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I can't say I'm shocked. There's a fair number of groups on FB that involve anti-Semitism of one kind or another, and I've heard plenty of rumors of others that are racist or hateful in some other way.
I don't like it, but that's the internet. You can't stop everyone from expressing themselves, and unfortunately, the range of people doesn't just go from smart to dipshit, but also includes the vicious and the loathesome. There's no successfully censoring them without taking everyone else with, so there's no censoring them.
That's the way of the world.
If nothing else, I feel like maybe running into these unpleasant little piles of shit from time to time will cure the illusion so many people have that anti-Semitism is either a thing of the past, or at least become a very rare phenomenon.
It's neither.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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