a couple commenters are saying black people were the first to be racialised and how the construction of blackness and black people was antecedent to how Jewish people would be treated. and I’m sorry but I just find that extremely fucking hard to believe like even with various slave trading happening on the African continent (I specifically mean the Arab slave trade bc that was older than European chattel slavery), I just feel like that’s bold to suggest that that slave trade influenced how Jewish people were racialised?

if Jewish culture is like over 2,000 years old…and a major part of their history is having to migrate to escape violence from multiple groups of people in different ethnic regions bc they’re this “othered” race of people, how is that also not being racialised as an “other” with its own complicated history? you could even say Romani people are right up there too with being racialised (separate of anti-blackness) and migrating and being enslaved before white supremacy even came into the picture.

that is just such a bold thing to say that racialising black people is what drives other dehumanising atrocities historically and contemporarily. not everything that black people have endured has directly effected something else. some historical events are entirely from the ethnic tensions and histories between groups in certain regions bc the world is a big fucking place and people aren’t immune to tribalism and xenophobia.