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It’s true that Jews were not coded as white in Europe, very much the opposite. And that our white privilege in the US is conditional.
AND it’s also true that in the US, built as it is (literally) on antiblackness, I am seen as white & afforded the protections of whiteness in + https://twitter.com/leekern13/status/1269396272177438730
AND it’s also true that in the US, built as it is (literally) on antiblackness, I am seen as white & afforded the protections of whiteness in + https://twitter.com/leekern13/status/1269396272177438730
Pretty much every aspect of my life. In stores, when I get health care, when I interact with police, around my education and career, as a parent, etc.
To deny that would be totally disingenuous as well as dismissive of the ways that racism functions in American society.
To deny that would be totally disingenuous as well as dismissive of the ways that racism functions in American society.
I’m white, there’s no denying it.
Do Jews who are marked more visibly as Jews by clothing, hair etc. experience more anti-Jewish hatred? No doubt.
Does that mean that white privilege is not a thing? No. Is it sometimes complicated for Jews when whites supremacists want +
Do Jews who are marked more visibly as Jews by clothing, hair etc. experience more anti-Jewish hatred? No doubt.
Does that mean that white privilege is not a thing? No. Is it sometimes complicated for Jews when whites supremacists want +
Us dead? Yep, that’s why we talk about conditional whiteness.
But white Jews were still nonetheless able to start grabbing white privilege a few generations ago and the only reason we could was because of antiblackness. We can only be allies in the fight against racism +
But white Jews were still nonetheless able to start grabbing white privilege a few generations ago and the only reason we could was because of antiblackness. We can only be allies in the fight against racism +
When we acknowledge this—the unfair advantages those of us with white skin are afforded as a result of that skin in a white supremacist society.
More on Jewish assimilation, becoming white here: https://twitter.com/theradr/status/950183081318629376?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/950183081318629376
More on Jewish assimilation, becoming white here: https://twitter.com/theradr/status/950183081318629376?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/950183081318629376
And obviously there are Jews who are Black and Latinx and indigenous and Asian and Asian-American and Arab and many other things. I’m obviously only talking about Jews who have white skin privilege and apologize for not being more precise in my language.
AND, to clarify, we need to hold this with everything @BulldogShadow articulates so powerfully in this piece. Both/and https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/
And to clarify, imho “white-passing” is a misnomer. It implies possibly getting away with something. When a doctor or cop or etc. finds out you’re a Jew, they continue treating you as white. Because: Whiteness has expanded to include Jews, has done so since the GI Bill.
Thinking about Nella Larsen, “passing” implies that if the person read as white is discovered to be not-white, there are consequences to that. Except in white nationalist/Nazi circles, that’s not the case for Jews.
Because: not passing. Just white. (Conditional, bc Nazis!)
Because: not passing. Just white. (Conditional, bc Nazis!)
