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The goyim are often weird. We’ll survive them. We always have, and we always will. And the nuttier the goyim, the more zechus we get for standing up to them.
Killing surplus babies is a “leftist” position? When the Nazis killed Jewish babies, we thought they were “right” wing. And both the left and right include anti-Semites (one can argue that Jewish survival is to make sure that neither extreme comes to power).
We should remember that “left” and “right” refer to which side of the parliament different groups sat on in the French parliament during the French Revolution – and that Jews didn’t get the right to vote or hold office in France until after the revolution.
We also need to remember that in basic economic matters, most frum Jews tend towards the “left”, and indeed, our community has a history of left-wing positions in many areas such as providing education for all and supporting the poor and regarding such support as a duty.
huju: A minority is by definition any group that is under 50% of the population (at least that is based on dictionaries). I believe the “woke” definition defines “minority” as belonging to a group that holds a politically correct position and is entitled to special privileges. The African Americans are a qualified minority, unless they are too religious or hold conservative economic and political positions. For more about the “woke” methodology and use of terminology, I suggest reading “1984” by George Orwell.
Given the Democrat’s open toleration for anti-Semitism, it will be increasingly hard for frum Jews to vote Democrat. Democrats come out for ideas such as banning Bris Milah, closing down non-public schools, and affirmative action programs designed in part to discriminate against us, and the list is long. The “old” Democrats would have kicked people like Al Sharpton, of DeBlasio, or the squad out of the party (at least in New York State, the Old Democrats had no problem working with southern racists).
Religious Jews.
WASPs (once the majority, a minority for at least the last century)
Working class whites
Non-atheists in general
Christians in particular (now a minority for the first time)
MalesMany accredited law schools offer part time programs (i.e. evening programs) that usually take an extra year or two to finish. They tend to be the least desirable law schools (so don’t plan to get a fancy job on Wall Street, more likely you’ll need to hang out a shingle). In general, except for the elite law schools, you should go to a local law school (one in the state or region you’ll seek to pracitice in). Pre-Covid19, any sort of correspondence or online law school was largely prohibited by the agencies that license lawyers.
Rightwriter: Civil War similar to the United States in the 1860s, Spain in the 1930s, Russia after 1918 or Britain in the mid-17th century —- VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE
Instead think of Northern Ireland in the late 20th century, Lebanon since the 1950s, Palestine prior to 1947 (going back to the 1920s).
The change in technology is independent of politics. Unless the government finds a way to ban the internet (North Korea could, the United States – not really), or at least to ban telework and distance education, the world is changed. Distance education means (once we get used to using it efficiently), that a family could live anywhere in the country (or world), and get a Torah education, and a good secular education, for their children. Many jobs can be done anywhere. If a dozen Jewish families move to a small town in a rural region, as long as they have good internet, the community is viable. Frum Jews only recently became hyper-urbanized, and we could go back to living in small communities.
There are winners and losers. Anyone owning real estate in a big city is a LOSER. So is someone whose business depends on having employers and employees being physically close (bad news for restaurants, bad news if you run an office cleaning service, etc.). Education institutions with a heavy investment in physical plant will be the biggest losers.
Given the growing anti-semitism is the “blue” urban centers, this could be the best news of Yidden since Britain turned down Germany’s peace offer in 1940 (which we didn’t know about at the time).
It would be very hard to have a civil war. For starters, the state militias are all Federally run, and include a handful of volunteers (most of whom are more likely to be red than blue); in 1861 the militias included most able-bodied free white males and were totally equipped and trained by states.
The economy is totally integrated. Without the “red” states, the bi-coastal regions would starve (you do really that almost all food eaten in Brooklyn is grown elsewhere); in 1861 most food was produced locally.
Also, most red states have large pockets of blue, and vice versa. In 1861, virtually no one in the north favored the south (a “dove” simply wanted to let them go), though many if not most southerners favored the union, a factor which crippled their war effort.
One might have to deal with domestic terrorism. For example, if the Democrats try to prohibit parents from giving a religious upbringing to their children (in the best interests of the child), it would probably lead to violence, but not a full war (think of Northern Ireland’s “troubles” or Lebanon as it normally is).
All central cities appear to be seriously losing population. Rents and home values are falling.
Once a type of work can be done as telework, there is no reason to live near the corporate headquarters. All that matters is that you have good enough internet to telework.
