Neil Gaiman

People are asking if that last post was a joke.

I don’t think so. 

But even if it was, it wasn’t. It’s nothing I haven’t seen before, many times, either as hate mail that came in on the FAQ line over at neilgaiman.com, or in other corners of the web — the saddest of which was a letter from a young, female Iranian fan, who loved my books all the way from Iran and wanted to warn me about Jews, because they were all over America, and they came from Israel and ran America secretly, and I needed to be warned to watch out for them. The funniest-scariest was a link I was sent to a Holocaust-denying site that also had a grand list of Jews in Showbiz on it, so they would know who to send to the gas-chambers Next Time (and yes, my name was on it).

The Holocaust was not that long ago. Not really - I have relatives still living who were Holocaust survivors. Six million people were murdered by people who had the beliefs and attitudes of that last questioner. And while I wish that those attitudes had ended along with World War 2, they didn’t.

Anyway. Here’s something inspirational, to take the nasty taste away.