THe Lindsay "Its not the JEWISH, it's the WOKE" -- to which my response was basically: "'Jews I DISLIKE anti-semitism, the others are Good Jews' is not the defense you think it is." A Black friend pointed out that 'woke' here implied n*-lover, which tracked
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I have NOT heard the take but...interesting
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Yeah, I think it's probably more accurate the more it gets to "the experience of Jewish and Chinese immigrants in America overlap in key ways" but at that point...yeah.
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My mom's family was driven out of Indonesia following the Sept. 30 coup in 1967 and the ensuing chaos that led to the ascension of the Suharto New Order regime
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A quite brutal ethnic cleansing, as these things go, that had as much impact on my family history on my mom's side as WWII and the Rape of Nanking had on my dad's side One that had its apologists then and even still has them now
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I also think there's similarities in the US: the way East Asians and Jews are marginalized and how that can get glossed over, though obviously I'm not ignoring the white privilege of white Jews. But how Google and companies don't consider Asian people. I've just skimmed this
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but I think it's sort of what I'm talking about. I wish I could find another older link I read.https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/the-whitening-of-asian-americans/563336/ …
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Maybe I just have a weird sample, but I thought this was a pretty common hot take.
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