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sneakermom

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:00 pm

As individuals and as a group. All people have parts of themselves that they wish to banish. Shamed, disgusted or helpless parts. And all individuals have parts that are aggressive, fighting and divisive.

In the past. Sadly. Racism was a way to give those parts an outlet. A scapegoat that would accept the unacceptable parts of ourselves. So that everyone could feel quietly or unquietly superior and justified.

Today the world has shifted. It’s no longer acceptable to be racist. (Nor should it be!). Even more. The world has gone on some racism manhunt. So if you even breathe the wrong way. You might be tarred and feathered.

Instead it’s become vogue to be Anti Semitic.

So while boro park, Williamsburg and other frum areas might not be socially distancing like the upper west side folks. Because they plotzed from it back in March, because they would rather bite the bullet instead of hide forever, because the culture pulls the people to be together rather than apart, because everyone is living in such closed quarters anyway. Whatever.

And this type of attitude towards the pandemic is seen similarly in many other ethnic neighborhoods. And in other parts of the world.

Suddenly it became okay to single out the Jews! To use language that depicts us back into our old stereotypes. Dirty, diseased, the cause of all the trouble, needing to be singled out, and deserving to be bullied.

This creates an atmosphere of “other”. Once that’s created. The “other” doesn’t deserve or need the same compassion and rights as the group. They are “less than” and to them, the rules of human rights don’t apply.

The “other” works very well as a place to project their own banished parts. The unacceptable. A whole population of unacceptable certainly eases the pressure on ones own internal unacceptable parts.

It was Hitler’s approach to the Jews. And it’s Cuomo’s approach right now too.

True Cuomo is not the president. And there’s hope for things to turn around. But Cuomo put the kettle of anti semitism onto the fire to boil.

Some of us Jews are enraged. Some of us are scared. Some of us are waiting for this to blow over. And some of us are buying into that we deserve this treatment. Takeh! We are unacceptable.

This is when we turn against each other. Which weakens is further.

We don’t have to all agree on how to approach this pandemic. Heck. There are no easy answers. We are all scared, exhausted and wary of the future.

But we should never buy into that we deserve to be bullied. That we deserve to be “other”.

Don’t side with the aggressor. Even if you disagree with the approach of the victim.

We need to stand together. As a strong unified group against hate and bigotry.

Last edited by sneakermom on Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:03 pm; edited 1 time in total

Einikel

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:02 pm

sneakermom wrote:

As individuals and as a group. All people have parts of themselves that they wish to banish. Shamed, disgusted or helpless parts. And all individuals have parts that are aggressive, fighting and divisive.

In the past. Sadly. Racism was a way to give those parts an outlet. A scapegoat that would accept the unacceptable parts of ourselves. So that everyone could feel quietly or unquietly superior and justified.

Today the world has shifted. It’s no longer acceptable to be racist. (Nor should it be!). Even more. The world has gone on some racism manhunt. So if you even breathe the wrong way. You might be tarred and feathered.

Instead it’s become vogue to be Anti Semitic.

So while boro park, Williamsburg and other frum areas might not be socially distancing like the upper west side folks. Because they plotzed from it back in March, because they would rather bite the bullet instead of hide forever, because the culture pulls the people to be together rather than apart, because everyone is living in such closed quarters anyway. Whatever.

And this type of attitude towards the pandemic is seen similarly in many other ethnic neighborhoods. And in other parts of the world.

Suddenly it became okay to single out the Jews! To use language that depicts us back into our old stereotypes. Dirty, diseased, the cause of all the trouble, needing to be singled out, and deserving to be bullied.

This creates an atmosphere of “other”. Once that’s created. The “other” doesn’t deserve or need the same compassion and rights as the group. They are “less than” and to them, the rules of human rights don’t apply.

The “other” works very well as a place to project their own banished parts. The unacceptable. A whole population of unacceptable certainly eases the pressure on ones own internal unacceptable parts.

It was Hitler’s approach to the Jews. And it’s Cuomo’s approach right now too.

True we Cuomo is not the president. And there hope for things to turn around. But Cuomo put the kettle of anti semitism onto the fire to boil.

Some of us Jews are enraged. Some of us are scared. Some of us are waiting for this to blow over. And some of us are buying into that we deserve this treatment. Takeh! We are unacceptable.

This is when we turn against each other. Which weakens is further.

We don’t have to all agree on how to approach this pandemic. Heck. There are no easy answers. We are all scared, exhausted and wary of the future.

But we should never buy into that we deserve to be bullied. That we deserve to be “other”.

Don’t side with the aggressor. Even if you disagree with the approach of the victim.

We need to stand together. As a strong unified group against hate and bigotry.

👏👏👏👏

yksraya

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:03 pm

Well said.

flowerpower ↓

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:08 pm

Great post. Thank you!!!

↑ flowerpower

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:10 pm

Someone’s kids got spit on by a woman in a park on chol hamoed.

