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Aceofwhat?3/09/2010 8:30:16 am PST

re: #596 Obdicut

I’m not trying to bag on the US— I love this country— or Christians, really. I’m just pointing out that the world as a whole, including the US and Christians, still has huge streaks of antisemitism in them, and that recently in the US there has been a movement towards more aggressive forms of Christianity that are very worrying to the US Jewish community. I’m sorry if anything I’ve said sounds at all harsh.

Don’t worry, you didn’t appear to have bags. I think that philosemitism (see what i did there) might accurately be described as on the rise here, in stark contrast to much of the rest of the world, with some exceptions that (to me) stand out more each decade.

I think it’s harder to be a casually antisemitic Christian here than it was 30 years ago - making it easier to pick out the idiots in our midst.

Politically, though, I think this is one of the few racial topics where modern Republicans have a better track record. Votes like this abound…