Not loving this"Ashkenazi are just a culture" shit because like okay then, I guess I'm not Ashkenazi OR Sephardic because I was raised by a blue-collar parent in a cesspool of WASPs. Ancestors aren't a real thing right? I was spontaneously generated from a Methodist refuse heap?
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"Culture" and participation therein is pretty much entirely an accident of upbringing, geography and community. We rarely have a say in what cultures, if any, we get to be a part of. Reducing an entire identity to "culture" is invalidating victims of cultural isolation/genocide
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Way to rub salt in my wounds by telling me I can't be a Jew by adhering to a tautological definition of Jewish identity as "the people Jews demonstrably give a shit about". I got it one of the first twenty thousand times.
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Whatfuckingever. I didn't eat latkes growing up or get a bat mitzvah so okay I guess I don't get to be Jewish because I wasn't a part of ✶★
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Sarah Cooper has a bit in her standup routine about being "Black enough to be called the N-word but not Black enough to use it myself"
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