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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (77191)	4/8/2000 4:43:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<<I reserve the right to comment on anything you post, within the SI TOU. If you are disturbed by my views, you may put me on "ignore" >>> I don't put people on ignore. I did not question your right to comment on anything I post. I responded with a practical suggestion to your comment, "Frankly, E, this is a subject that interests me little," thinking that it might make sense for you not to post to me on it, in that case. But you are free to post on as many subjects that don't interest you as you wish, of course. <<< It DOES interest me more than a little when you seem to imply that I am anti-Semitic.>>> I did not indicate any opinion about antisemitism or its absence in you. I in fact do not conclude that the only explanation for such icy comments is antisemitism. "Big deal" is fair, don't you think, as a characterization of your attitude as manifest in these comments about the persecution of the Jews, specifically about the turning back to the Nazis of that boatload of the doomed? "this is a subject that interests me little." "Bad things happen." "I have nothing to offer on the turning away of Jews trying to flee the Nazis." Last week my best friend's 8 year old daughter was evacuated with her classmates from her school, a Hebrew elementary school 7 or 8 minutes from my house, because of a bomb threat. The offense of the elementary school was the visit of the Pope to Israel. Monthly, the children join in in a weekend outdoor activity at the school. What they do is to clean up after that month's vandalism, and remove any accumulated graffiti. This is considered a routine activity, and the school's chosen policy is to keep it quiet so as not to encourage more antisemitism. They just calmly, with the children, remove the evidence. I am more upset about this than my friend is. She said on the phone to me five minutes ago, "It's a group activity. They treat it casually and make it fun. It's a good way to learn. That way, she won't be taken by surprise later." That this is considered routine in an American town in New York State, and hidden, so as not to antagonize further, matters deeply to me. Ike's letter provides some history that is not unrelated to this weekend activity, any more than it was unrelated to the torment of little Joey the Jew. I can't help wishing it all mattered to you, too. No, that's not true. I have wasted no time on that wish, because I know it is a hopeless one. I do still wish, though, that it mattered to Steven. I believe this is the first issue on which I've ever disagreed with him. This seems socially significant in an awful way to me, and I confess that his remarks have upset me deeply. I wonder how Joey the Jew, a man now, feels about these matters, as compared, say, to you? I want to say one more thing. You write, "if Ike thinks he has some claim on my guilt, Ike can "go fish"." Of course neither you nor I bear any personal "guilt" for acts we didn't commit. Our country has committed acts of which we can be very proud without claiming personal credit for them. It has also committed terrible sins for which you and I are not to blame. I noted not your blame for certain historical events, but your attitude toward them. I noticed it because I have seen that attitude become positively trendy recently. Trends recur. Ike, go fish, you bore.