Another family wasn’t allowed to get onto the ferry because jews have covid.

This is real. It’s happening. It’s scary

IsraeliSoul

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:12 pm

You’re so right

Fox

Mon, Oct 19 2020, 9:15 pm

None of this happened overnight. We've had plenty of warnings.

First, when anti-semites like Linda Sarsour were elevated to roles of media darlings.

Then, when antisemitism was increasingly dismissed as "anti-Zionism" by people who should know better.

Last winter, when attacks against Jews in Brooklyn became a daily occurence and fatal attacks against Jews occurred in Monsey and NJ. Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo shrugged their shoulders and agreed that attacking people is a bad thing. The ADL and similar groups put out press releases saying that antisemitic attacks are a very bad thing and ought not to happen.

And here we are.

We were worth protecting as long as we were a reliable voting bloc. Absent that role, elected officials and establishment Jewish institutions find us expendable.

Rappel

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 12:07 am

Quote:

That we [don't] deserve to be “other”.

But we do deserve to be other. In every way, we are other.

IMHO, the mission of this generation is to relearn how to be an independent nation.

We are not American. We are not British. We are not French. We are Bnei Yisrael, and we need to understand what that means.

simcha2 ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 4:34 am

Fox wrote:

But it's far more than that.

Just look at the conspiracy theories out there. They all have an underpinning of antisemitism. Q, Soros etc all hark back to the medieval antisemitism of Jews running the world, the puppet masters behind the deep state.
It is so insidious that there are frum women parroting these tropes.

We are the scapegoats from both ends.

exaustedmom ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:23 am

simcha2 wrote:

Im not worried about George Soros. We have real anti semitism happening now because of our so called politician friends are using jews as a scapegoat and the media is gladly running with it. It is shameful how we are being portrayed now in the media. Trust me, they would never dare to do this to any other ethnicity.

dancingqueen ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:32 am

exaustedmom wrote:

Her point I assume is that George Soros is used as a scapegoat from the right, so actually Jews are being scapegoated by both sides. Lucky us. 😒

↑ exaustedmom ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:35 am

dancingqueen wrote:

Her point I assume is that George Soros is used as a scapegoat from the right, so actually Jews are being scapegoated by both sides. Lucky us. 😒

Nobody ever beat up a jew in Brooklyn yelling "this is for George Soros". Let's stick to the real problem here instead of trying to make it like its even from both sides.

↑ dancingqueen

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:47 am

exaustedmom wrote:

Nobody ever beat up a jew in Brooklyn yelling "this is for George Soros". Let's stick to the real problem here instead of trying to make it like its even from both sides.

Pittsburgh?

↑ simcha2 ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:49 am

exaustedmom wrote:

Nobody ever beat up a jew in Brooklyn yelling "this is for George Soros". Let's stick to the real problem here instead of trying to make it like its even from both sides.

This is technically correct, but wrong in essence.

The Tree of Life massacre was precipitated by a conflation of hatred of immigrants with blaming the jews, as represented by Soros sponsoring the migrant caravans. (He didn't, of course, but that was the rhetoric in far right discourse)

PinkFridge

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:54 am

The political science lesson is useful and offers lots of food for thought.
As Parashas Vayishlach teaches, it is incumbent on us to behave appropriately during galus. It also teaches us that it's not simply political cause and effect but something profound and metaphysical. We do need to stand together, and love each other. And maybe when we say birchas hachodesh next month, and get to the passage, Mi she'asa nissim, chaveirim kol Yisrael will be reality, not some impossible we-can-dnly-dream-of miracle.

↑ exaustedmom

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:56 am

simcha2 wrote:

On a whole, MOST anti semitism in this country comes from the LEFT. FACT!!

imasoftov

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 6:58 am

exaustedmom wrote:

On a whole, MOST anti semitism in this country comes from the LEFT. FACT!!

Citation needed.

leah233

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 7:02 am

Much as I hate George Soros and agree that he is loyal to his upbringing of being a Jewish anti-Semite he is in fact a cause of the anti-Semitism on the far right.

Luckily the anti-Semites on the far right are much less of a current risk than the anti-Semites on the left but don't downplay his role.

As the saying goes. "To an anti-Semite George Soros is a Hasidic"

↑ simcha2 ↓

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 7:05 am

exaustedmom wrote:

On a whole, MOST anti semitism in this country comes from the LEFT. FACT!!

What's to gain from this attitude?

Either you are correct, but that doesn't eliminate the antisemitism on the right (as demonstrated by the murders in Pittsburgh and Poway).
Or you are wrong.

And truthfully I think it is impossible to measure.

How is it reassuring to put the "blame" more on one side or the other?

chanatron1000

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 7:07 am

Strong loyalty to the left or the right causes people to tolerate anti-Semitism. If the opposition to the other major party is stronger than the opposition to anti-Semitism, it's only natural.

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