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Some of what the Pittsburgh terror brings up for me
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 741922" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Dear Esther. I did not know of Professor Wistrich's work and just now read the entry about him on Wikipedia and read an article about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Thank you. (On CNN there is somebody right now from the Anti-Defamation League talking about anti-Semitism and calling it "the oldest hatred.")</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">The United States had three acts of terror last week: This one, Florida and two African Americans were killed in a supermarket after the killer tried to enter a church but could not because the door was locked. These men that perpetrated these anti-Semitic, racist, xenophobic, violent acts were triggered and mobilized by hate speech which is legitimizing acting out and also a deep anxiety and anger that many feel because of economic disenfranchisement and a sense of having lost their place, without a way to regain it. Powerful interests in this society seem to want to manipulate this anger and fear and anxiety to target scapegoats, as a way to channel this away from questioning economic inequalities and commonalities between people. How different is this from 1930's Germany? </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">There are those that see a great welling up in this society and internationally of common grief and broken-heartedness right now. Who knows? Maybe the very existence of the mass media, that fanned this social chasm, will help to heal it. Who could know? </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">There is hate. But there is also love. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">We consider cellphones like designer watches, status symbols but nowadays the technology is cheap. I live in a poor city. There are stores where I can go and buy cell phones for less than $10. I think phones are very cheap in poor countries because the people don't have the money to pay much. The telecommunications companies want the subscribers so they discount heavily the technology. It's like cheap computer printers now for $19.99, almost giving them away so we buy the ink for $30.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 741922, member: 18958"] [LEFT][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)]Dear Esther. I did not know of Professor Wistrich's work and just now read the entry about him on Wikipedia and read an article about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Thank you. (On CNN there is somebody right now from the Anti-Defamation League talking about anti-Semitism and calling it "the oldest hatred.") The United States had three acts of terror last week: This one, Florida and two African Americans were killed in a supermarket after the killer tried to enter a church but could not because the door was locked. These men that perpetrated these anti-Semitic, racist, xenophobic, violent acts were triggered and mobilized by hate speech which is legitimizing acting out and also a deep anxiety and anger that many feel because of economic disenfranchisement and a sense of having lost their place, without a way to regain it. Powerful interests in this society seem to want to manipulate this anger and fear and anxiety to target scapegoats, as a way to channel this away from questioning economic inequalities and commonalities between people. How different is this from 1930's Germany? There are those that see a great welling up in this society and internationally of common grief and broken-heartedness right now. Who knows? Maybe the very existence of the mass media, that fanned this social chasm, will help to heal it. Who could know? There is hate. But there is also love. We consider cellphones like designer watches, status symbols but nowadays the technology is cheap. I live in a poor city. There are stores where I can go and buy cell phones for less than $10. I think phones are very cheap in poor countries because the people don't have the money to pay much. The telecommunications companies want the subscribers so they discount heavily the technology. It's like cheap computer printers now for $19.99, almost giving them away so we buy the ink for $30.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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