The same two words carried opposite meanings across left-wing home and day-school contexts

Evidence

As was the case in many left-wing Jewish homes, I learned a different version of “Never again”—that it was a directive, a sacred duty, to oppose hate and discrimination in all its forms, no matter who was the target. But, for the same reasons that she selected my biblical name, my mother insisted that I go to Hebrew day school to cement the bond to our tribe, to learn the songs, rituals, and languages (both Hebrew and Yiddish) that our adversaries had been trying to annihilate since before the Inquisition. And at that school, “Never again” did not mean “Never again to anyone,” as it did in our home—it meant “Never again to the Jews.” It meant “Never again because of Israel.” It meant “Never again because we who have been haunted by Shylock forever have our own double now—and he has a great many guns.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 973

Categorization

• XREF: The doubling of ‘Never again’ — universalist in the home, particularist/militarist at day school — is a precise instance of Klein’s diagonalism and the Mirror World thesis.