People talk about Jewish trauma from the Holocaust as if it's this event that happened a long time ago and it shouldn't be something we're still affected by. This is very silly.
Do you realize how short 80 years is, in the context of history???
Do you realize how short 80 years is, in the context of history???
Everyone I know has met someone who was literally the target of a Genocide. Very often their own grandparents. You expect that kind of trauma to just fade away in just 80 years??
We still mourn for a temple destroyed 2,000 years ago, you think we're just gonna be chill about the Holocaust while survivors are still alive??
Like, some of the most horrific and well documented stuff ever done to people, and you think we're just gonna dust ourself off and go "we're good" without even a century having passed
And I'm not even saying this to excuse anything but too many leftists talk about Zionism as if Jews were living comfortably in Europe and then all of a sudden came to the land for no reason other than lust for territory
And then made a whole bunch of weirdly aggressive decisions. So strange! What could have happened that made Jews in 1948 so hell-bent on having a state?
It's almost like having a state full of people who had seen their families gassed to death will affect policy
And then there's these fancy pants academics who chide the unwashed masses of Jews going "tsk tsk why aren't you over the Holocaust yet"
80 years isn't long! Stop gaslighting the Jewish people!
80 years isn't long! Stop gaslighting the Jewish people!
I'm not even trying to make a value judgment as to whether we should or shouldn't, just that, whether you like it or not, it has an effect, and it's simply unrealistic to expect it not to
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