https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dislike-certain-ethnicities-is-racist-to-see-jews-as-equal-is-antisemitic/

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]M
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    1 year ago

    first as a tragedy then as, well, I guess another tragedy. Every single day these vile motherfuckers manage to somehow even further trample on the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. death to Israel and this ubermensch bullshit, I’m so fucking tired idf-cool lea-tired

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That's literally a take I've seen from /pol/ ops where they pretend to be Jews

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Jews are the only Nation not just based on practice, location, or belief

    Are they implying they're the only diaspora in existence?

    And their Divinely ordained task is to be exemplary to all humanity

    Oh boy.

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    louie-wtf

    • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      jesus-christ He wrote that about himself? And some absolute sadist published it instead of burning it and dumping the ashes into fast running water?

    • Vncredleader
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      1 year ago

      I think they are implying that there is no diaspora. That any diaspora IS part of the Jewish state of Israel and a citizen whether they accept it or not. It is part of why Israel wanted to destroy Yiddish and other elements of diasporic culture

  • captcha [any]
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    1 year ago

    The comment section is spicy:

    What a great article! And so well put. I will show it to all my gentile friends so they can finally understand My Struggle.

    -- Ruth Goldwitzstein

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    The natural endpoint of nationalism is supremacy.

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Excuse me, is this person saying that to not view his ethnic/religious group as inherently superior to all others is racist?

    What the fuck?

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      You just did an antisemitism by saying antisemitism is “racist” when it is far beyond that because we’re dealing with more special groups of people

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Oh? So we should hold the “Jewish State” to a high moral standard?

    No. Not like that.

  • regul [any]
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    1 year ago

    Weird capitalization choices too.

    Like "Antisemitic"???

    • blight [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      out of all the notable aspects of that article, that sure is one of them

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    No no wait, let's hear him out, I want to see where this is going.

    When our parents say they want to be our friends, that’s nice. But we better also respect them as teachers. Totally equalizing them is demeaning them and arrogant of us. When Jews say they want to be everyone’s friends and allies, that’s nice. But Gentiles better also give them respect as their teachers. Totally equalizing them is demeaning them and arrogant. NB: We are not Christians ‘Older brother.’ Too many older brothers in the Hebrew Bible were passed over by younger sibs. We are their parents.

    Isn't this literally the view the French held towards their colonized victims?

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Oh no wait, it gets better:

      Being against mixed marriages is racist. Two cultures in one couple enrich both partners. But many Jews marrying out helps Jews to die out. It also means going along with self-hatred as if anything non-Jewish would give a personal safe passage out of the Antisemitic danger zone. European and Arab Jews marrying each other is enough marrying out already. And that happens in Israel to an unprecedented degree. Outside of Israel, nowhere do we find such a percentage of Whites marrying non-Whites.

      Oh it gets so much better, oh I'm so happy I kept reading.