audio drama meme → [2/5] quotes
you think i haven’t heard this line of questioning before? “am i a jew, or am i an american” - is this the horse upon which you wish to mount your prosecution, mr. cornish? is she “jewish enough” to harbor resentment about our country’s handling of the holocaust? american enough to set aside her personal beliefs for truth, justice, and the american way? is that the freedom our government works so hard to ensure? freedom to be shoved into a choice between my blood and my beliefs? do you think you’re the first man who looks the way you do to stand before a court and demand that answer from someone who looks the way i do? because you aren’t. burn me to the ground if you wish, but at least have the stones to be explicit about why. i’m not here to plead the case of my humanity. i won’t. next fucking question.
esther roberts, ars paradoxica, “dilemma”
[ID: A poster of brass scales with a marble base. The top two-thirds of the poster is a white background. In the center, there is a square of black block letters that says “I’m not here to plead the case of my humanity.” There are echoes of the block letters that become increasingly blurry. /end ID]














