It's my rideshare driver from my doctor's appointment ranting about Jews to me from the front seat because he hasn't seen my magen david yet. I limp home.

It's the (white) person doing lunch service with a keffiyah lanyard and red hand pins at the hospital. I no longer feel safe receiving my kosher meal from him.

It's a doctor I work with. It's a doctor when I was a patient.

It's all but one of the professors in the department I minored in and roughly a third of the professors in the department I majored in. I have been taken out of class and yelled at by fellow grown adults in academia for apolitically acknowledging Jewish history in passing. Given failing grades with no explanation, accused of plagiarism I did not commit - only by these people.

It was the entire student government at my university. The cooperative silent treatment would have been impressive if it wasn't comical. At least I have a great story now.

It's the people I lived with, who swore they knew nothing of the conflict and became homicidal within 24 hours of a new housemate moving in. I still don't know what she told them. I fled for my life. I miss my chefs knife.

It's my leadership when I was in the Army, the people we were helping when activated for disaster response.

It's my landlord.

It's the teachers in my local school district.

My neighbors.

The tech doing my EKG to his captive audience. The chaperone doesn't comment.

The artists in my painting group.

These people are identifiable of the far right and the far left. Their commonality is they desire someone to hate, a group they deep down know is not powerful to project their problems onto instead of facing the true giant of systemic failures and purposeful oppression backed by actually and nearly insurmountably powerful individuals. They engage in magical thinking, conspiracy theories, and extreme cognitive dissonance. They allow these beliefs and feeling to impact their behavior towards strangers, and during their professional work. They make their patients unsafe, attempt physical harm, commit ethical violations and target students, abandon the truth and justice they have committed their careers to, break oaths, commit perjury. Nobody I mentioned here was a protestor. Nobody I mentioned here was a random person accosting me on the street, or this list would go on forever. None of these people were coworkers or only classmates, or this list would go on forever. None of these people were those I had power over in a professional environment. But all of these people were someone I had some form of relationship with, however temporary. All of these were people I had placed an amount of trust in, to be responsible, to keep me safe, to not act this way.

+ My brother says that he couldn’t be happier in his relationship of a year and some change. That she has met and been involved with events with my family.

And

- Because the woman is a Palestinian American Muslim from a religious family, that they don’t even know about him and if they did, that she reported there is a non-zero threat of murderous violence from her brother because my brother is a Jew just like me. And telling them will also likely mean she’ll be ostracized.

This is all by his own words.

And it proves the reality.

It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t keep kosher, has never been to Israel, half-assed his bar mitzvah, and honestly couldn’t name 3 famous rabbis with a gun to his damn head. We’re lucky if he could name more than the two he grew up with. Has he even fasted for Yom Kippur in the past decade? I doubt it. He’s nearly as assimilated as an American Jew, originally conservative, can get. He eats bacon, he never goes to synagogue, and he seems to know all the leftist talking points.

But he’s a Jew.

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"