With the crap this guy has pulled..nobody thinks of him as a jew just an idiot.
Exactly.
I heard that NPR interview today with the South Korean representative. His fears, to my mind, were unfounded and misplaced. Going postal had nothing to to do with that kid being Korean and there is no reason to think of him that way.
White people commit all kinds of horrible crimes: physical, financial, etc. and they are never spoken of in racial terms, taken as indicative of white character, or as an indictment of white people. To do that with Koreans, Jews, blacks, or any other group is racist and buys into the very bigotry we are ostensibly opposed to.
Maybe I’m unusual, but I’ve never thought of Paul Wolfowitz as “jewish” (whatever that means) until you started this thread. Is that good or bad?
I recently learned that an old friend of mine is Jewish. I didn’t know this before because
a) in all the time I’ve known him, he never once brought it up. And none of the traditional clues were evident: no mezuzah on his door, no menorah in his house, he doesn’t go to temple, etc.
b) it wasn’t important to me.
I only recently found out because a (new) mutual friend asked about it when he heard my friend’s last name. Maybe it is the way I was raised or the generation I belong to, but I have never heard someone’s surname and thought "he or she must be Jewish." I just don't think in those terms. And I'm proud of that.
