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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
hate crimes, antisemitism, new project
it may be presumptuos from me but I think it's not just antisemitism
It's antisemitism, it's racism. it's antimuslimness, it's machismo (see abortion), it's antilgbt hatred
it's the same hatred
it's white nationalism
it's extremely similar to what happenedin the 30ies
I know history does not repeat
but the psychological processes at the base of this are the same
And Google and the gafam are blowing on the fire for profit
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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
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
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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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the wikipedia page about the auhor has a contetsation of enciclopedic relevance
As you know many wemen or not white people are erased by wikipedians this way
I believe this is a confirmation of the originality of the idea by this author
Techbors and wikipedians, lacking humanistic culture, are particulary prone to mistakes due to the defence against any threat they may feel knowingly or not
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@emacsen @clacke
admittedly I was tryng to make it part of something larger
Not justifying it, just explaining it
But if that amounts to erasure, I'll take some time to think this over
I didn't mean to attempt any erasure, I'm sorry if I was mistaken