So I notice that slightly racist jokes seem to be pretty acceptable in Israeli society - I don't mean racist against a specific group; most often the jokes are racist against different types of Jews. I think this is because there is a great rift between different segments of Israeli society; a lot of this has to do with the geographic separation (de facto - none of it legalized) that exists between said segments. I've written extensively on this subject on Facebook and don't have the energy to do so here, but these jokes really bother me.
At the end of the day, a society that allows racism against one group of people will allow racism against another; once discrimination* is acceptable, it is acceptable.
This is one of my favorite poems about the issue, "The Hangman", by Maurice Ogden: http://sacramentofordemocracy.org/node/35105
* again, I'm talking about social, not legal, discrimination
No comments:
Post a Comment