tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post2017588188127039484..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: Significant Moments: Variations on a Racist StereotypeMy Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-72060329805105912562012-01-10T16:40:55.304-05:002012-01-10T16:40:55.304-05:00On the Jewish fear of being trapped in an enclosed...On the Jewish fear of being trapped in an enclosed space (like the character Gregor Samsa in Kafka's story <i>The Metamorphosis)</i>:<br /><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/07/jewish-court-nominee-hell-in-very-small.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/07/jewish-court-nominee-hell-in-very-small.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-64875169586791167082012-01-10T12:44:08.294-05:002012-01-10T12:44:08.294-05:00Anti-Semites depicted as mosquitoes who engage in ...Anti-Semites depicted as mosquitoes who engage in endless petty torments against the Jews. The torture rendered thereby exceeds the sum of the petty acts of cruelty:<br /><br />"It's not the big things that are important, but the everyday life of tyranny, which gets forgotten. A thousand mosquito bites are worse than a blow to the head. ..."<br />Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness. A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942- 1945.<br />_____________________<br /> <br />Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, 760 F.Supp. At 1524 (1991).<br /><br /> [T]he analysis cannot carve the work environment into a series of discrete incidents and measure the harm adhering in each episode. Rather, a holistic perspective is necessary, keeping in mind that each successive episode has its predecessors, that the impact of the separate incidents may accumulate and that the work environment created thereby may exceed the sum of the individual episodes. “A play cannot be understood on the basis of some of its scenes but only on its entire performance and similarly, a discrimination analysis must concentrate not on individual incidents but on the overall scenario.” Andrews, 895 A.2d at 1484. It follows naturally from this proposition that the environment viewed as a whole may satisfy the legal definition of an abusive working environment although no single episode crosses the Title VII threshold.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com