I was struck by "Sometimes they forget they’re Jewish and they consider themselves more white, where we realized on Oct. 7, it’s not exactly so." I find it telling that many seem to have amnesia over who is included in the clique "white," and how the membership has changed over time, and not always included all without skin pigment. In addition to my West African ancestors, at one time my Italian and Irish ancestors were not "white" according to the clique leaders. It's a nasty, middle-school game of who is allowed in the club. Now it's been flipped and "white" or "white-adjacent" means not allowed in the club. While I don't fall in line with or get starry-eyed around revolutionaries, they do serve the purpose of poking the nest, and the nest does need occasional poking. Sometimes they go too far, like labor unions sometimes go too far, but all voices are needed, imo. But it's healthy for society if people can listen without turning over their brains to the revolutionaries.
I was struck by "Sometimes they forget they’re Jewish and they consider themselves more white, where we realized on Oct. 7, it’s not exactly so." I find it telling that many seem to have amnesia over who is included in the clique "white," and how the membership has changed over time, and not always included all without skin pigment. In addition to my West African ancestors, at one time my Italian and Irish ancestors were not "white" according to the clique leaders. It's a nasty, middle-school game of who is allowed in the club. Now it's been flipped and "white" or "white-adjacent" means not allowed in the club. While I don't fall in line with or get starry-eyed around revolutionaries, they do serve the purpose of poking the nest, and the nest does need occasional poking. Sometimes they go too far, like labor unions sometimes go too far, but all voices are needed, imo. But it's healthy for society if people can listen without turning over their brains to the revolutionaries.