But I'll try---
There are Jewish Americans who are making plans to flee the country, fearing a wave of anti-Semitic persecution which they perceive is a moral danger to them and to their families. The absolute awfulness of coming to grips with the fact that American Jews, American Jews, are facing a renewal of something that humanity should have completely wiped off the face of the earth at the end of World War 2 literally makes my stomach churn.
Nor can I understand the bigotry and anti-Semitism that I see which still pervades our culture. I was raised in a small Baptist church, Southern Baptist, where the inconsistency between what the Christian gospel teaches about the nature of God and the words and actions of many of the church members never made sense. They could read those places in the gospels and epistles of the New Testament where no distinction is made between human beings when it comes to the application of the love of God, but at the same time, voice the opinion that people who weren't white were inferior and not entitled to the same consideration, because their theology somehow excluded those people, on that basis, from themselves.
I doubt that very many Americans make any kind of realistic distinction between Ukrainians and Russians. But those who seem to be more sympathetic to the Russians, and who use the excuse of the cost of providing aid to Ukraine as an excuse for their position, also seem to be many of the same anti-Semitic bigots and racists when it comes to African Americans and Jews, at least, those involved in government seem to be that way.
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