Jews: this is your ticket to freedom
I wrote the following on Twitter after reading a thread by a Jewish woman in Vermont. She’s in shock, and understandably distressed, at what seems to her to be “antisemitism” in Vermont. Our legislature and public officials have all adopted the fRee frEe pAleSTine line.
Like most Jews seeing this hit them personally for the first time, she incorrectly believes that “antisemitism” is the problem. Except in a very surface way, it’s not the problem. The problem is much broader and deeper than disdain for one religion or ethnicity. -JS
Liberal/leftist Jews: You're just now realizing that you're not inside the circle of moral concern any longer on the left. You're right that anti-Jewish sentiment is high, even in places you thought were safe, like New York, liberal Vermont, etc.
What you're wrong about is thinking that the left is just "making a mistake about this one thing, Jewishness."
You're also dead-wrong that "antisemitism" is what's driving this. You've made "antisemitism" your "precious," and you love to hold onto it so you can see yourself as the purest, most unique kind of victim among all humans.
You're not unique. The hatred for you is not unique to your being Jewish. It's just instrumental in their larger project. The left hates freedom of thought and action, it hates personal responsibility, and it hates success. Anyone who evinces any of these qualities will be called an oppressor, and she will be targeted.
You're now in the beginning stages, I hope, of realizing what I came to understand as I broke away from the left over a period of years. Like you, I seemed to be a "natural" member of the left. Gay, from a poor family.
The left Truly Cares About Marginalized People, right?
No, it doesn't. It wants pet demographics enslaved to it, scared of the other side (conservatives) that isn't actually dangerous so that Jews, gays, women, blacks, and any other "marginalized" group feels the left is their only hope.
You still with me, Jewish friend seeing this for the first time? Here's what you're going to realize unless you insist on clinging to your belief that you are the Perfect Platonic Victim Because You're Jewish.
1. You've lost your place on the progressive ladder of oppression. You're now considered an Oppressor. This is permanent. You're not going to be let back in.
2. It happened to homosexuals. I watched it happen as I was ejected from the left that had been my political and cultural home for decades. One minute I was "oppressed." About a year later, I was not only not "oppressed," but I was the villain. Now, I was a "cis white male."
(Note: I thought I was oppressed, but that was baloney. I was a mind-captured leftist addicted to feeling aggrieved.)
3. It's happened to any black or brown person who doesn't vote in lockstep with the left on every issue. They have their racial privilege card torn up, and are re-cast as Oppressors.
4. It happens to every woman who breaks with the left, or with feminism. Suddenly she's not a woman whose interests need protection. She's a "slave of the patriarchy," a nasty witch who votes to hurt other people because her "cis white male husband" wants her to.
Jews, this is happening to you right now. You are seeing who the left really is, and always was, for the very first time. You're shocked, I know. It took me more than a year to stop breaking into tears and edging up on panic attacks when I first understood how much malice my "friends" on the left had for me.
This is your opportunity to break free for the first time in your adult life. It's going to be painful, and it has to be, because only personal pain and confrontation with real loss can change a person’s mind and heart. I know because it happened to me.
Please don't waste it. Don't try to stay loyal. Don't lie to yourself and tell yourself you're Special Because You're Jewish. You're not. If it weren't your Judaism, it would be your disagreement with transing kids, your disagreement with funding drugs for street criminals, or something else.
You're in the same boat as the gays, the conservative women, the conservative black people, the right wing immigrants. To the left, we (yes, you and I and all these people) are all evil Oppressors who need to be dead.
This is an abusive relationship. You've been in an abusive marriage with the left your whole life, Jews. I was too. It mirrored the abusive relationship with my mother. It is not a coincidence that when I broke free from her that I freed myself from the exact same abusive relationship I had with the political and cultural left that I considered my "family."
Take your ticket to freedom.
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You are correct, it takes personal pain to finally break free. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area with super liberal Berkeley college parents. I believed in everything the left said and voted accordingly until they went after police. My husband is a police officer and a minority. Of course that didn't matter to them , they only saw blue and therefore he was evil to them. It was incredibly painful and I lost some family members over it, but suddenly I was awake. I had voted Democrat then went back to sleep my entire life, never asking questions. I can see how blind and foolish I was, I can see all the lies, the amount of control they had over me. My mother exhibited BPD and narcissistic behaviors, so I too had a lot of abuse growing up and never connected that to my affiliation to the left. I am sorry for what you went through, my heart breaks at the abuse you suffered. Thank you for your bravery, for speaking out, being willing to stand up against their garbage. Because of you and others like you, who were willing to say it first, I got the strength to stand up too. I stand on the shoulders of giants like you who said it first! I hope it will be enough to wake everyone up and turn our great country back to western values and common decency.
I think that it was inevitable that Jews would at some point be thrown out of the Oppressed coalition and be deemed “Oppressors.” They have just been too successful as measured by education, income or wealth.
Ironically, any individual or group that contributes to society will suffer the same fate. Fortunately, this seriously limits the growth of their coalition as all successful individuals or groups will be eventually cast out and only the dysfunctional remain.