Thread by @MaNishtana

you know what i find baffling? scrolling thru the fb/twitter/insta feeds of trolls of mine/my page and finding anti-trump/anti-racist rhetoric which seems antithetical to the amount of hate i receive from them on BLM matters or calling out racism in jewish spaces.

its almost cognitive dissonance of the highest order.

kinda reminds me of a source i cant currently remember comparing jeremiah and josephus. they were both saying "surrender, stop fighting" but one is revered and the other is vilified.

the question, to summarize, was: if they were saying the same thing, why are jews not #teamjospehus the same way theyre #teamjeremiah? and the [summarized] answer is that jeremiah was saying that from the inside, but josephus left and was saying it from the outside.

i havent left either camp. im a proud jew AND a proud blk man, and a proud blk man AND a proud jew.

i get to have things to say, about both, and how both affect my life, not just things that you find comfortable that validate you in your particular camp, but also things that make you look at the ugly underbelly of *your* camp too.

and if you feel that im coming down disproportionately on EITHER side, then perhaps you should examine what that says/means about the interactions ive had with your camp. and that im not here for apologetics from any particular side, bc ive experienced the disadvantages of BOTH.

but returning back to my initial bafflement, it's like the man said: "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."--Dr MLK

But what I rly love is being named some undercover "Jew hater". Ive never once, in over 10 yrs, in any of my black criticisms been labeled "anti-black".

And you don't think I've ever given such criticism, that only speaks to your selective outrage.