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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
That's not the reason this "blew up." It blew up because when we started talking about the real reason that old thread was problematic, a bunch of fanboys started harassing Jews across Twitter with virulent antisemitism & violent imagery.
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Okay, well, bringing up other problems you have with someone when they're fending off a major potentially life-ruining libelous accusation is not a great thing to do, in my opinion
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If people are having an unrelated conversation about that, and people in that conversation are reacting with bigotry, then sure I condemn that If this fails to dissipate my anger at the shocking nature of the original accusation, oh well, I'm human
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