The Jewish people, of whom Justice Frankfurter was one, have endured no end of prejudice and disparate treatment over millennia. “People will do absolutely anything to blame their problems on others”. It appears that humans desire to demean and humiliate someone deemed inferior. Gobitis, (decided three years earlier), described the Jewish people (making an assumption that religion and race can be conflated) as “the most vilified and persecuted minority in history”. Barnette (1943), which prohibited coerced saluting of the flag in public schools and overturned Minersville School District v. Justice Felix Frankfurter dissenting in West Virginia State Board of Education v. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted PresentĪuthor argues that antisemitism has roared back to frightening, old normal
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