racism

Race in Israel, race in America, race in halakha.

Racism in the Bomb Shelter

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Racism reared its ugly head in the bomb shelter today.

I didn’t see the point of confronting it on the spot – I’ve learned that racists operating in maladaptive defense mode are not receptive to reason, empathy, or judgment in the moment of arousal – but I think my day would be lacking if I didn’t try, here in a more public forum when missiles are not being intercepted over our heads at the moment, to rectify the ugliness with an appeal to raise our collective awareness to a higher and holier level.

The rising tide raises all ships.

PSA: Missiles don’t discriminate between Jew and Muslim, or between Israeli families and “Arab workers.” Neither should we, in a time that we need to stand together more than ever and wrestle with our common fate.

I understand that racist people are operating from a place of fear, and that some residents may have legitimate concerns about strangers using their property, especially in proximity to their children.

If that’s you: then say THAT.

Don’t cast easy blame against people just as scared and vulnerable as you are, and have fewer resources to rely on, because they are strangers and speak a different language and are only associated with those who have actually murdered our citizens via movies and tweets by clout chasing lowlives.

The racist script needs to be ditched, now more than ever.

These missiles will most likely keep coming for months, long after the interceptors run out.

We may be facing the worst collective trial since 1948.

The way I see it, our best option is to face it together.

Jewish People as White

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The racing of Jewish people as “white” has a lot to do with developments in American racial politics over the course of the 20th century and little to do with contemporary or historical Jewish people.

In actuality, Jewish people are of West Asian descent and have since absorbed the genes of other human communities on every continent except Antarctica, to the point where we can legitimately be described as transcending the Western social construct of “race” entirely.

By the same token, it should go without saying that assimilated Jewish individuals who identify as “white” should probably learn more about the Jewish community’s historical relationship to, and subjection to discrimination and even violence under, the social regime of “whiteness.”

DEI Was the Smokescreen

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Restoring a meritocracy by re-allowing discrimination across federal departments, organizations, and contractors?

Hwut

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For some political groups (that have now united under POTUS and his party), complaints about the allegedly anti-meritocratic nature of DEI (and before it affirmative action) were always just a smokescreen for the real problem: the advancement of non-white, non-Christian minorities in domains that previously excluded them and exploited them.

In this respect, the sum effect of the executive orders and actions from the past week is to stifle meritocracy in America, not restore it.

Treat Racists Like Addicts

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Controversial take: If Leftists treated racists the way they say addicts should be treated, instead of the way Right-wingers treat heretics, then actual progress could be made in the USA.