Once the schools get the “hang” of distance education, there is no need to base one’s residence on proximity to the “right” school.
None of these factors are unique to Yidden but involve society as a whole.
The Israeli equivalents of ANTIFA and BLM are the third largest group in the Kenesset (after the Nationalists and the Hareidim). Unlike the US where anti-semitism is a small part of the left-wing agenda, opposition to the continue existence of Yiddishkeit is a primary goal of the secular fanatics. Hatred of frumkeit is so great that you see Israel nationalists willing to give up territory, if only to get a government that will actively persecute us. Otherwise left wing socialists could have formed at “dove” majority, with support for a left-wing economic agenda, but gave it up to concentrate on fighting the chareidim (who tend to be “doves” and also tend to favor left wing economic policies such as aid to poor families).
Going to Israel for fear of bigotry is jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If New York gets too hot for us, we should consider moving to “red” states which tend to be more supportive of religion in general.
It appears that texting is causing the ability of people to write (and read, and use) grammar is weakening. This is especially a problem for us since our culture is highly based on written materials. If children don’t develop the competence to use written language, it cuts them off from many aspects of Yiddishkeit. It is also problem that many people tend to spend all day staring at a device, which again clashes with our cultural values which involve more than looking at a smartphone. However these are problems for adults as well as children, but children normally copy their parents (even if parents don’t admit it).
If the Israelis come up with a peace plan that the Palestinian people support in a free election, the conflict with Hamas will disappear. To the extent zionism requires the domination of the Palestinians, the zionists might have a problem.
BLM (and also “Antifa”) is basically a racist organization, similar to the mid-20th century National Socialists in Germany (a.k.a. Nazis), and will never be satisfied and can never be accommodated, though they might be discredited and certainly can be crushed. Their goals, poorly defined as they are, are to re-write modern history and produce a different result, and anyone who stands in their way needs to be cancelled.
If the Democrats are in control, while they will be anti-business (mindless regulations, “green” policies, higher taxes, treating corporations as cash cows to be milked), they will liberally print money which will replace most of the damage (even if it results in inflation). The biggest threat to frum Jews will be from the fanatic secularists know running the Democratic party, though outside of New York City, they target Christians rather than Jews.
If the Republicans are in control, they will be supporting policies that promote economic growth and prosperity (though it will go badly for the Democrats who like to be apocalyptic alarmists).
If there is a split government, a bit of both. If one party believes the election was stolen, that could be a problem.
“State” of the MO community.
Given that they are already more diverse geographically than the hareidim, they should have no trouble migrating out of the fanatic (and increasingly hostile) blue states. The improvements in distance education and teleworking due to Covid19 will also help.
It helped Trump with several groups, including Evangelicals. It also reassured Israel that the US won’t demand a withdrawal to the 1947 partition boundaries (under which Jerusalem wouldn’t be part of Israel). In addition to Christians, much of Trump’s base sees the Palestinians as supporters of Islamic terrorism and the embassy move was a slap in the Palestinians’ face. As most Jews live in solid blue states, Jewish influence on American politics is minimal, so the decision to move the embassy wasn’t motivated by a desire to get Jewish votes.
Given that he didn’t disown his daughter for converting, I would say he is definitely a friend. Most Democrats believe in “freedom from religion” as a public policy goal.
Mail voting would work if:
1. The Boards of Elections and the Post Office were fanatic about keeping address records up to date.
2. Ballots were sent to voters as certified mail, signature required – guaranteeing voters received their ballots
3. They actually checked that the ballot was from the voter either by requiring them to show ID at the post office or by checking a signature on the ballot against the voter registry, which very few election boards do.
4. A ban on vote harvestingBut it won’t happen and unless Biden wins by a tremendous landslide, the election will be tainted
What’s wrong with dead people voting as long as they know to vote Democrat? It is a long tradition going back many generations.
And why would a mail carrier in a Republican area throw our perfectly good ballots when they have the option of delivering them to a Democratic vote harvester who least knows the correct way to mark the ballot.
1. Kamala Harris is a politician, as is everyone running for national office except for Trump (it is clear what he is, but he is not a politician). She knows how to adjust her views for an audience, and to minimize insulting anyone.
