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In reply to the discussion: Protesters shout 'babykillers' at Jewish elementary school children [View all]wnylib
(26,417 posts)Within the same sentence you say that you are not apologizing for protesters who target a school, then apologize for them by saying that you understand why they are there.
You say that people are rightly outraged by American Jewish children bring targeted at a school, but then belittle their experience by trying to compare the US with Palestine.
There are devastating conflicts going on in parts of Africa today. So, if African American children in the US were targeted by people protesting the wars in Africa, would you belittle the race based protests against Black kids in the US because they do not suffer like Black kids in Africa?
Do you want to turn the US into the ME, with Jew vs. Muslim conflicts throughout the country? I remember when my Jewish Senator, Chuck Schumer, rushed to the airport to aid Muslim immigrants to the US who got stranded by Trump's Muslim ban. Schumer was so disturbed by it that he had tears when trying to talk about it publicly and Trump ridiculed him as a "cry baby."
In the US, regardless of what is happening abroad, hate toward ethnic, cultural, or religious groups here is not acceptable. Protesters who target children for the ethnicity/religion of their parents are expressing hatred toward that group. But you belittle that hatred because the children were not killed - yet. But let that hatred grow without being called out and it will lead to a mass shooting or bombing of Jewish children, or a synagogue. We've already had that happen in the US. Do you want more of it? Do you want to play out the wars of other nations here on US soil? That's where belittling the experience of hatred toward specific groups leads to.
BTW, JC was a Jew.