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The sacred spirit of anti-wokeness - also known as self-respect - is not limited by creed, color, or country. It is channeled beautifully in this piece from Columbia University, 1990, which dares to suggest countering anti-Semitism with self-respect. doku-archiv.com/antisemit/Figh…
"A man calls you a pig. Do you walk around with a sign explaining that, in fact, you are not a pig?"
"If some miscreant simply won't be your pal, in fact actually takes an overt aversion to you despite all your exertions to woo his affection and heal the breaches, would you....picket in front of his dorm?"
"Instead of growing, learning, living, enjoying and furthering Jewish individual and national life, our raison d'etre and collective consciousness these days is: "Keep them at bay!" We are less Jews than we are anti-anti-Semites" (Sound familiar, my fellow 2019ers?)
We should be focusing on virtue and being our best self, rather than begging for approval.
"Just how long are you prepared to stand there and "reason" with a man as he slams his fist into your gut over and over again? How long will you kneel and appeal to him while he keeps ramming his boot into your supplicant face? A day? A week? A year? THREE THOUSAND YEARS?"
"You combat anti-Semitism by promoting that which the anti-Semite wants to crush: Jewish vitality. Affirmation, not negativity, is the way to fight, the way to win...Let them rant. YOU BUILD. This is the essence of Zionism." (And of @Seasteading & other @StartSocieties)
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