Based on her previous career, she is a full fledged member of the bi-coastal elites, moderate to conservative on criminal justice issues, and in many ways a 100% normal Democrat.2. Kamala Harris is distinct in that both her parents were immigrants (a West Indian, presumably descended from British slaves as are most West Indians, and an immigrant descended from an upper class caste in India). This election is the first in which none of the candidates for either national offices are descendants of those who were in America at the time of Revolution (all recent immigrants – Trump and Harris from 20th century immigrants, Pence and Biden from mid-19th century immigrants, and not a Anglo-Saxon among them).
Trump did try to ban immigration but the Democrats objected –
It turns out most infected people don’t get sick-if they admitted that in January there would have been no closures, Worldwide, more people are dying for the panic and overreaction than from the disease. Now that we know that only 1 in 20 infected people get sick, and perhaps 1 in 200 die, this will seem in retrospect like a false alarm – and Trump will seem clever for not totally falling for it
If you are a Democrat, as a point of faith, you must believe that Trump is the devil/satan/source of all evil.
Quayboardwarrior: In the late 20th century they made phone service an entitlement (meaning that the welfare program would pay for basic phone service for welfare recipients). It wouldn’t cost that much to provide a similar level of internet, especially if it included very limited graphics (perhaps on the line of glorified texting, with someway to authenticate what you were receiving). At that point, the Post Office could drop first class mail, perhaps continuing parcel service and priority mail (especially with signature required) with higher fees,
Quayboardwarrior: Postal service originally was limited to official mail, and did not include home delivery (that was added during the Civil War so women whose husbands were off fighting wouldn’t have to go to the post office, which often was run by the local inn, which often doubled as a “Beis Zenus”). Rural free delivery and parcel post were also late add-ons.
If you made internet access a entitlement (as was telephone service by the late 20th century), you could probably get rid of paper mail service.
The major impact will be on businesses that need to ship (which include many frum companies), since that will encourage the “competition” to raise rates. It also will hurt those who do not routinely use email , and especially those who lack broadband (which includes any frum families).
October surprises to save the Republicans:
A major foreign policy “coup”, such as Russia, China, Iran and or North Korea having revolutions and pro-western leader coming to power. Russia withdrawing from Ukraine, or China granting independence to Taiwan and/or Hong Kong would be just as good.
The Democrats and left-wing media admit that Covid19 was never a serious threat, and the lockdowns were never justified. The Democrats would never admit the sun rises in the east, if that clashed with their view of political correctness.
A peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, that is endorsed by the Arab League, all of whose members promptly recognize Israel. The Palestinians are unlikely to give up their claims, so this is unlikely.
Trump dying of something other than Covid19 (assassination would help the Republicans the most), such that Pence is the nominee for president, and Trump’s “deplorables” support him as their man’s chosen successor.
No more than you can blame Jews for bringing nuclear weapons into the world (and we had help). There are roughly a billion Chinese, and only a handful of bureaucrats are responsible (whether by negligence/incompetence or malice, is a different matter). From what we know how the Chinese government works, there are probably a lot more Chinese who died of Covid19 than they are announcing.
Beis Din doesn’t get a case unless someone brings the case. American courts get criminal cases when the public prosecutor (in New York, the District Attorney, of the United States Attorney) presents charges. A traditional Beis Din (when they had full criminal authority) requires witnesses to present charges. If the witnesses don’t want to present the charge, the Beis Din doesn’t hear the case. So if the witnesses don’t want to kill the criminal, the case will not be initiated. Therefore the situation in the question will never arise.
Why would the witnesses have brought the case to begin with?
In Anglo-American law the State (Crown, whatever – in the US, the local public prosecutor) brings the case and summons witnesses (sometimes against their will), and coerces them to testify in many cases.
The word “witness” in English implies a bystander with information based on what they saw. The Hebrew word עֵד should probably be translated more as “accuser” as the role of the עֵד is similar to that of a grand jury or public prosecutor in that the עֵד initiates the criminal proceeding.
Also note the Jewish courts can receive and use information from persons who do not have the status of עֵד whereas an Anglo-American court can not based in decision on the facts from someone who isn’t a “witness”.
So if two Jews give warning and witness the murder of someone, for a non-controversial example, a Nazi war criminal, and then decide that the murderer was justified in killing the Nazi, there is no requirement for them to go to Beis Din a initiate a criminal proceeding – though under American law the witnesses would be accessories if they didn’t report the murder of the Nazi, though the Prosecutor could dismiss the case “in the interests of justice” (at least under Anglo-American law, some Roman-law based systems require the prosecutor to proceed on all complaints).
