Jewish Man Reassured After Being Told Antisemitism Doesn’t Exist
Jewish Man Reassured After Being Told Antisemitism Doesn’t Exist
NEW YORK—Expressing a deep sense of relief upon learning that one of the most persistent and insidious prejudices in human history was not real, local Jewish man Dan Applebaum was reportedly reassured Friday after being told antisemitism doesn’t exist. “Wow, this is a huge weight off my chest,”...
Not Jewish but I get this a lot as a brown person.
I can go, "Ah yeah this racist thing happen" and some knuckle dragger goes, "No it didn't. They would be breaking the law."
Like okay?
55It's just gaslighting plain and simple.
Like we don't remember what happened in school, in college or fucking last week.
Jewish, not brown, for what it's worth, but it sounds like we may have had similar experiences here.
26Friendly reminder that a lot of heinous stuff is now legal because the Supreme Court gutted the VRA on the grounds that racism isn't real anymore.
13The more I find out about other minorities, their struggles, issues and history, the more I realize that we have way more that unites us than divides us.
Having long chats with Szekler and Roma people helped open my eyes to the fact that discrimination is incredibly similar no matter who the target is. I don't speak their native languages or fully understand the culture, but the history and treatment by the majority is very similar as a Jew.
10Check out Howard Zinn's People's History.
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Fucking Onion makes me exhale loudly in a public place once again!
1Arabs and Israelis killing each other but what about all the racist whytes?!
-2Well they're busy providing the Israelis with bombs and diplomatic and media cover for their ethnic cleansing campaign
3but what about
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Palestinian Man Reassured After Being Told "God Said Eye For An Eye"
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