16-08-2019, 09:54 PM
Anti-Semitism is sadly part of our history, JKP. I think the best we can do is recognise it and try to sweep it under the carpet. By feeling uncomfortable, and dancing around the subject, we do our Jewish cousins no favours. Bring it out into the light, analyse it, and help ensure it never happens again.
It is irrelevant whether the VM contains anti-semitic (or any other kind of racist) material. It is a product of its time and has no bearing upon our lives. It is our task to be open eyed about it, and consider all options.
What we can't do is project our own feelings upon this blank canvas. If it is there we must uncover it; if it is not, we must not dupe ourselves into seeing it.
It is irrelevant whether the VM contains anti-semitic (or any other kind of racist) material. It is a product of its time and has no bearing upon our lives. It is our task to be open eyed about it, and consider all options.
What we can't do is project our own feelings upon this blank canvas. If it is there we must uncover it; if it is not, we must not dupe ourselves into seeing it.