Look, I'm angry, so I am just going to say it:
I really, really wish that non-Jews would immediately cease trying to define Jewish identity on here. It's transgressive and a basic violation of any commitment to antiracist and anti-oppressive praxis.
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I really, really wish that non-Jews would immediately cease trying to define Jewish identity on here. It's transgressive and a basic violation of any commitment to antiracist and anti-oppressive praxis.
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Jewish identity, like many other social identities, is extraordinarily complex. Jewish people who live it often passionately disagree with each other on identity. If you don't live it, the odds that you're going to get anywhere close to the mark are vanishingly small.
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The odds that you are going to screw it up and perpetuate one of the most vicious and enduring racisms on the planet is a heckuva lot higher than you think.
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It's mind-boggling to me that so many people on here seem completely comfortable goysplaining the complexities of Jewish identity. And, by the way? Trotting out token members of the group who happen to share the speaker's political commitments +
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While ignoring majorities of said community who do not is an old trick and is equally transgressive and counter to antiracist praxis. It's bananaspants violent to listen only to a few Jews who tell speakers what they want to hear.
(see @schraubd: dsadevil.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-ma…)
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(see @schraubd: dsadevil.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-ma…)
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There's the underlying epistemic arrogance, too. What would possibly make non-Jews believe themselves to be reliable narrators of Jewish identity and experience? What histories are they tracking that suggest this confidence is warranted???
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All of the above goes double, triple for discerning antisemitism. Do not, do NOT pretense to tell Jews what is and what is not antisemitic. This too is entirely fundamental antiracist praxis. We will decide. And yes, we will disagree with each other, too.
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That is our privilege and our business. If I read one more tweet or op-ed from a non-Jewish person purporting to explain to me the history of my peoples and what it must mean for me today, I will have a gatdang infarction.
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Sit down. Shut up. And listen.
Know what you do not know.
Which, by the looks of things on here recently, is an awful lot.
#AllOfTheVaguetweeting #IWillNotBeSilent
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Know what you do not know.
Which, by the looks of things on here recently, is an awful lot.
#AllOfTheVaguetweeting #IWillNotBeSilent
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