my neighbors were not jewish. the person who demanded- over the phone calling from NYC- that i report my neighbors to the police for sitting outside as a family in their own backyard- is jewish and i see a certain irony in that.
here is a person from a "special" group that has been historically victimized, a person who has a smaller family tree then one might think because a generation of her ancestors were herded off to death camps and only a few survived, now all too willing to act as informant, to turn in others for "crimes." i might have expected her to see the dangerous precedent she was following.
i have another story from the pandemic, equally ironic. i was asked to design costumes for a new opera company starting here. we opened up, maybe not as early as florida but certainly earlier than places like NY and CA. a very old friend of mine was coming in to stage manage the production and she suggested me to do the costumes. she was flying into town a week before the rest of the artistic crew was arriving, so the company housing was not yet ready. i offered my guest room to her to save the opera company the price of a week's hotel and she was thrilled to accept, happy for the chance to spend time with me and my boyfriend who she sees as a kind of mentor.
then the director of the opera company told her that we were not vaccinated, something i was going to tell her but he beat me to it, violating all formerly accepted notions of privacy; she was too afraid to stay with us and the company had to scramble to find her alternative housing for the week.
so what's the ironic part? my friend has had AIDS for many years, a "gift" from her gay husband. so on the pecking order of unacceptability, being unvaccinated ranked even lower than having AIDS! i can remember a time when people- not me- would have turned her away once they found out that she was "contaminated" so i would have expected her to understand the irrational fear that people had towards her and how she felt being othered. as i would have expected my jewish associate to understand what happens when neighbors report neighbors to the Stassi. but no... the smug superiority that people felt against those of us who chose to remain in the control group was astonishing.
i did invite her over for dinner before she left town just to test her hypocrisy and she accepted. i guess the lure of a free meal trumps the possibility of facing a deadly virus.
Just remember, this is a very smart virus. It only attacks you when you enter and exit restaurants or walk to the bathroom. If you sit at the table you can take off your (not-effective) mask to eat dinner quite safely!
How ironic, indeed! When the small company I had been helping with costumes for several years announced at the beginning of the season they would require vaccination, I said No. Even if they drop the requirement for the new season, I'm not sure I'll come back тАУ I have uneasy feelings I'll need to sort through.
exactly! i was shit canned from my job of 40 years as the costume director of the spoleto arts festival in charleston, sc. i was the longest consecutive staff member in the festival's history and would have worked there until i dropped dead. i was let go without a goodbye or a thank you, we're sorry but just following orders.
the contempt i now feel for the thing i loved most in the world is beyond description. i will never work for them again or attend any of their events. the arts are supposed to be the truth tellers, the rebels, the free thinkers. they are not supposed to act as an enforcement art of bad public health policy. to me now, they may as well be henchmen for chairman mao's cultural revolution
"Just following orders." Where does "following orders" stop? Jesus, I'm so sorry this happened to you. I can't imagine being part of a community for 40 years only to be dropped like that. Please do not let your well-earned feelings of contempt drag you down. There are no doubt some in the festival who didn't like what happened to you, but fear of being the next one kept them silent.
I'm sorry that happened to you; your anger and hurt and bewilderment comes through loud and clear. Too bad I live in Pennsylvania, we would have a chance to meet up as fellow sane persons.
A deadly yet innocuous if not non-existent virus. I lost my brother to AIDS in 1996. It's only over the last 3 years I've learned "AIDS" was another Fauci-instigated fraud as horrendous as the Covid Fraudemic. What killed him wasn't "HIV" -- apparently an utterly innocuous virus -- if viruses truly exist and I'm wondering now about that -- but AZT, a drug so toxic the original researchers tossed it and their patent applications for it in the wastepaper basket.
Paul died blind and emaciated at 43. Public execution via the Guillotine is too good for Anthony Fauci. Damnation and Eternity in the Lake of Fire is also too good for Anthony Fauci. Get a copy of RFKjr.'s "The Real Anthony Fauci". It's a medical version of The Gulag Archipelago: A horror story in every paragraph.
One would think family history and personal experience would insulate people, but alas, humans are humans in every single culture, religion, skin tone, in both sexes, profession, etc. Some humans just have a tendency towards authoritarianism and/or knee-jerk fear, and none of the above characteristics insulates one from this. You either have the tendency or you don't, and events can bring it to flower. Since there was a fairly sizeable part of the population that went this way, there must be some evolutionary reason for this tendency. Perhaps an evolutionary biologist can come up with a theory.
