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Yiftach Levy's avatar

Bigotry or cowardice? Could be both 🤷🏽

Hang in there, Jen. You're expressing what a lot of us are feeling, and I'm grateful for your ability to do that, to admit to some of the uglier reactions we have because of the ugliness of the outside world. You have a community here and, I trust, in your actual vicinity IRL. Let us support you, lift you up and help you move forward, one step at a time.

Holding Sarah and Yaron's families, and each other, close.

Shabbat Shalom 💙

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Jen Gilman Porat's avatar

Thanks, Yiftach. Shabbat Shalom.

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Rachel Weingarten's avatar

One thousand percent agree. We just have to keep reminding each other that we're here even as everyone else bloviates or turns a blind eye. What scares me in addition to all this is this generation of idiots being raised on hate disinformation funded by Qatar graduating and being unleashed on the rest of society.

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Jen Gilman Porat's avatar

Yes, and as someone else pointed out to me—the brainwashing is happening in K—12 too. Terrifying.

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Stephanie Gilman's avatar

With you, Jen—literally every word.

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Shelley Durga Karpaty's avatar

Well written, Jen. I am 100% with you on these points. It’s now a matter to have others who are wavering or confused to now know these truths.

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Jen Gilman Porat's avatar

Thanks, Shelley. So painful to witness all the ways the victims get dehumanized and/or demonized. Even some of the more well-intentioned people I know have skipped right over the simple fact of a double homicide.

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Marina's avatar

Yes, the silence is deafening. 🥺

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