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No one 'unlearns' their antisemitism...
... they learn how to to sanitize it for public consumption.
I disagree.
How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes
Everyone is capable of change, to deny that is essentially denying redemption. Denying people can ever be better than they are. Change is always possible. Sometimes by something as simple as meeting and getting to know The Other. The realization we are all human beings adrift together. History is full of people who started out one way, and realized their ideas about the world and other people were wrong.
It wasn't that long ago, historically speaking, that open antisemitism was quite normal and acceptable in public conversation.
The excesses of the Holocaust made a lot of people take a hard look at their views and many changed them. However, you don't destroy 2,000 of culturally sanctioned Jew hatred with a little bit of collective guilt.
A lot more people just learned how to keep their views to themselves, some even learned how to re-direct that hatred of Jews to hatred of Israel (a sanitized, publicly acceptable version of antisemitism).
Racism in America has a similar long and deeply entrenched history. You can’t change everyone, but clearly you can change some. It seems that the automatic rejection of her statements (usually paired with her being an evil Muslim) is in itself, just kind of sad.
We will see what she actually does. She has been under attack from day one.
I've got a large number of Muslims co-workers, many of whom I consider friends. I have lived in predominantly Muslim cultures for many years.
Although hatred of Jews and Israel looms large in the speech of Muslim governments, it is by no means a view that most Muslims hold. There are many beautiful things in Islamic cultures around the world. Muslim culture enshrines education and hospitality to name just a couple of its virtues.
I don't judge people by their culture, I judge them individually according to their works and deeds.
I did not realize that, so many times, cultures are viewed simplistically. I have never been to the Middle East
You are one of the most interesting posters here....I always learn something
(Plus you have an sense of humor )
Aw shucks!