I don't think I know any Jews in this country who don't celebrate Thanksgiving. More to the original point, to my Grandfather--my father's father (and to his children and to me), in particular, Thanksgiving was probably more sacred than Yom Kippur, because to him, this was the country that ensured that he and his kids and grandkids could grow up with the pogroms of the shtetl near Kiev from which his father had fled. My grandfather was the first in our family born in this country and he was forever grateful.
As to it not being PC to say that "Most Jews in the US ... are radical leftists who despise the very existence of the United States", well, in this country, it is politically correct to say whatever one chooses--that's what the Bill of Rights and Free Speech are all about. As it happens, what you typed may be politically correct in that sense, but it is also factually incorrect in a big way.
It is sad that so much of this country's political discourse has become colored by emotion and prejudice--the sort of discussion that leads people to find "death panels" in the health care bill that is currently being proposed--something that doesn't remotely exist, not in the bill, not in the current discussion.
The bias and ignorance of this preceding comment are also not a new thing. When Lillian Wald began fighting to make health care accessible to new Americans at the turn of the last century, there was no shortage of hysteria then, either. She managed to succeed. The question before us is whether there are women (or men) today who are able to look at the facts as they actually are--to become FC--Factually Correct--see the need for health care reform now, and act effectively to bring it about.
What an interesting comment.
I don't think I know any Jews in this country who don't celebrate Thanksgiving. More to the original point, to my Grandfather--my father's father (and to his children and to me), in particular, Thanksgiving was probably more sacred than Yom Kippur, because to him, this was the country that ensured that he and his kids and grandkids could grow up with the pogroms of the shtetl near Kiev from which his father had fled. My grandfather was the first in our family born in this country and he was forever grateful.
As to it not being PC to say that "Most Jews in the US ... are radical leftists who despise the very existence of the United States", well, in this country, it is politically correct to say whatever one chooses--that's what the Bill of Rights and Free Speech are all about. As it happens, what you typed may be politically correct in that sense, but it is also factually incorrect in a big way.
It is sad that so much of this country's political discourse has become colored by emotion and prejudice--the sort of discussion that leads people to find "death panels" in the health care bill that is currently being proposed--something that doesn't remotely exist, not in the bill, not in the current discussion.
The bias and ignorance of this preceding comment are also not a new thing. When Lillian Wald began fighting to make health care accessible to new Americans at the turn of the last century, there was no shortage of hysteria then, either. She managed to succeed. The question before us is whether there are women (or men) today who are able to look at the facts as they actually are--to become FC--Factually Correct--see the need for health care reform now, and act effectively to bring it about.