Time Out story
A man is left bitter after being passed over for a promotion in favor of a Jewish co-worker.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| antisemitism in society | major | Bill Connor blamed being passed over for a promotion of the Jews and the Blacks. He contended that being an American made him better than the Jews, the Blacks, and the "Gooks". |
| facing organized pursuit | major | Bill Connors was hiding out from Nazis. |
| getting a taste of one's own medicine | major | A racist man, named Bill Connors, found out what it was like to be a persecuted minority. |
| poetic justice | major | A racist man, named Bill Connors, found out what it was like to be a persecuted minority. Bill Connors expressed his racist attitudes about minorities only to be tossed into past realities in which various racists attacked him in a like manner. |
| racism in society | major | Bill Connor blamed being passed over for a promotion of the Jews and the Blacks. He contended that being an American made him better than the Jews, the Blacks, and the "Gooks". |
| what if I found myself in the past | major | A racist man, named Bill Connors, was suddenly transported back in time and space first and to Nazi occupied France, then to a Ku Klux Clan lynching, then to Vietnam during the war. |
| the desire for professional success | minor | Bill Connors was outraged at being passed over for a promotion. |
| the Nazi stereotype | minor | We saw some S.S. officers apprehending a Jewish man in Nazi occupied France. |
| the Vietnam War | minor | Bill Connors found at the mercy of American troops in Vietnam during the war. |