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From: dvk@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Klein)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Discrimination
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 11:51:05 EDT
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Keywords: Antisemitism and homophobia

As an answer to Scotty (root@ozdaltx) about my experiences with antisemitism
(and I'll keep it short, as this is motss, not motjf):

No, I have not really experienced a lot of overt antisemitism - certainly
nothing like some of the homophopia I have been reading about here.  But there
is some covert opression, and I am very sensitive to it (in the sense that I
am sensitive to heat - I notice it, but it rarely *bothers* me).

Meeting ex-Nazi's doesn't help much.  Growing up in a Roman-Catholic
neighborhood doesn't either, but the latter is mostly a problem of ignorance.
Having a woman say "All the Jews I've known have been cheap", and then finding
out she has known a total of two, and not realized I was one of them.  Getting
days off for Christian holidays, and having no one in school realize that
there *were* Jewish holidays ("isn't Chanukah your Christmas?").  It was made
known to me that I wasn't welcome in a club because of my religious heritage
(a point that I found especially annoying since I am not exactly rabbinical in
appearance), and then there is the old standby, "some of my best friends are
Jewish".  But mostly, no, I have not been persecuted as a Jew.  Yes, I am
aware of ignorance and intolerance, and am perhaps a bit more sensitive to
those characteristics when directed at me.  And I suppose that were I gay or
black, I would be more sensitive to the opression of those groups than I am
now.
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Daniel V. Klein, who recently gave up a lucrative job as a freelance consultant
to go work for the warmongering SEI, and is, frankly, enjoying himself.

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