Reb Eliezer: Isn’t it sad when our rabbanim are tricked by goysha scientists into doing something totally dumb. Cholera isn’t spread by breathing. The correct advice doesn’t require a mask, but does require boiling water. In the examples of telling people not to fast, that would actually be the wrong thing to do for an uninfected person. If you don’t have cholera, fasting actually makes you safer (since it was the food and drink that made people sick).
So when the goyim (and frei Jews) today announce that according to their science, we must close our shuls and yeshivos (but not their “politically correct” gatherings), we should be highly skeptical, and suggest they take a long walk off a short pier.
Adan Neira: Moshe Rabeinu was dealing with systematic, highly focused, biological (and geo-physical) warfare raged by Ha-Shem against the Egyptians. In modern terms, it was analogous to being the hostage, and following instructions from the special forces being sent to rescue you.
You can be reasonably certain they didn’t call on people to stop going to shul and to stop learning Torah.
One should also note that unlike Covid19, Spanish flu killed people of all ages, and most people infected became quite sick. Spanish flu wasn’t reported in Anglo-American media, at first, since it was considered actionable intelligence of the health of the armies – it became public knowledge when it was reported in the Spanish press, since Spain was neutral and therefore had no military censorship. It them became well known everywhere. In the USA, many people wore masks and many things were cancelled, but no one attempted to shut down the economy.
The infamous cholera epidemic cited above shows the problem with rabbinim paying too much attention to doctors. In turned out the disease was not an airborne virus, but was spread by polluted drinking water. Any quarantine measures were not warranted, and fasting would actually reduce your chance of exposure. The remedy was to acquire clean water for drinking, washing and preparing food (e.g. boil the water before use). It turns out the doctors the rabbis consulted with were into what we now call “junk science”.
The Library of Congress came up with the quarantine period for books based on experiments for how long Covid19 remains alive on books. It appears most public libraries are adopting similar procedures. For libraries where you have to order the books and then pick them up, this removes any chance of getting Covid19 from a library book.
The original posting made an argument for ebooks (though there is no way to read them on Shabbos) and for purchasing books. If you are a fanatic germ-phobe, you probably want to avoid library copies of children’s books (in particular). In dealing with Covid19, libraries discovered that if you quarantine a book for several days most common viruses die, though some microorganisms can probably survive almost anything.
When we find OTD kids becoming frum again so they can give up getting good jobs open only to those who work on Shabbos, and instead want to get rich by working in Torah institutions.
China is an enemy. Their aggressive policies against American friends is unacceptable. And the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even President Biden is unlikely to pursue friendly relations with China, those the Democrats plan to defund most of the military which will greatly help China.
Bolton sees Trump as his enemy, and by that logic he gives up his neo-con views and supports China.
In 2000 years when English is a dead language, scholars will envy how you got to observe English back when it was a living and constantly changing language.
If you are trying to find a consistent approach to the two parties, over time, you could argue that the Democrats were and are into identity politics (even if before the 1960s they largely rejected Blacks in order to pander to southern white who were still grumpy about the Civil War), but that the Democrats have always been for pandering to whomever they define as “the people”, going back to Jefferson and Jackson. “Jim Crow” was a Democratic invention (good pandering to southerners), though the laws against Jewish and Asian immigrants had bi-partisan support. The “woke” Democrats are still supporting “pandering” to those whom they feel are worthy (with a strong caveat, that means discriminating against those they don’t approve us).
The Republicans (and the Whigs and the Federalists) were always into support “good government” and “business”, appealing to like-minded voters on non-ethnic grounds, and rejecting identity politics.
Avi K – I don’t recall the police beating up Epstein when he was taken into custody. He apparently was arrested the “correct way”, with an arrest warrant, after being indicted. He was not in police custody when he died under mysterious circumstances (he was in jail, run by correction officers, not cops). Getting the police to treat all people they arrest just like Epstein, is the goal. Prison reform is a separate issue.
The statistics show race isn’t a big issue (black cops are just as likely to kill blacks as white cops are). The issue is police abuse of people they are arresting, regardless of race (and perhaps not regardless of class – rich people tend to get much better treated when getting arrested). There is no excuse for police to being injuring unarmed persons, even if they deserve it.
