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I just found out that the school I attended, American University, has had two swastikas, an SS, and a Magen David carved into the dorms.
This is exactly why my current project is so important.
I read about probably once incident like this every day or two, literally.
Don't tell me antisemitism doesn't exist, or any of that nonsense. It's incredibly common and it's scary as heck to be Jewish right now...
https://twitter.com/JewishonCampus_/status/1436850654241251328
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Sorry, but no.
I've received plenty of antisemitism from folks on the left, from gay folks, from trans folks, etc.
I'm not letting them off the hook by saying that antisemitism is a white nationalist problem and I hope you don't either.
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> antisemitism by leftists doesn't negate what I argued
It doesn't. What concerns me though is I've seen this continual "othering" of antisemitism, as in "It's not my group that has this problem, it's this other group.", like "It's not *my* political party, it's just some in leadership", etc.
This story hit me hard because that's my university, where I went to school.
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I don't actually like bringing up antisemitism. It makes me uncomfortable. It makes me a target.
But in the last few years, I don't feel like I have a choice. Things are at a boiling point.
I wouldn't feel safe going back to my country of birth.
I wouldn't feel safe in many places.
And now even my beloved city of NYC doesn't feel safe, and neither do many universities.
The fediverse too.
So I'm speaking up/speaking out.
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I experienced discomfort by a person I was having an affair with in showing affection in the street
Or on the beach (not the gay one)
Let alone what's happening with the lgbt issue on tv, here
Yes, speaking up and making yourself a target is necessary
I think I can say I relate to that
maybe the lgbt issue is not as transversal as antisemitism is, that's true
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And the Free Software world as well.
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the free software world is just littered with general right wing politics
but I take that you're referring to the left leaning free software world 😕
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I'm drawing this conclusion from a book, specifically
you can read it on line here
https://luigidemarchi.wordpress.com/scimmietta-ti-amo/
I undertsand there's no English translation but there's a German one
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the same author published the same ideas in another book too that's more academic
maybe there is an English translation for the second one
https://www.ibs.it/shock-primario-radici-del-fanatismo-libro-luigi-de-marchi/e/9788839712080
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Jews have a unique experience of being persecuted for 3000 years.
And the excuses for it are always conveniently inconsistent.
Jews are attacked for being too rich, for being too poor, for being too foreign, for being white, for not being "pure", for not assimilating, for "hiding amongst the people", for being too intellectual, for rejecting "reason", for being communists, for being capitalists, for having foreign "loyalties" etc.
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I don't think you are, I just think you fall into the trap of trying to "reason it" or "justify it" as part of something larger.
The problem is that when you do that, it's a form of erasure.
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I didn't think you meant harm by it, but there are two forces at play.
First, any time one person "intellectualizes" hate, it's walking dangerous ground. It's very hard to do well, and there's a tendency to "justify" it in a sesne.
Secondly, antisemitism is unique in that it's not a limited time issue, and that the justifications always shift and change. It has a tendency to lead to "If they only did ___, they'd be okay" and it's never true.
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This ties into the belief that many Jews have (particularly North American Jews) that if they assimilate, they'll be accepted.
Jews have always had this conflict of assimilation vs not- it's even in the Hebrew Bible! Many Jews, including me, struggle or have struggled with it.
It's part of the search for peace from persecution that Jews are constantly seeking, but never actually find.
That's why understanding antisemitism is different is important.
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Ok, assumed that I gave up on my attempts to make antisemitism a part of something larger, I think it can be helpful to briefly illustrate the thesis of the books I mentioned
This has to do (in my opinion) with the (lack of) time limitedness of antisemtism and with the arguments "if they had just.."
(deep breath)
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@emacsen
antisemitism by leftists doesn't negate what I argued
The French communists demonstrated against the military campaign against the Nazist Germany
Nowadays, some leftsts still condemn the american intervention in former Jugoslavia
Reactionary politics and white nationalism extends to the left too
I'm not leaving anyone off the hook