The Welcome to episode 47 of the Charles CW Cook podcast.

My apologies for having missed a couple of weeks.

I had food poisoning last week and honestly it hit me like a 2 by 4.

I won't go into too much detail but suffice it to say that at one point I felt like Luther

Abel must have when he was devoured by those creatures, God rest his soul, if he had one.

Well, never know.

So, I've been trying to put my finger on what precisely it is that bothers me so much about some of the

anti Israel protests that I've seen.

And I think I've worked it out.

It's that much of the bigotry on display

is different from the bigotry, whether soft or hard, that I have seen in my own experience.

Now I don't have an especially well-developed framework to describe this, but broadly speaking, I think I'd place

racial or religious or cultural bigotry into two groups.

Intuated and learned.

By intuited, I mean the sort of stupid stuff that kids sometimes do when they encounter someone different.

Perhaps a new student arrives at your school and he has a thick accent and because you're a kid you mimic it.

Now that's not actually bigotry in the classic sense because in most cases you don't mean it,

but it is playing around with stereotypes and marking out differences and it can sometimes matter

because it can make the people at whom it's aimed feel really terrible.

I'm sure I was guilty of this myself at times when I was a little kid.

I'm pretty sure everyone has been. I'm also sure that when it was pointed out to me that I was

being mean I stopped and that's the first time.

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