It’s Deja Vu All Over Again.
It's been 3 years since I am back, and Israel feels more and more like the US, not always in a good way. Yesterday there was a documentary on the state sponsored TV channel, that was set to examine the roots of the difficulties both generations of the Ethiopian Jews face in Israel. Examine it did, and guess what: it turns out that it is difficult to adjust to a culture radically different from the one you came from, especially when your new homeland has a share of its own objective difficulties, like relatively high unemployment (partially a consequence of decades of socialism modeled on the enlightened example of Western Europe).
So what to do? Worry not, IBA has it all figured out: we just have to face the fact that we are all racist, which, as we all know, is half of the solution. The rest is easy: we all just stop being racist pigs (which we are, Wikipedia says so), and we will all live in harmony ever after. Would you like fries with that?
June 26, 2006 at 6:44 pm
I’m sorry did you say Israel or New Zealand?
June 26, 2006 at 7:14 pm
And what’s fries without ketchup.
Sorry, you were saying that some of that sounded familiar to you?
June 26, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Just a bit.
It’s like socialism is a global clusterfuck with the same sour taste all over.
June 27, 2006 at 3:21 am
Well, I’ve been in a “racist white male oppressor” 12-step group for about 20 years now, and strangely — total social harmony and spiritual creaminess has not been achieved in my country.
I guess all us racist white male oppressors aren’t trying hard enough.
Not that I remember ever oppressing anybody … but I fit the profile.
*shrug*
June 27, 2006 at 6:09 am
It is not necessary for you to have actually oppressed anybody, because your right to exist is not a right, but a privilege. Being a relatively dark-skinned female I can tell you this with certain authority.
Hey, I’m getting good at this!
June 27, 2006 at 6:40 am
LOL!
I think you’ve got the hang of it
;o)
June 27, 2006 at 7:25 am
Hey I’ve robbed Maori of all their land… not sure where I left it but I’ve been assured I took it.
June 27, 2006 at 8:16 am
Yeah, I stole the Black Hills from our “people partly related to people who were here before you”
I went there in 1974
That must have been when I did it.
June 27, 2006 at 8:25 am
White man come, kill our women rape our buffalo!
June 27, 2006 at 8:44 am
That is a perfectly acceptable lifestyle choice. I mean the buffalo part, obviously.
June 27, 2006 at 9:16 am
Anybody big enough to rape a bison can do whatever the hell they want. “That guy right there. The one who just held a 3000lb buffalo and fucked it … He’s in charge.”
June 27, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Anybody big enough to rape a bison can do whatever the hell they want.
So, Gadfly, have you seen that George Washington thing over at YouTube? The part about the bears? I thought it was just odd, myself, but the guys over at Protein Wisdom just about peed their pants with joy.
Not safe for work. Not safe for children under 17, women in the last trimester of pregnancy, grannies, bears, deer, the easily offended, the insane, or the humor impaired. Definitely not safe for the British children.
June 27, 2006 at 4:27 pm
We are NOT making fun of GW Bush on this blog, mister!
June 27, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Hey, you beat me to the president thing. You are right, BTW, that was odd.
June 27, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Gee AOTW at Dennys and a warning from Alisa in the same week.
June 27, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Asshole of the week.
He was nominated.
June 28, 2006 at 4:17 am
Angie: That hurt my head.
Apparently, the drug culture is still a vibrant part of our society.
June 28, 2006 at 5:32 am
I don’t get any of this, and I am not on drugs.
June 28, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Get any of what?
June 28, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Gosh, I was tired yesterday. Now I see that Gadfly was addressing Angie. I still don’t see how Murray’s last comment pertains to anything in this thread, but I am still missing a few hours of sleep, so maybe in a week or so I’ll get it…