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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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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Replying to @stowZJE
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
You mean bringing up problems directly related to the tweet that was being discussed & then fending off attacks by alleged antifascists against my fellow Jews? Because no one was ruining Conger's life, but more Jews have been made less safe because of her & her supporters.
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Replying to @stowZJE
Yeah okay I've heard the "You'll be okay, you have 40,000 followers, you're untouchable" line over and over again Maybe it makes me the asshole here but I'm never going to buy it and it's never going to make me take your side
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think myself & other Jews don't want to force people to be on our side. We want you to care about antisemitism because you're not "the asshole." The hard part is when non-Jews refuse to even step out of their feelings to listen to us.
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Replying to @stowZJE
I think that the idea that having a high degree of visibility -- especially online visibility -- constitutes privilege or power or protection, despite having been proven wildly false constantly in the past, is still a tacit assumption people make and it makes me very angry
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I can tell you that, as a Jew, I know exactly how it feels to be powerless even as everyone else thinks you're part of a powerful group with privilege & protection, controlling things from within.
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Replying to @stowZJE @arthur_affect
I would add that I've had to calmly walk you through this as you rage at me with double the replies. It would be nice for a non-Jew to acknowledge the emotional labor that requires. Especially after already asking for understanding about why using our trauma is wrong.
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Lol, well, the question of who's doing the "labor" depends on who's right and who's wrong doesn't it But I'm done, so feel free to consider your labor at an end
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Sadly, over 5,000 years of Jewish history kinda tells me that I'll be having this similar conversation with goyim for the rest of my life. Indeed, I've been doing this since childhood because that's just one part of the fucking toll for being Jewish in this world.
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