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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
Someone called me ni—r on the bus the other day. There was hate in his eyes, contempt in his soul, and venom on his lips where my fist should have been. It happened on the suburban bus I take twice a week to teach an undergraduate class in journalism. The drama began when the misanthrope missed his bus and ended up on mine, in a seat next to me. When he took out his phone and began scrolling, I assumed he was checking bus schedules. But I was wrong. Then he began reading. Out loud. It sounded like an antisemitic manifesto. Everything he read was about Jews. Jews run this company. Jews run th…