The Conversation U.S.Nov 4, 2023

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From September:
Largely forgotten until now, between 1933 and 1945 hundreds and hundreds of Jewish women and men performed individual acts of resistance in Nazi Germany.

Jews of all ages destroyed Nazi symbols, protested in public, disobeyed Nazi laws and defended themselves against insults and physical attacks.

Pictured: Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, ‘Only for Aryans,’ in August 1938 in Vienna ⬇️

https://theconversation.com/how-individual-ordinary-jews-fought-nazi-persecution-a-new-view-of-history-210337
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How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

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This #FourthofJuly weekend:
Stop using #nationalism and #patriotism as synonyms.

🇺🇸 Patriotism encompasses devotion to the country as a whole – including all the people who live within it.

🇺🇸 Nationalism refers to devotion to only one group or people over others.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-difference-between-nationalism-and-patriotism-208170

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A 1950 poster shows Superman – a refugee from another planet and a character created by two Jewish immigrants to the U.S. – teaching this lesson to school kids. #USPolitics

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.

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From last November:
Y'all listening?

Y'all as a second-person plural pronoun is not just “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” A linguist has found uses going back to 1631 in England, hundreds of years before the more recent usages cited by the Oxford English Dictionary.

And its inclusiveness is also gaining new respect, you hear?

https://theconversation.com/yall-that-most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265

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‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

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West coast born and raised, when I was stationed in S. Carolina "y'all" is one word I kept as it makes so much sense [to me].

Then, in Texas, I heard "all y'all". That's a fun one 😁

Nov 5, 2023 at 5:00pmWeb