Every group has its bad apples. And If Oliver wants us to judge groups by their bad apples, then we could support no groups at all. On the other hand, let’s take note when groups are systemically prone to supporting bad apples.
And since we live in a broken world where zero bigotry is an unrealistic goal, we need frames of reference to help us prioritize threats. Oliver suggests homeschool Nazis are a threat, but compared to what? …
Oliver’s show aired the day after the greatest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Since that dark day, visible displays of antisemitism have erupted across our nation.
[Holy crap, that didn’t age well *at all*. Just after Oliver’s cherrypicking to ridicule homeschoolers, America’s college and high-school campuses engaged in orgies of anti-Semitic demonstrations, including outright calls for “Jewish genocide” at state-run UCLA. Most if not all of those Nazi-sounding students and their faculty are products of the public-school systems. The last three weeks are the best advertisement yet for homeschooling and vouchers. — Ed]
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