The tweet was deleted shortly, and the response to the tweet being deleted was "She's erasing evidence of her complicity!", when if the issue was just that the tweet itself was offensive that should've been the end of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @stowZJE
So yeah no I'm not going to sit back and accept that what happened to her was at all okay, or accept a framing that this is about "protecting white women" like she wasn't personally threatened and put in fear by the shooter
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's interesting how you see this issue as a retcon given that Jwitter has known about that thread for a couple of years now & knew it was problematic. Also, deleting the tweet is nice & all (albeit belated) but it doesn't end the antisemitic harassment of Jews by her fans.
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Replying to @stowZJE @arthur_affect
But, less interesting & more disconcerting is the overwhelming focus on her personal suffering for antifascist work she undertakes voluntarily as compared to the trauma of Jewish people at being oppressed & murdered.
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Replying to @stowZJE
It's not about relative levels of suffering or about the roots of that suffering it's about *blaming her* for something someone did *because he also victimized her* Fuck's sake you're like hovering this close to a "Who cares, she was asking for it" take
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Okay... I'm not sure how many ways I can say this without worrying you're reacting emotionally instead of reading what I'm typing, but... we know she's not responsible for the shooting. We're pissed she's using it as a prop for her own feelings.
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Replying to @stowZJE
Who is "we" The people in the pile-on were very much not aware of that, and if you don't share that opinion, then they and you are not part of any "we" here
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Replying to @arthur_affect
We = Jewish people on Twitter talking about why we don't like people using our trauma. You = non-Jewish person on Twitter not listening to Jews about why that's problematic.
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Replying to @stowZJE
The specific event that happened, which I witnessed with my own two eyes, was a specific group of people attacking this person saying she should be deplatformed and driven out of leftist organizing spaces, because she was partially responsible for the Tree of Life shooting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @stowZJE
The reason this "blew up" is that bystanders who saw it, reasonably, considered this a shocking and damning accusation, to the point of proposing criminal charges -- since the pileon led to people assuming she had prior knowledge of the attack she withheld from law enforcement
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That is a very, very major and irresponsible accusation to level at somebody, the kind of thing that potentially ruins lives It is not a side issue, it is not a minor peccadillo, and it is not an opening to start talking about other problems people might have with her
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