| Sunday, December 30, 2001 |
12:37 - More on Anti-Semitism
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An extra thought I had about the Spectator article:
Europe in the 30s (and America, too, and pretty much everybody) developed pretty strong anti-Jewish sentiment, for no demonstrably good reason.
But today, America's anti-Muslim sentiment is very, very minor by comparison-- invisible, negligible, and officially warned-against just to make sure. And to the minds of our 30s counterparts, after 9/11 we could be seen to have a damn good reason to feel more such hatred.
We've been attacked in possibly the most culturally-defined, religiously-delineated way imaginable. And yet somehow we've avoided turning in a bloc against the attacker culture and religion. Which is what Osama probably expected us to do. And the fact that we didn't probably caught him completely off guard.
You know what? It surprises the hell out of me too. Have times changed or what?
I'm proud of us.
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