“The Judeo-Christian concept of....”

Whatever you’re about to say is gonna be wrong, so why don’t you just stop there?

Anyway I’m not sure what Xtian (by which I mean any of y'all who believe that Jesus is God) needs to hear this, but the concept that “no means no” absolutely applies to proselytizing.

If your religion is so good, if you are so obviously different and special and #blessed, if you are clearly so more spiritually enlightened, then people will find their way to YOU. If you can’t lead by example and in fact have to resort to going door to door like an Amway salesman, then why would anyone want to join your weird group anyway?

Oh, and the inverse of the right to be free from religiously based harassment in the form of proselytizing isn’t proselytizing itself; it’s the right to SEEK information for yourself about any religious group.

There are plenty of wonderful Xtians out there who understand boundaries and pluralism, and this is not about you. It is entirely possible to be a dedicated and religiously-observant Xtian who is still opposed to missionizing and proselytizing.

There is an entire conceptualization of evangelism that is based on leading by example rather than on outreach, and the Xtians who actually really live their lives like this come the closest to embodying the ideals of Jesus that I’ve seen.

“Be normal in the replies!” “Why can’t people just be normal about–” “Do you [some douchey thing here] or are you normal?”

Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. Normal does not equal kind, does not equal accepting, does not equal chill. Normal is context-dependent and a lot of the fucking time it’s actually fucking awful.

It was normal for my classmates to use ‘gay’ as a pejorative. It’s normal for me to face antisemitism in the workplace. It’s normal for ableism to influence listed job requirements.

No, I’m not normal, and it has nothing to do with whether or not I’m gonna act like a jackass.

If your repugnance towards anti-Semitism is only for the wrongs done to fictional Jewish characters and not living Jewish people, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

What you say: [Q]abbalah is part of the Western Tradition of magic and mysticism!

What you mean: we stole it long enough ago that we don't have to give it back

What I hear: you don't care about Jewish people at all

What you've communicated: there actually isn't a "Western Tradition" in the same way there's no such thing as "White culture," and what you actually mean is that your spirtual ancestors were colonists and Xian hegemonists who took what they wanted, and now you want their theft as your inheritance and the Jewish mysticism they stole as your heirloom

When someone is a Christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, the extermination of Native Americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by Christians. So why do Muslims get asked about terrorism and Jews about Israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while Christians are not required to explain themselves.

Now, there’s a thought.

My favorite thing about Christian hegemony is when people use the Christian New Testament to support their argument. As though my being Jewish means I consider Christian texts a religious authority.

That’s not my book, dude. Like, I know what’s in there, but I don’t consider it a religious authority anymore than I consider Percy Jackson and the Olympians a religious authority.

This post brought to you by both atheists and Christians arguing with me on the basis of Christian Bible texts. 🤣

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listen up, goyim, because i’m gonna say this once and once only.

antisemitism is a form of oppression, but it relies on a different mindset. it is a different ballgame than ANY sort of prejudice you know. yknow why? because to antisemities, jews aren’t lesser (well, we are, but that’s not the important thing). we’re successful.

that’s the kicker.

antisemities WANT you to believe that jews are doing well, because if we’re doing well, we’re not REALLY being persecuted. it all goes back to the protocols of the elders of zion: the jews are taking over. the jews are a threat. therefore, if they’re a threat, it’s only right to kill them. it’s only right to ghettoize them. it’s only right to have exterminated 40% of the world’s jewish population in the 40s.

nevermind the fact that antisemitism makes up nearly 50% of all religious hate crimes in the us. nevermind the fact that jews make up less than 2% of the world’s population. nevermind the fact that jews, historically, have been scapegoated and killed and othered for literal millenia. i mean, who cares, because jews are rich and powerful, right?

don’t fall for it. don’t fall for the centuries-old claim that jews are just faking it. listen to us. support us.

and the next time you brush off antisemitism because ”oh, it’s not a big deal, jews are successful”, take a good hard look at yourself and realize that you’re spouting the same nazi propaganda that killed six million people.

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Antisemitism knows no political party. It finds a home among progressives, liberals, conservatives, and the hard-right. Fight it, not just when it’s from “the other side”, but when it’s coming from inside the house. Antisemitism isn’t someone else’s problem, it’s all of our problem.

Jack Mandelbaum

One of the most psychologically-demanding things with antisemitism is that you’re constantly being gaslit about it.  Antisemitism is EVERYWHERE. It never stops, and it comes from all angles and all sides of the political spectrum. There are so many different ways to be antisemitic and only a handful are widely recognized, usually only the most egregious and obvious examples. Jewish issues are often left out of activism, intersectionality is ignored and acts of more casual antisemitism are not taken seriously or considered worth addressing. People still have this idea that Jewish activism is somehow in competition with other activism and must be pushed to the side, or put directly at odds with another group in order to paint Jewish people as the bad guys and avoid anything they might have to say.

As a result, Jewish people in activist spaces CONSTANTLY have to juggle their identity, deciding whether or not identifying as Jewish will help or hurt them in a situation, praying they’re heard and taken seriously, or if they will be subjected to a gauntlet of tests to decide if their voice is “valid” enough to be counted. Even (and especially) on Jewish issues. When casual antisemitism happens, Jewish people have nowhere to turn because the ones moderating the space or keeping order don’t see it or take it seriously, or are the ones perpetuating it themselves. Welcoming spaces become hostile overnight. It’s like getting hit with tons of teeny tiny pebbles every single day, and then occasionally you’re hit with a rock. You tell somebody about the rock, but they don’t see it because it wasn’t a boulder. You’re told you’re being oversensitive, that it didn’t happen, that you’re selfish for complaining about the rock. You know better than to even mention the onslaught of pebbles at this point because you’ll get laughed out of the room.

I think I’m going to take a break from the internet for a little while. 

Dear goyim,

It’s not actually any of your business “how Jewish” someone is or what part of the world their family hails from or what that person’s views on Israel are.

It’s not actually your place to decide whether or not someone is Jewish or to tell Jews what they must be like to be a “good Jew” or what their political views must be to be accepted by society. It’s not actually your place to decide whether or not a Jew is wrong in calling something you did or said antisemitic.

It’s just not and it never will be. A Jew is a Jew, and it’s not your place to decide what Jewishness is or what forms of Jewishness are acceptable, and it’s definitely not your place to decide what constitutes antisemitism or make excuses for it.

Now kindly stop speaking over Jews when it comes to Jewishness, Judaism, and Jewish problems, and start listening.

Happy Jewish American heritage month

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