#chaims posts
This situation has gotten wildly out of control, well beyond my ability to contain when I have other things to do with my life. So, I am going to be taking a break for a while for my own mental health. Just a few points before I go…
1. Don’t imply Black People or Muslims are somehow inherently antisemitic because they aren’t. Don’t enable Anti-Blackness or Islamophobia. Please.
2. Criticizing Israel isn’t inherently antisemitic.
3. If you can’t engage in a conversation in good faith, consider not engaging.
See you all later.
Not to cause offense, I love my jewish brothers and sisters, but what do you mean by survivors? I get the oppressors bit, even if I don’t agree with it. I have never heard of those arguments however. What did you survive besides Hitler, like a few other persued groups? If I may ask?
Antisemitism neither began nor ended with the Holocaust.
Here’s a quick primer, read it in its entirety before you downplay antisemitism again. It’s called “the oldest hatred” for a reason.
Also, don’t decenter the Jews from the Holocaust. Antisemitism is at the core of Nazi ideology. We weren’t “one of” the groups persecuted by Hitler. We were the primary group targeted. The only other group that was targeted for total annihilation by the Nazis were Romani people. Two out of every three Jews in Europe were murdered. 6 million.
also, a note: I notice Europeans both here and elsewhere, talk awfully, gallingly authoritatively about Jewish experiences and antisemitism. I know a lot of you have never met Jews because your great-grandparents murdered most of the ones who would have been in your communities, so you’re not used to talking about Jews in front of Jews, so you can talk about us like you’re experts and we’re a museum exhibition, but we do in fact still exist and you can’t pull that shit here.
Okay, so, today is April 24th and I kinda feel like I’m obligated to interrupt your stream of memes for a second of your attention.
April 24th marks the beginning of what is now known as the Armenian Genocide. The genocide, taking place during WWI in 1915 was the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the newly established Young Turk government. When I read about this, I found the word choice used to describe it unnerving - a “cleanse” of the Armenian people to “Turkify” the Ottoman Empire. A solution to the “Armenian question”. The terms used kinda scared me, because it draws an eerily similar comparison to the Holocaust. On this day, 102 years ago, the Turkish government arrested and executed a few hundred Armenian intellectuals. Soon, the Turkish country side was littered with the corpses of the Armenians.
And not a lot of people even know.
1.5 million people were killed in an attempt to erase Armenians from history.
To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit this crime.
I’m getting a lot of asks from people who recently discovered they have some Jewish heritage and are not sure how to proceed. Since this is not my area of expertise, if anyone would like to share quality resources for these individuals related to their situation, for B’nei Anusim or otherwise, please reply to this post or send me asks.
At its root, left wing antisemitism hates Jews for being flawed survivors instead of perfect corpses.
Re: engaging in that conversation.
And I’ve been accused of illiteracy so that person I was arguing with can cut off the conversation. This is why I hate these conversations. They’re so often approached in bad faith.
So tired of people pretending there was some magical fairy land Jews could’ve fled to in the face of exile and annihilation so they can avoid cognitive dissonance.
