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"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.
Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.
Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.
Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."
https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended
#SCOTUS remade by #Trump ushers in historic defeats for #CivilRights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving #women & “#minorities”.
The shift ends a streak of successive courts expanding protections beginning with the civil rights era. But the historic nature of the current court is also evident in other key areas of the #law over the 5 terms since the 3rd of Trump’s appointees joined the bench.
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