Quick obsessive entry to keep my blog up to one post every day. Away visint a friend this weekend, without access to a computer, and really can't be arsed to type in any more than web addresses on a Nexus.. need a detachable keyboard for that. Read the last entry in the Paris log, before Charles Ephrussi packs up all his netsuke(s) and gives it as a wedding present to a relation (Japonaise was getting so passe). the sinister undertone in this chapter was antisemitism again - specifically the Dreyfuss affair. I'd always known about it, about Zola's j'accuse, but I didn't realise how intent the establishment was on arresting Zola after his banishment, and how widespread the antisemitism was. I wonder how it was for ordinary people, Jewish or not. Was it like the anti-Muslim sentiment here, now? Can you compare them - because of course there is an antagonism between fundamentalist Muslim states and the West, whereas the Jews were victimised simply for being Jewish - and rich - though that didn't stop antisemitism against poor Jews either, which seems to me to point out the nastiness of any prejudice. There's no real logic to it.
On the internet, on Facebook ffs, I've sen a post of a scan of typewritten note (yes, typewritten) saying that asylum seekers get £x which, it maintains, is double what our pensioners get. It is of course a pure scan, it's untrue - but people believe it. I suspect it is propagated as a scan so that it is more difficult just to search for the actual phrases, and find out that it is a scam. Nasty stuff.
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