Your essay is outstanding in every way. The weaponization of anti-racism by so-called "progressives"--many of them in the "as a Jew" crowd--is a terrible thing. The harm that this toxic mindset can create is truly frightening. Jews don't deserve it--enough already! It needs to stop now.
Excellent essay. Jews are historically and to this current day the most oppressed people in the world, yet the arbitrary classifications assigned to Jews are intentionally determined to continue to oppress Jews, both by putting Jews in a class not considered in need of protection, and even worse, a class that has been determined to be guilty of oppressing others. Considering Jews a religious category only ignores the science behind DNA studies which show Jews, if not recent converts to Judaism, can be identified through their DNA and put into racial classifications such as Ashkenazic or Sephardic. Is there a genetic category that identifies a person as Christian? As Muslim? As Hindu? As atheist? The Askenazic classification serves to differentiate Jews from Eastern Europe and Russia from the non Jewish Europeans with whom Jews lived among for hundreds of years.
There's another important reason why the Left's Permanent Revolution and its endless grievance mongering and victim fetishism cannot abide the presence of Jews: Jews have taken every lemon handed to them and made lemonade, they didn't need welfare or bureaucrats or postcollegiate white saviors baptized in "critical consciousness" to be rescued or to thrive. They have their own inherent brilliance and industriousness, their own traditions (religious, moral, social etc) and have no problem succeeding not only sans govt protection but even with govt opposition. They made Hollywood, psychology, and so much of American business, retail, culture and journalism—no matter how many hurdles needed to be jumped.
Allow Jews into the cult of group therapy we refer to as the "Left" (at least the ones who haven't renounced their Jewishness and converted to some form of socialism) and people might start asking some uncomfortable questions about patronage, condescension, and notice how reams of pseudoradical pseudo-thought are worth zilch compared to a simple devotion to hard work and reading to your children.
If all their victim clients heeded the Jews instead of the merchants of resentment, the merchants might go out of business and have to find new suckers to fall for their power schemes. Thus another reason for Jew hate gets added to the pile.
The Jews can't be an official oppressed minority if they refuse to act like one!
"In that sense, “white” becomes less a racial category and more a shorthand for perceived structural advantage." I'm sure that those who came after the WWII/Nazi Shoah saw themselves as having advantages. Do these complaints apply to African Israeli Jews who are decidedly NOT white?
Your essay is outstanding in every way. The weaponization of anti-racism by so-called "progressives"--many of them in the "as a Jew" crowd--is a terrible thing. The harm that this toxic mindset can create is truly frightening. Jews don't deserve it--enough already! It needs to stop now.
Thank you for making this absolutely clear.
Excellent essay. Jews are historically and to this current day the most oppressed people in the world, yet the arbitrary classifications assigned to Jews are intentionally determined to continue to oppress Jews, both by putting Jews in a class not considered in need of protection, and even worse, a class that has been determined to be guilty of oppressing others. Considering Jews a religious category only ignores the science behind DNA studies which show Jews, if not recent converts to Judaism, can be identified through their DNA and put into racial classifications such as Ashkenazic or Sephardic. Is there a genetic category that identifies a person as Christian? As Muslim? As Hindu? As atheist? The Askenazic classification serves to differentiate Jews from Eastern Europe and Russia from the non Jewish Europeans with whom Jews lived among for hundreds of years.
There's another important reason why the Left's Permanent Revolution and its endless grievance mongering and victim fetishism cannot abide the presence of Jews: Jews have taken every lemon handed to them and made lemonade, they didn't need welfare or bureaucrats or postcollegiate white saviors baptized in "critical consciousness" to be rescued or to thrive. They have their own inherent brilliance and industriousness, their own traditions (religious, moral, social etc) and have no problem succeeding not only sans govt protection but even with govt opposition. They made Hollywood, psychology, and so much of American business, retail, culture and journalism—no matter how many hurdles needed to be jumped.
Allow Jews into the cult of group therapy we refer to as the "Left" (at least the ones who haven't renounced their Jewishness and converted to some form of socialism) and people might start asking some uncomfortable questions about patronage, condescension, and notice how reams of pseudoradical pseudo-thought are worth zilch compared to a simple devotion to hard work and reading to your children.
If all their victim clients heeded the Jews instead of the merchants of resentment, the merchants might go out of business and have to find new suckers to fall for their power schemes. Thus another reason for Jew hate gets added to the pile.
The Jews can't be an official oppressed minority if they refuse to act like one!
"In that sense, “white” becomes less a racial category and more a shorthand for perceived structural advantage." I'm sure that those who came after the WWII/Nazi Shoah saw themselves as having advantages. Do these complaints apply to African Israeli Jews who are decidedly NOT white?
💯 accurate. Thank you