On my way to Friday night services at Chabad this evening, as I was watching my feet while walking down Prospect St. with my kippah exposed, some asshole in a Nissan Sentra shouted “Jew Bastard!” at me as his friend drove by. What more indignities and ethnic slurs do I need to endure in this gangrenous hemorrhoid of a city before I leave?
It’s telling that this bastion of liberal thought is so engrained with the racism it vehemently denounces that I – an enormous kid with light brown hair who looks as little Jewish as any Jew I’ve ever met – have suffered the indignity of “drove-by” ethnic slurs at least 3 times since I arrived in Berkeley, when I’ve chosen to go outdoors with a kippah on. These actions can no longer be denounced as solitary assholes ruining some socialist utopia for the rest of us, nor can I ever again even entertain the notion of the hatred endemic to this modern-day Sodom being a ghoulish figment of my tormented imagination.
This city is a disgrace to its country; may all of its hateful bigots burn in the hell they so richly deserve in perpetuity.
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haha. i've also compared berkeley to Sodom and Gemorrah before. can't wait till the man upstairs decides to destroy it. and instead of defending it like abraham did, i'll be the first to say "go right ahead! burn the whole place down! and while you're at it, oakland's so close by..."
I doubt that he had any malicious intent. This was probably just his way of expressing solidarity with the poor, oppressed Palestinians.
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