Reply #96: shira, there is power in understanding

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Shira, "4 examples to start with, let's see how you handle them" spoken with such drama and threat...

his post has the power to help you : Weiss was being honest, not anti-semitic. He is Jewish and he sees his own people committing heinous crimes against humanity and is sick over it. it could easily be any other race or religion committing heinous crimes against humanity making any person sick. it is not a mental disorder to feel revulsion against anything that reminds you of a strong negative in your life, it is perfectly normal and healthy.

what is also healthy is owning your demons, not trying to hide them, ignore them or pretending they are foreign parts of you.

now if he were to commit hate crimes against these innocents, we'd have a totally different situation, but in this piece, he is working through it in a constructive fashion. suppress a person's ability to express that rage in this fashion and you force expression into less constructive channels. that is just the facts of life, sorry.

in short, you are so extremely defensive that you consider this an especially outrageous sentiment for a human being to have and must silence it. you are not owning your own demons and will continue to try and keep your finger in the dam you've built for your own dark side until you can't hold it anymore at which point you will have a serious problem. it bears some resemblance to the whole Israel society at this point, desperately scrambling to put fingers in all of the leaks in this edifice to an ideal. (the real world is alive, ideals are dead. and so is Israel if they don't give it up)