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Sunday, September 22 PC
PC I’ve finally figured out what this phrase really stands for. Polite Cut-throat. I’ve never been a fan of PC or at least what PC morphed into it. I think it started as a good thing, the same way communism started as a good thing, but now it’s just become a blanket to throw over the truth. While I don’t want to hear racist, anti-Semitic or misogamist words or jokes, I also don’t want to wonder who my enemies are. You hate me because I’m gay, a woman, a Jew, an American?? Well then don’t try to buy me a cup of cappuccino and throw some fancy chatter in my face about genes, who proper parents are, or some bullshit conspiracy theories. Just introduce yourself properly. “I’m Joe and I’m a racist, homophobic, scum-bag. Can I buy you a cup of coffee? The way people react to the conflict in Israel is particularly telling. My pal Neil and I always do the “real commentary” when we hear the news. “5 dead and 60 injured as the second suicide bombing breaks of month of peace in Israel.” Neil and I respond to the radio.
“Now you’ll hear outrage around the world. The atrocity, the horror, the cruelty, those big mean Jews! Someone’s gotta stop them!!” Neil and I respond. Guess what? We’re right. The most frightening thing is that if we feel a sense of unfair-ness here, in a country that is largely pro-Israel, you can imagine how it feels in the rest of the world, which is not. I’ll never forget what it was like reading a British newspaper, while I was on vacation. There was a close up photo of an outraged Palestinian holding up a dead baby. Underneath the photo comes the caption. “Sharon declares the attack a success!” I looked through the paper for any mention of the onslaught of suicide bombings that had prompted Sharon’s reprisal and found only one paragraph in the back of the paper, in the same section reserved for movie reviews. There was also no mention of the obvious; that this, like many war casulaties was a terrible accident. Of course, there were no photos of the Israeli children that had been killed, most likely that same week. Okay, so we can we stop this now? Can we call this exactly what it is? Anti-Semitism. ANTI-FUCKING-SEMITISM! Get off your high horses already. It doesn’t matter what intellectual crap you’ve telling yourself. You can be pro-the under-dog and have your own personal love for Palestinians to your hearts content, but if you consider the murder of innocent lives in Israel to be something not even worth a second thought, but will take to the streets in outrage when victims try to defend themselves, then maybe you can should take a long look in the mirror. I am a Jew and devoutly pro-Israel, but I’m not afraid to look at all sides of the picture. What I am afraid of, is that there seem to be less and less other people willing to do that. When I look at this picture I see three things. I see innocent Palestinians victimized by the blood lust of their own people. I see innocent Israelis, victimized by never-ending suicide bombings. And I see a world growing a little closer to 1940 every day.
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