The Greatest Fallacy of All: The Silent Majority Will Save Us
By Leo Pearlman
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The righteous were remembered because they were few, the rest were silent and now history is doing what history does, it's repeating itself. Every so often, usually at the end of a long dinner or after a particularly bleak headline, I hear a familiar reassurance from fellow Jews. A delusional reassurance eating away at our community, one so entrenched, so comforting, and so catastrophically false that it may one day be remembered as the most fatal lie Jews told themselves in the West. It is the belief that the moment the darkness grows thick enough, the moment antisemitism reaches the threshold of the unbearable, a silent majority of “good people” will rise up and defend us. Jews who long ago accepted that the tooth fairy doesn’t exist, that the Easter bunny is more Cadbury than canon.
Original sourceTopics: Commentary, Antisemitism, Diaspora Life
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