Great article, Bari. Asian Americans are often overlooked by the elites until they can't be. And then they shout white supremacy. Also, that tablet article - will you write an article about how secular Jews with often left leaning views routinely demonize, deride, lie about, and are perhaps the greatest purveyors (because of their reach)…
Great article, Bari. Asian Americans are often overlooked by the elites until they can't be. And then they shout white supremacy. Also, that tablet article - will you write an article about how secular Jews with often left leaning views routinely demonize, deride, lie about, and are perhaps the greatest purveyors (because of their reach) of antisemitism against Orthodox Jews? No less than three articles came out before Passover in Slate, NYT, and NYP (not left leaning and not by a Jew) about Orthodox Jews that were shocking and had they been written about another minority - well, let's put it this way: they would have never been written. The content itself was ridiculous. It's straight out of the Elders of Zion, this content - and why? "Because they bring it onto themselves" "well, they believe women are inferior" "Welllll. Is any of it wrong?" These are some common comments I see from leftist Jews. They are all untrue. But in their fragile, "well-educated" minds, it is true, and so their attitude against them is justified, the attacks are justified, the libels are justified.
Which brings us back to Asian Americans, who are getting support now because public outcry won't allow them not to, but Orthodox Jews will never get support, even while bearing the brunt of most anti-Semitic attacks in this country, because there's no expedient narrative that allows for that support, and that is what this country's sense of moral duty and compassion, sense of fairness and veracity, has boiled down to: is it hashtagable. Will it make me look good to retweet it. That's all. I think it's pathetic.
Great article, Bari. Asian Americans are often overlooked by the elites until they can't be. And then they shout white supremacy. Also, that tablet article - will you write an article about how secular Jews with often left leaning views routinely demonize, deride, lie about, and are perhaps the greatest purveyors (because of their reach) of antisemitism against Orthodox Jews? No less than three articles came out before Passover in Slate, NYT, and NYP (not left leaning and not by a Jew) about Orthodox Jews that were shocking and had they been written about another minority - well, let's put it this way: they would have never been written. The content itself was ridiculous. It's straight out of the Elders of Zion, this content - and why? "Because they bring it onto themselves" "well, they believe women are inferior" "Welllll. Is any of it wrong?" These are some common comments I see from leftist Jews. They are all untrue. But in their fragile, "well-educated" minds, it is true, and so their attitude against them is justified, the attacks are justified, the libels are justified.
Which brings us back to Asian Americans, who are getting support now because public outcry won't allow them not to, but Orthodox Jews will never get support, even while bearing the brunt of most anti-Semitic attacks in this country, because there's no expedient narrative that allows for that support, and that is what this country's sense of moral duty and compassion, sense of fairness and veracity, has boiled down to: is it hashtagable. Will it make me look good to retweet it. That's all. I think it's pathetic.