Why I Don't Understand Why People Call This Place So Liberal

[debka_notion]

As I was getting my lunch today, Steve comes over to me, takes a look at my shirt, which says "Brandeis University Conservative Organization" on the front and "Hebrew is Gender Specific, BUCO is not" on the back, and says to me "You know, we have a shirt like that for BOO too, only on the back it says 'G-d doesn't hate us'". (BOO is the Brandeis Orthodox Organization.) I tried to joke back something, but I was rather offended. It isn't like this is the first time he's said something offensive to me either: last time it was a whole string of bigotted comments about Indians, Pakistanis, Muslims, Asians and other immigrants. I'm getting to the point where I really want to do something about it, but I'm not really sure what to do. File some sort of complaint to the student senate about religious persecution? It seems a bit ridiculous here, but I'm not sure what else to call this one. Talk to the Orthodox rabbi here? I don't know what he'd do... Ideas?

Comments

[jessebeller.livejournal.com]

this is interesting. ive long harped about jewish xenophobia, but while never explicitly as directed against other jews, it is one of the recurring manifestations, isnt it? i think of monty python's life of brian or oscar wilde's salome or that joke about the jew stranded on the island who builds himself a city, and as hes showing the synagogue to his rescuers, they ask about the synagogue they see out the window, to which he remarks 'thats the shul i would never go in to.'

as for the manifesto, youre the one whos writing it, youre the one who gets to be intimidating. just declare what youre writing about and write about it in absolutist and judgmental terms. the catharsis will be in the writing, not in the taping up. once its written you should post it on livejournal or not. id like to read it, but really, manifestos arent about who reads them.