re: #108 yma o hyd

I attempt to look at issues logically and rationally. When I was younger - and more naive- even having one parent who is a Holocaust survivor- I rationalized anti Semitism.

In this sense. I though it made sense that if one is raised an anti Semite - particularly in a rather isolated and illiterate world- they would become an anti Semite. I almost saw the anti Semite as a victim of his/her upbringing and environment.

When I got online in the early 90’s, I initially had this crazy idea that the Internet would be the end of anti Semitism. If you could communicate with anyone, people who had no clue about Jews, just had crazy ideas, would learn first hand, by interaction and such, that what they thought they knew was untrue.

Just the opposite happened. The Internet now spreads the most absurd stuff about Jews and it is absorbed by those who for some reason have a proclivity to believe the worst about Jews. Even if evidence is readily available to prove those are lies.

I now believe anti Semitism is some sort of a susceptible mental illness. I have no other explanation.