Bernie is Jewish. Please don't minimize his minority status by calling him "another white person"

[tanbrown]

296. no one needs to justify anything to anyone

And thank you for the welcome - my first!

But as a woman, I found your comment kinda blind. My take on the post above (in case you are interested in the opinion of a woman) is that the poster was pointing out that most Jews aren't recognizable as such and don't get casual on-the-street prejudice thrown at them, whereas for women (unless in drag) it's a constant fact of life.

You are choosing to take his/her post at it's tiniest, silliest possible meaning. That is your choice. But I hope some progressive people here will take the poster's point and mull it over.

Someone above (maybe you; I didn't notice) wrote that "it's been centuries since a woman was burned at the stake; the Holocaust was 70 years ago." And yet... my Monday newspaper details two local women shot to death by their male lovers, just in my mid-sized metro region, just over this past weekend. So it is weird to me that anyone on a progressive site would speak dismissively of the problems faced by women. (We Jews are not murdered often for our Jewishness. The threat is there - but in America, at least, it feels very far away.)

Perhaps I misunderstood you. I would like to think so.