When a cop busts someone, for, as an example, passing out “under the influence” in an illegally parked car, they have to treat the guy the same way they would treat their “let’s not talk about him” uncle who sometimes gets drunk in the wrong time and place. When arresting an unarmed suspect, perhaps one freaking out at being arrested, he should treat him the way he would treat his own kid if some childish prank ended up with someone calling 911.
We also should remember that if Ha-Shem decides you are going to be rich, you will end up being rich whether you like it or not. You may choose to be a poor kollel student and end up working in hinuch, but if Ha-Shem wants you to be rich, Ha-Shem will find a way. And if you decide you want to rich and become world renown for giving tsadakkah, and Ha-SHem decides you should be living off tsadakkah, guess what.
RE: What makes someone yeshivish and not mainstream charedi??
1. Not being a Hasid
2. Not being a Sefardi (non-Ashkenazi) baal ha-bayis (but can you be both Sefardi and yeshivish, and in that case should we say there are two flavors of “yeshivish”, Ashkenazi and Sefardi.
3. Especially in greater New York City, even goyim mix in Yiddish with their English. Many people wear loafers for many reasons (not wanting to tie shoes on Shabbos, arthritis that makes it hard to tie shoes, etc.), How one wears a yarmulke is a function of head shape (though choice of yarmulke is a fashion statement with socio-political overtones).
All yeshivish are chareidi (unless one argues the fanatical religious zionist yeshiva students are also yeshivish, which is not how the term is used in Yiddish and English).
Not all chareidim are yeshivish (there are hasidim and sefardim, who are not yeshivish but are charedi).
The broad term is : chareidi
The narrower term is; yeshivishThe government gives lots of people lots of benefits. Suggesting they should exclude kollel families from entitlements to which everyone is entitled would be very unconstitutional. American law is very big in treating everyone equally.
As to the question about whether the government should aid persons who are poor, regardless of reason, that goes back. Originally the policy was very restricted. One couldn’t get “welfare” unless you had sold all your possessions, and moved to the “poor house”. It was felt that giving money to poor people would make them lazy and corrupt their souls. For the most part, “welfare” was considered the function of private (usually religious) groups.
As America became “diverse” (this goes back 250 years, originally America was dominated by WASPs), the newcomers tended to be Jews and Catholics whose traditions supported charity, and overtime the government got into “welfare” business and at this point, add to the poor is considered by most Americans to be a proper government function, so we have programs such as welfare, food stamps, WIC, social security, medicare, CHIP, tuition waivers at universities, legal aid, Obamacare, etc. This isn’t really controversial anymore, and no one wants to go back to the old system which saw support the poor as being a bad thing. This has proven very good for frum Jews since we have large families and many people who put Torah and Mitsvos ahead of earning a parnassah, and consequently benefit from government hand-outs.
And yes, one can argue they got much of the idea from Yidden (directly or indirectly). Our communities always tried to be a welfare state (which was very hard for financial and economic reasons).
Had they acknowledged that their model of the disease was wrong, they would have suggested that those at the highest risk (the elderly in particular) needed isolation and masks, and that was all that was needed. The model they relied on assumed that those diagnosed as “positive” was what normally happen if you were infected with Covid19, and half of those became seriously ill and 5% might die. Projected to the whole population, it would make Covid19 similar to smallpox or perhaps even “Black death”.
It turned out, and the evidence was there all along, that those identified from testing with only 5% of the actual cases, and 95% of the “victims” don’t get ill enough to worry about. This make Covid19 into a slightly more dangerous version of the “flu” that makes it rounds every winter, but hardly into something threatening the social or economic order. The junk science led to politicians doing horrific damage, including closing schools, wiping out people’s savings, destroying their jobs and in many countries causing mass starvation.
Trump was right when he though this wasn’t a serious problem. Covid19 isn’t much of a disease, but it triggered a massive and destructive panic. Covid19 won’t make it into the medical history book, but into the psychological history books as an example of what dumb people do when they panic.
“Lowly mortal” — do you mean a worm, they are mortal and quite low
The mortals I hang out with are all created in the image of Ha-Shem, capable of things that melachim (“angels” as the goyim say) can only dream of, and are only mortal within the context of this world (which we know is a merely corridor to the real world (“this world” being similar to the “fake” world of the “Matrix” but with a much better real world).
