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Jews Protested to Warn of American Fascism Rising. How Come Nobody Else Cared?

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"Recently  my Twitter feed  said that Jews have been protesting this administration’s barbaric “policies”, en masse, across the countr y. Thousands of people, in more than 50 places. Many were arrested. You probably haven’t heard about that. Why not? Because establishment media didn’t think it was worth covering much  if it covered it all. Wait! The entire American media establishment didn’t think Jews being alarmed enough to warn of fascism rising again, that they protest en masse across the entire country is kind of important? That it matters enough to make headlines? Isn’t that kind of ignorance bordering on denial verging on complicity, by the guardians of democracy; exactly what makes a society vulnerable to authoritarian fascist collapses, surges of hate, political destabilization in the first place? Let’s think about all this — it’s meaning, it’s urgency, and it’s twisted irony."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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