MimiRocah1Dec 5, 2022
I’m not sure people understand how terrifying things are for American Jews right now. Like many, my father barely escaped the nazis. So the fact that antisemitism is being normalized right now & NOT denounced by every leader of the 2 major political parties is frightening. We need to know our govt & our institutions will keep us safe & we aren’t sure now. This is a common feeling amongst Am. Jews right now. Please take the time to understand the fear & demand your leaders denounce it.
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@Mimirocah1

certainly it's not good to generalize from the people you know to an entire population

good friends for the last fifteen years are orthodox and went full maga over the last few years, moved to a red state, rail about woke mind viruses, etc.

not just them, but a whole community of their friends and members of their synagogue get together to gripe about migrants and stolen elections, and how great ted cruz is

they think the u.s. and euro left is the enemy and point to the bds movement, support for palestinians, etc.

they're thrilled about tfg's jewish son in law, moving u.s. embassy to jerusalem, new far-right coalition in tel aviv

they say accusations of right-wing #fascism and #antisemitism are just left-wing propaganda to distract from the real threat of islamic terror

are my friends and their community rare outliers?

how do we know if "american jews" in general are terrified of u.s. right wing antisemitism?

or if, like my friends, a large number of jewish people support the u.s. right wing because the u.s. right wing supports israel and israel's ultra-right-wing government?

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@ares Orthodox Jews make up around 10% of all American Jews while 70% if not more of all American Jews vote for the Democratic Party. Respectfully, you are doing what you criticize @Mimirocah1 for. You are making generalizations about entire group (saying that a large number of Jewish people are right wing when that is factually incorrect) from your own personal experience with a small part of the population.
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@SarahOestreich @Mimirocah1

really trying not to make generalizations from the small number of jewish people i've gotten to know well over many years

also some of this conversation feels dangerously close to vicious stereotypes that we need to be careful not to engage in

maybe the reason my experience is different from @Mimirocah1 is that i've mostly known people in the orthodox community

it's disorienting to talk with people whose grandparents were persecuted by fascists but view today's antifascists as their bigger enemy

again, just my very limited experience with a small number of people who i know and (still) love, not necessarily reflective of any larger group