Business as Usual in Stamford

In an unexpected turn of events, Stamford, CT has become the first city in the United States to officially become racism-free. There is no other explanation for what has transpired in this city last year. Since some of our elected officials have needed to make up instances of racism (he made an allusion to Animal Farm – *gasp*!) and minimize instances of actual racism (those money-hungry Jews are taking over – *nothing to see here!*), it must only mean one thing — that we have finally reached the utopia we have worked toward since the founding of the this country.

Hallelujah!

This would be funny, if this just weren’t so damned par for the course.

None of this is meant to say that our elected officials need to be silenced. Not in the least. Sunlight is the best disinfectant of all! Let everyone shout their stupidities from the rooftops – the louder the better! So long as he or she is prepared to face actual consequences, whether professional or reputational.

But, of course, Operation Rug Sweep (nee Moral Equivalence) has commenced full force.

Lacking the neutralizer from Men in Black, there has been a rapid shift to gaslighting. It is apparently our fault that we expect accountability from and otherwise find abhorrent antisemitic language from our local officials. We should let bygones be bygones and embrace those who hate us. We are asked to look beyond ugly expressions of Jew hatred and take insincere apologies at face value.

I am sorry if you were offended . . .

I did say ‘I didn’t mean any disrespect’. . .

No amount of “sensitivity training” is going to affect unrepentant antisemitism. For all this puerile talk of ‘healing’ and bridging ‘divisions’, the only topic worth discussing is why there is one yardstick for Jew hatred and another for everything else.

The Democratic Party should stop assuming that its hold on political power in Stamford is a fait accompli. Come November, voters must remember not only who the Jew haters among our elected officials are, but also those who chose to turn a blind eye to Jew hatred as a matter of political or personal calculus.