So what ended up happening?

Also, the idea that Farrakhan is this irrelevant, powerless old man who’s never done any harm is irrelevant. For one thing, he has done more than anyone in the last 40 years to propagate one of the more pernicious and evil lies about Jewish history, leading to an enormous amount of hostility towards Jews (which was…

It wasn’t an Israeli flag.  If that’s how you see all Stars of David, then that’s your problem.

No. Only an idiot or a misogynist — or both — would say that the two are remotely comparable, in either cause or effect.

Right, opposing racism and other bigotries is “superficial.” Only when the class war is won will they disappear. I heard enough of that garbage in 2016.  

Mark Penn recently wrote a column condemning Democrats for incivility, and equating their conduct with Trump’s.  Both sides are at fault!  He gets more right-wing every day.  I went to high school with him, and he was always self-important, even back then.  

Millions, probably, judging by the extent of the market for trans porn and trans sex workers all over the country -- most predominantly in the South.

Thanks! I appreciate it. She did, in fact, go with that man to his family; his name was Alexander Easterman. (See http://www.jta.org/1983/09/07/archive/alexander-easterman-dead-at-92.) Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out too well; the family — especially Mrs. Easterman — wasn’t really very nice to her, and “sent her…

If you’re interested, this is a translation of the first letter my mother (who was from Berlin) wrote to her parents upon her arrival in England on the first Kindertransport, dated December 2, 1938 (age 15).

He wasn’t the main organizer. Just one of them, and he was mostly involved with the Kinder from Czechoslovakia, not the ones from Germany and Austria.

I recommend it also, not least because Judi Dench’s narration included a couple of lines from one of the letters that my mother (who was on the first Kindertransport) wrote to her parents.

I’m sorry I didn’t see this when it was new.  My mother, at age 15, was on the first Kindertransport to England, leaving on December 1, 1938. As part of the narration of Into the Arms of Strangers, Judi Dench read a couple of lines from one of her letters to her parents.

They said it more bluntly than that -- they said that black voters are too stupid to know that they should vote for Bernie.

Do you have any idea how many cis, hetero men lust after trans women (as long as nobody knows about it, of course)? 

What you’re saying is true, but it was true of almost every country in the Western Hemisphere and Europe. Look at what happened at the Evian Conference in July 1938, when the Dominican Republic was the only country that agree to take in more Jewish refugees from Germany.

I don’t think “eventually” is a fair characterization of three weeks from proposal to implementation.

As for the anti-Semitism, this is an excerpt from a letter my mother, then age 19, wrote on March 22, 1943 to her parents (who had finally escaped from Berlin and emigrated to the USA via Lisbon in June 1941). By then,…

Yes, but the British government did have to approve the program, and did so incredibly quickly: the first Kindertransport of 200 Jewish children (including my mother, who was 15) arrived at Harwich on Dec. 2, 1938, only three weeks after Kristallnacht. By contrast, the USA did nothing. Look up the proposed…

That was over a lengthy period, and involved rejecting far more Jewish refugees than they took. They never even filled the (tiny) annual quotas set for the different countries from which Jewish refugees were applying. Tens of thousands died because of it, never mind the St. Louis.  Plus the Wagner-Rogers bill, which…

Nobody -- not Hallquist, not anyone -- ever remotely suggested that being trans was itself a reason to vote for her.  

Definitely. Homophobia — entwined with the thrill of forbidden fruit — have a great deal to do with it. Every trans woman I’ve known who’s attracted to men has been amazed by the number of straight men who, regardless of any public expressions of transphobia, are secretly attracted to trans women.