Reply #17: I like that attitude DeSwiss

[Time for change]

Fortunately for me, I can't say that I've run into the kind of prejudice that you have, but as a Jew I have run into a little bit of it. I never did take it very personally. Hell, I take it more personally when someone criticizes one of my posts than when someone would make an anti-Semitic remark directed at me. If they criticize my post, they're criticizing me, whereas if they make a racial remark, as you say, they're doing that strictly out of ignorance. But then again, I only received a very mild dose of that -- I know from history and from my family that many other Jews received a thousand times worse on that score. There's no way to tell how that would have made me feel, other than terrified.

I told my wife that I would not send this without her approval. She said to go ahead and send it, but I said that she has to read it first, and I'm sticking to that.

I hadn't thought of sending the book back. I think I'll at least keep it long enough to serve as a source for continuing argument with my nephew if that transpires. The other thing that I was thinking was that if I send it back it might be used to poison someone's mind. Using it as fuel might be a better use for it than that.