This post isn't about antisemitism
When I was in elementary school, I was picked on a lot. The teasing was merciless . I imagined, at the time it was because my classmates were antisemitic. Not that I knew the word antisemitism. But I knew that I was the only girl with curly hair. (My hair is not just curly. It's extra curly.) I knew that I had freckles, buck teeth, and towered over the boys. I knew that most of my clothes were hand me down and I could not run very fast. I did not go to the same camps, country clubs, or certainly churches as the other children. I did not learn how to push myself to excel at athletics until high school. Thus, I had no particular skills of value in the elementary school economy. Being to endure a vast amount of physical pain is not a particularly valuable school in elementary school. I impressed a soccer coach with that skill once. That's about it. They didn't test for that skill in the nineties and they certainl...