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Behind the Aegis

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2. I am in total agreement.
Thu Feb 3, 2022, 03:44 PM
Feb 2022

I read a variety of books. Right now, I am reading the history of comics. It touches on how other groups were portrayed, or not. How minority voices were not heard or had to be disguised in order to get into the mainstream. Of course, it also brought up some of the same arguments we are seeing today about other forms of art/media...."won't SOMEBODY think of the children??!'.

My husband and I watch an inordinate amount of TV/movies. While we love our fun watches, we also watch a number of educational shows, histories, documentaries on a wide variety of groups and peoples.

The one thing I have learned in the recent days, is how uneducated people are, including many here, when it comes to the Holocaust and Jews. It is sobering, sad, and, frankly, has pissed me the fuck off, too! There have been at least twice as many threads about Whoopi's 2-week suspension (I don't think the punishment fits the "crime" in this case), then there were about the original offense, or more jarring, when a Texas synagogue and Jews were held hostage, it generated much less discussion and concern than the current suspension of a TV personality.

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