going to be over.
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 702658" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>PASA, I am so sorry.</p><p></p><p>I was shocked to read this morning in the NY Times that a swatch of Jewish New York, Orthodox and Hasidic enclaves such as Borough Park, Brooklyn voted 69 percent for President-elect Trump, even though this group are largely registered democratic. What do they know that I do not? I am trying to fathom it.</p><p></p><p>Climate change alone makes me quiver in fear. (Among dozens of other looming issues. Right here comes to mind just what control does Russia have over Trump--some have speculated about a sex tape and others that Russia holds a great deal of his debt and have manipulated him by this--but where does it stop now that he holds the reins of power?)</p><p></p><p>But I cannot even bear to put into words the terror I feel about the Elders of Zion implications in the publicity of the last part of the campaign where Hillary Clinton was portrayed next to dollar signs and a Star of David. While this is by no means any worse than any of the other slurs made towards racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, gays, etc.--it is personal to me. How do these Jewish people not see all of this as personal to themselves and their families as well, and a threat to their security and full participation in our collective society?</p><p></p><p>This was my mother's greatest distress about many of her people, who almost all had been immigrants, despised, defenseless and with little support: How could they not identify with others like them? How could they not remember what it was like to not speak the language or to know the customs, or to be disliked and rejected because of accents or clothing? She decried how their could be anti-immigrant sentiment among a people who similarly suffered. I decry it too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 702658, member: 18958"] PASA, I am so sorry. I was shocked to read this morning in the NY Times that a swatch of Jewish New York, Orthodox and Hasidic enclaves such as Borough Park, Brooklyn voted 69 percent for President-elect Trump, even though this group are largely registered democratic. What do they know that I do not? I am trying to fathom it. Climate change alone makes me quiver in fear. (Among dozens of other looming issues. Right here comes to mind just what control does Russia have over Trump--some have speculated about a sex tape and others that Russia holds a great deal of his debt and have manipulated him by this--but where does it stop now that he holds the reins of power?) But I cannot even bear to put into words the terror I feel about the Elders of Zion implications in the publicity of the last part of the campaign where Hillary Clinton was portrayed next to dollar signs and a Star of David. While this is by no means any worse than any of the other slurs made towards racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, gays, etc.--it is personal to me. How do these Jewish people not see all of this as personal to themselves and their families as well, and a threat to their security and full participation in our collective society? This was my mother's greatest distress about many of her people, who almost all had been immigrants, despised, defenseless and with little support: How could they not identify with others like them? How could they not remember what it was like to not speak the language or to know the customs, or to be disliked and rejected because of accents or clothing? She decried how their could be anti-immigrant sentiment among a people who similarly suffered. I decry it too. [/QUOTE]
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