We Must Not Think of Ourselves

by Lauren Grodstein

those whose glasses were half-full, whose glasses were half-empty, whose cups would always runneth over.

I object to the idea that every Jew is a good person. That’s simply untrue. Just because we’re the so-called victims here doesn’t mean we all have the individual moral high ground. It’s true that we are in a lousy position through little to no fault of our own, but that fact doesn’t necessarily make us all good people. What I mean is that you can also be a bad person in a bad position. I refuse to see every Jew as some sort of angelic martyr.