I hate call out culture, but i need to say this because it’s very simple: white jews in north america don’t oppress qua jews, but as white people. in the same sense, PoC aren’t antisemites because they’re black or brown but because they’re gentiles.
Anonymous asked: So I'm an anti-Semite? Did you just totally miss the part where I mentioned spending my childhood years among several awesome people who happened to be Jewish? Excuse me for learning to associate positive qualities with the Tribe.
omgggg you also admitted to stereotyping us. also, like, shouldn’t you simply associate positive qualities with all people regardless of their ethnicity? why do you need to admit that you think jews are great? that is basic human decency. i grew up playing basketball with black kids, but i don’t go in black people’s inboxes asking them if they’re good at sports. go away.
"every time you say “goy” i can’t help but read it as “n*****”."
Someone in my ask who is confused about race relations.
“The third most powerful political party in Greece, Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) has now opened an office in Astoria Queens. Golden Dawn, a Fascist, Neo-Nazi organization, in a frightening display of public behavior aimed at immigrants in Greece reminds us, too painfully, of Hitler’s thugs, actually using a swastika as their symbol. They have openly expressed anti-Semitic attitudes and denied the Holocaust. These thugs have organized violent attacks against (legal and illegal) immigrants, left wingers and gays in Greece. A member of the Greek Parliament from Golden Dawn has physically attacked two left wing women (also members of the parliament) during a live television program a few months ago. Their Greek-American contingent is presently housed in a building in Astoria that also houses a number of Hellenistic organizations, many involved in philanthropy, under the guise of raising funds to help Greeks in Greece.
All Greeks, both Jewish and Christian must openly condemn this group and vigilantly protest their presence here in the United States. Golden Dawn is an embarrassment to all who love democracy. Golden Dawn is an abomination to all Greeks. Golden Dawn is an open threat to all Jews and many non-Jews as well. The very existence of this organization is an embarrassment to all Greeks, no matter how they feel about politics. The fact that this Neo-Nazi organization is located in Astoria is an affront to all local residents.
Join us in our campaign to make the public aware of their presence here in the United States and to demonstrate and petition for their removal from their present headquarters.
We will be joining with other organizations who wish to publicly condemn Golden Dawn.
Let us strongly let them know that here, in a country filled with immigrants and the children of immigrants, many of them Greek and Jewish, we are completely opposed to both their rhetoric and their tactics.
Contact us at friends_greek_jewry@netzero.net if you wish to join us and be informed of upcoming events.”
"Last night, the Metropolitan Transit Authority voted unanimously on new guidelines that will prohibit advertisements that the M.T.A. “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.” It is important to note that they did not prohibit “viewpoint ads” altogether; free speech without hate will still be allowed on M.T.A. property. It is official: racist, Islamophobic ads like Pamela Geller’s have no place in NYC!"
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
what if people actually talked about the pale of settlement as a thing tho
like
can we bring up whenever talking about systemic pre-holocaust anti-semitism in europe that jews were literally forced to live in one area in russia, were prohibited from living outside the territory, and often were prohibited from living in certain cities inside the pale
and that this made pogroms SO MUCH EASIER for anti-semitic russians because of the concentration of jews in one place
basically can we just have an hbo series based on sholem aleichem’s work I think that’d be good.
i’m glad you mention sholem aleichem. it’d be really amazing to revive his work, which is actually quite dark at times, and the challenges it poses to common media narratives would be interesting to see play out; that is, how can you adequately mix humor and suffering? to my knowledge, this is not often done well, or done at all.
sholem aleichem also brings up another point you talk about; when jewish suffering is mentioned, it is only the shoah. when sholem aleichem and other shtetl literature is brought into the mainstream, it is always sanitized. in many ways, jews do not control our own narratives of suffering.
Anonymous asked: So, tell me how it feels like to be part of a group that whines all the time?
the whining is a facade so goyim don’t discover our ziobanking schemes. we actually have nothing to complain about; it’s just a ruse.
nothing like waking up to anti-Semitism in your ask box.
~sighs and shakes head~ Really? This person can wear whatever they damn well please to their friend’s wedding. If it were me I’d check with the friend first, but it is still their choice to wear it. Lolita in its purest form isn’t always right for every event, I will admit that. Lolita inspired outfits are right FOR EVERY OCCASION depending how you do them. Just keep the event in mind.
“Maybe if you lost some weight…ect.” No fuck you. This person does not have to lose weight if they don’t want to. Not to get a husband, not to be pretty, not to wear Lolita, for no reason other than THEY WANT TO does someone have to lose weight. You don’t know this person’s motivation for wearing Lolita to the wedding so don’t jump to conclusions.
You “GTFO”.
-K
I think I’ve stumbled across another tumblr-invented, bullshit identity.
So while i have no idea what “dressing Lolita” means (though I’m sure it can’t be good), I will say that if you go to a very old, religious ceremony without adhering somewhat to their customs, then you are basically an entitled, racist piece of shit.
Anonymous asked: Jews aren't systematically oppressed?! Then again, I guess it does depend on where you live.
Well I’m sure that even in the US there are still some places that won’t hire Jews, or let Jews rent hotel rooms, just like in the good ol’ days. Mostly, anti-semitism is, as Sander Gilman would say, still a cultural foundation for white people; anti-semitism is part of goyish identity.
However, when people talk about systemic oppression, it includes wide-ranged and deep discrimination: governmental policies and practices (e.g. murderous cops), gentrification and housing discrimination, etc etc. That’s why the word is “systemic”, not “systematic”; these things are attributes not only of our culture, but of our institutions. So while Jews often share similar cultural stigmas as those that affect black people and lgbtq* people (anti-semitism is also historically linked to homophobia), we are for the most part immune from these systemic aspects (at least in the US).
"A Jewish question would still exist, even if every Jew were to turn his back on his religion and join one of our major churches."
Karl Eugen Duehring, The Question of the Jew is a Question of Race (1881)
