I'm sorry you've repeatedly said that it's murder when it's one side, and not when it's the other.
You used me as a sounding board? You started the conversation explosively. You HAD to know it would offend me. You've never, ever asked me anything about being Jewish. You've never come to me with questions. You threw ill-informed, one sided arguments at me and haven't accepted anything I've said. You've taken two harsh examples of people who did bad things, judged and entire religion and culture based on that, and actually said you have no interest in learning anything further.
I'm not choosing religion over friendship. Don't you DARE be that puerile. You've offended the hell out of me, degraded me and my family and my beliefs, and vaunted your ill-informed arguments over any other possible point of view. You STARTED the conversation by telling me you think Israel should be nuked off the face of the planet, and now you seem baffled as to why I should have been so upset I sat up all damned night angry about it.
I am a Jew. I am proud of who I am, and what I am. My family is Jewish, and they're some of the kindest, most open, progressive people I know. I have many Jewish friends exactly the same. I'm sorry your experience has been different, but don't paint me and mine with the same brush as you paint your own. Don't tell me you like me as a person but not as a Jew. My Judaism is my history, my culture, and my family. Saying you think I'm a nice person but you don't like Jews is like saying I'm okay, you just don't like people like me. And that's racist.
I'm sorry you don't see murder is wrong whoever does it.
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Date: 2006-08-05 06:53 pm (UTC)You used me as a sounding board? You started the conversation explosively. You HAD to know it would offend me. You've never, ever asked me anything about being Jewish. You've never come to me with questions. You threw ill-informed, one sided arguments at me and haven't accepted anything I've said. You've taken two harsh examples of people who did bad things, judged and entire religion and culture based on that, and actually said you have no interest in learning anything further.
I'm not choosing religion over friendship. Don't you DARE be that puerile. You've offended the hell out of me, degraded me and my family and my beliefs, and vaunted your ill-informed arguments over any other possible point of view. You STARTED the conversation by telling me you think Israel should be nuked off the face of the planet, and now you seem baffled as to why I should have been so upset I sat up all damned night angry about it.
I am a Jew. I am proud of who I am, and what I am. My family is Jewish, and they're some of the kindest, most open, progressive people I know. I have many Jewish friends exactly the same. I'm sorry your experience has been different, but don't paint me and mine with the same brush as you paint your own. Don't tell me you like me as a person but not as a Jew. My Judaism is my history, my culture, and my family. Saying you think I'm a nice person but you don't like Jews is like saying I'm okay, you just don't like people like me. And that's racist.
I'm sorry you don't see murder is wrong whoever does it.