Reply To: changing neighborhoods and anti-semitism

newbee

“Im glad we can civilly agree to disagree”

Of course, thats why I asked it. I have no problem with disagreements. and your position while wrong and bigoted is not illogical nor (grossly) inconsistent.

the funny thing is, I assumed everybody would agree with my OP. When the eruv story was in the news as well as the KJ story. It struck me how anti-semitism (yes thats what it is, make no mistake about it, and yes Jews can be anti-semtic too, though if you insist on calling that ugly trait by another name fine I can live with that) is alive and well in 21st century America. the most striking thing was how they didnt even do a good job hiding it and outright told the New york times as well as a satire news agency that they didnt want “others” to move in and “change the look” of the community, (which i do not doubt would happen). I often wondered if anybody actually believed that the concern about the look of a community was a valid reason to prevent “undersirables” from moving in but doubted anybody actually believed that.

what prompted my post (as you may have gathered) was the discussion about taking in refugees. Putting aside the very real and valid concern about safety a few posters, and I believe you included, made reference, to wanting to preserve the “look and face” of America. This struck me as terribly bigoted and I was curious what you would say if the “look and face” that was to be preserved was one that excluded us.

To my surprise, You remained consistent and stated that you were ok with discrimination against everybody and as I stated i do admire your consistency.

(Of course the only inconsistency is the timing, since I’m not quite sure if in your view it wouldve been right to ban our ancestors a century or so ago or the Italians before them or Irish and Germans before them etc.

It seems a tad inconsistent that now that you are safe and comfortable by moving into an area and changing the “look and face” of the area (I dont mean you personally) you want to prevent others from doing the same. But I suppose you can make the argument for some arbitrary time to be the “proper” look and feel and that is the one that should be maintained by barring newcomers.)