the unrest in Jerusalem<\/a>. I don\u2019t have anything to say about it, really; I think both \u2018sides\u2019 are terrible and that the Israeli government and police are untrustworthy and pretty much awful, but I certainly don\u2019t have any notion of how they could be less so. Still, as a Jew, and even more than that as a Jew who sometimes<\/i> posts about Jewishness and related topics, when Jews are behaving atrociously as Jews, I feel an obligation to comment.\r\nHere\u2019s another one: I feel an obligation to comment on the terrible behavior of people on the Doctor Who<\/cite> set in the\u2014wait a minute, not the 1970s, this was ten to fifteen years ago. And isn\u2019t in any real way surprising: institutions have been covering up the sexual harassment, abuse and assault of men for generations, so we should all just assume that some women have been subjected to those terrible actions at any longstanding institution or workplace at some point. And that the reason we haven\u2019t heard about it is because the institution has successfully covered it up, rather than because it hasn\u2019t happened. And that my being a fan of a television show doesn\u2019t make that general fact inapplicable. But I\u2019ve written about my displeasure when the writing<\/i> is terrible. Shouldn\u2019t I have to write when people are actually abused?\r\nThere are a handful of those kinds of associations, for me. They are my identity groups, I suppose, and that as I identify with them, I feel an obligation for them, despite having no power over them. When the college I attended is being particularly terrible, I feel like I should speak up about it, although I usually don\u2019t actually do it (since I generally have only the vaguest notion of what is going on). If something terrible happened with the Giants as an organization (which probably has happened, although I don\u2019t remember anything egregious) I would feel like I should make a point of saying \u201cAs a Giants fan\u2026\u201d There may be some other such identity groups that aren\u2019t coming to mind, but those are the ones that I think Gentle Readers probably associate with me, and thus the ones that weigh on me when I don\u2019t have anything to say about their misbehavior.\r\n
I think it\u2019s different with my Political Party, by the way, since as participatory self-governance really does involve an obligation to keep an eye on the Party that represents your interests. Parties largely do respond to their supporters\u2019 outrage when they misbehave, and so expressing that outrage really is an obligation. The government of Israel has never cared what I thought about it, and I don\u2019t feel that I\u2019ve contributed, particularly, to their various disgraces. I certainly don\u2019t think I am at fault for Noel Clarke feeling, pretty much correctly, that he could get away with abuse and harassment as an actor on DW<\/cite>. And yet, somehow, here I am, posting on my blog.\r\nTolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
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