In a recent 'This American Life' episode, about the annual West Indian American Day Parade, the show's host Ira Glass, speaks of the parade-goers in Crown Heights: "Walking up to Jamaicans on the street felt like walking up to people from another planet, people with a general air of hostility, or at least suspicion to outsiders like me." As you can imagine, as soon as the episode dropped and the world heard these comments, the Internet was ablaze in outrage.
What was that — you missed it? You didn't see the tweets, read the think pieces, watch the screeds on cable news shows? That's right, none of that occurred. There was no deluge of calls for an apology, not because he didn't say that, but because the targets of the comments were not West Indian masqueraders, but black-hatted Hasidic Jews.
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