@StillIRise1963 @JRBuckley @SharonGibson3 @Steve
We're gone from Europe. They don't have the option of doing it again because they already did it once.
I really, really wish people in the US didn't try to valorize post-WW2 Europe. We should demand better of the US.
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@imstilljeremy @StillIRise1963 @JRBuckley @SharonGibson3 @Steve I believe Clint Smith argued in his Atlantic article on Holocaust memorialization that it might be *because* Jews are mostly gone that Germany has an easier time admitting guilt. In the US, white people have to live among those we've harmed.
@jewishreader @StillIRise1963 @JRBuckley @SharonGibson3 @Steve
I'm reminded of when a Jewish guy on Twitter talked about how, as a kid in 1950s Germany, he had to politely sit at his friends houses as their parents talked Nazi stuff. People went nuts. A German Jew sitting at tables with Nazis in the 1950s? What a Nazi sympathizer!
It made me think of every time a white person told a Black person it was their fault for not making a bigger deal about racism from family, friends, co-workers.
@imstilljeremy @jewishreader @StillIRise1963 @JRBuckley @Steve When I was coming up, it was often said we "had to be patient" instead of demanding civil rights that they (white people) exercised without hindrance or question.
@SharonGibson3 @imstilljeremy @jewishreader @StillIRise1963 @JRBuckley @Steve
"Just wait and you'll get your turn" isn't as effective when people keep jumping into the line ahead of you.
