Cross-posted to DovBear here:
There is a healthy nostalgia built into Judaism. “Chadesh yameni k’kedem” – renew our days to the way things were, we say. Of course, like any good thing, too much nostalgia is a bad thing.
After reading the famous case of Brandenburg v. Ohio I find myself pining for the anti-Jewish sentiment as expressed in 60′s as opposed to today.
Brandenburg was a Ku Klux Klan leader in Ohio. At a KKK rally, men dressed in robes and hoods burned a cross and made public declarations of hate. Among their offensive epithets:
“Bury the niggers”, “Freedom for the whites”, “Let’s get them back to the dark garden”,
(see FN1 in the Court opinion for the complete list) all clearly anti-black statements that are highly offensive.
Of course, no good KKK rally is complete without some anti-Jewish fun as well. These KKK Jew haters proclaimed:
“Send the Jews back to Israel”
Today’s anti-Jewish proclamations are more likely to echo Helen Thomas and say “Get the Jews out of Israel”.
Oh how I yearn for the anti-semites of yore. They were so much nicer to us…
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