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Lucy Stylianou's avatar

This article, so beautifully written, makes me inexpressibly sad. As a British Jew, perhaps the saddest thing of all is that nothing he has written is particularly shocking or surprising to me. Reading his words I ask myself how is it possible that this can be allowed to happen in the 21st century, after everything that has happened and everything we know? I wish Blake Flayton all the luck and all the joy in his new life in Israel, and I wish so much that he didn’t feel that he has to make the journey. But I understand completely why he does.

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milllionthmonkeytyping's avatar

Germany was an enlightened country with great universities and yet they either participated or turned a blind eye to the dehumanization of the Jews that eventually allowed the Holocaust.

If it happened then it can happen in the 21st century. Look how little it took for the mob to form against the unvaxed. If you install enough fear in people they can lose all sense of proportion and basically become uncivilized.

I’d say we’re seeing a disturbing level of uncivilized behavior from too many people lately and it’s being excused as activism

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