The answer is that the US has a very fixed two party system, with free elections within each party to determine the nominee. Trump defeated the more traditional conservatives in the primary election in 2016. No elected president has been seriously challenged for renomination by his party, so the next opportunity for a traditional conservative is in 2024. In all fairness, it seems the conservative platform of small government and a muscular foreign policy seems somewhat out of favor at the moment.
In the election persons who dislike Trump, or Biden, have few choices as the American system makes it almost impossible for a “third party” to win (this happened only once, in 1860 when both parties fragmented, and the election triggered a civil war). Those unhappy with the presidential candidates can elect congressional candidate more to their choosing, and unlike most democracies, the American legislature is totally independent of, and in many ways more powerful, than the executive, and has a long tradition of annoying the elected chief executive.
Hats are a matter of style, not halacha. The halacha is to dress nicely for Shabbos. What defines Shabbos-dik is dependent on place and time, and is always relative. BTW, that is always true about clothing.
A dark conventional suit, with a fedora, will mark you as someone who wants to be seen as a scholar or even a fanatic if you wear it in a shul where everyone else has no jacket, wears a white shirt without a tie, and a kippah srugah. The very same outfit worn to a shul where the norm is a “long” suit (beckishe, kapote, etc.), and where formal hats (including homburgs, steimels, etc.) are the norm, will indicate that you want to be seen a “modern” person familiar with the ways of the outside world.
Under American law, the only time being pro-Nazi was illegal was when the United States was at war with Nazi Germany. Supporting the idea that the South should be given independence was never illegal even during the Civil War (persons arrested for supporting the South were not charged with a crime or prosecuted, though they were arrested under the suspension of habeas corpus, which was subsequently found to have been illegal).
One should also note that reconciliation with the defeated rebels was a key aspect of American policy, going back to Lincoln in 1865. In other countries the animosity over civil wars often lasted centuries (e.g. it was still controversial in 20th century Britain whether they could honor Oliver Cromwell, who was the “Jefferson Davis” of the British civil war). One should note (WOKE propaganda to the contrary) the even though the Germans in World War II presented strong racial arguments to American southerners including advocating a re-enslavement of Black Americans, they found no takers – the policy of reconciliation that is denounced may be a major reason why there was southern “third column” supporting the Nazis.
Police frequently beat up people. Even when their our four healthy, fairly young, cops, and one unarmed middle-aged person (who probably wasn’t going to be charged – passing one, and only one, fake $20 suggests he didn’t anything illegal and was probably annoyed to find our that the bill in his wallet was possibly fake). Police routinely beat up people of all races. This is illegal.
It shouldn’t be noted that police generally don’t beat up rich people. Police tend to be very polite to well dressed, well educated and apparently affluent people. It has to do with class. It is surprising that the self-proclaimed socialists haven’t caught on to this, since class distinctions are a core part of Marxist sociology.
Trump would be clever to explain he fully understands “Black lives matter” but that the lives of his supporters also matter and “Deplorables’ lives matter”, and that the solution is not to say that only Black lives matters but that the police should respect persons regardless of who or what they are. Of he said that, he would be a Libertarian (Rand Paul would be proud, the big government Republicans would be shocked).
Just like systematic/institutional anti-semitism is a myth. Actually if you live in Boro Park, work in Boro Park and have never left Boro Park, you might believe there is no discrimination against anyone in America (in Boro Park there is no discrimination against frum Yidden, and there aren’t enough goyim to discriminate against). You never applied for a job in which having beard and pe’os might hurt chances of getting hired. You never had to consider entering a field in which you were the only frum person. You never left out neighborhood. That method of avoid anti-semitism is similar to the reason many if not most Blacks in American prefer to live in Black neighborhoods and go to predominantly Black colleges.
You mean you never wondered if an African American professional you meet is truely qualified, or got the job only via affirmative action? You mean you never got nervous seeing a group of young, poor dressed, African American males walking towards you on a dark, uncrowded street? Did you ever feel uncomfortable traveling or shopping in an predominantly African American neighborhood?
Were the Nazis hypocrites for hating Jews? Are those who wish to be tyrants hypocrites for hating those whom they wish to enslave? Is a wolf a hypocrite for wanting to eat the sheep?