Shameful Behavior

Last weekend something shameful happened in my community: Tifereth Israel Synagogue was defaced by spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti.

I grow increasingly horrified by the current upsurge of white supremacy in San Diego; its sick and inhuman attitudes toward anyone who is neither Caucasian nor a so-called Christian are profoundly disturbing. White supremacy is a virulent disease to which the ignorant seem particularly susceptible.

Let those of us who deplore anti-Semitic and racist attitudes and acts work together to promote understanding and tolerance among faiths and races.

Further, let us work to show the larger community the deeply un-Christian, irrational orientation of white supremacist groups. Their tenets, such as they are, cannot withstand the light of reason, so let us continue to demonstrate their irrationality and inhumanity.

MAREN M. HARGIS

San Diego