#appeal to modernity

A lot of goyim say “but it’s 2015!” when I talk about modern antisemitism, and it makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

You’re right. It is 2015. That much should be obvious.

But the fact that it’s 2015 means incredibly little about anything else other than the fact that we’ve moved a bit forward in the inexorable progression of time. That’s all it means. It says nothing about bigotry or hardship or antisemitism. As time progresses, it doesn’t follow that people will become less bigoted or less antisemitic.

Antisemitism has existed for thousands of years, and it didn’t suddenly arrive on the scene with the Holocaust, and it definitely wasn’t just as suddenly extinguished when the survivors were liberated. A bloody history stretching back millennia … it doesn’t go away over night, and it doesn’t go away in seventy years.

And sometimes, if you’re unlucky, it doesn’t merely fail to vanish entirely. It rears its ugly head again and lets you know just how far we’ve come isn’t nearly enough.

Your 2015 doesn’t look very pretty to me at all.