Clarissa's Blog

President Obama has spoken about the environment on campuses, and this is the part that caught my attention:

And I say to them, Listen, if you hear somebody using a racial epithet, if you hear somebody who’s anti-Semitic, if you see an injustice, I want you to speak out, and I want you to be firm and clear, and I want you to protect people who many not have voices themselves.

It’s very refreshing to see the President mention anti-Semitism. It has become fashionable amongst the most obnoxious among my fellow progressives to roll eyes and make weird clucking sounds whenever anti-Semitism is mentioned. This is a subject that, at best, gets a yes-butting from people who can wax enthusiastic for hours about any other sort of oppression, including every imaginary one.

Things have gotten to the point where people see a building defaced with a swastika and still can’t squeeze out the word “anti-Semitism.” Let’s hope that Obama’s words, at least, will have an impact.