It's kind of worse because the actual fear her mind cooked up for her in the moment was "an angry 'Palestine' rant and thrust pamphlet material at me".

The fantasy that kept bothering her for days afterward was of an intellectual confrontation with 2 children.

This story could really have been punched up for better effect. Like maybe the candles could have looked to be a physically menacing object, even if only for a second. Knife, chib, pepper spray.. really anything other than ideas. She could have misheard something, or misread body language to make the girls seem hostile, again if only for a moment. Or maybe there could be other people nearby who she thought were all part of a big group ganging up on her but in reality they were unrelated random people.

As it is, the story is diminishing of the concept of a hate crime. Mostly demonstrates the author as someone who isn't really able to imagine street violence against an oppressed group, or the way minority stress could cause you to mis-read a situation.

I also wonder what's the perspective of the girls. I bet they could tell how freaked out she was, and why. Hopefully that is a bit of fun for them. Although it could be very demoralizing to see the horror on someone's face when they realize someone has mis-read them to be like yourself.

She doesn't even feel bad for having reacted to these kids so weirdly. Even while showing off her little lesson in empathy about how hard it is to be jewish, she doesn't manage to consider how rudely she treated the 2 jewish children in front of her. Their reactions to her aren't included or of any interest.

When someone called out of the dark at me, "Are you Jew"?

This is the kind of bullshit that only works in written form, because in real life there's no suspense. You can just instantly go "That is the voice of a little girl" and keep walking.

Yeah a couple hs girls are walking around giving candles by randomly calling people Jews at night, from behind

Readers digest letter level credulousness

What a clown from top to bottom.

Imagine being this terrified of little girls celebrating a holiday.

Also lmao at "actually out of this list of horrible things you've said about me, you were wrong about the one good thing you said, I'm actually a huge bigot I'll have you know"

This is unironically what it’s like to be trans

wtf lol her saying shes not jewish was quite the reveal

Writing about a mundane interaction as if it were a work of horror, very creative

a liberal is someone who fearmongers about creeping fascism, gets accused of not being bigoted enough by an obvious actual fascist, and responds with outrage that anyone would think that they're not a bigot.

tbf if two schoolgirls came up to me and started asking questions I'd be pretty terrified too. Classic horror movie intro, definitely a prelude to some sort of soul devouring cosmic terror.

Oh, a Telegraph writer, what a surprise! And of course she also whines about being oppressed for being a cracker. STFU, TERF

So if they were handing out candles, they would be holding candles wouldn't they? She even admits to seeing it in their hands but acts like she didn't see it. You confused candles at night for copies of Mein Kampf?

"I went out to eat the other night in London. The waiter told me they had Kosher options and I panicked. I knew I saw a sign on the outside but I wasn't sure. Did I just walk into a death camp by mistake? I realized I was actually just in the restaurant I chose. However, the fact that even a gentile like me had a moment of panic like that says a lot about our society."

The Anglos yearn for the gulags

Last night I was walking through cromwell when someone called out of the dark to me, "have you shit your pants?"

I froze and turned around.

How do you write something like this and not think "Wait I sound like an idiot"