I Refuse to Change My Uber Name to Max
By Joshua Dabelstein
It was not my having often been a volatile menace to society that people objected to. No. The straw that broke the camel’s back came when, at five years sober, working full-time and volunteering in drug and alcohol services, I had the audacity to use social media to draw attention to the stigmatisation of Australian Jews.
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