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I feel like antisemitism is making a comeback (if it ever really went away, although it seemed better for a while in the 90s and 00s). I attended a Bar Mitzvah

I feel like antisemitism is making a comeback (if it ever really went away, although it seemed better for a while in the 90s and 00s). I attended a Bar Mitzvah recently, and they hired an off-duty cop to keep an eye on the doors. When I was young that was completely unheard of, but is sadly necessary today. I hope that SUSE manages to turn things around, but it sounds like there’s a skunk in the C-suite that will take significant effort to flush out.

hericium 4y ago
> I feel like antisemitism is making a comeback I feel that particular political/economic/governmental groups want to bring the idea of antisemitism being alive and well for own gain like the ability to push certain agendas. Israeli government invading Palestine and shushing everyone around as "antisemites" doesn't really work anymore - the main opinion I'm aware of is that Israeli government is "the new Nazis" by doing what the Nazis did to Jews. So no - there isn't more antisemitism but there are political groups trying to make it appear so. It's easier to play a victim and to control victimized society. > I attended a Bar Mitzvah recently, and they hired an off-duty cop to keep an eye on the doors. There are also more off-duty cops guarding night clubs, more mall cops, stricter flight rules, anti-truck blocks in pedestarian zones and non-white racism. So many agendas and viewpoints you can assign world changes to...
brnt 4y ago
It just baffles me to read this story, because it seems to require that Suse specifically hires antisemites. Why else would there not be any pushback? That cannot possibly be, can it?
- pinewurst 4y ago
  People who question beyond a certain point seem to get fired. One would think this would've come out sooner at least.
- aaomidi 4y ago
  It's not really baffling to me. Europe liberalism has this culture of "we don't see race here". In this case replace race with religion. Theres very little involvement in deep conversations about the complex problems people face. I've said this before but in the US I'm scared of the state and not the people. In Europe I'm scared of the people and not the state. For example did you know a lot of European countries don't have any laws banning nationality based discrimination?
  - brnt 4y ago
    Whoever is behind this they were seeing religion very clearly, so I fail to see how your characterization of "European" liberalism applies. The second paragraph of your post makes me think you're trying to shoe-horn something else into this discussion. The European country I live in certainly has such laws. Can you name names? (Naturally, I'm not blind to this not preventing such discrimination; I have lived and worked in 5 European countries so far.)
    - aaomidi 4y ago
      Switzerland is an example.
- dimensionc132 4y ago
  - IntelMiner 4y ago

hericium 4y ago

> I feel like antisemitism is making a comeback I feel that particular political/economic/governmental groups want to bring the idea of antisemitism being alive and well for own gain like the ability to push certain agendas. Israeli government invading Palestine and shushing everyone around as "antisemites" doesn't really work anymore - the main opinion I'm aware of is that Israeli government is "the new Nazis" by doing what the Nazis did to Jews. So no - there isn't more antisemitism but there are political groups trying to make it appear so. It's easier to play a victim and to control victimized society. > I attended a Bar Mitzvah recently, and they hired an off-duty cop to keep an eye on the doors. There are also more off-duty cops guarding night clubs, more mall cops, stricter flight rules, anti-truck blocks in pedestarian zones and non-white racism. So many agendas and viewpoints you can assign world changes to...

brnt 4y ago

It just baffles me to read this story, because it seems to require that Suse specifically hires antisemites. Why else would there not be any pushback? That cannot possibly be, can it?

pinewurst 4y ago
People who question beyond a certain point seem to get fired. One would think this would've come out sooner at least.
aaomidi 4y ago
It's not really baffling to me. Europe liberalism has this culture of "we don't see race here". In this case replace race with religion. Theres very little involvement in deep conversations about the complex problems people face. I've said this before but in the US I'm scared of the state and not the people. In Europe I'm scared of the people and not the state. For example did you know a lot of European countries don't have any laws banning nationality based discrimination?
- brnt 4y ago
  Whoever is behind this they were seeing religion very clearly, so I fail to see how your characterization of "European" liberalism applies. The second paragraph of your post makes me think you're trying to shoe-horn something else into this discussion. The European country I live in certainly has such laws. Can you name names? (Naturally, I'm not blind to this not preventing such discrimination; I have lived and worked in 5 European countries so far.)
  - aaomidi 4y ago
    Switzerland is an example.
dimensionc132 4y ago
- IntelMiner 4y ago