A very nice piece from @MitchAlbom:
Anti-Semitic posts — and tepid reactions — should enrage us freep.com/story/sports/c… via @freep
Anti-Semitic posts — and tepid reactions — should enrage us freep.com/story/sports/c… via @freep
"It might seem surprising that after Jackson posted several anti-Semitic messages including quote he attributed to Hitler...[received] no punishment...it took nearly a week before the Eagles finally announced the consequences for Jackson’s messages: An undisclosed fine."
"Jackson did receive support from other stars including Stephen Jackson, who said DeSean was “speaking the truth” and Jews “are the richest” and “control the banks," later said, “I don't support Hitler, I don’t know nothing about Hitler and I could give a $%$ about Hitler!”"
"And lest this be dismissed as ancient history, it was less than 85 years ago that Jews were rounded up all throughout Europe and systematically exterminated in Nazi death camps."
"Statistics show anti-Semitism is at near historic levels. So when Stephen Jackson says, “I don’t know nothing about Hitler and I could give a [expletive] about Hitler,” he needs to understand: That is hate speech to a Jewish person."
"But the truth of Jackson’s wrist slap is likely this: Anti-Semitism doesn’t cause the same fury as other prejudices. There is rarely as sustained an outcry when a synagogue is attacked or a Jewish person is killed for his faith. Or the entire Jewish population is slandered."
"“Silence is compliance.” That’s a popular sentence today. But you can’t be selective with your noise. Not against hate. For all the bigoted garbage stirred up against Jews last week, it was disturbingly quiet out there. We should think twice about why that is."