You've hit on something that has become clear from the Crazy Times and I wonder about it a lot. What is it in those of us who just can't pretend that we don't see what we see? Who want to live and let live if possible and not wish social or literal death on those who disagree with the mainstream narrative? I. just. can't. If I'd been accosted by those BLM thugs who demanded I raise my arm in the Sieg Heil, I know that my arm would stay paralyzed by my side.
my neighbors were not jewish. the person who demanded- over the phone calling from NYC- that i report my neighbors to the police for sitting outside as a family in their own backyard- is jewish and i see a certain irony in that.
here is a person from a "special" group that has been historically victimized, a person who has a smaller family tree then one might think because a generation of her ancestors were herded off to death camps and only a few survived, now all too willing to act as informant, to turn in others for "crimes." i might have expected her to see the dangerous precedent she was following.
i have another story from the pandemic, equally ironic. i was asked to design costumes for a new opera company starting here. we opened up, maybe not as early as florida but certainly earlier than places like NY and CA. a very old friend of mine was coming in to stage manage the production and she suggested me to do the costumes. she was flying into town a week before the rest of the artistic crew was arriving, so the company housing was not yet ready. i offered my guest room to her to save the opera company the price of a week's hotel and she was thrilled to accept, happy for the chance to spend time with me and my boyfriend who she sees as a kind of mentor.
then the director of the opera company told her that we were not vaccinated, something i was going to tell her but he beat me to it, violating all formerly accepted notions of privacy; she was too afraid to stay with us and the company had to scramble to find her alternative housing for the week.
so what's the ironic part? my friend has had AIDS for many years, a "gift" from her gay husband. so on the pecking order of unacceptability, being unvaccinated ranked even lower than having AIDS! i can remember a time when people- not me- would have turned her away once they found out that she was "contaminated" so i would have expected her to understand the irrational fear that people had towards her and how she felt being othered. as i would have expected my jewish associate to understand what happens when neighbors report neighbors to the Stassi. but no... the smug superiority that people felt against those of us who chose to remain in the control group was astonishing.
i did invite her over for dinner before she left town just to test her hypocrisy and she accepted. i guess the lure of a free meal trumps the possibility of facing a deadly virus.
Just remember, this is a very smart virus. It only attacks you when you enter and exit restaurants or walk to the bathroom. If you sit at the table you can take off your (not-effective) mask to eat dinner quite safely!
How ironic, indeed! When the small company I had been helping with costumes for several years announced at the beginning of the season they would require vaccination, I said No. Even if they drop the requirement for the new season, I'm not sure I'll come back тАУ I have uneasy feelings I'll need to sort through.
exactly! i was shit canned from my job of 40 years as the costume director of the spoleto arts festival in charleston, sc. i was the longest consecutive staff member in the festival's history and would have worked there until i dropped dead. i was let go without a goodbye or a thank you, we're sorry but just following orders.
the contempt i now feel for the thing i loved most in the world is beyond description. i will never work for them again or attend any of their events. the arts are supposed to be the truth tellers, the rebels, the free thinkers. they are not supposed to act as an enforcement art of bad public health policy. to me now, they may as well be henchmen for chairman mao's cultural revolution
"Just following orders." Where does "following orders" stop? Jesus, I'm so sorry this happened to you. I can't imagine being part of a community for 40 years only to be dropped like that. Please do not let your well-earned feelings of contempt drag you down. There are no doubt some in the festival who didn't like what happened to you, but fear of being the next one kept them silent.
I'm sorry that happened to you; your anger and hurt and bewilderment comes through loud and clear. Too bad I live in Pennsylvania, we would have a chance to meet up as fellow sane persons.
You have some great stories and perspective on the insanity of these past few years Carolyn
thank you
A deadly yet innocuous if not non-existent virus. I lost my brother to AIDS in 1996. It's only over the last 3 years I've learned "AIDS" was another Fauci-instigated fraud as horrendous as the Covid Fraudemic. What killed him wasn't "HIV" -- apparently an utterly innocuous virus -- if viruses truly exist and I'm wondering now about that -- but AZT, a drug so toxic the original researchers tossed it and their patent applications for it in the wastepaper basket.
Paul died blind and emaciated at 43. Public execution via the Guillotine is too good for Anthony Fauci. Damnation and Eternity in the Lake of Fire is also too good for Anthony Fauci. Get a copy of RFKjr.'s "The Real Anthony Fauci". It's a medical version of The Gulag Archipelago: A horror story in every paragraph.
One would think family history and personal experience would insulate people, but alas, humans are humans in every single culture, religion, skin tone, in both sexes, profession, etc. Some humans just have a tendency towards authoritarianism and/or knee-jerk fear, and none of the above characteristics insulates one from this. You either have the tendency or you don't, and events can bring it to flower. Since there was a fairly sizeable part of the population that went this way, there must be some evolutionary reason for this tendency. Perhaps an evolutionary biologist can come up with a theory.
You've hit on something that has become clear from the Crazy Times and I wonder about it a lot. What is it in those of us who just can't pretend that we don't see what we see? Who want to live and let live if possible and not wish social or literal death on those who disagree with the mainstream narrative? I. just. can't. If I'd been accosted by those BLM thugs who demanded I raise my arm in the Sieg Heil, I know that my arm would stay paralyzed by my side.
That is both a good answer and heartbreaking.