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lagilmanIn the course of the day, news came about the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. A friend asked me if I was upset. I shrugged. "Of course I'm upset. But that there are crazy white-power bigots out there who want to kill all the Jews is not exactly news," I tell her. "I'm sad for the family of the police officer who was killed, I'm angry it happened at all, but come on, I made you watch "Fiddler on the Roof" almost a decade ago. What part of 'they tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat' did you think was a joke?"
My friend, whom I have known for almost half of my life, looked at me thoughtfully. "All of it," she admitted.
Welcome to reality. I am a Jew. There are people who think I am sub-human, that I am a Christ-killer, that my people 'made up' the Holocaust, that I shouldn't be allowed to date their sons or go to their schools or breathe their air. They hate me as much as they hate Blacks, or Asians, or transgenders or homosexuals. One more shot fired, one more brick thrown, and all I can think "he was 88 years old. Please god, his children and grandchildren learned differently."
Hate is pointless. It doesn't make you better or smarter or richer, or give you the high moral ground. It just eats energy and, taken too far, kills people.
In lighter news, here's today's math:
exercise:
20 minute weights workout @ gym, plus 2 miles walking
writing:
1900 new words on Vineart2
900 new words (more or less) on MUSTANG
food consumption:
6 cups of coffee
half a box of triscuits and 6 oz of cheese
1 tablespoon peanut butter
Oh. Yeah, that would explain the fuzzy clarity I'm experiencing...
(yes, Mom. Dinner is in progress even as I type)
My friend, whom I have known for almost half of my life, looked at me thoughtfully. "All of it," she admitted.
Welcome to reality. I am a Jew. There are people who think I am sub-human, that I am a Christ-killer, that my people 'made up' the Holocaust, that I shouldn't be allowed to date their sons or go to their schools or breathe their air. They hate me as much as they hate Blacks, or Asians, or transgenders or homosexuals. One more shot fired, one more brick thrown, and all I can think "he was 88 years old. Please god, his children and grandchildren learned differently."
Hate is pointless. It doesn't make you better or smarter or richer, or give you the high moral ground. It just eats energy and, taken too far, kills people.
In lighter news, here's today's math:
exercise:
20 minute weights workout @ gym, plus 2 miles walking
writing:
1900 new words on Vineart2
900 new words (more or less) on MUSTANG
food consumption:
6 cups of coffee
half a box of triscuits and 6 oz of cheese
1 tablespoon peanut butter
Oh. Yeah, that would explain the fuzzy clarity I'm experiencing...
(yes, Mom. Dinner is in progress even as I type)
