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This thread makes some really salient points about varying expressions of Jewish trauma and its ability amplify both our blindspots and senses of self-righteousness. https://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1339251308780343297
Everybody processes trauma differently, yet so much of what I see on here is people of varying viewpoints triggering one another in the most tone-deaf ways possible because they feel their expression of trauma is the only correct one, and it just compounds the divisiveness.
It's rare that people are convinced by what they perceive as dismissive reactions to their deeply felt trauma, yet this is the most common tactic I see, along with No True Scotsman arguments meant to cleave people from their right have XYZ trauma expression in the first place.
They say couples who experience profound traumas together are more likely to separate due to incompatible modes of processing that exacerbate the other person's grief, and I wonder sometimes if that's happening to us as a people.
And none of this is to say trauma gives anybody the right to inflict cruelty, but I do believe more introspection and acceptance of duality or nuance might do the Jewish people a world of good.
I'm sure nearly everybody will have some sort of quibble with the above thread in one way or another, and that's fine. But I encourage you to read it anyway and contemplate on the central message, so that we can start communicating more and hurting less.
