dr0oo0dus

Every feeling you're dealing with with the way the release of some captives is being handled? The information/lack of information? The despair about the remaining captives?

It's on purpose.

But this year I'm seeing mainly posts with... 9/11 jokes? And one post that I saw was sharing personal recollections and begging for compassion. That post had zero notes. The lack of empathy expressed by making jokes about the loss of so many lives, on Sep 11 itself and directly following it, is shocking to me. No wonder it's so easy for this crowd to fall down the rabbit hole of antismeitism, when they lack humane empathy, and simply follow whatever is trendiest on social media, whether it's making fun of the terror attack with the highest number of victims in human history, or participating in the demonization of the Jewish state and every Jew and ally with a bit of empathy for Jews.

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Like how Hollywood as an industry came to be.

Jewish characters having their ethnicity removed allows for the sort of retconning of the story that gave us a Romani-Jewish brother & sister working for the Nazis.

Magneto & Magda’s own grandchildren. The grandchildren of two Shoah survivors who met in Auschwitz. Working for the Nazis. Because they were no longer Jewish or Romani.

And these widely messed up holocaust-inversion-adjacent bizaro-plot redirects, no longer mattered enough to anyone to stop them. Not in the writers room, not in the fanverse. Not outside of the Jewish community, anyway.

We were ousted from the media that we created based on our history, and there was no one left around to care enough about us to stop that storyline from happenig. And then being picked up by conspiracy theorists, and spread across the internet until we have the fun accusations that get shouted at us to this very day.

So seeing this kind of Jewish representation in a story written by Jews, in the shape of a Jewish art form, at a time when so many want to distance themselves from us…

This is a gift from previous generations, to us right now.

Most of us like to think we’re decent, compassionate people who care about justice and humanity. I have seen *very little* decency, compassion, or humanity toward you. At a time when we all should have stood beside you, said “your grief is our grief, humanity’s grief” we betrayed you profoundly. We decided that treating you like human beings had gone on long enough, and fell back on the most ancient and vicious of hatreds.

My Jewish friends, I see your pain and your grief. I see your strength and your hope and your somehow unceasing capacity for finding joy in the darkest and bleakest of times.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:

No?

To the Nonnie who said that their people being spoken to this way is how they became pro-Israel: I’m so sorry this horrific attitude was inflicted on all of you as well, and I appreciate the way it helped you be empathetic to Jews, because the latter is not obvious. Too many people can see how other marginalized groups are treated (or how they think those should be treated), and not draw conclusions regarding Jews, without realizing that this differential treatment is exactly anti-Jewish discrimination, or in other words, it’s a manifestation of antisemitism. So kudos to you for being better than that.

it feels complicated at first but frankly it’s just no. white passing jews do have more privileges in some ways, (beauty standards most remarkably), but they still do not have the same privilege as a white person.

i personally feel that ‘white’ is truly a sort of societal concept, and it probably is. most of that concept was made by white supremacists anyway, (if i remember correctly). it’s truly just a specific advantage in my mind.

I am considering what squidgirl said about becoming visually a Jew.

I am not visually Jewish, I am not Jewish, but my ears are becoming more attuned to what is said about Jews.

I'm visually white, but I'm Latina, a bit estranged from Latino culture. Most of my coworkers are Latino, and I try hard to fit with them and reclaim some identity. I am learning a lot about bigotry within the Latino community, who feels superior to whom, etc. It's wild. It's completely new to me.

tbh even the idea that “White passing” Jews have more privileges in some ways is just wrong. What is being called “passing” is erasure & closeting, and any apparent “privileges ” that come with it a) are tradeoffs, only proportional to that erasure, b) come with heavy costs, including the psychological & sociological toll of self-erasure & assimilation, and c) (as jraker4 pointed out) come with interest when you are “found out” and the bill antisemites seem to believe they’re owed comes due.

if living at the intersection of multiple invisible identities has taught me anything, it is that invisibility is part of the oppression, not an exception to it. every barrier you think that erasure will help you bypass is simply being delayed to the moment you inevitably become visible, with the addition of an extra barrier from any needs-based assistance that does exist (because you’re privileged, remember?). every “pro” of passing is a con waiting to reveal itself and charge interest. Passing privilege does not exist. It is simply another side of the same coin.