At the bottom of most pages of my blog are a couple of linked questions: What's a "Jew?" What's a "peckerwood?" A new friend of mind was bothered by them when he saw them, and told me he felt it distracted from the issue at hand. That's when I realized that I needed to provide some sort of context for those links.
A number of folks several months back noticed that performing a search on Google for the term "Jew" resulted in a top-most result of an anti-Semitic web site. Since Google results are based on how many links point to which site, many of us posted blog entries intended to raise a more appropriate web page to the top of the list.
The effort was successful for a few weeks, but the anti-Semitic site bubbled back up to the top ranking. The author of one of the blogs I read regularly suggested that, in addition to repeating our efforts to link "Jew" to a more appropriate site, we should also link the term peckerwood to the aforementioned anti-Jew site, and since I agreed with him 100%, I followed suit.
Several weeks after that, another blogger suggested that we permanently place these links in our blog templates, to serve as a constant pressure to provide appropriate Google results. I agreed, so I added those links to my template, and now they show on every page.
I'm sick to the gills with the crackpots who believe Jews are behind every bad thing that happens in the world. They postulate that Jews control our government, they control the world's markets, they orchestrated the September 11 attacks, and every other screwball theory that can be painfully (though not believably) twisted into a way to blame Jews. These little links are my small effort to fight back. There's no room in the world for this kind of hate.
So, that's the context for those links. I hope you'll understand.
