statcounter told me people were accessing my blog via this post
and like, i was sort of with her until she got to this paragraph — which is where i’m linked, incidentally:
Some of the reactions by Jews to the “Jewsplaining” stuff are also fairly disturbing and the language used about “gentiles” (
really??) disturbingly reminiscent of
campaigns to stop people from “marrying out” and prevent “
assimilation” (ie stop the “calamity” of Jews marrying non-Jews, as if marrying a non-Jew means you automatically stop being culturally Jewish or even following the religion. Without this “calamity” I wouldn’t be here). We get diatribes against "tumblr goyim” and people saying that “gentile is a privilege”.
Would the idea that “gentile is a privilege” apply to working-class Palestinians in Gaza? Because that’s where this idiocy leads straight back to. Implicit support for the president of the US based on the fact he is black. Implicit support for the Israeli state based on it being a “Jewish state” or implicit support for other Middle Eastern states based on their leaders being Muslim and not white. Implicit support for Thatcher based on the fact she was a woman.
i fucking can’t deal with this so i’m going to leave this for someone who can. this so utterly decontextualizes religious privilege in the west and the antisemitism that leads a lot of jews to be suspicious of goyim (a word that i will almost always use instead of “gentile/s" because i’m a zionazi jewish supremacist), holy shit, what even