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Jessica Price
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Okay, on one hand, I think focusing on antisemitism from WOC over the actual dangerous antisemitism from white nationalists is yeah, racist. And I don't believe Ilhan Omar is a hardcore antisemite.

OTOH, please, for the love of heaven, STOP staying stuff that's so dogwhistle-y.
Like, this shit hurts a lot more coming from people you respect and admire than it does from Ancient Republican White Man #13856193651
And it is ONE HUNDRED FORTY TWO PERCENT possible to talk about the way charges of antisemitism are used to shut down criticism of Israel WITHOUT doing this.
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So here's the thing that weirds me out most about fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity, as seen through the lens of A) my terrible fundamentalist Christian aunt, B) my evangelical high school friends, and C) everything I read about it on social media:
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I grew up in the non-rural Midwest, and this was still a thing. My mom picked on us about things she knew hurt us so we would "toughen up," mocked us for crying, and refused to listen to requests to stop. Many of my friends' parents did the same.
It took getting out of there to realize how fucked up that is. The cruelty was the point, and it's hard not to see a parallel between those cultural elements and the cruelty-as-the-point attitudes of Trump voters, even though my family were lifelong Democrats.
And, look, I absolutely think it's incumbent upon parents to teach kids to deal with cruelty, rather than putting their heads in the sand about it. But there are ways to teach without engaging in it.
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One one hand, after I bought it I noticed the main blurb was by Brent Weeks, which normally would make a book a hard no for me, but on the other hand, I really was feeling noir and political intrigue, so I forged ahead.
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