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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Cracks in the dem coalition over Israel
Date: 11/01/23 9:28 AM
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Then you're both really selling the small conservative towns short. These days the worst you'd be liable to get is a "Ur a hwhat? You go to church on a Saturday?" kind of a thing. Or somebody might ask you what the small hat is for.

Nope. It might be comforting to imagine that all you would get is benevolent ignorance. But what you can also get is the, "we don't want your kind around here" - the "try that in a small town," when that is being Jewish. Vandalism of Jewish symbols and property, threats, Nazi imagery, and even violence. Don't imagine that just because there's antisemitism on the left that there isn't on the right. The "Unite the Right" folks were chanting that Jews would not replace them. All those dank Pepe memes where he's gleefully working the controls of a gas chamber or dressed as a Hauptscharführer - those are coming from the alt-right, not the alt-left. The folks hanging out on Stormfront or the Daily Stormer aren't progressive DSA members; they're hard-right white nationalists, who include Jews among the non-whites that they want to eradicate. Not just advocating for a Palestine that runs from the river to the sea - actually advocating for a second Holocaust, the literal extermination of Jews from America. (((Albaby))) isn't a leftist idea.

There's anti-semitism no matter where you go - geographically or along the political spectrum. But notwithstanding the illiberal left, Jews fit in much better with the liberals than the conservatives; both ideologically and demographically. More than any other religious group, we're overwhelmingly pro-choice, urban, college-educated, cultural liberal religious-minorities comprised nearly entirely of 19th and 20th century immigrant waves. Not exactly a conservative/Republican group.

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