chiribomb:hazel2468:twodotsknowwhy:fromchaostocosmos:wombatking:westsemiteblues:treasure
chiribomb: hazel2468: twodotsknowwhy: fromchaostocosmos: wombatking: westsemiteblues: treasurecreekdad: informationseeker: libhobn: tikkunolamorgtfo: tikkunolamorgtfo: wombatking: tributary: wombatking: westsemiteblues: These infuriate me. And by the way, it’s not Jews who keep insisting that whiteness keeps Jews safe. They don’t just want us dead, they want us to feel guilty for not wanting to be killed. so white privilege no longer exists? what is the takeaway here? i’m confused as to how she made this connection in the first place. also “pals” or “friends” or heaven forbid “friendos” are so gratingly passive-aggressive, she could say only things that i agree with, my own thoughts, and i would never want to listen to her. Her only real “point” seems to be that Jews facing hate crimes are privileged white whiteys and should shut up because other groups have it worse. Which is the absolute most toxic strain of “oppression olympics”, a term commonly misappropriated to complain about people discussing legitimate oppression instead of people trying to shut up legitimately oppressed groups with garbage whataboutery like this. I tweeted back her pointing out that in addition to being incredibly wrongheaded and insensitive, she was also throwing mixed-race Jews and Jews of colour under the bus. She blocked me. Also, this was her response to somebody else who expressed hurt at her callousness towards Nazi threats against Jews. So, in her mind, we are not a distinct ethnic group, but merely all run-of-the-mill white people who happen to practice a different religion. She has absolutely no idea that we are an ethnoreligious group or that we vote differently and are viewed differently by white America. And she doesn’t care. She just lost herself a Jewish pal. Bye. I keep seeing people making this argument that white/white passing Jewish women are part of the 50 percent of white women who voted for trump. I have seen people use the term “your people” to describe Jewish women like amy schumer and lena dunham protesting trump. Like you can’t complain when your people elected him. Where’s the evidence? Jews voted for Hillary by a wide margin. The pew study on American Jews showed that Jewish women are more liberal than Jewish men. Why are we getting lumped in with this 50 percent number when there is no evidence we voted along those lines. At a restaurant last night, I overheard a conversation at the next table about how “Jews all voted for Trump.” It’s completely racist and not true but it was even worse considering it was a table of white men- the last demographic who should be pointing fingers about Trump’s election. 76% of Jewish voters voted for candidates other than Trump. 70% went for Clinton. Assuming that, as usual, women skew more to the Democrats than men, VERY FUCKING FEW JEWISH WOMEN VOTED FOR TRUMP. We don’t vote like white people. We have NEVER voted like white people. More Latino voters than Jewish voters voted for Trump. So coming to me with ‘white women voted for Trump, so it’s too hard to give Jews solidarity against FUCKING RACIST BOMB THREATS’ does not exactly hold water. We’re white when we need to be white for them to hate us. We’re not white when we need to be non-white for them to hate us. We’re the universal unifier of bigots. Everyone can find an excuse. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Also, I just realized the absurdity of her first sentence “Jewish pals are freaking out over bomb threats to schools” like, how else are we supposed to react to bomb threats to schools? “Haha, it’s okay, blow up our children, we’re white so that doesn’t bother us”? We are white when it is convenient and non-white when it suits them. When we experience violence because we are Jews, we need to shut it cuz hey, we’re just white people. There is a legitimate convertto be had about how white-adjacent Jews access privilege and how we perpetuate racism. But right now? The discussion is being used to deny us the action, advocacy, and basic empathy that other marginalized groups get, because hating Jews is the one thing the Left and Right agree on right now. She shows her ignorance too when she assumes that we’re freaking out because this is new. No, we’re freaking out because it’s always been happening, and jackasses like this ALWAYS PULL THIS CRAP to justify why it’s ok to ignore us. She reveals that she knows NOTHING about Jewish experiences with race/ethnicity, antisemitism, Jewish history, Jewish politic demographics, etc but hurts us anyway because channeling her anger against a minority group that it’s seen as ok to attack gives her a sense of power she otherwise feels she doesn’t have And it’s got to fucking to stop. Jews are not your safe punching bag you can put in place of whatever group is actually harming you, because guess what, they’re harming us too. -- source link
#fucking preach#jewish tag