Why Do You Bother?

 

All you good and gentle people who

become exasperated and offended at the

cuttingly hateful positions you face on

social media when hardcore antisemites

seek you out to lavish malevolent scorn

on your person and more generally your 

tribe which has weathered like no other

group on this planet revulsion, persecution

and existential violence, ask yourself why

it is that responding reasonably to those

who are by very definition unreasonable

can be a means by which your voice can

overcome the visceral hatred that descends

from generation to generation? Nothing can

or will deter those whose subliminal urge to

hate and revile a select group motivates them

without resort to reason for enlightenment is

spurned by devotees of an ancient ritual of

condemning the unknown and vengefully

seeking its annihilation. Spare yourself the

effort, turn away, but know your enemy.