It'd just be too uncomfortable for Dave kowing he'd moved
into one of those neighborhoods. Darling, don't you see that? It's detestable,
but that's the way it is. It's even worse in New Canaan. There, nobody can
sell or rent to a Jew. And even in Darien, where Jane's and my house is
there's sort of a gentleman's agreement when you buy...
Phil:
Gentleman's? Kathy you can't. You're not gonna fight
it, Kathy. You're just gonna give in, play along, let their idiotic rules
stand? Kathy: I don't play along, but what can one person do?
Kathy:
I don't play along, but what can one person do?
Phil:
You can tell them to go jump in the lake. What can they
do?
Kathy:
Plenty. Ostracize him. Some of the markets not deliver
food not even wait on him.
Oh, darling, it's not true. it's not true. You're no more
Jewish than I am. It's just a horrible mistake. 「あぁ、坊や、それはウソよ。あなたは私と同じでユダヤ人なんかじゃないわ。それは大きな間違いなのよ」
この一言を聞いてフィルは激怒して、キャシーにこう言います。
You've only assured him he's the most wonderful of all
creatures, a white Christian American. You instantly gave him that lovely taste
of superiority, the poison that millions of parents drop into the minds of
children. 「君は僕の息子に、白人キリスト教徒のアメリカ人が最もすばらしい人種だということを請け合っただけ。君は即座に彼に優越感の甘い味を与えたんだ。何百万人もの親たちが子供に与える毒を」
No, it's just that I've come to see lots of nice people
who aren't, people who despise it and deplore it and protest their own innocence
help it along and wonder why it grows. 「そうは思ってない。ただ、反ユダヤではないいい人たち、ユダヤ人差別を嫌い、嘆いて、自分たちはそんなことをしないと主張する人たちが、実際には差別に荷担しながら、なぜ差別が続くのか不思議に思っている、っていう現状が見えてきたんだよ。
People who'd never beat up a Jew or yell kike at a child.
People who think that anti-Semitism is something away off in some dark crackpot
place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made about this
whole business, Darling. The good people, the nice people. ユダヤ人を殴ったり、ユダ公と叫んだりしない人たち、ユダヤ人差別は下層階級の愚者たちの暗い異常な別世界で起きることだと思っている人たちのことさ。記事を書き始めて以来、それが一番大きな発見だ。善良な人々、いい人たちが差別に荷担してるんだよ」
Tommy got called a dirty Jew and a kike by some kids down the street. Came home pretty shaken up.
Dave:
Now you know it all. That's the place they really get at you, your kids. Now you even know that. Well, you can quit being Jewish now. There's nothing else. My own kids got it without the names, Phil. Just setting their hearts on a summer camp their bunch were going to and being kept out. It wrecked them for a while.
Dave:
The only other thing that makes you want to murder is... There was a boy in our outfit Abe Schlussman. Good soldier. Good engineer. One night we got bombed and he caught it. I was ten yeards off. Somebody said "Give me a hand with this sheeny" Those were the last words he ever heard.
