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What Right Wing Racism?

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What, me worry?3/13/2010 8:43:11 pm PST

re: #401 avanti

“”THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew…”

A neighbor and I were speaking and she was telling me about shopping at the flea market, “I really Jew’d em down!” I looked at her, “You know I’m Jewish, right? Why did you say that?” She replied she didn’t mean anything by it, she just got a good deal. I told her never to say it again and it’s an insult.

We were still “neighborly” to each other (she moved). I liked her daughter, about 10 at the time. She’d bring her friends into the yard and we’d pick flowers for their beany babies. Maybe she’ll remember me as that nice Jewish lady one day instead of something else.

There’s a little, tiny battle I fought and won. I think. I’m not sure. I’ll consider it victory.

Confronting neo-Nazis are your own is pretty silly IMO.