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Bigoted relatives
posted at 11/9/2009 8:26 AM EST
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I regret that I didn't speak up yesterday when one of my uncles made a really offensive anti-Semitic comment at the party after my niece's baptism. The man is an across the board bigot and has said some awful things not only about Jews (although he has never known any except for my husband and now me), African Americans, gays, Asians, Hispanics or basically anyone who is not exactly like him. There's nothing uglier than a drunken racist / bigot.
I rationalized that my silence was not approval but that i did not want to cause an ugly scene and take away from the celebration.
I find it ironic hat to some more traditional people I'm not even considered Jewish because I studied with a female Reform rabbi and had a Reform conversion but to some family members I'm "the Jew" and that's not really a positive thing.
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