Sometimes it is fairly easy to get offended and sometimes I can not care less. For religion of all types I just resign in-front of the stupidities that are perpetrated each day in the name of a made up character who is supposed to be good but only seems to demand bad things of humans.
Yesterday some friends and acquaintances of mine visited the bar called Union Pool in Williamsburg. In the latter part of the evening 2 chubby guys in white shirts and strange hairdos that looked like the trimmer had broken halfway through the cut started talking to me when I was teaching one of my Colombians some very important phrases in Swedish. The guys turned out to be Jewish although they had forgotten the small hats at home. We talked for a short while about linguistics before my friend asked them about their lack of head protection and for some reason the discussion fizzed out then and there. I felt a sting of my Swedish-ness when I thought that "you should not ask about peoples religions, it is not polite to make them look stupid in a public place". But as I turned to some Norwegian friends who was eager to know what we had talked about I was soon swayed in my perception of that innocent question. One of the Jews had apparently looked at one of the Norwegian girls, who might I add where not provocatively dressed and said that if you dress like that you deserve to be raped. How is your brain working when you think that saying that is your next move?
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