Reply #35: I agree with you that bigotry of all types is rising in America... [View All]

[marmar]

but this constant equation of being against the Israeli government's actions in this case to anti-Semitism doesn't work.
I'm an African American, and if my fellow DUers criticize Condi Rice for being an incompetent bullshit artist, I'm right there with them.
I can't speak for you, but as a member of any minority that's suffered oppression, it's very easy to get into a "circle the wagons" mentality where the defense of a member of the tribe trumps everything else. I remember during the OJ Simpson trial, I felt this - and I know quite a few friends who immediately went into attack-on-OJ-is-an-attack-on-Black America mode - but I stepped away from it, looked at it objectively, and came to the conclusion that he was guilty.
It's very tough sometimes to think beyond "tribe" and that's sad. That's one reason the world is in the state it's in today.