"Most men hate something of what is within them, but most men do not find the world telling them over and over, "You are right to hate yourself." Dan Burros did. A Jew, he was on trial. As a man of weakness, he sought explanation for his inadequacies. He found the explanation of his weakness in his Jewishness, and convicted himself—of existing as he was. He despised the weakness of the victim and the one overwhelming irony of the life of Dan Burros was that he became an example of the quintessential Jewish victim—the Jew who confesses that the diseased fantasy in the mind of the anti-Semite is truth. Having confessed, Dan Burros sought to escape punishment. The only way he could do this was to identify himself with the aggressor, the man of strength, and become himself a judge of the Jews."