[pfortuny]

Oh no: I am not staying away from REALITY. This is not a metaphor, this is just plain facts: they are being treated like that exactly because they share a trait at birth. In this case being Iranian. In the past, being Jew.

This is exactly where reality meets history. And not as a metaphor.

[dang]

Please don't up the flamewar ante like this. It doesn't help—it just destroys the discussion, at which point no information is being exchanged and no minds or hearts will ever change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html