gaudior

I didn't say there were no Jews in Minnesota, and I didn't say you'd never met any Jews. (My stepmother's whole Jewish family lives in Minneapolis.) I said that there aren't many, especially as compared to, say, where I came from, which I think is still a fair statement. So, again, I don't understand what point you're trying to make when you say that you never heard anything bad about Jews except from Jews. Most of the "really bad" anti-semitic stories I seem to reacall telling you - horns and such - were things that happened to my grandparents and great grandparents here in America. The "not so bad" stuff - like my synagogue getting defaced, me being told that I'm responsible for September 11th, you hearing your co-workers suggest that all Jews are misers, little, insignificant things like that - well, it's only not so bad if it's not happening to you.

Now, is this stuff major, life altering discrimination that prevents me from going about and living my life? As long as I have no desire to go see the village my great great grandparents left in Poland, no. Is it stuff that affects me, and other Jews, in ways that most people don't realize? Absolutely. That's all I'm saying.