"#Returning, #NicholasLemann’s eloquent, achingly honest account of life within a tightly knit #German-#Jewish subculture whose collective response to #antisemitism was to fixate on fitting in with #gentiles. So axiomatic was the #NewOrleans community’s #assimilationism, and so profound its disdain for Eastern #European #Jews, that #Lemann never tasted lox until after he left home for college. And yet, well into adulthood, Lemann reevaluated, and rejected, the tradeoffs of his family forebears, in favor of a #kosher home, membership in a #minyan and #Shabbat observance.

Hence the #book’s title. Hence, too, its element of surprise: This deeply personal story is not what you might expect from Lemann, a practitioner of cool-headed “neoliberal” policy #journalism in its 1980s heyday, who went on to become a #NewYorker staff #writer, dean of the #Columbia #Journalism School and #author of four books on U.S. political and social #history."

https://momentmag.com/book-review-returning-lemann/

"Insisting on clumping such disparate groups together, and referring to them with the same term, means emphasizing their similarities while also disregarding their differences. When those differences are substantial and relevant, and have widely varying implications for the everyday lives of these distinct groups, glossing over this can be a disservice to everyone – both the many groups who are now seen as fused into a single mass, and the people on the outside who are trying to understand who and what we are."—Zinnia Jones

The Worst Assimilation Of All >

https://nosuture.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-worst-assimilation-of-all-how.html

#essays #gender #assimilation #liberationism #umbrella_term #trans #transgender #transsexuality #drag_queens #differences #oppression #assimilationism #cis_normativity #normativity #women #trans_women #constraint #discrimination #misconceptions #drag #confusion #clarification

Every time with these #gay-not-#queer people. Of course he's a transphobe and a #Zionist.

When you jump onto the queer-is-a-slur bandwagon, these are the people you're sitting next to. And the rest of us are going to judge you by the company you keep.

#socialmedia #twitter #gaynotqueer #queerisaslur #assimilation #assimilationism #assimilationist #transphobia #transmisogyny #zionism #liberationnotassimilation #queercommunity #queerliberation #transliberation

I think we should boycott queer spaces that repress and exclude those of us that have #intersectional identities. The practice of throwing other outgroups under the bus, for the sake of "looking more normal," is a scam.

Those that are in power are just going to the same groups and playing the same game, telling them, "You seem to be cool. I might be willing to support you but ONLY if you keep out those other riff-raff."

#Assimilationism #IsAScam

#Assimilationism is #kyriarchy. In the long-run, it won't even help you to throw other out-groups under the bus. Gratitude is not in the nature of those in power. They will come for you just as soon as everybody else is so broken and terrified as to no longer constitute any realistic threat to their strangling grip on the neck of society.

The revolution is slowly starting to organize. Be a part of it.

🟢#PaperTK “Migrants and Patria. The imagined community of the radical left in Spain” by @[email protected].

🔗https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/66912/4564456553063

#Assimilationism
#ConstitutionalPatriotism
#Nationalism
#Populism
#Preferentialism
#NewVolumeTK
#NuevoNúmeroTK